In
Wisconsin
Antigo - McMillan hotel - the McMillan
hotel was built in 1887, the first owner of the McMillan had killed him
self in room 21 of the hotel, there have been 18 death's from 1970 till
2003 when the hotel closed down. the hotel was first call the Vivian
hotel. the owner gave us a tour of the hotel and a little history of
the hotel.
Appleton - Appleton
Curling Club - It is said by the owners of the
club that there is footsteps upstairs constantly being heard. It is
also believed that it is the ghost of an old customer. Chairs and
glasses have also been known to be knocked over in the pub.
Appleton - Dairy Queen - Once a bar stood in this location. the bar is gone.
Ontop of the bar is now a dairy queen. Workers of the dairy queen talk
about the ghost, mostly reporting odd noises or lights doing goofy
things lights do.
Appleton - Huntley
Elementary - There was a kid named "Marky" who
worked, or was believed to work for the Mob in the late 20's. He had a
screaming fit about the color purple, and has apparently been spotted
by early teen's trying to pick them up (girls and guys). There have
been stories in the paper about him, nevertheless he remains a ghost to
the surrounding city folk because they know of him, and his past.
Neighbors won't go near his old house, because he's said to still live
in the basement. Every once in a while he's seen at night throwing
fits, and convulsing & muttering something about the Mob bosses
that he used to work for.
Appleton - Old Catholic
Cemetery - Visitors claim that they have seen
strange fog and been chilled in an instant by his presence.
Appleton - Secura
Insurance Company - about 150 years ago or
longer, before the Secura Building was on their current land there was
a pond and in the pond they were installing narrow pipes to filter the
water. Well stories say that a little girl who was with her parents on
a picnic fell into the pond got stuck in one of the pipes and drowned.
People say that to this very day on certain nights if you walk by the
pond where the little girl drowned you can hear her cries and her
parent’s frantic screams.
Argonne - Old Argonne
Grade School - Back in the 1950's, a janitor
hung himself in the upstairs storage room. When he school finally
closed in the early 1990's, kids would go up on a dare to write their
name on the wall, and would see a man plain as day hanging from the
rafter, and even if they didn't see him they would hear the sounds of
the rose squeaking on the boards and of the janitor moaning.- January 2006 Update: The school was condemned in the
early 1990's, and a few years ago it was torn down, but some people
still see lights there late at night.
Ashippun - Ashippun School
- closed school in Ashipunn, Wisconsin on Hwy O.
School had an eerie feel when going by and playground had creepy feel
as well. Was curious if any known activity at this School.
Ashland - Northland
College - Memorial Hall (women’s dormitory)- Reports of ghost of a college girl who allegedly
committed suicide by jumping down 3-story tall elevator shaft in 1920s
- 30s. - June 2005 Update - The girl does not
like the presence of men whatsoever. Some on campus theorize her
boyfriend pushed her down that elevator shaft. Also, there is talk of a
janitor, although no one seems to know what happened to keep him in
Memorial. It is known, however, that he does not like Pagans, or anyone
dabbling in Witchcraft. Black handprints are constantly found in the
rooms, and computers are known to turn on in the middle of the night,
and the desktop is then printed.
Ashland - Rinehart Theater
- There have been many reports of footsteps
heard from the upstairs costume room. During a performance cast
members reported seeing the door to the dressing room open, the
downstairs toilet flush, and the door close afterwards. A
director said that she saw the ghost standing in the middle of the
stage with it's back turned to her. She could see the body but no
face. Another time cast members arrived to the theatre to find
three lit candles in a triangle with a rose placed in the middle of the
stage.
Aztalan - (Lake Mills) -
Aztalan State park - This is a very active
spirit place. Many people have a very uneasy feeling here, like they
are being stalked or hunted. Many divers have had strange things happen
when they are in the area of these mounds. There is a book out on the
stories of the divers who looked for the pyramids on the bottom of the
lake.
Baraboo - Highway 12 - Many travelers on this highway have reported seeing a
male hitchhiker wearing a green jacket. He has black hair and a beard.
If they pass him by they are sure to see him again about a mile later.
If anyone stops to pick him up, he disappears and is not seen again.
Bayfield - Michigan Island
Lighthouse - The Lighthouse on Michigan Island is
haunted by the ghost of a lighthouse keeper who was killed when the
heavy metal door slammed shut on him during a storm. It is said that
during every bad storm, the door slams twice, even if it is firmly
closed and bolted shut.
Beaver Dam - beaver dam
community Theater - one night in the Theater a
young girl was trying out for a play and did not make it she got really
mad and went up to the loft of the Theater and made a nuse and hung
herself.this young girls name is lacy.so somtimes when people have gone
up there they have said that light goes out and footsteps have been
herd running up the stairs and crying.
Beloit - Beloit Turner
School - In this building late at night when
everyone has left the building, you will hear screams and people
yelling at each other. But during the day and when people are present
in the building, there will be no noises.
Beloit - The Manor - People have reported loud crashing noises coming from
the building. People have reported seeing an old woman looking out the
window. People have reported that a little girl has been seen floating
on the front lawn. Workers have reported upstairs when you look in the
mirror they see people but when they turn around nothing is
there.
Beloit - McNeel Middle
School - In the backroom of the stage where all
of the costumes are kept and sometimes students gather to discuss or do
homework during free time there is said to be a man who used to live on
that spot where McNeel was built who haunts it. One of the worst
experiences was when the Theatre teacher Ms. Franze was sleeping on the
couch and when she awoke there was blood everywhere and students soon
pointed out that she had an electricity plug stuck into the back of her
head. The ghost also writes in the mirror hanging on the wall and slams
the door. There's a chalkboard in the room on which 666 will be
scratched and no one will be able to erase it and then a few days later
disappear and then reappear. It's very quiet back there and there's
always a dark feeling like you're not supposed to be in there. Ceiling
tiles also fall down but only if someone had been standing there just
seconds before. This has happened on many occasions.
Beloit - The Trestles on
Riverside - Every night at midnight if you stand
on the hill before the trestle. It is reported that you will see a
black man swinging in the trees.
Boltonville - 7 Bridge
Road - Supposedly haunted by a women who was
harassed by kids who would kill her cats. Somehow her house caught on
fire and she cursed all the kids and the land and went back inside to
die. When you drive down this road you can still see her cats running
around and the burning remains of her home. -
February 2004 addition: Also there is a story that the lady jogging
also had with her a white dog, which is occasionally seen on seven
bridges.
Boltonville - Jay
road-"Seven Bridges Road" - There is a section
of Jay road which goes thru a swamp. The area is always very dark and
ominous. In the winter months this part is closed due to flooding and
ice. The history is that apparently a woman was jogging down Jay road
at some early part of the morning. A drunk driver, either didn't see
her or was unable to stop in time to avoid hitting her. (If you travel
this length of the road you will see there is no shoulder.)Her body was
knocked into the swamp. Whether the incident was reported to the police
is still under debate, however her body was never recovered. Persons
who have traveled "Seven Bridges" have reported seeing a haze appear
just outside their headlights, when your vehicle "catches up to" the
entity it appears as a figure of a woman in a jogging outfit. She will
jog down the road in front of your vehicle for about fifty feet, before
she turns to face you, and you literally "hit" her. Some have had her
vanish on their hoods while others say they have seen her head appear
in their vehicles and look at the driver before disappearing. Reports
also say if you go down this same length during the day vehicles(which
are stopped) may not start up after being shut down. And that she is
trying to stop people so that her body may be put to it's "proper
rest". You could not mistake this pert of Jay road, on the brightest
sunny summer day it's cold, dark and always extremely quiet. - February 2004 correction: The stop sign on the corner
of Seven Bridges and Jay Road appears to be bleeding. When you are far
away the blood seems to be dripping, but then as you approach the stop
sign it disappears. If you step out of your car and look at it, there
is nothing there.
Boscobel - Hotel Boscobel
- Visions of Adam Boebel. The man who built the
hotel has been seen by many employees and visitors of the historic
building. It's also the birthplace of the Gideon bible.
Boulder Junction - Old
Tavern - is said to be haunted by a "red lady."
Employees won't talk about the subject and no one goes into the
basement. The building is one of the oldest in town.
Boulder Junction - Stevenson
Creek - Stevenson Creek is located far in the
woods in which you can walk or bike to. All that is left of the
building that once stood is a 40 ft stone chimney and the cement walls
of the basement. The building that once stood in the 1920's was three
stories high and was used as a bed and breakfast. One day, everybody
who had been staying there, even the owners, disappeared and the house
was abandoned. Nobody knows what happened to the people staying in that
house. People who have paid a visit to this place have said that you
can still see people walking into the basement, kids playing by the
creek, sometimes running in the tall grass, and windy spots around
people when everything else is calm.
Bowler - Bowler high
school and middle school - There has been said
and heard of small children running up and down the hall of the high
school. The high school kids have had unexplainable experiences, with
lockers opening and closing, books flying, and cries of small children.
Brodhead - Hell's
Playground - At night, when the wind is still,
you can hear children playing and the swings will be swinging.
Sometimes a growl will be heard from out of nowhere. The story is, is
that 2 children and an adult were murdered there. Be careful when going
around the slide. That is where one of the kids were slaughtered
Brodhead - Flynn's Steak
House - This steak house is one of the oldest
buildings in Brodhead and along with currently being a restaurant, it
also used to be a hotel. Many people in the town have had haunting
experiences that they attribute to ghosts, such as unexplained noises
and moving objects. In Brodhead, the rumors are well known and
generally believed.
Brookfield - Dousman
Dunkel Behling Inn /Dousman House - It’s an old
house that ages back to the civil war. Very powerful negative feelings
occur by the guest house and smithy shop. One of the doors in the
window has been reported to slam with nobody present. a Dark figure
walks back and forth upstairs while looking in the front door windows.
The Figure sometimes rushes people and impacts them with such great
force they will fly backwards off the porch. Nobody really knows too
much about the history of the house.
Burlington - Burlington
Public Cemetery - When walking by at any time of
night you get a horrible feeling of being watched and followed there
used to even be some report along a small path there leads to another
small cemetery where people were chased out by some mysterious things.
- September 2004 update/ correction: the smaller
cemetary can not be reached by a path, and can not be seen from the
road, or the cemetary. There is a large field(about the size of a
football field) that is owned by the cemetary. At the end of the field,
there is a wooded area. To the left, it appears to be a large
path/clearing. That is where the private cemetary is. It's very shady,
fenced in, and surrounded by houses. There are a handful of old graves,
scattered about, so if venturing there in the dark, be careful not to
trip and fall. The cemetary is closed from Sunset to Sunrise. So there
is no trespassing while it is closed. And be respectful of the people
living in the area.
Caledona - Oak Creek -
Bridge on Boarder - In the 1970's when the
bridge was being built and littl boy was walking through the woods and
drowned in the creek below. It is said that late at night you can still
see the little boy walking into the woods. He is not there to hurt
anyone or cause trouble he is simply rewalking his final steps before
his most tragic death.
Cameron - Betty's Cafe - Former worker who died of heart problems haunts
restaurant where she died. Reports of objects being hidden, or
'mis-placed' in odd places within. Also has been reported seen by
the back fryers, where she spent many days in the past working.
Canton - Bantely Graveyard
- Many ghosts have been seen here. By day
shadows follow you if your walking along the road by the graveyard. By
night ghostly apparitions have been seen. This place is a popular place
for teenagers to party at. If you go over 25 mph over the bridge next
to the graveyard your brakes will go out on the vehicle that your
driving. Legend has it that a man by the name of Bantley, killed his
family and then hung himself in the barn next to the graveyard. There
used to be a cult that used the barn for its own religious purposes. A
birdbath located in the graveyard, still has bloodstains from the
sacrifices that used to be done there. It is also said that too boys
were playing tag at night and a hand reached up and grabbed one of the
boys' ankles. Because the fright was so strong he died. He was found
dead in the graveyard. His friend was found dead just outside the
graveyard of reasons unknown. People have seen various ghosts,
including a little girl in the tree located inside the graveyard.
Caryville - Old Caryville
Church and School House - About thirty years ago,
investors were going to tear down this old church and build a new one.
The priest got rather upset over the notion and hanged himself in the
bell tower. Since his death, many creepy things have happened. There
was also was a little boy that went to school there and mysteriously
died. If you sit at the desk that he died in, you will feel a really
weird rush as if something is passing through your body.
