Many years ago, my dad purchased an old house that was estimated
to be about 100 years old. While digging underneath the house in
preparation to level it with jacks, he stumbled upon some bones.
After a little thought and some dismay, he determined that the
bones appeared to be in human form. He was very upset and
dumbfounded by this discovery. Still in shock and disbelief, he
turned the bones over to an unknown official to be tested.
Later, he was told that the bones had been from the body of a
Native American and that there could be more bones under the
house. They believed that my dad may have discovered a Native
American burial ground. At that time no one seemed concerned, as
Michigan was known to have Native American burial sites
state-wide. My dad did not wish to disturb the burial ground any
more than he already had. He placed the bones back under the
house and buried them in the same spot he had found them. He did
not continue to investigate, hoping he had not disturbed any
Spirits that were at rest or protecting the burial ground. It
was a well known fact that many burial grounds in the state of
Michigan were thought to have had curses placed on them by the
Native Americans years ago for protection against intruders.
While researching for my book years later, I searched for a
reason for the horrifying intensity of my encounter with the
supernatural. I began to collect as much data as I could find.
At the local area Pinconning Library, I discovered an
interesting book about the area’s Native American villages. The
Arenac County historian at the time was Calvin Ennes, the author
of the document titled History of Arenac County, Michigan. The
document is a 200-year genealogy of the Arenac County glossary
of several Native Americans. This placed several tribes
somewhere within the towns of Sterling and Augres and the city
of Standish over many hundred years, although their exact
location was unknown. The water shoreline at that time would
have brought some of their villages into the city of Standish
today.
In my research I found in a nearby library the findings of a
Native American Indian camp that was located in the City Of
Standish then. Had an unknown tribe Shaman among them, this is a
term for an American Indian holy man, basically a spiritualist
(medium), who would communicate with the spirit world for
guidance. They believed that there were good and evil spirits
dwelling in the spiritual realm. This shaman was known to
intercede with the spirits called "The False Faces" (they would
carve an image of a distorted face from a living tree, cut a
long strand of hair from the tail of a horse, and attach It to
the back of the faces). They would dance around the sacred fire
while wearing these wooden faces as masks to summon these
spirits to come forth. When these distorted bodiless beings
appeared, they would be sent to haunt and terrorize the enemy
villages throughout the surrounding areas of Arenac County if
they or their family members felt threatened and of course
anyone else who would get in their way. Something was un-earthed
on the property of,
"
The House On
Church Street
"
Randy Ervin |
