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| location: Wonewoc
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Psychics and mediums gather at this camp overlooking Wonewoc since 1877.
"Even the most casual passerby will notice the magnificent ridge, but only those very familiar with the area will know the outcropping's Halloweenish name — Spook Hill. Anyway, that's what the locals have called it since it became the summer home of a cadre of psychics and Spiritualist mediums in 1877. For their part, the hill's seasonal inhabitants prefer the name Wonewoc Spiritualist Camp, but they cheerfully accept the Spook Hill moniker."
– section from the book "Weird Wisconsin"
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 304 Hill Street
Wonewoc, WI 53968
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street address also reported as:
W9559 State Road 33
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web links
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Official Site
www.wonewocspiritualistcamp.com
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International Ghost Hunters Society
(photo of "ghost")
photos2.ghostweb.com
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Wisconsin Native (blog)
wisconsinnative.blogspot.com
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The Isthmus
article "They see dead people" or archived (here)
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Chicago Reader
article "Happy Mediums" or archived (here)
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books & video
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book:
"Weird Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey & Richard D. Hendricks
Barnes & Noble Books (2005)
page(s) 45 – 46
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book:
"Ghosts of Madison, Wisconsin"
by Sherry Strub
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd (2008)
page(s) 34 – 42
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book:
"Weird U.S.: The Oddyssey Continues"
by Mark Moran, Mark Scuerman, Matt Lake
Sterling Pub Co Inc (2008)
page(s) 177
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book:
"Wisconsin Curiosities"
by Michael Feldman and Diana Cook
Globe Pequot Press
(2nd ed., 2004) (3rd ed., 2009) page(s) 226 – 227
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Could this 1980 sighting have anything to do with Thunderbirds as depicted by the petroglyphs in the Nature section above? No, I didn't think so either...
"The Mauston birdman was another flying creature, this time six feet tall, yellow-feathered and beaked, but with human body shape. Sound like Big Bird? It was seen by an elderly grandmother, and the strange thing is that a few years earlier, a young girl in the family had told them that Big Bird came to visit her."
– section from American Monster website
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5 miles west of Mauston on Highway 82
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| original photo courtesy of sesamestreet.org |
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web links
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books & video
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book:
"Weird Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey & Richard D. Hendricks
Barnes & Noble Books (2005)
page(s) 107
buy it at
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com
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book:
"Hunting the American Werewolf"
by Linda S. Godfrey
Trails Media Group (2006)
page(s) 247
buy it at
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book:
"Monsters of Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey
Stackpole Books (2011)
page(s) 35 – 36
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book:
"Monsters of Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey
Stackpole Books (2011)
page(s) 35 – 36
buy it at
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| Lights Appear in a Circle in the Sky (2002) |
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| ufo |
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| location: Lyndon Station
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"When holding my hand up in front of me, it would have taken 6 hands to cover it. Quite large!"
– section from UFO Wisconsin 04-06-2002 report
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| “Elroy Woman Held Hostage Has Important Message for President Clinton” |
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| location: Elroy
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"Coaxed down from her perch, the woman told the officers that she was doing research on black magic and on the existence of life on other planets. She was also psychic, she said, and conceded that she may not have been held physically captive, but only receiving a vision."
– section from Weird Wisconsin report
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Weird Wisconsin
www.weird-wi.com or archived (here)
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"I then drove down the road, curious to no end, and two more lights appeared over a woods next to the lake."
– section from UFO Wisconsin 01-15-2003 report
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"When he looked at it, another light to the right of the original appeared, then one to the originals left, all orange, in a triangular formation. They then moved what appeared to be south, then the outer two lights blinked away, and the middle one became really bright then disappeared."
– section from UFO Wisconsin 08-13-2004 report
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A shadowy figure was seen in 1961 howling in this cemetery located in the town of Armenia.
"Again, howling here. Howling there. Howling everywhere, ringing all around them.
Bernard sees the apparition first. At least six feet tall, hunched near a crooked leaning headstone, a black human-like shape without noticeable neck. The figure is completely black, a three dimensional shadowy blotch against the fading light."
