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"As I was coming down the road I saw a dark figure half in the road crossing into the other lane. My head lights had hit about half way up it's body. I first thought it could be a deer, but deers are light brown and this was a dark brown. It was walking upright. On two legs."
– section from BFRO incident report
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A grim period in central Wisconsin history was made famous by the photo-rich book authored by Michael Lesy. It doesn't exactly paint Wisconsin with a cheerful brush, but hopefully tourists will realize that the dismal imagery shown in the book was from over a century ago. Best not to read this book to your kids at bedtime.
"The book combines photos from the collection of commercial photographer Charles J. Van Schaick (taken between 1885 and 1915) with pieces from the area's newspaper, case histories from a mental institution, excerpts from appropriate writers, and Lesy's own Faulknerian accounts of regional history... Dead babies, diphtheria, suicide (by acid, gunshot, hanging, drowning, and, in one instance, dynamite), murder, armies of vagrants, arsonists, incest, and the mentally unbalanced (or, as one excerpt puts it, the "shack happy") fill the pages of Lesy's book, playing off Schaick's sometimes chilling, sometimes mundane, and sometimes just odd photos to powerful effect."
– section from section from Onion AV Club review at Barnes and Noble websit
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Black River Falls Official Site
www.blackriverfalls.com
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The Movie's Official Site
www.wisconsindeathtrip.com
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On Milwaukee
www.onmilwaukee.com
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book:
"Wisconsin Death Trip"
by Michael Lesy, Charles Van Schaick
U of New Mexico Press (1973)
buy it at
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com
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book:
"Wisconsin Curiosities"
by Michael Feldman and Diana Cook
Globe Pequot Press
(2nd ed., 2004) page(s) 190 – 191
(3rd ed., 2009) page(s) 181 – 182
buy it at
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com
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"It was in a shape of a triangle with the nose being rounded in shape. At the back of the craft were white lights and at the nose was red light. The craft tilted upward and the lights turned off and then it dissappeared! (sic)"
– section from UFO Wisconsin 01-16-2004 report
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| UFO Stalls Car on Highway 12 (2000) |
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"It scared the living hell out of me. I did not tell anyone because they would not believe me. I will never travel this road again."
– section from UFO Wisconsin 05-14-2004 repor0
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"Suddenly, just above the front yard treetops (miles closer than they previously were) four huge bright yellow lights appeared in the shape of a boomerang starling my parents as they remained on their deck."
– section from UFO Wisconsin 06-06-2002 report
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In the book "Northern Frights," author Dennis Boyer tells of an arsonist spirit that has wreaked havoc in the area.
"My uncle saw him as a blue flame shaped like a man. Many of the old duffers saw him as ball lightning rolling down paths on cloudless nights. One old boy even saw the fire spook turn from flame into a big rock and then after awhile turn molten and run down a crack in the ground."
– section from the book "Northern Frights"
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book:
"Northern Frights"
by Dennis Boyer
Badger Books (2nd ed., 2005)
page(s) 188 – 193
buy it at
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com![icon]()
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"It made a zig zap pattern across the sky. It stopped once and started up again. It seemed to know that we were watching it."
– section from UFO Wisconsin 01-02-2001 report
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A story from the book "Strange Wisconsin" tells of a couple who witness a strange-looking creature lurking through yards in town.
"It had a fat torso and longer limbs that were not proportioned right. If this creature were to stand up its legs would be like a dog's and unable to bend a knee straight. We would estimate the height to be no more than 5'6" at its tallest point. We got a very close look at this, close enough to know that what we saw was unexplainable and unbelievable."
– section from the book "Strange Wisconsin"
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book:
"Strange Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey
Trails Books (2007)
page(s) 3
buy it at
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| UFO and Men in Black Pickups |
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A story from the book "Strange Wisconsin" tells of a father and his two children having a close encounter in the woods with an unexplained object.
"'I told the kids, this is something weird like from the Twilight Zone and they had better get behind me. We were all tired, cold, and shivering.'"
– section from the book "Strange Wisconsin"
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book:
"Strange Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey
Trails Books (2007)
page(s) 145
buy it at
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com![icon]()
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"Ghosts of America" Haunted Location Reports
(take with a grain of salt)
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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.
"A female with her head separated can occasionally be perceived staring at folks in a Merrillan flat through a keyhole. It's been argued that this particular ghost likes terrifying folks who dare to interrupt the silence in Merrillan."
– section from Ghosts of America website
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Bookmark the Wisconsinosity home page! wisconsinosity.com
(at the southeast corner of the intersection of Highways I-94 & 54)
13 S First St.