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"At this time it was right above the trees, moving north west. The lights were still blinking at 2 blinks every few seconds. So I started to blink my truck lights the same way they were blinking. 2 blinks at a time. I did this about 2 or 3 times. But then the light changed from blinking at 2 times every few secounds (sic), to 3 times every few seconds. they changed!"
– section from UFO Wisconsin 11-09-2004 report
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"As it cleared into the northern horizon, a second object, similar to the first but different, appeared on the southern horizon in the same place as the first one did. This one had two red non-flashing point sources of light, directly opposed from each other ( like a barbell with lights on it's ends), and 3 flashing red lights on it's front."
– section from UFO 07-16-1999 Wisconsin report
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| Bright Lights on a Camping Trip (1999) |
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| location: Grandview
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"We watched the objects for about 5-10 minutes as they traveled in a north to south direction."
– section from UFO Wisconsin 09-05-1999 report
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"Loretta, one of the Bourgo girls, once told my Aunt Verna that all of the living-room chairs were mysteriously tipped over and upside-down and that her mother's shoes walked up the stairs all by themselves!"
– section from "Weird Wisconsin"
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book:
"Weird Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey & Richard D. Hendricks
Barnes & Noble Books (2005)
page(s) 42 – 43
buy it at
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com
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| A door mysteriously slams during storms. See link at right for more information. |
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Unexplained Research
www.unexplainedresearch.com
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In the book "Northern Frights", author Dennis Boyer tells of the spirit of the first human to perish in Lake Superior which remains to influence the living.
"He's often seen like that. Walking calmly on the water in the worst storms. Although I've heard of him running across the dark waters at night with a torch. Those tales go way, way back. Back past the Chipps. Maybe past the times of the Hurons and Menominees on the big lake. I don't think there is an older ghost story in all of North America."
– section from the book "Northern Frights"
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book:
"Northern Frights"
by Dennis Boyer
Badger Books (2nd ed., 2005)
page(s) 23 – 27
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In the book "Northern Frights", author Dennis Boyer tells of a night spent on the island which leads to a chance encounter with youthful spirits.
"But then we started to see something else. Boys started running by us. First in ones and twos. Then by fives and sixes. They all had their hair long. But they were dressed in different ways. Some naked, some with just a cloth around their middles, and some in deerskin shirts. They whooped and hollered. In the bushed we heard laughter. Somewhere there was singing and a drum."
– section from the book "Northern Frights"
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book:
"Northern Frights"
by Dennis Boyer
Badger Books (2nd ed., 2005)
page(s) 28 – 32
buy it at
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| Devils Island & Devils Island Shoal |
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| Devils Lake (aka Beaver Lake) |
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| location: Drummond / Cable / Lake Superior
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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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| “Herbster's Phantom Pulp Truck” |
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| location: Herbster
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In the book "Northern Frights", author Dennis Boyer tells of a log-hauling 1954 GMC that runs other vehicles off the road, despite the fact that no one is at the wheel.
"But I noticed something more important than the truck and it was something no one else has mentioned. The darned thing didn't have a driver! Yeah! You and I know that the drunks, crackpots and woods hippies see all sorts of things. Or at least they think they do. We've heard it all. Ghosts, UFOs, whales in the lake, ya name it."
– section from the book "Northern Frights"
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book:
"Northern Frights"
by Dennis Boyer
Badger Books (2nd ed., 2005)
page(s) 33 – 36
buy it at
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com![icon]()
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| Hunter Hears Possible Bigfoot Vocalization (2004) |
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| location: Washburn
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"Just after hunting hours on November 16, 2004 I started to gather my gear and got ready to climb down and head to my atv after bowhunting from my treestand when I heard several loud howls followed by a hair raising scream."
– section from BFRO report
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| UFOs Spotted on Two Consecutive Evenings (2007) |
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"A craft then came from the west it was making quick turns and appeared to be moving very fast. It then went by the bright object and started mirror the movements of the brighter object and then took off very quickly to the east."
– section from UFO Wisconsin 09-23-2007 report
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| “Running-Board Ghost of Ashland Road” |
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A ride-hitching specter was seen often in 1926.
"...there was a ghost who actually stood in the road, waved his arms, and stopped traffic, then jumped on the running boards of cars, took a ride, and disappeared into thin air between eleven and midnight..."
– section from "Weird Wisconsin"
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book:
"Weird Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey & Richard D. Hendricks
Barnes & Noble Books (2005)
page(s) 221
buy it at
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com
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book:
"Haunted Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey
Stackpole Books (2010)
page(s) 22 – 24
buy it at
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com![icon]()
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| “Ghosts of Washburn: The Redwood Ghost” |
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| location: Washburn
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Stories of an apparition in white and another on a roadway can be found in the book "Strange Wisconsin".
"As he approached, walking straight at me, I shook my head because I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He still continued walking toward the end of my bed. As he got about three feet from my bed, he faded, vanished right before my eyes."
– section from "Strange Wisconsin"
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book:
"Strange Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey
Trails Books (2007)
page(s) 151 – 152
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book:
"Haunted Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey
Stackpole Books (2010)
page(s) 23
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In the book "Spooky Wisconsin", author S.E. Schlosser tells of a disturbing event experienced by a pair of kayakers in the Apostle Islands chain.
"Then my wife gasped aloud and pointed. I tore my eyes from the snow and followed her gaze. Lashed to the masts – one in the main and two in the mizzen – were the bodies of three dead sailors, covered with ice."
– section from "Spooky Wisconsin"
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book:
"Spooky Wisconsin"
by S. E. Schlosser
Globe Pequot Press (2008)
page(s) 69 – 74
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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 shape with a skeleton face having on gloomy robes has now and then been noticed smoking a pipe in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore near the ranger station. If you talk to the local residents, this ghost enjoys scaring foolhardy folks who have the courage to disturb the serenity in Bayfield."
– section from Ghosts of America website
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Bookmark the Wisconsinosity home page! wisconsinosity.com
(on west side of Highway 13 south of Washburn)
at the Orienta Dam on the Iron River 1 mile south of Highway 13 on Falls Road
(on County Highway M, a quarter-mile east of Highway 63)