– section from Weird Wisconsin report
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Take County Road AA southward from Nekoosa (It runs along the west side of the Wisconsin River) for nearly 3 miles. AA will then turn off to the west, but keep going straight onto Plank Hill Lane. Continue on as Plank Hill changes into 26th Avenue North. The cemetery will be on your left.
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Weird Wisconsin
www.weird-wi.com or archived (here)
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Unexplained Research
www.unexplainedresearch.com
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book:
"The Wisconsin Road Guide to Haunted Locations"
by Chad Lewis and Terry Fisk
Research Publishing Co. (2004)
page(s) 217 – 219
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"The first lights in the row flickered on and off a bit like they were being tested and then they all disappeared instantly...NO SOUND WHATSOEVER."
– section from UFO Wisconsin 04-22-2003 report
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| Object Appears Near Cabin (1963) |
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"It was brownish in color with what appeared to be windows running nearly the full length of the center of the aircraft I had the distinct feeling that there were objects peering out of the windows."
– section from UFO Wisconsin August 1963 report
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| Kangaroo Killed by Truck (2005) |
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| location: Mauston
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| Rural Mauston resident Ralph Hamm kills a kangaroo (or was it a wallaby?) in his driveway that was apparently living in his culvert. One of a series of strange kangaroo sightings stretching back to 1978 in Waukesha County and less than a year earlier in Iowa County. |
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"The infamous Dell House was built in 1837 by a man named Allen. It stood near a place called the Narrows in a shady glen that was close to both a sandy river beach and a fresh water spring...Campers spread tales of ghosts and mysterious sounds like cursing, laughter, breaking glass and pounding footsteps coming from the old structure."
– section from Prairie Ghosts article
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was at: ruins are near the Narrows
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In the book "Driftless Spirits," author Dennis Boyer tells of the spirits left behind from an old battle between Indians and Vikings.
"But the so-called battle would be hard to explain if it didn't dove-tail with the Rocky Arbor Red Horn ghosts. Marjorie said that a Menomonie scout with the government men told the story that a combination of Indians and giant white men with red beards ran out of the woods at night into the government camp. Apparently the government men didn't stop running until they got to Green Bay."
– section from the book "Driftless Spirits"
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Rocky Arbor State Park & beyond
(west of Highway 12 at the Juneau/Columbia County line)
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book:
"Driftless Spirits"
by Dennis Boyer
Prairie Oak Press (1996)
page(s) 105 – 109
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| “The Sprague Stumper-Jumper” |
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mystery creature |
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| location: Sprague
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In the book "Giants in the Land," author Dennis Boyer tells of a pig-faced humanoid that roams the woodlands near this northwestern Juneau County community.
"He lives out of cabins and shacks and such places. That's where his food comes from. That's where his clothes come from too. He knows the schedule of those weekend people. They don't seem to mind the few things that are missing. But I almost peppered is butt with birdshot after he took my overalls off the backyard washline!"
– section from the book "Giants in the Land"
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book:
"Giants in the Land"
by Dennis Boyer
Prairie Oak Press (1997)
page(s) 116 – 119
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book:
"Monsters of Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey
Stackpole Books (2011)
page(s) 77 – 80
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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.
"The ghost of a doctor with a blood-covered uniform is known to have been seen on a small number of occasions up on the highest spot of Necedah Bluff staring."
– section from Ghosts of America website
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In the book "Spooky Wisconsin," an elderly family member is escorted to his great reward by a man in black.
"I shook my head to clear it, and with each shake, I saw the man flicker into and out of existence at the corner of my eye. So I narrowed them until I was squinting, and then I could see the rider again. He was tall with a grave, dark face and hollows under his fathomless eyes. He wore an old-fashioned black suit that made him look like an undertaker and a top hat that made him look like Abraham Lincoln."
– section from the book "Spooky Wisconsin"
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book:
"Spooky Wisconsin"
by S. E. Schlosser
Globe Pequot Press (2008)
page(s) 167 – 172
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