Mortuary Manor

For nearly a century, families on Toledo's Lagrange Street brought their dead to the Urbanski Funeral Home. Today the building is Mortuary Manor, a museum of funeral history whose chapels, embalming rooms, body lift, and basement morgue still stand much as the Urbanskis left them, and one of the most talked-about paranormal locations in the region.

Investigator and author Don Alter traces the property from the homes that stood there in the 1890s, through the Polish neighborhood of Lagrinka and three generations of the Urbanski family, to the final funeral held in July 2025. Drawing on death certificates, county records, newspaper clippings, the surviving funeral ledgers, and the accounts of owners Todd LaRosa and Cory Leibenguth, he sets out what the records show and where oral history begins.

Then the lights go down. On May 8, 2026, Macomb Paranormal Investigations and Research spent a night inside: intelligent responses in the embalming room, a child's bell that answered questions, an ice-cold hand, and points of light captured on night-vision video in the basement where the old morgue still waits.

Illustrated with photographs, documents, and video stills, Mortuary Manor is both a history of a family funeral home and a careful account of what remains inside it.