A woman who was poisoned by an in-law in the 19th Century is believed
to be haunting the Dixboro General Store near Ann Arbor.
Steve Dani, proprietor of the general store, said employees and
customers have been re****ting encounters with a ghost for the 17 years
the store has been in business.
"We've had customers come right up to us and say, 'Do you have a ghost
here?' And we go, 'Yeah,' and they say, 'Well, I just saw her,'" Dani
told Ann Arbor News blogger Jordan Miller. "I've never really felt any
kind of presence or anything personally, but it's been noted. ... And
little things happen to us that are unexplainable."
The ghost is believed to be Martha Mulholland. In the early 1840s, she
lived in a house on the site now occupied by the Dixboro General
Store.
Mulholland and her sister had married two brothers, and the two women
died of the same mysterious illness within a few years of each other.
Shortly after her death in 1845, boarders rented rooms in the house.
The boarders were visited by Mulholland's ghost, who told them about
being poisoned by her brother-in-law.
The Dixboro General Store haunting is included in a new anthology of
paranormal tales, "Ann Arbor Area Ghosts," by Mimi Uptergrove.
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