About this episode

Listener John shares a chilling experience from his summer job at a restaurant haunted by a ghost named Genevieve.

In tonight's dead letter, listener John is nineteen, home from his freshman year and a few shifts into a summer dishwashing job at a grand old house on Michigan's Old Mission Peninsula that has been a restaurant since the 1950s. The staff there blame anything strange in the building on a ghost they call Genevieve, and John doesn't believe in any of that. One warm night he goes upstairs to change out of his kitchen clothes, and the bulb pops the second he flips the switch. Strange enough on its own, but what happens next is why this particular night stuck with him. Note: The room referenced at Waverly in the Episode is 503. It should have been 502. Relevant Prior Episodes Greyfriar's Kirkyard Halloween Special The Sallie House – Ghost in the Machine Part 1 Lockdown at Waverly Sanatorium The True Story behind the Conjuring Part 1 A Live Reading with Jim Hunt - Psychic Medium Links and Further Reading The Mission Table Restaurant of Bowers Harbor: A Splendid Building, But Not a Residence for a Ghost — Julie Schopieray, Grand Traverse Journal Would the Real Mrs. Stickney Please Stand Up? Setting the Old Mission Ghost Story Straight — Northern Express The Haunting of Bowers Harbor Inn…

Topics covered

• ghost stories
• hauntings
• personal experiences
• restaurant history
• Michigan folklore

Keywords

• ghost
• haunting
• Michigan
• Old Mission Peninsula
• restaurant
• Genevieve
• personal story
• folklore

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bowers Harbor Inn

Books & works: Greyfriar's Kirkyard Halloween Special, The Sallie House – Ghost in the Machine Part 1, Lockdown at Waverly Sanatorium, The True Story behind the Conjuring Part 1, A Live Reading with Jim Hunt - Psychic Medium

Places: Michigan's Old Mission Peninsula, Waverly, Bowers Harbor, Old Mission, Mission Point Lighthouse

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