A rural Saginaw County cemetery on one of Michigan's most legendarily haunted roads, associated with spectral sightings, phantom vehicles, and the folk legend of Anna Rhodes.
15716 Dice Rd, Hemlock, MI 48626
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Public rural cemetery; free to visit during daylight hours.
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Limited Access
Gravel road, uneven rural cemetery grounds
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Photos OK
Est. 1800 · Richfield Township rural Lutheran cemetery · Central location in documented Dice Road paranormal history · Featured in Travel Channel's Haunting in the Heartland
Richland Lutheran Cemetery, commonly referred to as Dice Road Cemetery, sits in the rural landscape of Richfield Township in western Saginaw County, Michigan, approximately a quarter mile east of Hemlock Road on Dice Road. The cemetery contains 953 documented memorials and is administered within the local Lutheran community tradition.
The broader Dice Road corridor gained documented regional attention in 1974, when the Pomeraning family — later the Larsen family — at a nearby farmhouse on Dice Road began reporting unexplained pounding sounds, spontaneous fires, and other disturbances that prompted multiple Michigan State Police reports. Oxford-educated parapsychologist William G. Roll, Ph.D., and his associate Jerry Solfvin, affiliated with the Institute for Parapsychology, were called in as investigators.
The Dice Road farmhouse subsequently became the subject of the Travel Channel's 'Haunting in the Heartland' (hosted by Saginaw native Steve Shippy), a separate Amazon documentary titled 'A Haunting on Dice Road: Hell House,' and coverage by regional media outlets including 99WFMK and Pure Saginaw.
The cemetery itself — distinct from the farmhouse — is the focal point of the Anna Rhodes folk legend and independent visitor reports of phantom vehicles and unexplained lights along the road.
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Dice Road in Saginaw County carries one of Michigan's most persistent and multi-layered paranormal reputations. According to regional folklore documented by 99WFMK and the Saginaw Review, the cemetery is associated with the legend of Anna Rhodes Millerton, a woman said to have emigrated from Italy in the early 19th century and died by suicide after believing her husband had perished at sea. Her apparition — described as translucent, sometimes in white — is said to wander the wooded area near the cemetery.
The legend was first published as original local journalism in Review Magazine (Saginaw, October 1999), in a two-part article by Valerie Markva that drew on family testimony — including accounts from her grandfather, who worked with Oxford parapsychologist William G. Roll on a Dice Road investigation — and on journal fragments held by the 'Michigan Historical Research Foundation for Paranormal Activity.' No primary documentation (census records, death certificates) independently confirming Anna Rhodes' existence has been located in this review; the legend should be treated as regional folklore, as the Review Magazine article itself acknowledges.
The Shadowlands submission for this location describes a different version: a 'warlock' who allegedly hanged three girls from a bridge after they stepped on his wife's grave. This version appears to be a later, unverified accretion to the broader Dice Road legend complex and has no independent corroboration.
More robustly documented phenomena on the road include visitor reports of a phantom white car that follows drivers and disappears, unexplained lights, and mechanical failures (stalling engines, drained batteries, failing electronics) in specific stretches of the road. These claims are corroborated across multiple independent regional sources — 99WFMK, WKFR, Pure Saginaw, and Lost In Michigan — and the Dice Road corridor's paranormal history was featured on the Travel Channel's 'Haunting in the Heartland' (hosted by Saginaw native Steve Shippy) and in the Amazon documentary 'A Haunting on Dice Road: Hell House.' The Oddity Shop Podcast also produced an independent episode on the Dice Road legends. The nearby Pomeraning/Larsen farmhouse — the subject of state police reports and academic parapsychological investigation beginning in 1974 — remains the most heavily documented paranormal case on Dice Road.
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Visitors explore the historic Richland Lutheran Cemetery on the storied Dice Road corridor in Richfield Township, associated with multiple documented paranormal legends and featured on the Travel Channel.
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