Caryville - Old Cemetery - There are about twenty graves in this cemetery that
are located at the top of a hill, next to a river. People have seen
faint images of children running in the field and headlights shining
through the river. If you stop and turn off your lights on the way to
the hill, hell hounds can be seen.
Chetek - Highway M - While driving on Highway M between Chetek and Lake
Holcombe late at night there is a ghost who suddenly appears near the
side of the road and almost leans into your vehicle as you pass by.
Chippewa Falls - Sheeley
House - This place use to be a boarding house
when it was first built but now is a saloon/restaurant. Employees say
they hear footsteps walking up and down the stairs at night when they
close up. And there use to be these roses painted on the wall and when
the new owners purchased the place, they painted over the walls but
after a while, the roses would bleed through and they would still try
to paint over the wall and still the roses bleed through the paint.
This one time an employee went up to the attic where the freezer is and
the employee walked in to get some wine and all of a sudden the freezer
door closed behind him, then locked itself and the lights turned
off. He got out a half an hour later with a pick.
Chilton - Corner of Breed
St. and State St. - Witnesses report seeing a
frail very white woman wearing a royal blue scarf on her head an a blue
jacket only to vanish in thin air.
Chilton - Wal-Mart - since opening in september of 1996, 3rd shift workers
have reported unexplained phenomenon. Merchandise flying off the
shelves, stereos turning on or changing channels by themselves, trails
of muddy footprints that appear on clean floors, to numerous
unexplained electrical problems with the security system mainly
reporting movement when the store was totally empty of people. There
have been reports of cold spots, mysterious mists or fogs in the
building, and many cases of workers feeling that someone was standing
behind them and even seeing shadows behind them and turning and no one
is there. There have been a few sightings of a black human form seen
walking through the store, sometimes right through displays. The store
was built on an old homestead that had on it a family cemetary. They
moved the bodies when they built the store, but they say that some of
the older graves were unmarked and that they missed some of them, thus
the haunting of the store by restless spirits.
Clear Lake - Moe church - Moe church is haunted by a number of very angry
spirits as well as is its cemetery. it is said that, in the early
1900s, the church was accidentally burned to the ground with more than
30 people inside at the time of the fire. The church was later rebuilt
and has been haunted ever since. Towns people also say that in the
early 1950s a young woman who had lost her infant child hung herself in
the bell tower of the church. at times she is seen hanging in the bell
tower as well as, seen walking through the cemetery with an infant held
to her chest. These sightings have been reported to be the cause of
numerous accidents on the road between the church and cemetery. Some
that have been fatal.
Coon Valley - DiSciascio's
- DiSciascio's is an Italian restaurant in a
very old building that was a local bar for many years. Apparition of
Lady has been seen. Objects have flown off shelves. Workers now call
her Mary. Does not seem to be harmful, but sometimes mischievious.
Cornell - Cornell City
Library at 117N 3rd - The small city library in
Cornell is a location that triggers unease in most any one that enters
it. As far as the history of the building, the basement, where the
restroom is, used to be a jail during the earlier duration of Cornell's
existace. The entire building has a heavy sort of a feeling to it, but
it is the basement in particular that makes all who step down there to
visit the restroom uneasy. Some librarians working there would not go
down to the basement to the restroom the entire time they worked there
because of the uncomfortable feeling that overwhelms visitors to the
basement. The entire basement area has had virtually no remodeling and
is for lack of better description "rugged". To my knowledge there has
been no sightings of any kind, just the feeling of an overbearing
presence of some kind.
Cottage Grove - Woods on
Church street off of Rinden road - Many
sightings of a ghostly cat figure is said to be roaming those woods. My
boyfriend's cat was killed in the woods mysteriously. There isn't any
evidence of the death. it’s unexplained. Some think the creature called
"Ames" killed the cat. Also you can hear a man calling for his dog at
night and if you look out a window you can see a dog running from his
owner. The dog will look at you and rumor has it if you chase the dog,
the dog will disappear and reappear behind you and take you down by the
neck. No one has been brave enough to do so
Crawford - Ferryville -
Swing Inn - The ghost of a prostitute known as
"Blue Moon" haunts this bar and can be heard walking up and down the
stairs on nights when business is slow.
Crooked Lake - The Pines
Bar - on the dock late at night an apparition of
an old fishing boat in the middle of the lake. In the boat is an old
man yelling for help. Shortly after you sight him mist surrounds him
and he disappears.
Dane - Springfield hill - Apparitions seen and strange feelings.
Delafield - Nashotah -
Nashotah House & Seminary - The grounds of
this Episcopal seminary have been inhabited since the 1500s, and have
been inhabited by a ghost since the mid-1700s. When an acolyte to the
Episcopal priesthood attended this seminary, his wife had an affair
with the Dean. To accommodate this affair, the woman hanged her
husband; it was ruled a suicide, however. Since committing suicide is a
mortal sin, the acolyte was buried in a cornfield rather than the
cemetery. On her deathbed, the cheating wife confessed to her crime.
The seminary wished to rightfully bury the body, so they exhumed the
casket only to find that it was empty. It is said that the acolyte
still haunts the grounds trying to get justice.
Delevan - Elms road -
As the legend goes there was a man that used to
Live on elms road he was a butcher and was the butcher for that town
one night he had went crazy and chopped his family up one by one in the
local butcher, Later that night he hand hung him self in the barn in
the woods... it has been stated and many others who were non believers
till now that if you go to were the old butcher shop was you will hear
frantic screaming and loud laughing, It was also stated that he had
hung him self in his barn which was located in the woods if you are
going down the street toward delevan turn left onto Elms road then go
straight for about 7 miles till you come to a gravel road on the left
side and turn left onto the road go all the way down into the woods
area then keep straight to right about were the road turns to field and
make sure everyone you are with is looking straight ahead or not at
all, then every one you are with turn there head to the right and you
will see the man with the rope around his neck standing there then he
will disappear...You can also go to wear the barn is located and still
see the rope hanging there WARNING: Please for your own safety
don't go alone!!
Dodgeville - Subway - If you go downstairs after 9pm all sorts of mischief
begins. Things will fly off the shelves and clatter to the floor. An
extreme stench will fill the building. The beepers for the doors will
continuously go off. Usually that is the extent of it, but once in a
while they get really restless. On those occasions you may hear your
name called out though no one is there. A couple of employees have
reported seeing a skinny woman in a dress about fifty or so years old
standing by the register frowning at them and when they attempted to
approach her she vanished.
Eagle - Rainbow Springs
golf course - The previous owner was building a
resort but was short a sum of money right before it was finished, the
man vowed that no one would be able to run the place. He died and
haunts the whole golf course.
Eagle River - railroad
tracks - Lights can be seen across a railroad
track.
East Troy - Cobblestone
Bar - The cobblestone was originally built to be
a hotel. It was constructed in the early 1800's and at one time
president Lincoln even stayed there. One day the owners just up and
disappeared and were never heard from again. It is said that they still
haunt the bar and there have been numerous sightings in all areas of
the establishment.
Eau Claire - The Opera
House - The Opera House was made over and they
built a customer service center on the top floor. It has been said that
in the break room is where the actors would change and that a few
actors died there. Sometimes late at night the doors to the break room
shut by themselves and the chairs will move. There have also been
sightings of two old people watching the workers and standing in
corners.
Eau Claire - Rope Swing
downtown Eau Claire - College students have been
disappearing from the area people have seen strange figures and have
heard noises of little children crying the sounds are coming clearly
from down by the water. People say if you go there at 12 at the 1st of
every month and swing off the rope you will get caught up in a under
tow or they also say its the children pulling you under. Many have been
reported missing one body was found in the water close to the shore. SO
BEWARE! AND STAY AWAY! A possible link to this may be Missing
Eau Claire - Stones Throw
Bar/Club - an employee there for a few years
reports almost everyone that worked there had strange things happen.
People would hear footsteps in the old kitchen hallways downstairs,
beer bottles would mysteriously break and/or fly across the room in the
basement. Bartenders would hear doors slam downstairs after the bar had
closed and they were the only ones there. Once long after everyone had
left, a bartender was getting ready to leave when he shouted "ok
everybody out" jokingly knowing he had already cleared the bar of
people. At that instance, a man stood up from his chair, shook out his
coat and proceeded to walk to the door, where he disappeared
completely. That bartender left and never worked again. It is one of
the oldest buildings in town, and it is rumored that a man hung himself
there in the early 1900's.
Eau Claire - University of
Wisconsin - Kjer Theatre - Earl Kjer,
founder of the theatre, often haunts the theatre by messing with the
lights, props, curtains. Can also be seen sitting in his usual seat in
the theatre.
Eau Claire - Vine St - Almost every night in the month of September around
midnight you'll be driving and see a woman about 20 to 30 years in age
jogging down the side walk, when you get almost right next to her she
runs straight for your car like she wants you to hit her, and when you
look back to see where she went shes gone. Some say based on her
description she was a woman who was hit by a drunk driver on September
13 of 1986 while crossing vine
Edgerton - Memorial
Community Hospital - For years, second and third
shift workers occasionally see a former nurse in the older part of the
hospital "checking" on patients. Many believe it is the spirit of an
R.N. who died in the hospital.
Eleva - Rachel's field - A little girl was killed her a long time ago. She
brutally murdered in the woods. No one knows what happened but they
found her body pieces all over the place. If you go into the woods
you'll hear a crying and a little girl run in front of you and then she
will vanish. Weird things have been seen there and the 13th of every
month she comes out with the knife she was killed with. it still has
the blood on it from her. So if you go out there BEWARE!!!
Elkhart Lake - Lions Park
- Late at night swings mysteriously swing and
the merry-go-round spins and there is no wind. It is rumored that this
is because a small kid fell off of the top of the big slide and dies.
Now he spends his like playing at lions park.
Elkhorn - Peck station rd.
- Reports of a train whistle sounding off when
there is no train.
Elkmound - The Over Look
Tower- noises such as screaming, howling, and
very loud laughing have been heard people have been knowing to get very
ill to there stomachs after been there it is a believed that someone
died near buy there and haunts it. People used to be able to just go up
there a mess around until the death occurred one month in the 1980's
they decided to blocked it off due to the things that where happening
and you can only go up there at certain times now you can see lights
from the road.
Elm Grove - Sunset Theater
- The ghost of "pinky" a dead actor can be heard
backstage time to time during performances.
Evansville - East Side
Steak House - unexplained footsteps are heard
here. - March 2007 Update: Burned down
Fennimore - Hilltop
Tavern MI
Dearborn - Ford
Rouge Plant - Ghost of Clarence Keyes has
been seen sitting at a table playing euchre "card game". Cards have
been left on the table during the night and are neatly dealt the next
morning.
Fifield - Fifield
Cemetery - Weird feelings and voices can
be heard there at night. Strange pictures have been taken there
displaying orbs, and ectoplasm mist swirling around headstones. Strange
shadows and orbs can also be seen.
Fifield - Fifield
School - An old school was abandoned for
no apparent reason. Footsteps of lost children can be heard throughout
the classrooms. People are seen faintly throughout the rooms.
Fifield - Holy
Cross - Ghostly woman appears over lake,
near railroad tracks where she was killed by the train. She is said to
be protecting everyone who comes near.
Fifield - Holy
Cross Church - The legend goes that the
pastor of the church, many years ago, was killed by a satanic cult and
the cult then took over the church practicing satanic rituals. It is
said the church is now abandoned and that you can still find black
candles littering the church floors and window sills.
Fond du Lac - Galloway
House - when you go on a tour of the
house or you are just there by yourself it's like you can hear people
moving around and talking and when you go upstairs you can sometimes
hear kids giggling in the playroom. Also in the kitchen you can hear
plates clattering and there also must be something else wrong to cause
they won't let you see the slave quarters where the slaves lived and
that makes me wonder if something very wrong happened up there....
Fond Du Lac - Octagon
House - Octagon House was once used to
hide slaves as part of the Underground Railroad. The souls of the
slaves are believed to still haunt the hidden passages and pathways.
Visitors to the house have reported talking, crying, faint yelling and
scratching at the walls. One reported haunting lead to the discovery of
a small room that was not known of by the current owner. The house was
recently put up for sale but it hasn't sold due to "unexplained events"
which have caused the house to lose value and the price to drop.
Reports of a little boy’s spirit roams the house. June 2008 Correction. Formerly listed in Fond Du Lac
Then in Watertown
and back to Fond du Lac - There are at least 2 Octagon Houses. The one
that is haunted is located in Fon du Lac.
