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"The lakefront home of Mary Nohl, complete with all her art, passed to Kohler Foundation upon her death at the age of 87 in December 2001. During Mary's long and productive lifetime, she filled her life, her home, and her yard with an incredible array of art. Reclusive in her later years, Mary was often called the "witch of Fox Point" and legends grew about the artist as she embellished her home and filled her yard with concrete sculptures. She worked in all media and her large body of work includes painting, sculpture, jewelry, drawings, assemblages, and more...The site is not open to the public at this time."
- section from Kohler Foundation website

  11700 W. Capitol Dr.
Wauwatosa, WI  53222
or or

tour hours:
• September thru May  (Mon, Wed, Fri)  9:30am, 11:30am, 1pm
• June thru Aug  (Mon - Fri)  9:30am, 11:30am, 1pm

  (South 76th St and National Avenue)
1647 S. 76th St.
West Allis, WI  53214

"The silly side in us all will love to visit the Clown Hall of Fame and learn about famous clowns of the past and present. See clown memorabilia, and historical artifacts including tiny bikes, noisy horns, and big bowties. The Clown Hall of Fame also includes exhibits of comedy greats like Red Skelton, Lou Jacobs, and Emit Kelly Sr."
- section from Explore Wisconsin website

  Wisconsin State Fair Park
Tommy Thompson Youth Center
640 S. 84th Street (Gate 5)
West Allis, WI  53214

hours:
(Mon - Fri)  10am – 4pm

A half-buried blue classic Cadillac stands out amongst the other items that decorate this Cudahy lawn.

  St. Francis Seminary
3257 S. Lake Drive
Milwaukee, WI  52325

  4519 N. Green Bay Ave.
Milwaukee, WI  53209

  2893 S Delaware Ave.
Milwaukee, WI  53207

  7228 S. 27th St.
Oak Creek, WI  53154

  319 E. Howard Ave.
Milwaukee, WI  53207

Oak Creek UFO Sightings

"We looked up and we freaked out. There in the sky was something moving rather low and rather slowly with only 3 lights and they were spaced out like a triangle."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 12-23-99 report

Bigfoot Raids the Hen House

A farmer shoots the beast in the darkness, then alerts the police, who witness the creature run off into the woods.

Cudahy UFO Sightings

"It hovered for a bit and then went higher. It then hovered, again and moved southward. And repeated its movement. Within a few seconds after this, it disappeared."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 01-17-03 report

"Everyone Dies in Room No. 24"

UFOs Involved with the Loss of Northwest Flight 2501?  (1950)

West Allis UFO Sightings

"Then just before turning the direction, the one triangle under the arrowhead and the right tip of the arrowhead appeared to veer off slightly, still staying with the group, and then they flew off at a greater rate of speed, due south, until I could no longer see them."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 10-13-02 report

Wauwatosa UFO Sightings

"I saw a bird flying along about 50 feet above the ground. It was just flying swiftly threw the wind....then BAM..it stoped (sic) dead flight......Like it hit a wall..."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 01-08-03 report

Greenfield UFO Sightings

"Although I couldn't keep it in the field of view long, it appeared to be somewhat like an airplane, but more like 'ship' shaped."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 07-01-97 report

Who's Haunting the House?  Dad!

Greendale UFO Sightings

"...I saw what looked like a diamond or an arrow head and it scared me so bad I had to pull over to the side of the road."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 03-11-99 report

"The Haunted Tenant"

The upstairs renters had someone else living with them...someone who was not living.

A Very Haunted House

Top-Shaped Object in Sky  (2002)

"I'd say the object was a few thousand feet in the air and shaped like a top. The entire time the object had remained in the same place in the sky and did not make any noise what-so-ever."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 07-19-02 report

Bender Park & Fitzsimmons Road

Triangular-shaped Craft near Glendale  (1999)

"No gas emission or jet blast from object. No sound. Traveling about 500mph."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Grant Park's Seven Bridges Trail

UFOs Observed from Clifford's

"I caught movement out of my eye and looked slightly below and to the right of the Big Dipper and saw three triangular shapes in a very tight triangular formation."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

"Grandmotherly Visitor"

A Cudahy resident recalls reoccurring nightly visits from a specter in the form of an elderly woman that left her feeling comforted, not terrified.

White House Tavern

Paranormal activity has been reported by both patrons and staff at this historic watering hole.

Peter Cooper Glue Factory
PRIVATE PROPERTY

Located in Carrollville, this large abandoned building complex is a very dangerous place to visit.  Stories detailing multiple murders occurring here may be untrue, but some folks still hold fast to the place being haunted.

Shorewood UFO Sightings

"...the flashes kept moving away from the moon as if they were blasting off from it."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 05-21-07 report

Alleged Close Encounter with Aliens  (1975)

"Ghosts of America" Haunted Location Reports
(take with a grain of salt)

The reports on this site are presumably fiction, using random Wisconsin place names in the stories listed there.  Even so, you might get a kick out of reading them.

"The Shrouded Horseman"

In the book "Spooky Wisconsin" is a retelling of an old Milwaukee tale that involves the vengeful spirit of a murdered black man who appears driving a team of spectral horses.

ghost stories from
"Milwaukee Ghosts"

These following haunted locations are exclusively from Sherry Strub's book "Milwaukee Ghosts".  As there are more stories than space on this page, they shall be included together here.  You can read the full stories in her book.

Haunted Locations from
The Shadowlands

These following haunted locations are from The Shadowlands website.  To read more about each location, check out their link to the right.

Morris Pratt Institute

The original "Spooks' Temple" school was built in Whitewater (Walworth County) in 1889 as the spiritualism movement in America continued.  Since 1946, the school has been operated out of Wauwatosa.

"Spiritualism is the Science, Philosophy and Religion of continuous life, based upon the demonstrated fact of communication, by means of mediumship, with those who live in the Spirit World."

"The nine buildings that comprise Trimborn Farm include two large barns. One of the barns is the largest stone barn in the state. There is also a restored Greek Revival-style farmhouse that dates back to the early 1860s.  The most unusual of the existing structures is a group of lime kilns, which produced high quality lime mortar and plaster that were used in the construction of early buildings throughout metropolitan Milwaukee from about 1850 to 1900.  Other buildings with interesting architectural features are the granary -- a structure with a wood-exterior and a brick-interior, and a barrel-vaulted smokehouse. "
- section from the Milwaukee County Historical Society website

  Old Cudahy Depot
4647 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.
Cudahy, WI  53110

hours:
April thru October  (last Saturday of the month)  10am – Noon

"Our museum complex consists of five historical buildings: an 1840 furnished log cabin; 1874 brick town hall; 1886 blacksmith shop; 1890's summer kitchen displaying washing machines; a farm shed containing antique farm tools; and a meeting building which houses a gift shop, archives, print shop and cobbler shop."
- section from the Portal Wisconsin website

  8300 S. 15th Avenue
Oak Creek, WI  53154

hours:
Summer  (Sundays)  2pm – 4pm

  717 Milwaukee Ave.
Milwaukee, WI
or

hours:
Memorial Day thru Labor Day  (Sundays)  2pm – 4pm
 or by appointment