Phantasmal Crime Ep. 57 - Death in the Judd White House
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
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🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In 2025, the Michigan Bell Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan sold for over $18 million to a New York investment firm. This eight-story office building is home to AT&T today and while a 101-year-old historic building in downtown Grand Rapids is interesting, it is the murder that occurred at the home that once stood on this site before the building was here, that makes this site intriguing and haunted. The Judd White House stood here and was the scene of a murder-suicide with a wooden leg as a possible weapon.
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| 0:00.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:14.1 | True crime can be strangely fascinating. |
| 0:17.9 | This true crime is odd, macab, and haunted. I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. Welcome |
| 0:25.6 | to fantastical crime. In 2025, the Michigan Bell Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, sold for over $18 million to a New York investment firm. |
| 0:41.2 | This eight-story office building is home to AT&T today. |
| 0:45.5 | And while a 101-year-old historic building in downtown Grand Rapids is interesting, |
| 0:51.6 | it is the murder that occurred at the home that one stood on this site before |
| 0:56.3 | the building was here that makes this site intriguing and haunted. The Judd White House stood here |
| 1:03.0 | and was the scene of a murder suicide with a wooden leg as a possible weapon. The Judd White House was named for the family of Mayor George |
| 1:13.3 | H. White had been a unique figure in Grand Rapids. He was a pioneer of the Grand River Valley. |
| 1:19.8 | In 1855, he moved from Saratoga, New York to Grand Rapids. In Grand Rapids, he had held many |
| 1:26.0 | offices of trust, and as the Grand Rapids Evening Press |
| 1:29.0 | wrote in his obituary in 1902, his services were sought in many important cases which figure |
| 1:34.7 | in the history of the country. Early, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and afterwards |
| 1:39.6 | circuit court commissioner. Later, he was elected city attorney, and after that was made acting prosecuting attorney, and at another time Later he was elected city attorney and after that was made acting prosecuting |
| 1:46.1 | attorney and at another time he was assistant district attorney of Western Michigan. Well-versed in |
| 1:51.8 | legal lore, his clients were numerous and even after he had retired, old friends sought his advice |
| 1:57.4 | and guidance. After he retired, he spent much of his time collecting pioneer stories, |
| 2:03.1 | and as the paper continued, Mr. White was a nighthawk, if ever there was one, being seen on the |
| 2:08.8 | streets and at the offices of the newspapers at all times of the night, after the streets were cleared |
| 2:13.8 | of nearly all except the patrolmen. Try as I might, even though George White was |
| 2:20.0 | somebody who collected stories and seemed to be very connected to history, I couldn't find much |
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