Fond du Lac - Ramada
Plaza (Old Retlaw Hotel) - Rumor has it
that Walter Schoreder (Owner) was murdered on property & haunts the
Hotel. He likes to turn on faucets, lights, bangs on walls, &
screaming , as well as apparitions.
Fond du Lac - The
Retlaw Theater - the Retlaw (Walter
backwards) Theater originally owned and operated by Walter Schroeder,
is believed to be haunted by Walter and the actors who performed there.
The theater was remodeled to be used by Bravo Theater and was later
made into Fusion Cafe. Many of the workers and volunteers have reported
footsteps on the stage when there was no one on or near the stage,
seats creaking and moving on their own, clapping heard at night, and
figures reported to be seen off stage and in the basement storage area.
There have also been reports that the hinged door on the stage floor
would be left closed but would be open in the morning when the
volunteers and workers returned.
Fond du Lac - St.
Mary's Springs Seminary - It is said
that this seminary is haunted by a former nun and her baby. When she
delivered a still born baby in the elevator she killed herself with her
cross. And to this day you can sometimes hear her baby crying through
the seminary at dark.
Franklin - Whitnall
Park - Reports of an apparition of a pale
woman with no feet that seemed to float toward them saying, "go away
and leave my baby alone!" Then hearing a baby crying.
Genoa - Big
River Restaurant - At night the current
owner of the restaurant turns off the lights, but on some nights after
she leaves and locks up, the lights turn back on. People have heard
footsteps from the basement stairs, and dishes have mysteriously
disappeared. The man who they assume is the spirit of the ghost used to
be the owner of the restaurant, and he used to drink 8 cups of coffee a
day. That is the number of cups that have been missing. He also used to
watch CNN all the time, and no one was allowed to change the station on
the television. When the workers walk out of the room with a certain
channel on the TV, they come back only to see CNN on the screen. No one
that works there watches that. If the ghost is the spirit of the old
owner, his name is Kenny.
Germantown - Old
Mary Buth house - A woman dressed in
gothic, translucent, white clothing has been seen standing in near the
house. Crying sounds coming from the upstairs bedroom have been heard.
Gleason - Pratt
RD - When driving down the road at night
you can witness a large black figure moving into the ditch or two white
eyes at the end of your head lights the eyes appear to blink twice then
are gone. Also after leaving the long dirt road clean streaks were
found on the back window of the vehicle
Glenbeulah - Glenbeulah
Graveyard - A graveyard filled with
graves that date back to the early 1800s.A man hung himself in this
graveyard and is said to be found walking about after midnight you also
can see a glowing grave and a pair of shows that appear on a grave.
This graveyard was featured on Unsolved Mysteries a few years back and
they did come up with ghost activity.
Grafton - Ferrantes
Grafton Hotel - footsteps following you
in the basement, music playing upstairs when no one else is around,
cabinets open and shut by themselves, reports of ghostly figures in the
basement.
Green Bay - Barids
Creek - Children voices have been heard
laughing and crying after dark. Two ghosts of children have been seen
standing in the creek as well as a ghost of a man walking down the bike
trails next to the creek.
Green Bay - Brewbakers
Pub - when upstairs in the attic, you con
hear footsteps and the lights turn on and off.
Green Bay - Downtown
YMCA - Haunted by a man in his early 20’s
that was murdered there.
Green Bay - Heritage
Hill State Park/ Fort Howard Hospitial - Spirit
of a man named Henri roams the hospital and the grounds. Some people
feel panicked,as if they must leave the building, others have said that
they heard footstep or thought that they were watched. Considered to be
an evil entity by the staff that knows about him.
Green Bay - Shirley
- West Shirley Rd. - Going West on
Shirley Rd. in the Town of Shirley there is a stone covered road where
a every old cemetery is. This cemetery glows of a pale green light, at
times from an area of head stones located in the South-East Corner. And
it is reported to have followed people.
Green County - Brodhead - Memorial Park - it is said that two young girls were raped and
murdered underneath of the what is now a plat for in the park. it is
now cemented it and what not but there is a bathroom underneath it all.
Green Lake - Dartford
Cemetery - The Dartford Cemetery is an
old cemetery located in town. Residents live all around it. It has been
haunted for many years. The main activities are dark figures such as
shadows, and figures. Noises can also be heard. Most often figures seen
are of civil war era soldiers, an Indian chief that once ruled and
lived in the Ripon/Green Lake/ Princeton area (he apparently died while
drunk when he was bet he could not swim across the fox river. He didn't
make it and drowned.) The other main figure is members of a family. The
children died of a disease,possibly polio They have a
large stone building for their graves which holds plots for all the
family members. At times, a person may sit on the roof and get pushed
off. Orbs can also be seen, and feelings of being followed and watched.
Greenbush - Old
Wade House - This historical site, once a
stop for the stagecoaches traveling through, has for years spoken to
the tour guides. Whether encouraging guides down the steps of the back
bedroom with a feeling of someone pushing, or when heard scuffing
around at the butternut house as they make their beds, there is a
gentle haunting experience here.
Greenfield - Whitnall
Park - Pale woman in white dress has been
seen crossing the same path night after night holding what appears to
be an infant child. The woman does not respond to any interaction and
disappears into the woods.
Hales Cornors - Whitnall Park- A woman
wearing a flowing white glowing gown is holding what appears to be an
infant child. She paces back and forth by the woods near the waterfall.
You can see her perfect in the parking area. If she sees you she will
walk toward you and if feels like you are being pushed away. She
appears around 11 and if you are really quiet you sometimes can hear
sounds of the infant crying.
Hallie - Eagles
Club - In 1985 there was a wedding
reception and a 65 year old woman had a heart attack and died. "BETH"
has been said to haunt every wedding reception after her death.
Hartland - The
Hartland Inn - The Hartland Inn operated
as a hotel and restaurant in the early 1900s. Nowadays the rooms
upstairs are no longer in use, but the restaurant still is open. One
night after closing time in 2002 or 2003, the bussers were folding
napkins around table 9 when they heard a bloodcurdling scream coming
from the basement. One of them went down to the basement and it was
pitch black. She asked everyone else if they had been down there, but
no one had. There have also been sightings of a little girl in a
Victorian-style sailor outfit in the basement.
Haugen - Train
Station - In the early 1900's their was a
great fire, it issaid that many people died from the great fire in the
train station. So whenever you walk by you may feel a cold chill. And
when you go inside you can hear the screams and cry's of people that
died in the fire.
Hayward - Lac
Courte Orielles Casino - This casino was
actually a farm many years ago. In the past, there were stories of the
farmhouse being haunted. Classic occurrences such as eerie footsteps
could always be heard late at night. The house was moved about one mile
down the road when the casino was built. Many workers of the casino
graveyard shift have seen apparitions of people in the casino after it
has been closed.
Hilbert - Hilbert
Road - Reports of a man with a lantern in
his hand and he only has one side of his face he will try stopping you
and asking you if you see his daughter cause she was killed on that
road in like the 1900's and then when driving down the road on the
right side of the road there is a tree standing all alone there is a
person standing under that tree and when u put light on tree it goes
away but u have to drive down this road at night and has to be from
12:00am -5:00am.
Howard - Peterson
House - The Peterson House located on
Velp Road is said to be the site of many strange occurrences. Over the
past several years, leprechauns have been seen frolicking in the
surrounding woods.
Hubertus - Fox
and Hounds Restaurant - Previous owner
and painter Ray Fox is said to haunt the restaurant after hours. Many
of Ray's paintings are on display. A painting near a fireplace shows
hunting dogs with ghosts hidden in the picture. Building is partly
original log hunting cabin. Basement bar is always cold and eerie. - June 2008 Update: Has been torn down
Hudson - Paschal
Aldich Home - Dr. Paschal Aldich's ghost
haunts his former home.
Janesville - Oak
Hill Cemetery - Reports of a lady in
White & many white figments float through the air. - June 2008 Investigation: The reports of a woman in
white is easily dismissed because of the very lifelike statue that is
illuminated by lights all around it. It's very scary, but definitely
not a ghost. Also, the white lights throughout the cemetery are markers
so that people don’t trip at night. Regardless, they are just lights.
Also, people leave the covered candles by graves and create the same
effect, only creepier, as they flicker in the wind sometimes. No
paranormal activity.
Janesville - Olde
Towne Mall - A local merchant was staying
late one night to complete some work. He describes hearing the doors to
back door of his business shake uncontrollably. When he went to
investigate, the same thing happened to the front glass doors where he
witnessed the doors shake, but could see right through them to find no
one there. There has also been witnesses claiming doors opening in
front of people to find no one in site. A student taking a late-night
class in the lower level of the mall had left the classroom to use the
bathroom. While he was in the stall, He looked through the crack of the
stall to see the door to the bathroom open fully, stay open for about 1
minute, then close slowly. He stated he could see right out into the
hallway, but no one was there! He describes the door as a heavy, wooden
door with a clasp that has to be pushed in before the door can open.
Janesville - University
of Wisconsin - Rock County Theater - There have been the sound of doors opening and
closing, lights going on or off, the sound of someone "whispering" in
the theater. Witnesses have heard the doors open and people "talking"
when no one was present. It is reported to be the spirit of a theater
instructor by some, a director by others.
Jefferson - Paradise
Road - Witnesses report feeling an eerie
presence. They have heard inhuman screams, seen short, robed shapes in
the woods, and have even seen a raccoon, decapitated, with blood
glistening in the headlights, but no blood on the road and no head
anywhere in sight. Location is on Paradise Road, a right turn shortly
after you pass Saint Colletta's. Advice is to STAY OUT OF THE WOODS ON
THE LEFT-HAND SIDE.
Jefferson - St.
Coletta's College - Serra Hall - St.
Coletta's is a giant campus of buildings, houses, and dormitories that
serves people with disabilities. one of the dormitories known as "Serra
Hall" has had several occurrences where someone is heard walking up and
down the hallway of the second floor, despite everyone being in their
respected rooms. in addition, staff working on the first floor would
sometimes have to repeatedly call the second floor staff to let them
know that she (the spirit) had turned on the showers again.
Juneau - Eagle
Road Cemetery - There is an old cemetery
along side this road people have been seen in the cemetery all hours of
the night people have gone out there and came back with blood on there
hands and arms strange feelings of cold breezes on hot summer nights
and strange apparitions of the virgin Mary.
Kenosha - Durkee
Mansion / Kemper Hall - Sightings of
nuns peering out from behind the windows. In the late 1800 and early
1900 this was used as a school for girls - which was run by the nuns.
Kenosha - Holy
Rosary Catholic School - During the
night, there are noises in the pipes in all the bathrooms, hot and cold
spots, wierd smells down by the cafeteria that are on and off, a
hearing of footsteps has been heard late at night by janitors, and in
the Computer Lab/Library books have been tossed across the room laying
everywhere.
Kenosha - Pleasant
Prairie - Paupers Cemetery across from the police station on highway H.
- The ground is giving way because the
wood coffins that are unknown are buried in are rotting away. At night
you can hear the moans and sighs of the unknown and un-named John and
Jane Does that die alone, without anyone to claim their bodies or mark
there last resting place.
Kenosha - Rhode
Opera House - There are reports of noises
and voices and other occurrences, accompanied by an apparition of a
man.
Keshena - County
Road VV - When you drive down County Road
VV at night, you can see eyes watching you as you drive down the road.
Also, there are children that might come up to you and ask for you to
play with them, if you don't something bad will happen. If you happen
to hit an animal on County Road VV, something bad will happen to a
member of your family.
Keshena - Menominee
Casino Bingo and Hotel - Surveillance
cameras seen 3 children running around in a restricted area of the
hotel and when security got there the children were still there playing
tag it looked like, running around the security guard the only thing
was the security guard could not see them, the cameras caught them but
the man who was standing right there could not.
Keshena - Menominee
Tribal Police Dept - The police
department is built on an old Indian Cemetery. During the night a
typewriter will type with nobody around. Janitors have seen people
wearing buckskin walking the hallways.
Kewaunee - The
Historic Karsten Inn - This Inn was
certified haunted by Wisconsin Ghost Investigations team in March 2002.
They reported orbs, ectoplasm mists and even apparitions in photos.
They encountered cold and hot spots, unusual odors, sounds of breaking
glass in the bar, sounds of a child running upstairs, a flute being
played, undecipherable whispering, furniture moving in rooms and sounds
of a woman crying on the 2nd floor. They also captured a shadow man on
film with a moving object. The ghosts are that of Mr. Karsten, a young
boy, a woman and another unknown male presence. Hotel rooms can still
be rented here.
