Haunted Houses of Grand Rapids

Lovers of Grand Rapids history and the paranormal will thrill to this spine-tingling tour of homes. You've walked by them. You've driven past them. Behind the innocent façades of houses dotting the streets of Grand Rapids are secrets...and ghosts.In Heritage Hill, a Victorian woman wanders hallways at night, and a house-proud handyman hides the tools of anyone trying to alter his home. On the northwest side, a child's shadow runs the halls, mocking the family who lives there. Across the river, a red-eyed entity follows homeowners, and some unknown force tears a decorative sign from its hooks and hurls it across the room. Civil War soldiers give a child a coin from 1889. A homeowner is dragged by her ankles, and faces are seen in the television.Follow Julie Bonner Williams through the doorways and down the halls of Grand Rapids' most haunted houses.