WARNING: Michigan Ghost Town: Pompeii is Hiding a STRANGE Secret! 

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.

I grew up 6 miles from there. My step mother was born and raised a mile out of town. Not really a ghost town just a little town where most of the businesses closed up after the big box stores opened up.

There is an abandoned Free Mason lodge above the old Farmer PEET meat market in Chesaning, MI. I only know because my uncle was helping a community manager restore the bottom half of the building into a community center. 140 N. Saginaw St, you can see there is a door that leads up to the top level. They removed the Free Mason insignia on the door but there is a stone about it with their writings. We explored the inside, there was a ceremony room, rooms with long closets for their robes, a dining room that converted to a basketball court, and a kitchen. There was a locked room in the attic, my uncle tried getting me to go but I was too spooked. 😆

The corrected pronunciation of Pompeiī is the actual Latin pronunciation, Pom-pee-eye. Good for her.

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.

We passed the road going into Pompeii hundreds of times when we went to visit my grandpa. I always wanted to learn more about it so thank you!

New sub here..originally from Flint Mi, now a resident of Gladwin Mi. I love learning about my state so ty for the video! Keep up the good work! ❤

I was a realtor for a while and tried to sell a house there once. As you can imagine, it didn't sell. We did several open houses during which my partner and I read and napped without a single visitor.

The railroad still goes through pompeii but it hasn't been the grand trunk in decades. It is now the great lake central and it services the grain elevators in middleton.

If you're interested in visiting other ghost towns in Michigan, you might want to take a ride up to the Thumb on the eastern part of the lower peninsula - they've got several towns that have populations of 100 or less - and some of them have great backstories. For example, Pinnebog (pronounced "pin-uh-bawg" - or as some old timers say, "pin-eh-Pog").The name is (I believe) Ojibwa and it was once a logging town. Or visit Huron City (a former Chautauqua-type community on the northeastern shore of Lake Huron with a very rich history) ; or Parisville (the first Polish-American farming settlement the US). Grindstone City is also quite interesting historically - it was a "quarry town" that still features several buildings made of the local limestone from which it takes its name. True ghost towns in the Thumb - that is, towns that used to be, but are no longer - would include Port Crescent (an old lumber port near present-day Port Austin). Most of Port Crescent's remaining buildings were moved to Port Austin in the early 20th century when the State decided to use the land for a park, but the graveyard is still intact as is the old sawmill chimney which is located in Port Crescent State Park - the beach is fabulous! And then there's the old Ora Labora site (which was a religious community - the name means "Pray and Work") located near the little town of Bay Port, where they manufactured some of the original brick that you can still see in the the older 19th century buildings that dot the farmland of the Thumb. I could go on, because this just scratches the surface. Finally, outside the Thumb, let me suggest Hell, Michigan - you can always go to Hell for fun and have a drink at the Dam Site Inn. Keep up the good work. Michigan always has good stories to tell.

Interesting about the IOOF lodge - a lot of fraternal organization lodge houses I have seen were above grocery stores

I live in middleton and before we bought our house there was no houses for sale at the time but after we bought out a cpl went up for sale and sold. Interesting to see the video as i have passed through pompeii more times than i can even remember.

"they didnt have spell check back then", love this

I own an old IOOF building in downtown Perry, the main hall still had a stage, hidden door locks and a peep hole. There was a second smaller hall also for the order of the Eastern Stars.

Thanks for this! Every summer I come back from CA to stay at the cottage my grampa built near 127 and Snowbowl Road (a few miles south of Houghton Lake). We drive right past this place. Definitely going to visit next time!

New sub to yr channel.. Michigander here myself. Love learning more of my state

Interesting channel, just found it today. I was born and grew up in Michigan, Rochester. Left in the amearly 80's for Florida. But Michigan is my home state and proud of it.

ive known of this place for a while but never planned to visit. but one of the shots in the first min of the video i have been there. turns out i drove through it many times and its alot closer to where i live than i thought.

People live next to Pompeii, like within a block…

Elderly Instruments in Old Town Lansing is an old IOOF building.

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.