Kohler - The
American Club - Walking through the back
halls of the Hotel a witness came across a Gentleman standing there in
a rather dirty Flannel Shirt and torn and faded corduroy pants ,
Thinking It was odd to see man in such attire at the American Club was
really quite strange. They shrugged it off thinking he was a guest
enjoying a cigar in the lower level. Bidding him a "Good Evening" , He
was just staring there blankly at the wall with his right leg bent
against the wall behind him and both hands thrust into his pockets. He
just stared so blankly at the floor as though he didn't just see the
witness greeting him. Well to get back to the office ,they had to pass
him . After they passed him they got a really uneasy feeling... turned
around and he was gone. Feeling a little stirred, they called security
. And on the playback camera. On the tape it showed the witness wave
and talk to someone that wasn't there.
Kohler - Old
Governors Mansion- Witnesses have felt
cold spots white walking through the old renovated governors mansion
La Crosse - The
Bodega Brew Pub - Apparition of the
original owner is reported.
La Crosse - Dells
Bar - 2003 - The manager was sitting in a
chair behind the bar one day before opening. The bar was empty; He was
watching TV for maybe an hour and a half in that one spot when he heard
a knock at the door he got up to see who was there. Before he got to
the door a large iron industrial fan directly above his chair fell from
the ceiling crushing his chair. No one was at the door or anywhere near
the bar when he checked.
Lac du Flambeau - Bingo Hall - This one
likes to push people. My mom works there, a couple of times when she
was there alone with one other person she would all of a sudden be
pushed by an unseen force and was also witnessed by the other person.
Another time a surveillance man was in to change tapes and heard
screaming and a kid talking, he was the only one there.
Ladysmith - El
Rancho - Is said to be Haunted. Possibly
built on a cemetery. Rumors of Ghosts. One rumor of a man in a red
flannel shirt that was killed with an ax. People that live near the
trailer court close by have said they have seen this man standing in
their living rooms just watching them.
Lake Delton - Ringling
Road - On Ringling Road there is a trail
that leads to a well, sources have seen a white image of a woman visit
this well every night between 12 and 3 a.m. A few yards back there is a
shack, inside is a stool that a man used to hang himself. This shack
has been reported haunted.
Lake Geneva - Lawrence
House Bed & Breakfast - It is said
that this house use to be a home for retarded children. The wealthy
from the lakes area & Chicago would send their retarded children
there to be raised. It is said that you can hear screams of children
and children crying in the various rooms of the house.
Lake Geneva - St.
Killians - St. Killians is a
graveyard/church. The church was burnt down 10-20 years ago because of
a priest haunting it. It is off of Townline Rd. There have been many
ghost sightings there including odd noises, shadows, footsteps
following you, a bell ringing, and other various noises. - March 2005 Update/Correction: the church was burned
down by the lake geneva fire department because it was condemned. they
used the church as training for the fire department. there were stories
of devil worship going on in the church basement and the stories are
TRUE. A group investigated it several times before they put up the no
trespassing sign. There are sounds of a bell while you are there but
the bell seems to be coming from a house in the distance. While there
they report seeing mist around a tombstone that disappeared when they
approached. Also repoted, a shadow that moved across the tombstones and
vanished. and there are strange smells it is believed they are coming
from the swamp that is behind the cemetery.
Land o lakes - Summerwind - Shadowmen
walk the grounds, pin holes of light float thru the trees, and scariest
of all, the foundation and the landscape change at will. you measure a
doorway one minute, and the next, its a few inches larger. What’s
strange is that there are beautiful flowers that grow all over the
remains of Summerwind during the night, but when you return during the
day, there is nothing. - December 2006
Update: Summerwind was purchased by a private party approx 20 years
ago. It was under renovations to possibly reopen as a Bed &
Breakfast. The owners put a gate up so you could no longer visit the
property. It ended up burning down shortly after.
Langland - Antigo
- McMillion Hotel - This hotel is haunted
because the first owner had killed himself in the hotel back in the
1800's. Their was a psychic there that said a woman had killed herself
in room 12. Black shadows have been seen and other have been pushed.
Lowell - bridge
- When you drive on the bride stop in the
middle of it and blood will start dripping from the side railings
Madison - Bay
View Townhouses - Rumors of it built on
top of a Indian burial. Said to have seen a little girl in white at the
basketball court. Hear little girl crying for her mom late at night.
Said to have seen shadows but nothing there.
Madison - LaFollette
High School - Anyone who has been alone
in the areas of the Auditorium and the classrooms behind the auditorium
has had a strange feeling of not being alone. There is the feeling that
someone, or something is there, watching you. Footsteps can be heard,
and when in the auditorium, some have even heard the stage curtains
open and close, though nobody was there to open or close them.
Madison - Maple
Bluff Country Club - Sightings of ghosts
by staff members.
Madison - Memorial
Union - Memorial Union is supposedly
built on an Indian burial ground. The 2nd floor of the building is
haunted. Right before walking down the stairs to the pool hall, an old
lady was seen, dressed in clothes from the 1800's, standing at the top
of the stairs leading from the first to the second floor, at second
glance she disappears. Also, if brave enough to venture to the 2nd
floor a strange feeling of not being alone will overcome you, and
clocks and watches will spin out of control.
Madison - Sanitarium
Hill - The main building was an old
tuberculosis sanitarium. There is a forest in the back that has a path
that leads through it and goes to the graveyard. There is also two
large smoke stacks that the dead were rumored to be burned in. The
nurse' barracks were connected by a tunnel that was under ground and
lead from the main building. Most of the sightings happen in the woods
and right outside of the cemetery.
Madison - Science
Hall - The Science Hall on Campus is said
to be haunted on the fourth floor of the building. The floor is used
mainly for storage and not many people go up there. Sightings of
beakers falling off the shelves one by one have been reported numerous
times.
Madison - State
Capitol - The fourth floor of the south
wing is said to be haunted. When members of the messenger staff have
been up their completely alone doors have opened by themselves and
strange footsteps have been heard.
Manitowoc - Evergreen
Inn hotel - Many death by suicides and
murders have happened here. Owners of a restaurant in the building and
were closing up when they heard pounding on the floor above them. They
went to see but nothing was there, they checked the stairs and heard
noises, which all 4 of them went to investigate and found nothing!!!
They even had the police come through with a k-9 unit and they found
nothing.
Manitowoc - Evergreen
Inn Hotel - 8th Floor - a woman
killed herself and you can still see her blood on the floor and in the
hallway. If you can get into the room she will appear but the door only
opens if she opens it for you.
Manitowoc - Evergreen
Inn Hotel - Lounge - sometimes
you can see people from the early 1900's dancing and eating. If you are
on the elevator it will stop on unexpected floors.
Manitowoc - Manitowoc
Lincoln High School - Tower - Students
are forbidden to go into the tower and in fact the top floor was
padlocked and no one seemed to know where the key was. The tower was
once used to house the school newspaper and yearbook offices. However,
it is rumored that it is haunted by the sprit of a student whom jumped
to their death from the top of the tower. General uneasiness, cold
spots and apparitions have been rumored.
Manitowoc - St.
Mary's Nursing Home - It is said that
this home for the elderly is built on what used to be a orphanage back
in the early 1900's. There are many witnesses of children seen running
through the towers and sounds of children playing and screaming. Also a
man has been seeing walking his dog in the building, when asked what he
is doing there, he vanishes. Many of our residents complain about the
barking dog and to tell the children to settle down.
Manitowoc - St.
Nazianz - JFK Prep - Reports of
apparitions of nuns and the sounds of children screaming.
Maribel - Maribel
Caves/ Maribell Hotel "Motel Hell" - An
old abandoned building owned by Al Capone close to the Maribel Caves.
This hotel was inflames in the 1920's, and it 'GLOWS' when the new moon
is out. From the road, you can see every detail of that hotel. This
hotel is surrounded by woods and across the street is also wooded. Its
a three story hotel, all but abandoned, you can't get to the third
floor anymore because of holes in the stairway. Third floor has
reported to have cold hands applying pressure to their back. If you
flash your light at a second floor window they flash back at you. In
the basement, feelings of being threatened. The name "Hotel Hell" came
from the blood on the walls and the yelling from the basement, the ring
of the bell and the sound of wheels. The smell of sewer gas is still
there in the bathrooms. Old books were in one of the rooms upstairs,
burst into flames.- January 2004
update/correction - these caves are right below hotel hell. you will
hear moaning as of creatures or monsters there. Witnesses have heard
laughing, have seen a little girl in a black dress wearing no shoes on
the stairs which go into the caves area. you can hear singing there day
or night. near the old stables, visitors have been chased by white
light which some of them have seen as a carriage drawn by white horses.
also in the old stables the sounds of horses hooves have been heard.
The submitter of the update has done some research into hotel hell and
it may never have been owned by Al Capone. the first thing to be built
there was a "resort" built in the 1800's which was one of those places
where people went to be cleansed by the natural spring water which
still runs pure and clear there today. when you walk the trails there
(it's still open to the public) there is one cave door which has been
partially opened due to a rockslide, spring water still runs there.
Meridian - Pavilion
- Pavilion In the pavilion net to the
Meridian river there newspaper clippings of a women who killed herself
in the river. After that happened there were ferry boats disappearing
from the river there were about three. after the third one they closed
the boat landings down and it is now a place where teens go to swim. A
few have died and were reported as a suicide.
Marinette County - Mclintock Park - Many
years ago people were murdered in the park and you can hear unexplained
noises in the woods. People have taken pictures there and have come to
see all kinds of orbs in them.
Marshfield - Old
County Hospital - Two patients that were
killed in the tunnel between the main building and the farm, are
reported to haunt the tunnel area.
McFarland - Dyreson
Road - Several reports of screams and
cries being heard from the old bridge. There have been reports of cars
seen hanging off of the bridge and then suddenly vanishing. Also,
reports of as an old black car that suddenly appears behind your car as
you are driving, quickly pulls up close to you, as if it is going to
ram you, and then suddenly disappears.
Menasha - Menasha
High School - It is known that tunnels
were built in the 1940's connecting Buette Des Mortes school and
Menasha H.S. together incase of a Nuclear Attack. During a school drill
four kids got locked in the tunnel while trying to ditch school. You
can hear them screaming, pounding on the doors, and yelling for help.
Menasha - Valley
Road - Story goes it was about 100 years
ago when a groom was thrown from the carriage on the way to his wedding
and died when he was caught in a tree, strangling on his bow tie. They
say on certain nights, you can still see him hanging there.
Menomonie - University
of Wisconsin - W-Stout - Tainter Hall - More then one unexplained deaths, suicides and what
not have occurred within this hall. And those who have died there have
never left. The kitchen in Tainter is where you can experience these
spirits the most. Many people who work late in the kitchen have noticed
that equipment will turn on by itself, objects will be miss placed in
locked freezers and the radios will mysteriously change stations.
People where brought in who talked to these ghosts who claim they mean
no harm, they just wish to hang around the building they previously
lived in. Whether they hang around to warn others of their mistakes or
whether they hang around to disturb the peace, it is unknown.
Menomonee Falls - Grace Lutheran School -
There are presences in the the area that once was a stage, strange
noises are heard there. - November 2005
update: Grace has purchased new property and will be building a new
Church and School in Germantown.
Menomonee Falls - Main Street - It has
been said that a while ago, a man got run over when the streets were
first being settled. The man has been seen walking near shops, and he
has also been seen wandering around North Middle School, and the
schools' properties around the Menomonee Falls area. The man is tall
with darker features, and has a long beard. From time to time, people
say at night you can hear the man murmuring as he walks around Main
Street, and he has also been known to screw around with the Main Street
clock. Rumor has it that the man was also involved with the burning
down of a bar several years ago right along Main Street.
Menomonee Falls - Menomonee Co Park office - Old army barracks. Ghostly sounds have been heard at night. May have
been built over an old Indian Burial Mound by the US Army.
Mequon - Concordia
University Wisconsin - When Concordia
moved from downtown Milwaukee to its current location in Mequon (sold
to them by the nuns who had lived here), it is said that a Sister named
Sister Sixtoes was unwilling to move. She ended up dying near what is
the chapel today. She still haunts the chapel as well as the dorms of
Coburg, Catherine, and Augsburg. Students have reported sightings of an
outline of a ghostly figure when walking down the stairs near the
chapel late at night. Students have also reported things being moved in
their rooms as well as lights, radios, TV’s, etc. Being turned on and
off when no one else was around. Many strange things have occurred over
the years that students have sworn was done by good ol' Sister Sixtoes.
