abandoned

Once home to about 1,500 residents in the height of the city's history in the 1870s, Pere Cheney was a promising lumber town that attracted many settlers looking for work. So what happened? Why did this once thriving village turn into a ghost town? Is the town cursed?

A woman was arrested after a postal worker located two toddlers wearing dirty diapers in the middle of a Van Buren County road while the mother stayed the night in the Battle Creek area.

There's a narrow old bridge south of Battle Creek with little to no chance it will ever see traffic again because no one can agree who actually own the bridge.

Charleston was a small settlement on the Van Buren and Cass County lines in the mid 1800's but why did it vanish?

The Asylum Lake Preserve is now a place for nature lovers on the Western Michigan University campus. The tunnel system underneath remains an often repeated urban legend.