If you get off I-75 south of Erie Shores, Michigan, where a faded billboard in a cornfield with faded corn begs you to get off and see Schafer’s Rock Palace and Exxotic Fireworks, then drive past Schafer’s Rock Palace and Exxotic Fireworks, where you aren’t gonna be that thrilled by the faux rare rocks or the fireworks that are available anywhere now, you’ll see another faded billboard.
You can see the name Irving, because the billboard was custom built by “Hickory” Hank Mosely to say Irving above the main rectangle.
Underneath Irving, almost gone, once red, now the palest shade of barely discernible pink, it says Corble’s.
Next to Corble’s there used to be a fantastic illustration of a vampire, but someone cut those two large panels out, presumably to preserve the illustration.
Underneath the vampire it used to say Haunted Mansion.
Now it says, in spray paint:
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