Merrill - Scott
Mansion - In the 1850's white lumbermen
were welcomed by the Indians and their chief. Some time later his
daughter Jenny, for whom the settlement was named for died. On how she
died is speculation. One account says she fell in love with one of the
lumberman, became pregnant and killed herself. Another is, she died
during child birth. Another is she died from flu brought by the white
man. The chief buried her on the hill, and cursed the ground that it
would never do any white man any good. The curse is the legend. Nine
people died after T.B. Scott bought the land for a home in 1884 and
died unexpectedly in 1886 before the house was finished. Within a year
his wife Ann died. Their son Walter went to see the architect to finish
the house. He was stabbed to death by him. In 1893 it was sold to a man
named Kuechle. He lost all his money on a gold mine and mortgaged the
house to Tony Barsanti. Tony foreclosed and Kuechle went insane and
died in an asylum. The same year Barsanti was stabbed to death in
Chicago while waiting for a train to Merrill. In 1901, George Gibson
bought the house and went to inspect it. He was never seen again. In
1906, Mary Fellhaber bought the property. Soon after fell ill and died.
Popcorn Dan was the caretaker and died in 1912 after booking passage on
the Titanic.The next caretaker Mr. Lloydsen died of alcoholism. In 1919
the widower of M. Fellhaber gave the property to the city. In 1923 the
city gave it to the Sisters of the Holy Cross who have seemed to break
the curse for now. Rumors of ghost sightings in the tower.
Merrill - Hospital
next to The Scott Mansion - The Sisters
run the Hospital next to the Mansion. One of the nurses reports the
hospital has had many ghostly occurrences in the old portion of the
building. She mentioned the city library has a file on it but you have
to ask specifically for it.
Milton - Milton
High School - In rooms 145-148 there are
two ghostly figures of old teachers that are seen. They died when the
school caught fire in the 60's. If you sit in any desks one of the
women will walk past you and give you an evil look. You’ll feel very
disoriented and uncomfortable. If you look at the chalkboard you'll see
that the names of all the children these two punished are writing
there. You can't erase them. Also, if you were to sit in the Auditorium
that was just built, you will hear the curtains open slightly and then
fall to the floor.
Milwaukee - Bell
Middle School - If you drive past Bell
Middle School , you might see on the lawn of the school, a man walking
with a black book bag. Whenever a car passes by and if the man hears
the car, he'll stop, look on the side and down to the grass. Then,
he'll continue walking. To recognize him, look for his dark black
shirt, and his dark blue jeans. He has no shoes, or feet, just legs.
He's totally bald and comes out after 9:00 usually. If you're lucky, he
might be walking on the playground and he'll look up, then continue
walking. One more thing - good luck finding him and report back if you
spot him!
Milwaukee - Cardinal
Stritch University - Stritch DormsCardinal
Stritch dorms used to be a place where nuns would live. In the basement
of Stritch they used to keep the sickly nuns that would eventually die.
Sometime after dark you can hear the nun walking around the hallways.
Also in some of the rooms on 3 Center spirits will tear posters off the
wall, closets will open on their own, locked doors will swing open, and
random objects will be pushed off desks onto the floor. On 2 west you
can hear running up and down the hall. As soon as you open your door to
see who it is the running will stop. When you close your door the
running will startup again.
Milwaukee - Cathedral
Mayer-Krom Building - The late nineteenth
century Mayer-Krom Building at S 8th and W Mitchell Streets in
Milwaukee WI 53204 is were the Milton Family are said to have been
murdered Oct 3, 1943, with hauntings ever since. Hence MARS
Distributing created an actual haunted house there to view each
October. Their official website is: - www.marshauntedhouse.com
MARS = Milwaukee Area Radio Stations.
Milwaukee - Grand
Avenue Mall - Three security guards on
second shift noticed a small dark figure dancing on the second floor.
When they arrived at the site, no one was around. All the doors were
locked and all the exits were within the guards' view as they went to
the area of the sighting.
Milwaukee - Holy
hill cemetery - When Pictures are taken a
thick mist will appear in the image. Witnesses report just hanging out
at night then a mist started forming in front of the car, it drifted up
and eventually formed the shape of an old man. You could see his eyes,
face, clothes, hands and even his beard. But you could also see right
through him and see the trees on the other side.
Milwaukee - Marquette
University - Helfaer Theater - The
Marquette Theater is haunted by a former Artistic Director who died in
Studio 13. He mostly bangs around the catwalks, and sometimes people
see him in the Studio.
Milwaukee - Marquette
University - Humphrey Hall - a
student dormitory for Juniors and Seniors, Humphrey used to be the
former Milwaukee children's hospital, and the basement was the morgue.
Many children passed on in the building, and it is said several spirits
still haunt the place today. Public Safety officers have reported
seeing children on the camera monitors, and students have reported
hearing singing, laughing, crying, and screaming as well as seeing the
ghost of children.
Milwaukee - Marquette
University - Johnston Hall -
which was the first building erected on the campus, a Jesuit priest (or
it might have been two) threw themselves off the top floor, or the
roof, and their spirits still haunt the building. Witnesses often get
strange feelings whenever walking down a hall alone.
Milwaukee - Marquette
University - Mashuda Hall - In
one of the dorms, a girl apparently committed suicide in one of the
rooms years ago, and residents who lived in the room afterwards
reported poltergeist activity: sounds, flying objects, and writing on
the fogged-up window. However, a priest blessed the room and performed
some kind of exorcism, and the activity ceased, and hasn't returned
since.
Milwaukee - Marquette
University - Straz Hall -
formerly East Hall & a YMCA - little
boy named Petey drowned in the pool when it was a YMCA, and his ghost
still haunts the basement, and you can hear him walk toward you.
Milwaukee - Marquette
University - Varsity Hall - a
stagehand man was apparently smoking a cigarette while taking a break,
and accidentally leaned into a huge metal fan, which killed him by
cutting him into pieces.
Milwaukee - Modjeca
Theatre - balls of light, white lady on
the stage and the "balcony man". Figures have been seen in one’s
peripheral vision and balls of light have been reported. Legend says
that at some point in history the balcony collapse and a lot of people
died.
Milwaukee - Old
Northwest General Hospital - A former
worker reports On the top floor there were dozens of times that voices
could be heard, women crying, ceiling tiles moved about. There was no
one in the ceiling, no place to go. Often we could hear dogs barking
inside the building. A security guard quit after seeing a person
running and then disappearing into a wall. A doctor was murdered by his
jealous wife in that area. Also, the top floor of the facility
performed abortions on young un-married women. Also the ICU was on that
floor. Footsteps could be heard on the main floor when they where the
only one in the building, and voices from behind closed doors in the
old emergency room.
Milwaukee - The
Phister Hotel - on the 8th floor, in the
hotel, (the storage floor) Mr. Phister is seen walking the halls with
his dog. Within the hotel, consist hundreds of paintings of dogs.
Milwaukee - The
Rave - Eagles Club - This building built
in the late 20's was an all male athletic club. Many areas of the
building are very cold even in the heat of summer. The ballroom has
access to a door that leads to the dome maintenance room which also
leads to the roof has many times been investigated by security after
reports of someone throwing things off the roof. When investigated no
one is found, when things like empty beer cups and ashtrays have been
found below. The basement floor which houses access to the pool viewing
porthole and also the boiler room, has a dirt floor that security doing
a sweep of the building at closing time, have felt the strong urge to
leave by a presence and feeling of coldness that is overwhelming, also
accompanied by a strong odor of starch or bleach smell. It is said that
after it was closed and reopened as a shelter, a man that ran it was
abusive and very intolerable, to the young men that stayed there. His
negative energy is felt and reports of his apparition and coldness in
the pool area and in the boiler room. As far as his apparition is
concerned, they were reported by bar staff accompanying the security
during sweeps, they were most likely under the influence of alcohol at
the time. A strong sense of negative energy is felt in all parts of the
building. Always felt at night when the building closes. Strange noise
like shuffling feet and loud bangs can be heard while sweeping the
building fro people who may hideout after a show. It may be heard in
one area and when looked into the noises are heard in the area that was
just secured. Unexplainable feeling of negative energy exists in the
building. There is also the ghost of a little girl at the Rave. A
worker who worked there for a year or so, spent time in the coat check
area in the basement. There are catacomb like hallways that run behind
the coat check area. One night during a concert, they heard a little
girl laughing coming from the rear hallway. When they got up to look, a
wind blew through the room, and a feeling of dread came over them, and
in an instant it was over.
Milwaukee - River
Hills - Milwaukee Country Club - Spirit
pats people on the shoulder at times yet is no where to be seen.
Milwaukee - South
Milwaukee - Grant Park - Seven Bridges - It
has be rumored that if you go to Seven Bridges and walk the paths
during a full moon between the times of 9:30pm and Midnight (Don't walk
alone)you will see different colors of lights dancing around in the
woods and if you go farther into the woods you would hear what sounds
to be laughter and screams. If you are really quiet you can hear foot
steps in the woods coming towards you and with those foot steps you can
hear very heavy breathing, if you wait for those foot steps to come to
you, you will feel a very uneasy feeling come over you like an evil
feeling. It's said that adults and children have been killed there and
even suicides from the people that did the killings. (WARNING! the park
closes at 10:00pm, so don't park in the park after that time, park on a
side street. If you get caught by police you will get ticketed). It's
also rumored that if you stand on one of the bridges that a mist or an
apparition of a person would happen right in front of you. The
apparition could possible be one of the victims.
Milwaukee - St.
Adalbert Catholic Church/School - The
school building used to be the church. Rumor has it that a boy fell to
his death from the balcony. The balcony has since been walled over and
converted to a room. Former teachers and students at the school attest
to a strange feeling in the former balcony area. There is also a
rocking chair in the attic that keeps rocking with no one around and no
breeze. A strange man has been seen by staff and children in the church
basement. Neighbors report that a former building on the site had a
light that never went out even when the electricity was cut. Teachers
also report feeling uneasy in the basement bathroom and hearing a
strange “wooooooing” sound.
Milwaukee - Saint
Rafael school - South Campus - this
school has many haunted places included the girls bathroom where a
young girl dressed in a olden day school uniform haunts it also one
girl reported once that when she was alone in the building after
volleyball pratice she heard people's voices coming from the gym when
she went to investigate no one was there. also phantom drafts and
reported noises from the upper gym when no one occupied it at the
current time. this school is located on 31st and Lincoln on Milwaukee’s
south side
Milwaukee - Tamorack
- Reports of footsteps running up the
back stairs, arguing and heard a door open and then slam shut. An old
woman was also seen in the mirror of the woman's bathroom.
Milwaukee - University
of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Sandburg Halls - there have been many incidents in North Tower. On the
G2 level there is occasionally mysterious squeaking coming through the
concrete floors, objects are known to move independently.
Milwaukee - Wisconsin
Lutheran college - At least six different
spirits have been witnessed repeatedly -a poltergeist, a signing nun,
the mother superior, a janitor, strangely-laughing children and an
malevolent presence have all been reported.
Mineral Point - Walker House - Sometime
back in the 1800's, a man stole a horse from one of his neighbors. Mind
you, this was a punishable by death in those days. After committing his
crime he decided to go to the Walker House for a drink. The Walker
House is a large restaurant/bar/hotel. While he was in the bar, a mob
came, dragged him out of the bar and promptly hung him on a tree
outside. Since then he has haunted the Walker House. Visitors and
employees have seen floating heads, felt cold drafts, been locked in
the walk-in freezers and several other mischievous things.
Minocqua - Tula's
Café - On numerous occasions
vaporous forms are seen in the back hallway by the bathrooms where the
man died. After closing things are also moved around not as people left
them. Occasionally cold spots are noticed.
Monroe - Idle
Hour mansion - Old civil war mansion - was
part of the Underground railroad. Matron, Lady Ludlow haunts the
grounds. Have seen Flying objects, flickering lights and Cold
presences. Also have personally witnessed her walking down a Back
hallway. Her room on the second floor is always cold, even if the heat
is on. On top of the mansion is a "Widows Walk", sometimes at night you
can see her apparition or shadow walking the course of it.
Mukwonago - Heaven
City Restaurant - This restaurant sits on
an Indian Burial Ground. The employees said that they saw glasses
crashing to the ground after hours. They saw ghostly mages wandering
through the restaurant. One time a young boy went upstairs and said he
didn't believe in ghosts and he broke both of his legs.
