Haunted Wisconsin

Haunted Wisconsin
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Where Strange Happenings Occur in the Badger State
This used to be a boarding house when it was first built but now is
a saloon/restaurant. Employees say they hear footsteps walking up
and down the stairs at night when they close up.
There used to be these roses painted on the wall and when the new
owners purchased the place, they painted over the walls but after a
while, the roses would bleed through and they would still try to
paint over the wall and still the roses bleed through the paint.
This one time an employee went up to the attic where the freezer is
and the employee walked in to get some wine and the freezer door
closed behind him, locked itself, and the lights turned off. He got
out a half an hour later with a pick.
Chippewa Falls: Sheeley House
Since opening in September of 1996, 3rd shift workers have reported
unexplained phenomenon.
Merchandise flying off the shelves, stereos turning on or changing channels
by themselves, trails of muddy footprints that appear on clean floors, to
numerous unexplained electrical problems with the security system mainly
reporting movement when the store was totally empty of people.
There have been reports of cold spots, mysterious mists or fogs in the
building, and many cases of workers feeling that someone was standing
behind them and even seeing shadows behind them and turning and no one
is there.
There have been a few sightings of a black human form seen walking
through the store, sometimes right through displays.
The store was built on an old homestead that had on it a family cemetery.
They moved the bodies when they built the store, but they say that some of
the older graves were unmarked and that they missed some of them, thus
the haunting of the store by restless spirits.
Chilton: Wal-Mart
The small city library in Cornell is a location that triggers unease in
most any one that enters it.
The basement, where the restroom is, used to be a jail during the
earlier duration of Cornell's existence.
The entire building has a heavy sort of a feeling to it, but it is the
basement in particular that makes all who step down there to visit
the restroom uneasy.
Some librarians working there would not go down to the basement
to the restroom the entire time they worked there because of the
uncomfortable feeling that overwhelms visitors to the basement.
The entire basement area has had virtually no remodeling and is for
lack of better description "rugged".
Cornell: City Library
An employee reports almost everyone that worked there had strange
things happen.
People would hear footsteps in the old kitchen hallways downstairs,
beer bottles would mysteriously break and/or fly across the room in
the basement.
Bartenders would hear doors slam downstairs after the bar had
closed and they were the only ones there.
Once long after everyone had left, a bartender was getting ready to
leave when he shouted "ok everybody out" jokingly knowing he had
already cleared the bar of people. At that instance, a man stood up
from his chair, shook out his coat and proceeded to walk to the door,
where he disappeared completely.
It is one of the oldest buildings in town, and it is rumored that a man
hung himself there in the early 1900s.
Eau Claire: Stones Throw
This Inn was certified haunted by Wisconsin Ghost Investigations
team in March 2002.
They reported orbs, ectoplasm mists and even apparitions in photos.
They encountered cold and hot spots, unusual odors, sounds of
breaking glass in the bar, sounds of a child running upstairs, a flute
being played, undecipherable whispering, furniture moving in
rooms and sounds of a woman crying on the 2nd floor.
They also captured a shadow man on film with a moving object. The
ghosts are that of Mr. Karsten, a young boy, a woman and another
unknown male presence.
Hotel rooms can still be rented here.
Kewaunee: Historic Karsten Inn
If you go to Seven Bridges and walk the paths during a full moon
between the times of 9:30pm and Midnight you will see different
colors of lights dancing around in the woods and if you go farther
into the woods you would hear what sounds to be laughter and
screams. I
f you are really quiet you can hear foot steps in the woods coming
towards you and with those foot steps you can hear very heavy
breathing, if you wait for those foot steps to come to you, you will
feel a very uneasy feeling come over you like an evil feeling.
It's said that adults and children have been killed there and even
suicides from the people that did the killings.
It's also rumored that if you stand on one of the bridges that a mist
or an apparition of a person would happen right in front of you.
South Milwaukee: Grant Park
The art center is a house that was built during the depression.
Owners were extremely wealthy, and owned most of Oshkosh. They
owned the larger factories and paid their employees with vouchers to
purchase goods at stores the couple owned.
When the people of Oshkosh learned of the Paine house being built,
they threatened the couple if they ever moved into it the people of
Oshkosh would kill them. The couple feared the people and never
did move in. No one has ever lived in the Paine Fine Art Center.
Mr. Paine passed on first. Mrs. donated their house to the city, with
one stipulation, no children under 18 were allowed in it. She was
never able to have children and resented children. Children are
allowed in the center now, but Mrs. Paine is no longer alive.
It's said that you can see the woman roaming the house during tours.
The couple has also been seen together "enjoying" the house they
dreamed of living in together. Workers often say a lady at the back of
the crowd will start to explain things in the house but when they
look for who was talking the place the voice came from can not be
found.
Oshkosh: Paine Art Center