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"The impressive focal point of the Marshfield Fairgrounds is the 'World’s Largest Round Barn'...The diameter of the barn is approximately 150 feet and it is 70 feet high at the top of the cupola. It was designed to house 250 head of cattle...The awesome sight of the arena, with no supporting beams apparent, becomes even more wondrous as one realizes this architectural feat was accomplished without benefit of scaffolding."
- section from the Marshfield Chamber of Commerce website

"A religious grotto and cave built by Father Philip J. Wagner. Started in the 1920's, work on the site continued until his death in 1959. The Cave of Wonder enters a thousand feet into a hill side, and while it is claustrophobic at times, it opens out into a two story chamber with a near life-size polychrome Jesus."
- section from CLUI website

  Auburndale Oil
9432 State Highway 186
Auburndale, WI  54412

  has also been seen at:
Surplus Station
10720 S Maple Ave. (Highway 97)
Marshfield, WI  54449

  North Wood County Park
(5 miles north of Pittsville on County Road A)

"After his retirement in the early 1980s, he moved to Pittsville, Wisconsin, and began transforming his small house and yard into a personal environment."
- section from the Dilettante Press website

  in roadside park at intersection of Highway 13 (East Veterans Parkway) & N Vine Avenue.  Accessible from south at S Cherry Avenue & E 1st Street.

Both have wheels underneath their massive hulks to be used in local parades.  The strawberry was just returning from one such event at the time of this photo.

  was at: 910 26th St N
Wisconsin Rapids, WI  54494

Marshfield UFO Sightings

"I was driving home from my job when I saw a bright greenish-blue light come from the north just barely above the tree line. I was never so scared in my life."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 07-13-02 report

Bigfoot on Bluff Drive  (1997)

A woman spots the beast at night in her backyard.

Triangular Object in Sky  (1996)

"It was near a full moon so I got a fairly good look at the object. It was triangular in shape and of a dark color, I would guess 50' or so wide by 100' or so long, pointing to the south, southeast."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Two UFO Sightings in One Night  (2002)

"Then we saw a circular object in the sky with an almost fluid-like orange/white glow to it. It hovered above the trees then started to move towards us."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Indian Bill Cemetery
at Powers Bluff County Park

Wisconsin Rapids UFO Sightings

"The closer and closer we got we realized whatever it was was not moving, it was sitting stationary in the middle of the road. We also realized that it was not headlights. It looked like a HUGE white light... roughly round in shape with a smaller reddish light that appeared to be rotating around it clockwise."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 07-01-98 report

Bizarre Object Follows Jet  (2002 )

"I happened to watch the jet as it flew over and jets most of the time leave a mist trail behind them and as it faded away I saw a flying object swooping and doing swirles in the mist following behind the jet a few hundred feet back."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Hotel Mead and Convention Center

"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."
- section from The Shadowlands website

Peculiar Light Observed  (1977)

Two men hunting in the Mead Wildlife Area spot a bright, white light that moves erratically and flashes like a strobe light.

Light Show of Unknown Origin  (2002)

"It was an amazing display of lights almost like the fourth of July. It looked like 15 to 20 lights flashing like strobe lights and they filled the entire front car windshield view of the sky and no where else in the side car window views."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Ball of Blue Ice Falls From Sky in 1973

Airline waste?  Perhaps not, some believe.

Rudolph UFO Sightings

"Then it did something very odd, it stopped, got brighter, then moved away from me and vanished."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 06-08-99 report

Unexplained Lights in Sky  (2003)

"The lights consisted of two sets of two lights and were very bright fading to nothing in seconds."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Wisconsin's Rockhenge

The Bigfoot of the Smokey Hill Mounds

Indians shied away from the creature for fear of encountering it in the dark.

Vesper UFO Sightings

"After about a 1/2 second it reappeared about a mile away when the light came back on. It continued to hold it's 'V' pattern and slowly move to the south."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 01-16-03 report

"Saved by the Bigfoot"

A young woman is carried to safety through the darkness by what she believes to be a sasquatch.

"Louie the Bookstore Ghost"

Book World changed addressed in 2007, moving across the street from the building that once housed its store and also, a ghost.

"The Legend of the Pink Lady"
at Saint Joseph's Hospital

In her book "Strange Wisconsin", author Linda Godfrey shares the tale of a spectral figure seen in the Marshfield hospital.

"The Marshfield Pig People"

In an exclusive story told to "Strange Wisconsin", a local resident tells of half-pig/half-humans living south of Marshfield.

"Two patients that were killed in the tunnel between the main building and the farm, are reported to haunt the tunnel area."
- section from The Shadowlands website

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."
- section from The Shadowlands website

Irving School  (Old 1st Ward School)

This 1897 brick school is rumored to be haunted.  The building itself is rather decrepit and shows signs of occasional teenage habitation.

"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.

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."
- section from The Shadowlands website

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."
- section from The Shadowlands website

"The railroad tracks off 72nd St."

"One day, a young mother lost her two sons near these railroad tracks. After desperately attempting to locate them, she became so saddened that she laid her body on the railroad tracks and waited to be killed. A moment before the train came, the boys jumped out the bushes where they were hiding just in time to witness their mother being killed. The boys were later admitted to a mental institution and can be seen walking along the tracks every July as restless spirits."
- section from Real Haunts website

"In addition to the art displays, the second floor of the Alexander House features a collection of historical materials that were originally on display or in storage at Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company.  This material is displayed in four different rooms, including one devoted to early lumbering, another to the history of papermaking, and the other two to the founding families and communities in which they settled."
- section from the Official Site

  1131 Wisconsin River Dr.
Port Edwards, WI  54469
(715)

hours:
(Sun, Tues, Thurs)  1pm – 4pm

"The South Wood County Historical Museum houses many exhibits in its three-story building. We have everything from a blacksmith forge and billows to a Wooton desk."
- section from the Official Site

  540 Third St. S
Wisconsin Rapids, WI  54494
(715)

hours:
May thru October  (Sun, Tues, Thurs)  1pm – 4pm

"A restored home of former Wisconsin governor William Henry Upham, this house represents mid-Victorian architecture at its finest...It now serves as the center for the North Wood County Historical Society exhibits, activities, and local history research."
- section from the Official Site

  212 W 3rd Street
Marshfield, WI  54449

hours:
(Wed - Sun)  1:30pm – 4pm

"Experience the only living history site on the Wisconsin River. Historic Point Basse preserves the 1850s site. Located at the south end of the extensive rapids of the Wisconsin River in what are now Portage and Wood Counties, Robert Wakely's settlement at Point Basse was the head of the navigable Wisconsin River. See the restored Wakely house, trading post, blacksmith shop, and 1900s schoolhouse."
- section from the Travel Wisconsin website