Mukwonago - Inn
The Olden Days (recently changed to "Fork in the Road") - It is a restaurant that used to be a tavern. Employees
have heard foot steps, and the sound of pool balls hitting and rolling
across the floor. Also, in the storerooms, there have been clouds of
fog seen and voices heard.
Nekoosa - Old
Alexander Middle School - An old janitor
haunts the third floor with a little girl by his side. You can smell
cigar smoke in the hall where he used to smoke every once in awhile.
Hammers have been thrown and glasses have picked themselves up off the
ground and shattered. People have seen shining lights in the middle of
the night on the third floor windows, when the workers are all gone.
New Richmond - Kozy Korner Restaurant - There
is a ghost that appears there often. Just lately they have found a
picture of what looks like the young boy. They have also found out that
his name is "Carl."
Oak Creek - Bender
Park - story has it about 80 years ago. A
farmer went crazy and killed his family and neighbors with an ax. Since
then all of the houses in that area have been removed but when you walk
down the road and near the area YOU will never forget the feeling that
covers over you. to find the hermit walk towards the lake on
FITZSIMMOMS RD. when you get to the woods look left you will see a dirt
hill that is all that is left of his road, Plevoc road. Remember do not
go looking for him alone out there you are a member of the food chain.
- March 2008 correction: No farmer ever
went crazy in oak creek. for the houses they feel off the cliff or were
removed when road workers found an Indian burial hill there.
Oak Creek - Carolville
- Peter Cooper Glue Factory - this
abandon factory is haunted by as many as 30 ghost of people who have
been murdered here. - NO
TRESPASSING March 2008 Correction: No massacre ever took place
here. . it was a great factory, happy place for them until it was shut
down and just became a place of sadness and despair not ghosts.
Oak Creek - Fitzsimmons
Road - This is sort of covered with the
Bender Park Story. It is also evident that Fitzsimmons Road was used
for drag races and such back in the day. People went off the cliff at
the end of the road and haunt it. The end is blocked off now, but you
still get the vibe that something does not want people there.
Ojibwa - Rainbow
Asylum Bar - Was an old hideout in the
1930's for the prohibition period. Reports by owners of footsteps in
the night. Turned over pop and beer bottles upon cleaning after hours.
Have an actual picture of ghost taken from wear of building. Picture
was of a male figure's shadow on wall, but no body was visible! Had
picture blown up for locals to see!!
Oconomowoc - Fowler
Lake - In the year of 2003, it was told
that an old man was out fishing on his boat at about sunset one
evening, and it was thought that he either had a heart attack or it was
something else, but he had fallen over the side of his fishing boat. It
is said that he still haunts that lake every evening at sunset.
Oconomowoc - LaBelle
Cemetery - There is a large statue of a
young girl and a cross behind her. On some nights you can see a girl
walking from the area of the statue and drowning herself in Lac La
Belle. Other times, the hands of the girl will drip blood.
Oconomowoc - Oconomowoc
High School - There has been rumors that
a young boy hung himself in the lower gym and has been haunting the gym
for years on Halloween.
Oneida - Norbert
Hill Center - Apparitions of nuns are
reported to be walking the halls of the 2nd and 3rd floors of Norbert
Hill Center. The old school janitors have reported hearing voices and
slamming doors as well as lights turning on and off.
Oostburg - Veterans
Park - It is said that a drifter through
town drowned in the creek that runs through the park. There have been
reports of a man who walks the banks of the creek on certain nights,
and when approached, he seems to walk into the creek and disappear.
Strange noises also occur in sewer pipes which are on the park's north
side.
Oshkosh - The
Grand Opera House - During renovation
work in the 1980's, workers and crew saw the ghost of Percy Keene, a
stage manager who died in the 1960's. They saw his face in windows
sometimes and thought it was a night watchman, but the opera house
didn’t hire any night watchman. Also during the filming of a movie
based on a haunted theatre, the director saw Percy's ghost in the
balcony smiling down at him. Other ghosts are in the basement. Percy's
the only one who can roam, apparently.
Oshkosh - Pain
Art Center - The art center is a house
that was built during the depression. Her and her husband were
extremely wealthy, and owned most of Oshkosh. They owned the larger
factories, and paid their employees with, vouchers to purchase goods at
stores the couple owned. Basically keeping all the money under their
tight control. When the people of Oshkosh learned of the Paine center
being built, they threatened the couple that if they ever moved into
it, the people of Oshkosh would kill them. The couple feared the people
of Oshkosh. And never did move it. In fact NO one has ever lived in the
Paine Fine Art Center. Mr. Paine did pass on first, and Mrs. Paine did
out live him. She donated their house to the city, with one
stipulation, no children under 18 were allowed in it. She was never
able to have children, and therefore resented children. Children are
allowed in the center now, but Mrs. Paine is no longer alive. It's said
that you can see the woman roaming the house during tours. The couple
has also been seen together "enjoying" the house they dreamed of living
in together. Workers often say a lady at the back of the crowd will
start to explain things in the house but when they look for who was
talking the place the voice came from can not be found.
Oshkosh - Winnebago
State Hospital - In Sherman Hall, a
strange shadow is seen after 1 AM most nights in old seclusion suite
vestibules. Most likely a former patient named Rufus, who hung himself
in same vestibule.
Oulu- Abandoned
Saw Mill - The It is said that since the
late 1920's, red dogs have been seen coming from the floor in an old
abandoned saw mill in Oulu. The mill is now in the woods and is
overgrown.
Outagamie - Appleton
- Huntley School - There’s a boy who
wanders the streets but is never confronted. He screams about the color
purple constantly!! He apparently believes that he is a distant
relative to the former mob boss Lucky Luciano. He's been known to
confront high school age girls and speak of his good fortune. Once
swayed, most of the girls are never seen again. He has no known
residence, although it's said that he still lives in his parent's
basement. If a confrontation happens then he runs like a lightning
bolt, and isn't seen again. To everyone that has knowledge of him...
he's a ghost!
Park Falls - Nola
Cemetery - It is some peoples belief that
a few spirits haunt the cemetery. One is Nola, the very first person
buried there. Nola was a little girl that died very young and since she
was the first to be buried there, the cemetery was then named after
her.
Phillips - Fred
Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park - alongside
a highway in Phillips- Hwy 13, a jumbled crowd of over two hundred folk
art figurines clog the landscape. It's a park that is eternally crowded
with revelers, spirits and beer bottles -- if not beer -- abound. The
public is invited to wander through this impressive sculptural display.
This display is an eerie and strange place. As you walk threw you will
experience many different feelings there are areas that make your hair
stand on end on hot calm days you feel cold blasts of air that will
give you goose bumps During nights of full moon its said you will see
dark shapes of what have been said to look like demons dancing around
the park A son of German immigrants, Fred Smith was born in 1886, and
spent his working life as a north woodsman. With two other men, he
built the Rock Garden Tavern in 1936, which he ultimately managed after
his retirement from lumber jacking in 1949. In 1950 this self-taught
sculptor began crafting his unique entourage of cowboys, miners,
Indians, and soldiers. Indian. His first masterpiece was inspired by
the image of a large antlered deer leaping over a log that he had
noticed on a boy's sweater. He used beer bottles from his tavern to
decorate the life-size concrete horde, which mostly crowds the front of
the park along Hwy. 13. He built the broad-shouldered, blocky
characters starting with wooden frames wrapped with mink wire, or
animal skeletons.
Pipe - Club
Harbor - Club Harbor was a bed and
breakfast back in the early 1900's when it was built. When you look at
the window on the 3rd floor, you can see a women in the window. There
were 2 murders and 1 suicide were performed in the very same room that
the women is standing in. The woman is known to have blond hair and
also may be the woman that was raped and murdered, or the woman that
committed suicide.
Plainfield - True
Value Hardware Store - A former owner of
the building was the last victim of a serial killer, Ed Gein. It is
said that she is often seen in the store with order forms in her hands
and saying something about anti-freeze (which is what killer had wanted
to purchase the day before she was murdered).
Plover - hwy
54 - An old abandon house, downstairs
lies an old piano. Upstairs is where the presence of a young girl who
wants you to play the piano. There are other presences that roam there.
A cold chill runs through your body, and footsteps are heard.
Plymouth - Yankee
Hill Inn B & B - There are too old
buildings that are known as the Gilbert Huson and Henry Huson houses.
Three workers have reported hearing people walking around and things
dropping. Workers usually refuse to work by themselves. The third floor
is especially creepy and not to mention extremely cold at all times.
Ex: one day three workers were waiting for laundry to get done, while
the three were sitting in the basement an old mirror that sits on the
wall dropped. None of the workers were near it as it shattered into
hundreds of pieces.
Portage - Church
Rd - The cemetery described on church
road is a favorite place to visit of me and my friends. it is a quite a
long drive to get to and easy to miss. the road is a dead end road, the
cemetery at almost the very end. Explorers were told by locals that it
used to be a dead baby (children's) cemetery but that something
happened in which all the gravestones were removed to "start over."
most of the stones remaining are not of children and some date back to
early 1800's. one particularly disturbing experience was finding a name
that was my mother's maiden name on a stone.
Prairie Du Chien - Wyalusing Academy - It
has been in the news paper a lot, about a man walking around the town.
The residents there believe that he is a ghost.
Portage - Church
Road - It's a cemetery, when it gets dark
out sources have seen a young girl hanging from a tree. They have also
seen dark shadows move from headstone to headstone.
Portage - On
Wisconsin St - At about 9:00 p.m., You
can see a lady, about in the early 1900's, walking on the sidewalk with
a stroller. But as you get closer, the image disappears.
Potosi - Downtown
- Brunner Food Center - Behind Brunners
Food Center is a wooded hill side where a man was shot to death in the
late 1800's. People have seen sightings of a man dressed in the
style of a miner walking the hillside. These sightings all occur in the
early to late evenings. The man is carrying what seems to look like a
shovel or pick ax over his shoulder.
Racine - Dekoven
Center - Reports of a strange figure
being seen.
Racine - Elmwood
Plaza - Specifically in the store (front
east) that was once "Planet Video" and is now "Eye on Video". Along the
back store wall at times you will feel and eerie sensation, the doorway
which leads to the office will often feel breezy and cold, and late at
night or early in the morning, employees opening/closing the store have
reported seeing a black shadowy figure along that back wall. Office
doors will close and movies will fall off of the shelf.
Racine - Microtel
Inn and Suites - February 2008 Update:
Removed by request of owner. It was investigated and debunked.
Racine - Northside
Pick n' Save - sometimes at night when
the store is dead carts will move from were you put them , can goods
will be stacked 10 high , lights flick on and off - June 2008 Investigated and debunked: The faculty said
they had never had anything weird happen. After investigating for a
length of time, it was easily deemed not haunted, nor was there any
paranormal activity whatsoever.
Racine - Pritchard
Park - A man in all black will approach
you. A very pale face and black eyes pierce through you. He will let
out an evil growl. Then he will just fade out of sight and then you
hear evil laughter. - June 2008
Investigation: While 1 of the investigators was sitting by a tree near
the wooded area in the darkest portion of the park, he began asking
questions with the EVP recorder and after asking many questions with no
response, the question "Would you mind if we came back?" sparked a very
loud growl followed by a very sinister, very dark laughter. Sounds a
little far fetched, however, there was nothing visible on the Hi8 and
upon listening to the EVP, the growl and laughter was audible.
Racine - The
Racine Country Club - After closing,
employees have heard noises, walked through cold spots, and seen
shadows. The attic contains rooms that in the 20's & 30's were used
as a brothel. Local legend has it that several of the prostitutes were
murdered in these attic rooms.
Racine - SC
Johnson Wax Building - Reported sightings
of little girls playing and laughing have been sighted by janitors in a
SC Johnson Wax building, which was formally the old St. Mary’s
Hospital.
Racine - Westlawn
cemetery - we went to roam around in our
car about 12;30am and there was always talk of the place but we went
inside saw a old cop car vanish car did on us and low whispers were in
the far east corner something jumped in front of our car and knocked on
he side of it also when you drive in a faded tombstone jumps back into
the cemetery with a glow.
Racine - Winslow
School - One of the three oldest school
buildings in the city. It was built in 1856 on the site of Racine's
first cemetery. Various Sightings reported over the years.
Readfield - Cemetery
- There is a certain grave that us
haunted by the spirit under it. There is a marble ball on top of a
temple that turns every full moon, yet it still hasn't been to the same
spot twice.
Rhinelander - Molly's
Rock on Pine Lake Rd. - A ghost by the
name of Molly haunts the rock and every time someone drives by the
rock, there is a halo resting above. If someone were to go onto the
rock and either be drinking or drunk, story has it that Molly will
scream out a long screeching noise and say, "get off my rock" and the
person will get pushed off.
