My wife and are making plans to head out there. I believe people should know about this abandon park. Did you asked the locals?

I live near here and I didn’t even know some of this history.

What's the name of the park?

Pom Pee Eye....got it, local woman! Right in the eye!

I'm coming to Michigan soon. I might go out and check this out.

Nothing odd about it... lbr

I’m glad you got the pronunciation correct in the end! I was about to stroke out hearing it said the wrong way. Pom-pee-eye…. Not Pom-pay

The USS Edson is a Destroyer NOT a Battleship. If you're gonna post articles get it Right. Landluber

Definitely don’t speed through this town. Gratiot county sheriff’s love to hang out in this area looking for speeding and drunk drivers. YOUVE BEEN WARNED

I remember being a poor kid in Michigan, every Thanksgiving, and Christmas the Odd fellows brought us a big box of food. Thanks to those fine Gentlemen.

My great grandparents lived nearby. Locals pronounced the town name as “POM-pea-eye”. The railroad was nicknamed “the try-weekly”. Because if it did get there one week, it might try to return the next week. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

Good ole Genesee towers 810 baby

It’s not pronounced like the destroyed city. It’s Pom-pee-eye. I wish I was kidding.

I’m from Michigan and have never heard it pronounced pom-pee-eye. Doesn’t make it not so just news to me.

I like that guitar instrumental

I live in Michigan; thanks for the vidro 📹. Wish there was more to it, though.

A fellow michigander here, Ortonville and Harrison MI. I really appreciate you videos, just found your channel, love learning about our history, especially when it's around me here in MI. Thank you for what you do, keep inspiring and sharing your knowledge!

I will say, my bed hasn't ever rocked. However, for whatever reason, somethings around my house in ole Dirtland will rattle for unexplainable reasons. I had a computer mouse get, what I fan only explain as, thrown off my desk, after it started rattling on my desk.

This urban legend actually isn’t true, I’m a haunted history tour guide on Mackinac Island

I've lived in Michigan my whole life and everyone I know always pronounced it Pom Pea eye. But I've never asked anyone that lives there though so I could be wrong. Never mind, As I was writing this the credits where done rolling and I heard your correction.

The Odd Fellows ran orphanages and helped repopulate America. They were not good ppl, they helped perpetuate the lies that we all believe today

My grandmother grew up there, and yes it’s pronounced ee i

I can't tell you how many times I've traveled 127, well before they created the highway between Ithaca and Lansing, and had zero clue this place existed. Wild. Good content.

Loved the video. We live in a ghost town in NE Michigan where the railroad used to end. 😄

I was hoping this was about the building in the thumbnail

Sounds a lot like today. Ones worth is based on material gain that is left behind. So I made it a point to have what I need that is of no value for anyone to fight over when my spirit leaves

Pronouncing it wrong

Cool video. I always wondered the history of that place.

Id love to live in a ghost town of pop 0. I would vote myself as mayor, comptroller. Hoa president etc then do what i liked with the paperwork to back it up.

As a local, we actually pronounce it as it’s spelled. Which is wrong but we do it anyways. 🤣pom-pee-I

The name of this sad town reminds me of the scene from half baked with the police horse.. 😅

My family has a huge story about this storm that would add such a huge impact on this along with many family friends… if my mamas parents had not went to buy their first washing machine downtown I might never been born…let alone my aunts uncles etc.. my great grandmother was an Avon distributor in Beecher they asked her to come identify bodies 😢

70 years later and all of us around here either remember it or remember stories of it. That tells you how horrific it was, that it’s part of all of our family histories. Amazing documentary.

I’m legit only a few minutes from this town I’m gonna have to check it out!!!! Thank you!!!!

It's pronounced pompy-eye. Not like the historical ruins

The local woman is wrong. Pompeii is already a word, and it's pronounced PomPAY. You don't get to change the pronunciation of word that's been around for thousands of years just because you say so. It's. Pompeii- deal with it.

Great job guys.

Reminds me of the storms we had here the past year along with the terrible tornado in 1999. Scary when Mother Nature takes over.

With the tornado we just had here in Clarksville this winter ... and the infamous one in 1999, this movie brings a lot of memories of how random Mother Nature is, and how helpless you feel when she takes over....

Great film guys. Great interviews.

Where is this exactly?

Please like and share. If you have a story from you or a loved one please share.

We lived a few miles south. I was 12 yrs old. The sky was awful. We heard so many sirens - police/fire/ambulance. My father worked for the newspaper and helped report the story. He said it was like a war zone, absolutely gruesome. No previous history of tornadoes ever in that area. The whole city was in turmoil for a long time.

My family is from the area and my grandparents owned the grocery store for over 20yrs. It was named "MAHAR'S." They were both involved in the IOOF.

the guy who( had the dream) knew to much about it ( if you can believe the whole story 96 years later). no way did he have a dream that described the details he knew. and to top it off it was someone from his church. something is missing between the killer and dream man.

i'm 70 and have never heard of this place. do a story on the lost city of damon. james oliver curwood wrote a story and it was happening it damon. if i remember right the book was (green timber). go in the old part of the cemetary and you will find 2 small markers of 2 infants who died there well over 100 years ago. i can just imagine the parents of these children watching them die out in the middle of nowhere with no help around. which was true of many children and places then. anyway look it up and read the history of the lost city of damon.

Oh you said it all when you mentioned the name Joseph Smith ! A religious lunatic doesn't know it from 1 end to the other !!!

Local lady just can’t pronounce her own town lol

Butternut is just south of crystal lake in Montcalm County Michigan.

I lived in Baldwin and as a kid their were a bunch of abandoned houses in the woods.