whats left.. photo by PepOmint

Michigan’s Otherside has some great stories to put you in the Halloween frame of mind. Corn mazes are a popular attraction that many Michigan farmers put a lot of time into, but as Ghosts in the Cornfield warns, sometimes corn fields have their own haunts:

As a teenager I lived in a multilevel house right on M66 in Battle Creek close to the Pennfield schools. A couple of times I was walking along the rows of corn in the cornfield just behind my home when I had a paranormal experience. I was only about four or five rows back, walking parallel to the back of my house when I saw a farmer in blue jeans and a red flannel shirt walking towards me in the row closer to my house. I was too scared to look up to see his face. There was no sound from his footsteps or his arms hitting the dried leaves on the cornstalks. I had massive goose bumps! A couple of weeks later I was walking along the corn rows in about the same spot and this time I saw the farmer with a hound dog. Once again, I was too scared to look up. He was between me and the safety of my home. I kept my eyes down, held my breath and hoped he wouldn’t say or do anything to me. They passed silently and my heart rate slowed back down. My sisters and I loved to play in the cornfields.

Years later, one of my sisters admitted she had seen the farmer. He is probably still walking the fields every Fall as he had in life…

Read on at Michigan’s Otherside and check out some other spooky tales from Michigan, legends and haunted places!

You can see this photo bigger in PepOmint’s slideshow!

PS: Check out another classic Michigan ghost story on Absolute Michigan, the Ada Witch!