Rhinelander - St.
Josephs Cemetery - When you walk through
St. Josephs cemetery there is whispering in the darkness beckoning
people to come near but no one is to be seen.
Rib Lake - Rib
Lake Campgrounds - In the campgrounds
next to cemetery. Strange sounds and faint moans heard on quiet
September night coming from cemetery. Young boy killed in car accident
buried there.
Ripon - Ripon
College - Brockway Hall - Ghost
named Anton seems to appear on Friday nights after 11 p.m.
Ripon - Ripon
College - Rodman Center for the Arts - A former student recalls being a student at Ripon
1977-1981, rumor was told by several people was: A child was killed in
an accident while climbing around inside a church steeple. Years later,
the congregation moved to another building, and the college used the
church for a performing arts building. When Rodman was built, the
spirit moved to the new building. The spirit was called Raphael. There
are stories of how the spirit liked to play tricks on people. While s
setting up for a performance, making copies of recordings for students,
etc. On one occasion, they where in a hallway, and heard very clear
footsteps walk right past them, there was no one visible there. The
other occasion they where working in the recording booth at the concert
hall, when one of the lights over the stage started flickering. They
went into the concert hall and yelled "Stop It!", and the flickering
stopped.
Rock Island - Rock
Island State Park - When Walking towards
the old lighthouse on the trail that goes around the Island you
encounter and old cemetery. A small boy and girl have been encountered
there playing with one another, along with a phantom stone house in the
woods.
Rosendale - Witch
Road - The road is very dark and very
cold in certain spots, there is old run down house on the right side of
the road where the witch used to live some 50 or 60 years ago, there
have been sightings of lights flashing from the end of the road, white
lights appearing on trees, and what looks like a little girl peaking
her head around the side of tree's. On the way down the road there is a
tree on the right side that looks exactly like a witch.
Rusk - Ladysmith
- Ladysmith high school - Sometimes kids
say they are followed into the school by ghosts in the morning and
sometimes at sporting events Ghosts have been reported being seen in
the locker rooms during a game.
St. Francis - Marian
Center- theatre - This building was
an old Catholic School, but now is used for community groups to use. In
the theatre- voices can be heard whispering when no one is there. There
is one spot backstage that is freezing, a little girl can be heard
singing.
Saint Nazianz - JFK Prep - This old
school/sanitarium is abandon and old. A catholic school where the nuns
used to hit the boys and torture them. It was said that one of the nuns
hung herself out there and it was also said that you could here the
little boys voices at night. There's a church by it and a grave yard
where the nuns are buried. January 2004
update: - It isn't advised to go to the Church, nor anywhere on the
grounds. The people that own this place now are not allowing visitors,
unlike the previous owner. You will be fined.
Saint Nazianz - Society of Divine Savior Seminary - US headquarters for Catholic mystic cult which was
forced to flee Germany in the 19th century because of its secret
practices. Hotbed of pedophilia, closeted homosexual love triangles,
suicide, fraud, incest and even an exorcism! The patron cult leader
Father Oschwald is kept in a crypt on the grounds. His followers are
buried in front of his crypt. Their graves are alternately sinking and
rising. Oswald is known to wander the forested perimeter of the
eutrophied Lake Oswald on a white horse. His followers wander the
grounds moaning. The decayed buildings are known to be haunted by the
screams of the tortured souls who've spent time there. In addition,
they are infested with all manner of pests including many active wasp,
hornet and bee hives. Much of the village was severely damaged in a
freak storm in 2000. Locals uneasily murmur about the 'Wrath of Oswald'
and his fury with the townsfolk who've abandoned him...
Shawano - Chicken
Alley - It is the end of the very long
French Road. For some reason the name at the end was changed to
Chicken Alley. You will be chased by what appears to be
snowmobile lights, but it never gets any closer. You'll travel
through a haunted lumberyard forest on the way. Sometimes you can
see the Chicken Alley sign, and sometimes you can't. There is
also a large tree that only appears with a full moon in the
background. You will see wild chickens running around and if you
get out of your car at the crossroads (the only one there, someone will
yell at you!!!
Shawano - Old
Sacred Heart Rectory - Was an old Rectory
for a church but was them moved a few blocks away. Very strange
feelings in the attic, always cold up there even in the summer. House
is almost too calming when candles are lit, almost like someone hugging
you from the inside. One night (The person who wrote this used to live
there) there were coughing noises out in the hall, only would go away
if you told them to, not out loud but in your mind. Saw people
congregating in the living room very late one night. Found fingernail
scratches underneath stairs after a psychic came over. When on computer
in kitchen always heard someone coming in the room late at night.
Sheboygan - The
First Star bank downtown - is haunted by
a janitor that worked there named Duke, he worked there until the day
he died. He's fond of shaking certain doors and occasionally moving
things.
Sheboygan - Kohler
- The American Club - The whole East Wing
of the hotel is haunted. It is the oldest part of the hotel. A woman
hung herself in room 209 long ago and often haunts that room. And she
often stands by the fireplace in the room across from that known as the
Washington room. Also, someone killed a woman in room 315 on the third
floor long ago. A man can be seen walking down the hall coming from
that direction. Lights will turn on by themselves. - April 2007 Update: The most often reported is the
"lady in the blue hat" by room 209. Story is that she killed herself
after her fiancé was killed at the plant in an industrial
accident.
Sheboygan - Sheboygan
yacht club - A worker there has heard
stories, and shrugged them off. He has had problems with lights being
turned back on after turning them off. Then he started having feelings
that someone was watching him. One night he finally saw a figure of a
man in the basement prior to closing up.
Sheboygan - Stop
sign - Indian family used to live in a
house near a stop sign. Rumors say that the husband killed his
wife and children brutally. Rumors say that if you go there late at
night and stop at the stop sign then high beam the stop sign you will
see blood dripping down for the sign. Then you will hear the Indian guy
walk towards you and sing Indian songs. As he walks towards you, his
footsteps get louder and louder.
Sheboygan - Superior
Manor a.k.a. the old St. Nicholas Hospital - evp recordings of a small girl in the basement saying
"grandma"
Sheboygan Falls - Eagle River - Long ago,
in the 1800's, a man worked on the railroad tracks. One day, he was on
a caboose, in the back, and he fell off. He was knocked unconscious,
and another train was coming. He was decapitated; his head flew 200
feet away. To this day, he uses his old railroad light, searching for
his lost head.
South Milwaukee - Man Childs House - A
child was said to be trying to get something from the attic and when he
pried the door open a large shelf fell and crushed him. Every
time the Man Child goes upstairs there is said to be a crying of a
small child.
Spooner - Corral Bar - In the
mid-1970s a bartender was murdered in while she was closing up, her
body found slumped in the corner the next morning. She had been
stabbed. Her murderer was eventually caught, but not convicted until
years later when he committed another murder. Patrons of the bar have
reported the juke box apparently starting itself, sometimes running
through all the records in a blur. Workers late at night have reported
seeing something, a person or a presence, standing in the shadows,
passing behind them in a mirror, and walking across the floor. Never a
clear look, always just a glimpse. Enough, however, to let them know
that they were not alone in that bar.
Spooner - Hammill
House - Railroad and newspaper man Frank
Hammill is generally regarded as the ”Father of Spooner.” He arrived in
1883 on the Chicago Northwestern Railroad. He later became publisher of
the Spooner Advocate, mayor of the town, and a prominent Republican
politician. Hammill died suddenly in 1922 of a mysterious stomach
problem. His body was displayed in the beautiful house he had built for
himself and his family. His wife lived the remainder of her days there
and often reported felling that Frank was still there with her. As time
passed and new owners took over, the house gained a reputation of being
haunted. Frank, said the owners, was still in “his” house, watching
over “his” town. Most reported hearing noises, voices, and feeling that
they simply were not alone in the old house -- one family even moved
out. Today the apparent hauntings continue, and the current residents
are absolutely certain they are not alone. They even refer to their
“guest” as Frank.
Stevens Point - Hwy 66 - The Bloody Bride.
On the night of their wedding a bride was killed in an auto accident.
It is said that when you travel down this road you can see the bloody
bride still in her wedding dress. A police officer was driving down the
road and saw the bride in the middle of the road and was not able to
stop in time and hit the figure. he stopped and looked behind him to
see if there was anything in the road and the bloody bride figure was
sitting in the back seat of his vehicle.
Stevens Point - once there has been a girl named Arrianna Bodoh that
was killed by her boyfriend. After that her boyfriend eas killed by a
truck.ever since people herd arrianna scream. Every time people go to
investigate all they see is a girl being killed by her boyfriend.
Stevens Point - Red Bridge - A gravel
road leads you to Red Bridge. Even though the bridge was recently
rebuilt it is still said to be haunted. At midnight if you park on the
bridge and turn off your headlights a ghost of a woman appears.
Stockbridge - Joe
road - back in the early 1900's the state
wanted to build a road over an old Indian burial ground. The grounds
keeper called Indian Joe would not let them, so they ran him over and
built the road over him. If you drive down the road which is up hill
both ways and stop at the bottom, put your car in neutral Joe will push
you up hill to the end of the road. If you put flour or any powder on
the back of your car you will see the handprints after the push. - February 2004 Update: If traveling South on WI 55 its
a quarter mile from a hotel on the right and it will be your first
right on a road after Co Tk F. The submitter tried it and it is a real
"Gravity Hill." They report no handprints on the back of their truck
though. Thinking it was a fluke they turned around and tried to roll
down the hill from midway up and i went happily rolling backwards up
the hill into 30 mph headwind! The road isn’t all to tricky to find but
coming from Lakeshore Drive and 55 the road ID signs have been removed,
by either locals trying to keep people from trying the hill or by
vandals.
- March 2005 Update: (connecting
lakeshore and 55) the road signs for Joe road are actually on the "T"
of Lakeshore and Joe road.. but the ones on the "T" of Joe road and 55,
are missing. I is reported the road is an optical illusion, it looks
uphill but really it is not.
Stoughton - Weary
Road - Many rumors abound, witnesses have
seen a phantom train, imps in the trees, strange lights, and a green
glow towards the end of the road that is said to be the ghost of Old
Man Weary. The story is that he favored entertaining local children and
the parents accused him of being a pedophile. Although that was never
proven, they got together and burned his house down. It is said that
not only was he innocent, but that several children were present when
the parents set fire to the house and that they were killed in the
resulting blaze, along with Weary. The house no longer exists, but out
of tradition visitors park by the space in the trees where his driveway
supposedly was. They report to have seen phantom cars & a phantom
motorcycle that followed them to a right-hand turn and then
disappeared.
Stoughton - Weary
Road - The Bridge - There is a
bridge whereon if you turn off your car and lights it will not restart
when you turn the key. A young man died car-surfing on the road.
Location is about ten miles outside of Stoughton.
Strum - Strum
Cemetery - This place is messed up, late
at night when the moon is full, you can see shadows moving quickly
through the graveyard, you can hear voices, and little children crying,
one night a you could hear a girl scream but there was no one anywhere
around.
Superior - Fairlawn
Mansion - This lovely mansion was once
the home of the first Mayor of Superior. The family lived there for
many years. The house is supposedly haunted by a former housekeeper.
Legend states that she served the family for quite some time, and upon
marrying, moved away. The housekeeper's husband later murdered her and
her spirit returned to where she was most happy. The house is now a
museum and from time to time her ghost shows up to direct lost people
on tours. The building was also an orphanage until the early 1960's.
People have reported seeing two little girls haunting the basement.
Tomahawk - Calvary
Cemetery on hwy s - odd smells and
noises. The smell of roses, rotten flesh and others.
Sightings of orbs. Sounds of walking, something growling,
talking, whispering, and babies crying. Certain spots get windy
when there is no wind. And other spots get cold or colder than
the weather is at that time. Also seen shadows of dark figures
and could not tell whether it was a man or woman or child or adult.
Walworth - Walworth
Grade School - It is said a janitor that
fell down the steps to the boiler room haunts the school. He doesn't
harm anyone, but doesn't know how to leave the school.
Wauwatosa - Wauwatosa
West High School - In the mid 70's
Wauwatosa West High school was being rebuilt on a new location. The
school was more than 90 % finished, when two teenagers were messing
around on the roof, while drinking, and lit the school on fire. The
entire school burned down. It was reported that an immigrant
worker by the name of Hans from a European country, was in the now
theatre working. Hans perished in the blaze. He never worked in shoes,
and is said to haunt the theatre and he always has no shoes on. You are
considered to be in most dangerous to be in the theatre without shoes
on. On numerous occasions while faculty has been working in the stage,
lights have gone off, stage doors slamming, guest seats creaking, and
stage props disappearing.
