Thursday, September 6,. 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY I7 ";? Thursday, September 6~, 1 97~ THE MICHIGAN DAILY Noises...murder...ghosts! By DIANE LEVICK Ghosts seem to pop up regu- larly in fraternities and in other haunts of fertile - minded stu- dents. Yet the "established" Ann Arbor area has a few of its own tales to offer to, those who bother to unearth them. Closest to campus is the story of ,Dr Kellogg's Medical Works on Broadway, as recently told by historian Wystan Stevens. Kel- logg was no ordinary doctor in the 1800's. Always a poor stu- dent, Kellogg never studied med- icine. He made many diagnoses by mail without ever having seen the sick persons. How did he do it? Through clairvoyance with spirit guides named Walapaca and Owosso. It certainly wasn't a method the AMA would have sanctioned, but Kellogg was highly respected-- enough, in fact, that the public begged for his autobiography when he was only 34. It's no wonder that superna- tural phenomena should be re- puted to occur in the building of a clairvoyant. According to Kel- logg's autobiography, visitors to his Medical Works in the 1860's witnessed the sound of "the loud crying of a child in great distress" emanating from the building's lower floors. Heard day and night, the sound James' wife, Ann, wasted away with "an untold tale of crime and cruelty in him whom she loved" after having warned a Martha Crawford not to marry John. Martha was forced to mar- ry, however, by James, who pro- mised she would never return home alive and single. After John's death, Martha was left with his property, an easy, target for her money-hungry brother-in-law. Indeed, she died mysteriously, complaining of in- And she kept mentioning the name "James." The public was so disturbed by Van Woert's testimony that Mar- tha's body was disinterred. Sure enough, a coroner's inquest re- vealed that the woman had been poisoned. Following a good deal of com- munity pressure, James and his drug peddlar friend disappeared suddenly and forever. Some said the whole affair was a well-laid plot to banish James Mulhol- .v :.A. n". .. ItAS. rt.".,Os.,...s.,w..... ..r..n..-v..vn.,....v}r:i{.. "Like Ann, Martha too had had a terrible secret never divulged to the public. To only one person did she scream'They will murder me, they will kill me' before death." .. ... y. Wy:.S<;S !,t # A M V -.. - M :g 4.4SnJf. . .4*s:s}:a}r: was never explained: Perhaps the phantom child was one of Dr. Kellogg's unsuccessful cases ... In recent years, Kellogg's building served as B. A. Hil- bert's Paints and Glass store, now closed. According to the owner's wife, nothing out of the ordinary ever occurred there, although before buying the estab- lishment they had heard various rumors. Shortly before the Dr. Kel- logg episode, the nearby village of Dixboro was receiving nation- al attention from lovers of the supernatural. The tale as related by the University's Prof. Russell Bidlack concerned two brothers, James and John Mulholland, who had emigrated from Ireland, and their melancholy, psychical- ly deteriorating wives. I- cessai1t stomach and chest pains after taking a "medicine" from her brother-in-law's peddlar friend. Like Ann, Martha too had had a terrible secret never divulged to the public. To only one per- son did she scream "They will murder me, they will kill me" before her death. The fun began when Isaac Van Woert, a carpenter, moved into Martha's vacant house. In a sworn statement to a justice of the peace in Ann Arbor, Van Woert revealed his encounters with Martha's ghost. As parapschologists know, a spirit returns to earth because of an unsettled death. According to Van Woert, Martha's ghost re- peatedly uttered, "They have kilt me. Oh they have kilt me!" land . . . but there were still loose ends. It seems that the second half of the 19th century in the Ann Arbor area gave rise to a ple- thora of ghosts. Karl Harriman published his Ann Arbor Tales in 1902, which asserted that "fif- teen years ago there were four distinct and widely separated haunted houses in the vicinity of Ann Arbor." One located on W. Huron St., he said, was pointed out to mis- behaving children as the resi- dence of "the original bogey man." Although Harriman's book is supposedly fiction, it is based on his experiences as a student at the University. Which all goes to prove that attending the University can be a frightening experience . Doily Photo ALMOST EVERYBODY PONDERS the hereafter once in awhile. Contrary to popular beliefs about the "spookyness" of graveyards, however, a ghost normally haunts the scene-day or night-of its "un- settled" death, often a building. aI Photo by SARA LAWTON ONCE THE SCENE of Dr. Kellogg's Medical Works and unex- plained noises, the old B.A. Hilbert paint store still stands on Broadway, now under new ownership. In Kellogg's day the estab- lishment had four stories. SHARING A' I ~-1 a Tradition o xcellence THRU TRE THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AND RAMADA DOWNTOWN INN Fine traditions of excellence in athle- tradition shared by all Ann Arborites. tics and academics are among the reasons people chose the University of Michigan. Traditional excellence in accommodations and service are the reason people chose the Ramada Downtown Inn for dining, entertain- ment and over night guests. The Tudor Room Top of the Ram Supper Club Invite someone special to spend the evening with you at the Top of the Ram Supper Club. 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