Weird Michigan: Your Travel Guide to Michigan's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
- ISBN-10
- 1402739079
- ISBN-13
- 9781402739071
- Category
- Curiosities and wonders
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
- Author
- Linda S. Godfrey
Description
Explores ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in Michigan.
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