Haunted Places in Wisconsin
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Wisconsin has more haunted places than many people expect, with creepy stories tied to taverns, hotels, lighthouses, cemeteries, theaters, and lonely rural roads. The mix of lake history, old industry, and deep winter atmosphere gives the state’s ghost lore a distinct edge. This guide to haunted places in Wisconsin rounds up eerie locations and paranormal tales from across the Badger State.
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Bones in the Walls: Shaker’s Cigar Bar in Milwaukee
Walker’s Point is the kind of Milwaukee neighborhood where the brick outlasts the business that built it, and Shaker’s Cigar Bar is a working…
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Healing Springs to Hotel Hell: The Maribel Caves Hotel
The Maribel Caves Hotel sits above the Devil’s River in Maribel, Wisconsin, a three-story stone shell that locals and ghost hunters long ago renamed…
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Summerwind Mansion: The Book That Made a Haunted House
Summerwind Mansion is not a house anymore. What stands on the shore of West Bay Lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin, is a ruin on…
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Grace Thorndike and Witch Road in Rosendale, Wisconsin
Witch Road in Rosendale, Wisconsin, is not a landmark so much as a habit: a rural stretch that teenagers, ghost hunters, and curious drivers…
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Twelve Patients Built It: Clark County Insane Asylum, Wisconsin
Few buildings in rural Wisconsin carry a reputation as lopsided as the Clark County Insane Asylum: a short, plainly documented institutional history on one…
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The Camp That Was Never Built: Haunted Boy Scout Lane
The story people repeat about the haunted Boy Scout Lane, an unpaved track in the Town of Linwood outside Stevens Point, Wisconsin, is that…
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Kate Blood’s Grave at Riverside Cemetery in Appleton
Riverside Cemetery in Appleton, Wisconsin has two reputations, and they do not overlap much. To the city that established it in 1870 it is…
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The Gold Room Ghost of Milwaukee’s Brumder Mansion
Set among the mansions of Milwaukee’s near west side, the Brumder Mansion is a 1910 brick pile that has spent the last century being…
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Chief Highknocker’s Boulder: The Legends of Dartford Cemetery
Dartford Cemetery sits in the city of Green Lake, Wisconsin, and its best known grave is not a marble monument but a boulder. Under…
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The Bride on Highway 66: Stevens Point’s Bloody Bride Bridge
Bloody Bride Bridge is not much to look at. It is a short concrete span carrying Highway 66 over the Plover River just east…
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Nelsen’s Hall: The Bitters Tavern Ghost of Washington Island
Nelsen’s Hall sits on a small island in Lake Michigan that you can only reach by boat or by landing a light aircraft on…
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The Haunted History of the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee
Address: 424 East Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202Phone: (414) 273-8222Reservations: 800-558-8222Official website: The Pfister Hotel Booking: Book a room at the haunted Pfister Hotel The…