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| Thunderbirds of Thunder Mountain |
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"Now regarding the Thunder Mountain in the western part of Marinette County: Thunder is a large bird like an Eagle, only much larger. And when this bird was created it was made to have power in order to defend us from the great serpents, who wanted to kill and eat the human race. It was also to moisten the earth for vegetation. Thunderers, we call these great birds. One of them is called Chequah. And the mountain we call Bikwaki, so Thunder Mountain is Chequah Bikwaki."
– section from the book "Wisconsin Lore"
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 From Crivitz, head west on County Road W for about 15 miles. Turn right (north) on Caldron Falls Road. After 2½ miles, turn left (west) on Thunder Mountain Road. Follow for another 3 miles to Thunder Mountain.
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The W-Files
www.w-files.com
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Loren Coleman
(scroll down ⅔ of the page)
www.lorencoleman.com
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Mysterious Universe
(general information)
mysteriousuniverse.org
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Thunderbird Site List
(general information)
www.angelfire.com
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book:
"Wisconsin Lore"
by Robert E. Gard & L.G. Sorden
Heartland Press (1962, 1987)
page(s) 45 – 46, 186 – 187
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| Hunters Encounter Bigfoot (1992) |
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| location: Crivitz
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"I flashed my flashlight in its direction and got a reflection from a set of eyes, which weren't the usual color of a reflection for deer, bear, raccoons, or opossums (all animals have a unique color that their eyes reflect at night when flashed with a bright light). The eyes seemed to be seven to ten feet high."
– section from BFRO 1992 report
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10 miles northwest of Crivitz
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"At first I thought it might be a shooting star, but it was faster and dropped straight down, an uncommon movement for a star."
– section from UFO Wisconsin 07-01-2001 report
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"It then proceeded to travel in a NE direction without sound or regards to gravity."
– section from UFO Wisconsin 08-12-2001 report
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"…'I was scared so I shimmied up a tree. The thing was about two feet around, like an oversize softball, with flame colored light flashing back and forth at treetop level. I've seen a lot of things but I never saw anything like that.'"
– section from UFO Wisconsin 09-10-1980 report
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| Ghost in Flowing White Dress |
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| ghost |
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"She claims one room of a house to be hers and has woken people up from sleep to ask what they are doing in her room."
– section from The W-Files 06-16-2004 report
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"The strangest thing was the absolute silence of the frisbee-shaped craft, estimated to be slightly larger than an automobile. After hearing the initial whining noise, Ross said he opened the window to listen, but heard only the noise of distant traffic on Highway 8 as the UFO hovered soundlessly over the swamp."
– section from UFO Wisconsin 02-26-1982 report
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The Weird Wisconsin website ponders the multitude of Devil-related place names in Wisconsin.
"Another theory holds that early settlers often named places because of paranormal events. Something odd and beyond understanding was seen, and the newly arrived settlers named these places to commemorate – or to warn of – the event."
– section from Weird Wisconsin website
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Weird Wisconsin
www.weird-wi.com or archived (here)
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"At one point the tracks came within 20 yards of his parents cabin. The average stride was 5-6½ feet, and in some instances much greater."
– section from BFRO incident report
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15 - 20 miles northwest of Crivitz
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| “Ghosts of the Peshtigo Fire” |
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| location: Peshtigo
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• In the book "Northern Frights," author Dennis Boyer tells of the large variety of spirits left over from the 1871 conflagration.
• In the book "Spooky Wisconsin" is author S.E. Schlosser's description of the fire told to a child who has observed a ghastly specter.
"He catalogued the ghosts as he discovered them. Plenty of people would talk about them privately. They were pretty much what you would expect. Homesteader ghosts. Logger ghosts. Teamster ghosts. We have those by the dozens.
But there are some rarities. At Wilcox, we have four little girl ghosts—sisters I suppose—in singed nightgowns."
– section from the book "Northern Frights"
"‘The worst part…well, the worst part was that you could tell that the ghost was in agony. Its mouth was a black hole, as if it were screaming in terrible pain, although I couldn't hear a sound.’"
– section from the book "Spooky Wisconsin"
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book:
"Northern Frights"
by Dennis Boyer
Badger Books (2nd ed., 2005)
page(s) 150 – 153
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book:
"Spooky Wisconsin"
by S. E. Schlosser
Globe Pequot Press (2008)
page(s) 81 – 88
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Black Fire Balloons of the Peshtigo Fire
at the Peshtigo Fire Cemetery
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| unexplained phenomena |
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| location: Peshtigo
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"There were several strange phenomena that accompanied this fire, one was the large black objects resembling a balloon which revolved with great rapidity, advancing along the periphery of the fire. When these objects struck a tree or a house they would burst with a loud report and fire would stream out in all directions.
Mr. Laurance had one of the finest farms in the lower sugar bush and as the fire approached he took his wife and three children into the center of a large field. An eye witness tells of seeing them huddled together when one of these balloon like objects landed in their midst, bursting into flames and wiping out the entire family."
– section from marker in cemetery next to grave
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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 spirit of a gentleman with a pentagram cut into his foot has regularly been witnessed trying to locate a bag by Wright Slough."
– section from Ghosts of America website
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"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."
– section from The Shadowlands website
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about 15 miles west of Amberg on the Peshtigo River off Parkway Road
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| Phantom Car of Bagley Road |
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| haunted |
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| location: Marinette
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| Bagley Road runs for almost 5½ miles along, for the most part, the Peshtigo River. A set of railroad tracks intersects the heavily-forested road at "Bagley Junction". There is very little information available about the phantom car, when it is seen, and who has seen it. But I would bet good money that it appears mostly to unsuspecting teenagers in the middle of the night. |
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Unexplained Research
www.unexplainedresearch.com
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Old School House
PRIVATE PROPERTY
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| location: Crivitz
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| photos courtesy of RealEstateShows website |
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| Here we go again. No real information seems to be available concerning the haunted schoolhouse. The now-defunct WIX (Wisconsin Paranormal Investigation Team) website had supposed the school's identity to be a building on the property of the Crivitz Area Museum. However, the Northern Lights Paranormal Research Society visited the museum grounds and found no structure that served as a schoolhouse. A schoolroom display is inside the museum itself, but that doesn't fit the bill. A more likely candidate is the old rural schoolhouse on High Falls Road. Having sat abandoned for some time, it appears to have been sold according to some real estate websites. It certainly had the look of a haunted school, but may already have been remodeled by the new owners. |
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