Wascott - Hunting
Lodge - Sounds of little girls voices can
be heard when no one is there. Random Screaming in the middle of the
night. Windows opening undetected by security system. Sightings of a
young dark haired girl standing in the upper window.
Washington Island - Gretchen of Range Line Road - A quite tall milkmaid at a dairy on the island.
Washington Island - Nelsens Hall and Bitters Pub - As the oldest continuously operating Tavern In the US,
This place seems to be haunted by Its founder Tom Nelsen. Objects
disappear and reappear in different places. A hotel guest cut short a
stay after an encounter in the back ladies bathroom, and a former
employee was tapped on the shoulder when building shelves in the hand
dug basement. I was alone at the time, so there is no explanation for
the tapping.
Waterford - Tichigan
Lake Inn - This bar/restaurant is located
in a resort lake area and is know to be haunted. Long time residents
have been telling us about ghostly happenings since we bought this
establishment seven years ago. We ourselves have witnessed apparitions
and poltergeist-like activities with customers present--margarita
glasses flying horizontally off a glass rack before crashing to the
floor, beer tapers all turning on at once with no one nearby, blender
turning on by itself and then off by itself just as the bartender is
reaching to turn it off, bell in the kitchen ringing while no one is in
the kitchen, footsteps heard to the upstairs followed by an apparition
of a previous regular who is no longer living, etc. This establishment
was erected in the 1920's and was a known Speakeasy and place for the
Chicago "bosses" to wait while barrels of whiskey were hauled by horse
and wagon from their still to Highway 164 at the top of the hill for
shipment to Chicago. These walls do talk! The goings-on seem playful in
nature but still frightening especially if one is spending the night
here alone.
Waukesha - South
High School - A tall column of darkness
has been seen to follow individuals around in the theatre.
Strange occurrences reported also, especially at night or when the
lights have been turned out.
Waukesha - Tabernacle
Cemetery - People have seen a person
standing next to a tree in the cemetery. Also, bright flashes of light
have been known to be seen by the fence that surrounds the right side
of the cemetery.
Waukesha - Waukesha
Area Chamber of Commerce - It is an old
colonial house on Wisconsin Ave. that used to be a house but is now
transformed into an office. After work hours you can hear talking
between people upstairs and downstairs. You also hear people walking up
and down the staircases. During the day time many employees have lost
belongings and weeks later find these belongings where they had left
them before.
Waukesha - Whittier
Elementary School - At this school
sightings have been seen clocks stop and odors in libraries and
classrooms swing open and water fountains spray water onto the floor.
People have seen a little girl about 8 years old who had a heart attack
in the girls bathroom in 1991, a 12 year old boy who drowned in
freezing water in 2001, and a boy who was about 10 years old when he
got hit by car when running out into the street to get his ball! Lots
of spooky things happen at this school.
Waupaca - Simpson's
resturante - There has been numerouse
reports from the emplyoes and frequent customers that there is a family
waling around at night. They are not there to hurt anyone, but they let
their presence be known.
Wausau - The
Grand Theatre - The former theatre
manager who passed away over a decade ago has shown himself to some
employees and other unexplained phenomenon have occurred.
Wausau - Rib
Mountain storage plant - One foggy night
in the late evening, a couple of kids reported seeing a lady with a
knife in her chest. They went closer to see what was making a loud
ruckus in the second story of an abandon storage building. They climbed
to the second floor and to their astonishment they found blood on the
walls and a lady and her kid in the bath tub soaked in a tub of blood.
knives were protruding threw various body parts and the kids started to
twitch uncontrollably. They looked back after trying to leave and
everything was gone. So now every night at about 12:00 on the dot you
can see the boys twitching profusely and the decomposed mother and her
child in a bath tub of blood. The building has been torn down but you
can still see them for a brief second or two or three at exactly 12:00.
Wausau - University
of Wisconsin - The ghost of a female
janitor roams the halls of this small two year college. Her name is
Annie and she died in 1972. Janitors have reported hearing her walk the
halls at night along with her distinctive laughing in the cafeteria.
Wauwatosa - Eschweiler
Buildings - These former TB sanitariums
are located in the Milwaukee County Grounds and are now used as labs
for a small bioengineering firm. The largest of the buildings is
abandoned and is the site of many frightening sightings. Several people
walking through the park at dusk of later have reported feeling
watched, the hairs on the backs of their necks standing up. Looking
into the large picture window on the second floor, many have seen a
woman in white staring down at them. The sound of coughing can also
frequently be heard--undoubtedly the spirits of TB victims still
coughing up blood and mucus.
Wauwatosa - Potter's
Field - A mass of unmarked graves can be
found in the Milwaukee County Grounds next to the soccer field. These
graves belonged to the victims of TB and the residents of the "poor
farm" the county ran in the twenties and thirties (possibly earlier).
This site is a hot bed for restless spirits, which can be felt as well
as seen. Many people have on several occasions seen figures, including
children, slowly walking through the fenced off cemetery at odd hours
of the night.
West Allis - Majdecki
Sentry - Ghost heard whistling in the
aisles and in the back room of the store. The sound of children
laughing is also heard at night by the 3rd shift workers. Toys in the
store get played with when the store is closed for the night. Some food
also disappears. the store is said to be built on the site of an old
graveyard.
West Allis - Mitchell
Manor Senior Center - Part of this
facility is the former summer home to Billy Mitchell's family.
Staff has heard voices and felt something brush past them.
West Bend - University
of Wisconsin Washington County - Working
as a custodian one would hear doors slam and things fall and upon
investigating one found nothing, but the talk was that the place was
haunted at night. Lights in the library are constantly turning
on. Even hearing the switch click. Also reports that witnesses
could hear the desks sliding across the floor slamming into the walls
and each other.
West Bend - Old
Holy Angels Building - In the old Holy
Angels building which is now an apartment complex there has been
footsteps heard walking around in the upstairs of one of the apartments
and sometimes an old bell will ring (an electrically powered one) even
though there is no electricity going to it and no wiring attached to
it. If you'd try to pull the hammer back to ding the bell it is very
hard to do it manually.
West De Pere - St. Lawrence cemetery -
Strange noises are being heard such as growling noises, and there feels
like there is a bad presence and lots of electric lights, with orbs
happening there. Sometimes fogs.
Westby - Fairchilds
house - Lily Fairchild heard a ghost
named Roberto, talk to her. That morning she had found a bottle of
cologne sitting on her desk that did not belong to any one she new.
That night, Roberto contacted her. He revealed that his parents
murdered him because he was seeing a girl his parents detested. He
lived in the late 1800's.
Weyauwega - Marsh
Road - Studies have been conducted out on
the road and have found "orbs" in pictures. - October 2004 update: The local legend behind that is
one of a Goatman. Yes a goatman. Legend has it that back in the 60's or
70's maybe even earlier that there used to be a "makeout" couch located
halfway down the rd. While late one night after high school prom a
young couple was down there and the goatman killed them and the couch
was covered with thier remains. Also a myth with the road is you can
travel it one was and it will be so many miles long you can turn aroung
go back to the other end and the length of the road will be
dramatically different As legend has it.
Whitefish Bay - Dominican High School 3rd floor and Theater - The third floor of this High School was used as a
convent for the nuns that taught there. A fire broke out one night and
killed one of the nuns as she slept. Stories of her floating down the
halls of the third floor continue to this day. This nun was rumored to
be involved in the theater productions and is said to still come and
view the rehearsals and productions in the theater. Many sightings have
taken place there.
Whitelaw - Maplecrest
Sanitarium - this place is located 1 mile
north of whitelaw, in a large patch of woods. it is a 3 story, 3 wing
sanitarium that has been abandoned since the 50's. Very large building,
you can see the rusty water tower from the road. Beware as there are
people living next to it. It is reported that you can see people
staring at you from the third floor windows, and once inside, doors
slam and you hear laughing. It was used as a tuberculosis hospital in
the 1930's and was re-opened as a sanitarium after.
Whitewater - University
of Wisconsin - Whitewater - Center of the Arts - Lots of strange occurrences after hours
reported. Those I have heard have included hammering in the
metals lab when no one is present within, reappearing ghosts, and
chairs moving across the room by themselves.
Whitewater - University
of Wisconsin - Whitewater - Clem hall - you can hear people running in the halls and look and
no one is there. you hear a bathroom stall door slam at night and no
one is in the room with you. people hear talking and laughing in the
hall and no one in site. a figure is seen around homecoming week.
Whitewater - University
of Wisconsin – Whitewater - Delta Zeta House- Witnesses who have lived there have heard a presence
creaking as walking down the large front staircase.
Whitewater - University
of Wisconsin - Whitewater - Fricker Hall - a ghost of a student is seen walking in the basement
on certain nights.
Whitewater - University
of Wisconsin - Whitewater - Knilans hall - Supposedly haunted by a librarian who died there years
ago. A student, was walking with her hands full when two doors, that
require a key to unlock, opened by themselves. When she passed through
the doors the elevator doors were also being held open by an unseen
person.
Wild Rose - Tuttle
Lake - It has been told that before the
property became a campsite for children and teenagers for summer
vacations, the lot was owned by a farmer and his wife. It is known that
the farmer went crazy when he found out that the wife was pregnant, so
he drowned her in the lake, and the farmer was never seen again.
Recently, two counselors from the campsite went to check on a missing
camper out in the woods at night, and ran into what was an extremely
bright light where they describe that they "couldn't see a thing." They
said they had no choice, but to turn around because the light was
blinding, and as they turned around they saw a woman run away from
them. The counselors start running in a different direction...a
direction that lead to the only tent on the campsite, but when they
started running for the tent, they realized they couldn't find it. So,
they both turned around to look and see where exactly they were when
they noticed that the tent was in fact right behind them...the weird
thing about this is, is that in order to end up in front of the tent,
you have to cross a road, which the counselors themselves told me they
"Never, ever crossed." One counselor said "We were running and running
as fast as we could, and then we found ourselves in front of the tent
which is impossible unless you cross the road...which we did not."
Strange indeed, and it has been told that investigators had found the
pregnant farmer's wife in the lake, and buried her underneath the
campground. Still today, the lady remains underneath the site in body,
but in soul she remains on earth. Watch out carefully for her as you
visit this site.
Wisconsin Dells - The Showboat Saloon - The
area directly above the bar upstairs is haunted by a past resident, who
is believed to be named Molly. She opens and closes doors and plays
with appliances while people are cooking in the upstairs kitchen.
However, she does not seem threatening. The bar area has seen much
supernatural activity too. Human forms in turn of the century clothing
have materialized in mirrors, sometimes appearing to be walking along
the bar toward the exit door. A strange voice has even been heard
numerous times near the stage area. In the cellar, unusual cold spots
are apparent, as well as kegs of beer being moved around. Employees
have been known to experience feelings of nausea while in the cellar,
as well as sudden anxiety. All of these events seem to take place
sometime after 3:00 AM.
Wisconsin Rapids - Blueberry Ridge- If you
make an appearance between the hours of 1am and 3am on the actual
pipeline nearest the railroad tracks. Focus on your left hand side. You
will see a middle aged women pacing back in forth.
Wisconsin Rapids - Forest Hill Cemetery - Employees
have seen strange apparitions, and have heard babies crying in the baby
section. Faint voices call your name. On the hill there is a monument
that causes machine failure.
Wisconsin Rapids - Mead Hotel - Downstairs in the Shanghai room. In the 1950's this room was used as a bar in which
individuals would laugh, drink, and gamble. A female bartender was
stabbed to death around 1953. Today, lights flicker, doors shut by
themselves, and the smell of blood is evident within 20 feet of this
room. The room is unusually cold.
Wood County - Marshfield - St. Joseph's Hospital 4 West - Employees who work on 4 West have seen a dark
figure in a black robe go in and out of rooms. Patients have also seen
this figure, sometimes at the same time as the staff. Other
strange things have occurred such as cold sensations and strange
lights.
Zoar - STH
47 - On the Northeast corner of Zoar is a
church. Behind the church in the woods is an Indian Cemetery. An
ambulance was running lights and siren past the cemetery and the whole
ambulance shut down but kept moving. After it passed the cemetery, it
started back up again. There have been reports of a man with no face
walking on the highway.
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