Haunted Wisconsin { 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