Michigan paranormal: 'Straight out of a Stephen King novel'
“I’ve had a number of experiences that I can’t explain away,” said Meyer. “Things that you just kind of look at each other and say, ‘How did that happen?’”
The Felt Mansion is one of hundreds of places in Michigan that may or may not be haunted, depending on whether reports of paranormal activity seem in any way credible and whether you believe.
Brad Mikulka does. The Lansing man is co-leader of the Southeast Michigan Ghost Hunters Society and has been conducting paranormal investigations for more than 20 years.
“We were doing this before it was popular,” said Mikulka, who lives in Lansing and has a day job in the state of Michigan’s print shop. “When we told people what we did, we got that look like, ‘You’re strange,’” he said. “Now it is so mainstream that everyone is an amateur ghost hunter.’”
During their investigations, for which they do not charge a fee, Mikulka and his associates set up infrared cameras, video cameras, and digital sound recorders. They do a baseline reading of electromagnetic fields and then look for anomalies. The idea: every being, living or no longer living, emits energy that can be measured.
Many of Mikulka’s investigations are conducted in historic buildings. For example, the Southeast Michigan Ghost Hunters recently spent time in Lansing’s Turner-Dodge House. Historic spots like the 158-year-old building are prime candidates to host ghosts, he said, although even a newly built place can host a spirit attached to the property it stands on.
