Website ranks Landmark Inn 4th on Michigan’s 10 most haunted places
Trending
MARQUETTE -- Hauntbound.com has released its 2026 index of most haunted places, and the Landmark Inn of Marquette came in at No. 4.
The index ranks 191 Michigan sites by separate published accounts and how far back they go, not simply by fame or search popularity.
The website states that no Michigan site has more separate published accounts than the Landmark Inn.
"The hotel opened as the Northland Hotel on Jan. 2, 1930, and Amelia Earhart stayed there in 1932 during a Midwest speaking tour," reads the post. "Six separate published accounts describe activity there, retold in four later publications. Guests in the sixth-floor Lilac Room describe the smell of lilac perfume, lights turning on and off, and a young woman standing by the window; local tradition holds she was a librarian waiting for a sailor lost on Lake Superior, though her identity has never been documented. Staff members have reported similar phenomena in the corridor outside the room.
"The specific identity of the librarian has never been documented; the story has the texture of regional Upper Peninsula folklore. Marquette’s location at the entrance to Lake Superior’s southern shore puts it on the shipping lanes that have produced more than 5,000 documented Great Lakes shipwrecks; the broader cultural memory of lost sailors and waiting widows is woven through the region’s storytelling. The Landmark Inn’s version of that story is a recognizable Upper Peninsula example rather than a single documented incident."
The Two Way Inn in Detroit ranks No. 1, and Eloise Asylum in Westland, the state’s most famous haunted site, ranks No. 10.
“We don’t claim ghosts are real, or that they aren’t. We document where the reports concentrate, and we show our work,” said Ben Fineman, editor of HauntBound, on the post.
To view the full ranking, visit hauntbound.com/most-haunted/michigan.