I've been through there a million times and never knew anything about this town. It would be interesting to know why there are 3 little towns so close together, Pompeii, Perinton and Middleton

The railroad was called the Grand Trunk Railroad? Now a rock group from the seventies makes sense...Grand Funk Railroad! It only took about fifty years. 😏

When I was a little kid, my great grandparents lived not very far from POM-pea-eye. The railroad was nicknamed as the Try Weekly. If it got there one week, it would try to get back the next. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

The downtown Buffalo wild wings is in a building that has oddfellows on facade in detroit,same exact color brick

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

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

Neat and informative video! New sub here❤

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

Also, maybe a better description of a ghost town (for individuals upset at the terminology you used) is a town whose economic activity that supported it (usually industrial or agricultural) has failed or ended for any reason and resulted in a substantial loss of residency.

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

As someone who grew up there i just want to say It's pronounced pom pea eye

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

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

Nice job. From a fellow Michigander.

Very interesting but I couldn't take the repetitive music, it was like being on hold!....HELP!

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

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

FYI If you turned the background music up just a bit more, those of us that are older and hard of hearing ,couldn't understand you at all

I lived in Pompeii for 3 years. Went to fulton schools. Did not know any of this.

Wow very cool 😎. Thanks for the cool information & footage. New sub here 🤘😊

no they call it pom pe i around here. my dads family lived there back in the day

Has anyone read, " Ghost towns of Michigan ", by Larry Wakefield? He tells of numerous towns, many of which were built up centered around the logging industry but when the logging died, so did the town and people moved on. Interesting reading.

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

The music on the background is a hand pan

I usually don't complain but the music is so ominous I just can't even listen to the video it's scaring the crap out of me

me who lives a mile away from pompeii🤨

I was hoping this was about the building in the thumbnail

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

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

Where is this city located at in Michigan at ... ok 😢sad to know that this city is know more.

There is some old odd fellows paperwork in the attic of Devon title in Kalkaska. As of 2015

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.

If the town worked it right History could be a draw for it. Fix up what buildings are left and have a tour going through each one. And of course play up each building is haunted. (even if they're not!)

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.

Keep up the creative content brother

Very cool location to explore ❤

I think most people stop watching once they hear the "old" pronunciation so they don't catch on that you explain the different pronunciation later in the video.

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

Can you do a video of Painesdale, MI in the U.P.?

Just a mail stop. Indiana is full of places just like this

I have family that live in Pompeii and Ithaca

I want to live there

not pronounced like town in italy. pronounced like pomp p eye.

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

Ghost town 😂 cmon bro I’ve been here 21 years and it’s no where near a ghost town 😂 have you even visited the small town?

M-57 and m-27 which is now us-127

The town is pronounced pomp e I not as you are saying it.by husband owned a gas station there for many years. Its gone now.

It is pronounced Pom-pee-i. You are driving me nuts with this mispronunciations!!

It was where we went to break most rules!

would have been nice to hear the vid.....

You have the pronunciation wrong, is pomp-pea-eye. This is coming who grew up 5 miles east of there in Ashley.

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

better research better it is not a ghost town.

It's actually pronounced pom-pe-i . I live about 10 minutes from there. In Carson City Crystal.

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

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

It is pronounced POM PEE EYE

It's pronounced Pomp E I, not like the town in Italy.

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

Or Planet P!

Local lady just can’t pronounce her own town lol

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.

Pronouncing it wrong

You're creepy music is way too loud hard to hear you

They’re odd fellows alright. Pagan worship with the same all seeing eye of Horas that the Masons worship.

🌴🫛 👁️

Nothing odd about it... lbr

Wow.... It's obvious you didn't speak to anyone that knows much about the town because you didn't pronounce it right. Also that was an Odd Fellow and Rebekah hall.

Your near Lansing… gross overpopulated flat farmland. Boring dead brown landscape for most the year. I apologize for anyone who cant escape the armpit of America

Pom-pee-eye

. Unwanted, and faded out, just like me . gb* ~ hard life (MULDEW) .

groovy bit. lots of dinky towns up there in north michigan, if two roads crossed they named it. In the winter in can get real creepy up there if you live in the city! You drive for a LONG time and not see another car. There are spots in newaygo area that just disappear to civilization after it snows. Traverse city for valentines is a great trip. Loads of deals on penthouses when its all frozen up there!