Dice Road Cemetery (Richland Lutheran Cemetery)

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.