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A remote Upper Peninsula inn on Little Bay de Noc where Room 16 is tied to Nell Fleming, a secretary from the 1914–1951 era said to rattle furniture and disturb guests who sleep in her space.
N5765 US-2, Nahma, MI 49864
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Standard inn room rates; check directly with the inn for current availability and pricing.
Access
Limited Access
Historic frame inn building; accessibility details not published.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1914 · Upper Peninsula Timber Era Hospitality · Delta County Company Town History · Little Bay de Noc Shore Settlement
Nahma sits at the mouth of the Sturgeon River on Little Bay de Noc in Michigan's central Upper Peninsula, a village that exists because the Bay de Noquet Lumber Company established a company town there in the 1880s. The timber industry shaped the community's layout, its workforce, and its lifespan: when the timber ran out, many such UP company towns quietly contracted.
The Nahma Inn served travelers moving along the corridor that later became US-2, the east-west highway that ties the UP together. Local accounts trace operation back to at least 1914, the year Nell Fleming is said to have begun working as a secretary there. Fleming's employment reportedly continued until 1951, a 37-year tenure that made her one of the building's longest-associated figures.
The inn occupies a setting common to UP hospitality: a timber-frame building in an isolated lake-shore community, dependent on seasonal fishing and hunting visitors to supplement the local base. Nahma's year-round population is small enough that the inn's history is effectively oral history, passed down through local accounts rather than a formal documentary archive.
Sources
The haunting at the Nahma Inn centers on a specific room and a specific person. Nell Fleming worked as a secretary at the inn for 37 years, from 1914 to 1951, and according to the lore she developed feelings for her employer, Charles Good, that were never returned. After her death, guests began reporting experiences in Room 16 — furniture relocated between visits, unexplained physical sensations, a sense of presence — that locals and returning guests attributed to Fleming.
The narrative follows a recognizable Midwest haunting pattern: a woman with a strong emotional connection to a place whose attachment outlasted her life. The specificity of the details — the named person, the named room number, the named employer — sets it apart from generic hotel-ghost lore, though the account rests on a single published source from Promote Michigan, a state tourism promotion outlet. No independent documentation from the inn itself, local newspapers, or paranormal investigators corroborates the Fleming account in publicly available records.
The remote setting adds credibility to the atmospheric conditions that generate and sustain such stories: a small UP village, a historic frame building, and limited outside verification either way.
Notable Entities
Request Room 16, where guests have reported furniture movement and unexplained physical sensations attributed to the lingering presence of Nell Fleming, a secretary employed at the inn from 1914 to 1951.
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