Seven Gables Road

Michigan · United States · Road

A woman living two miles back along this Michigan road put a curse on it. Years later she forgot her own rule and heard a baby scream.

The legend of Seven Gables Road near Dansville, Michigan concerns a woman who lived about two miles back along it and was known locally for witchcraft.

She put a curse on the road. The terms were specific: if you heard someone scream, the last person to jump the fence would die.

Years later she had forgotten all about it. She heard what she took for a baby screaming, and she jumped the fence.

That is the shape of the story, and it is a good one because the trap closes on the person who set it.

What the accounts underneath it almost certainly describe is a woman who lived alone in the country and was called a witch for it, which happened to a great many women in rural America and rarely ended well.

The road is public and unlit.

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Where is Seven Gables Road located?

Seven Gables Road is in Michigan, United States.