Interested in starting your new year off by being a bit scared and a lot creeped out? It just so happens that there are plenty of spooky, haunted, creepy, evil and scary spots all over Wisconsin. We wrote about all of them to get you all the information you need about these most terrifying places and now it’s all here in one spot. Here are the most terrifying, horrifying spots all across Wisconsin:
Please note, Eagles Ballroom is temporarily closed.
- A Haunted Road Trip
Facebook/SummerwindMansion From the abandoned Summerwind Mansion to Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel, this trip will take you to a ton of different haunted spots in Wisconsin.
- Wood County Asylum
Marshfield Scrap Built in 1909, Wood County Asylum and its surrounding buildings have been of much interest to ghost hunters. Multiple groups have recorded what seems like voices and one group captured a picture that seems to show a spirit looking right into the camera.
- Eagles Ballroom
Facebook/TheRave The historic Eagles Ballroom building has gone through many changes, and at one point was an athletic club that featured a gymnasium, basketball court, and 70-foot-long swimming pool.
- The spookiest places in all of Wisconsin
Flickr/JoshuaMayer From natural disasters to haunted spots, this list tells you all about the spookiest spots.
- Lakeview Sanitarium
Wikimedia Constructed in 1930 as a tuberculosis sanatorium and general hospital for Dane County ,but out of use for that purpose since 1966, Lakeview Sanitarium has come to be known for its strange happenings.
- A Decaying Coffin Factory
Flickr/KenFager Buckstaff Furniture in Oshkosh was founded in 1850. It produced home furniture, but was widely known as a casket and coffin company.
- The Alexian Novitiate
Flickr/Chris The Alexian Novitiate was built as a private mansion in 1939 in Gresham (Shawano County) for a widow and her daughter from New York. It was donated to the Alexian Brothers in 1950 and became a Novitiate, or a place where young men considering the priesthood were trained.
- Siren Bridge
Flickr/BrettWood Legend says a family - mom, dad and a young daughter - slipped on icy roads and put their car over Siren Bridge in the 1980s in Siren. Ever since, folks driving in the same area have experienced eerie sensations.
- The Abandoned Milwaukee Solvay Coke and Gas Co.
Flickr/Thomas Hawk Back before there were pipelines criss-crossing the country, natural gas was created in areas that didn’t have it naturally occurring. Built in 1906, The Milwaukee Solvay Coke and Gas Co. built a plant on Milwaukee’s near south side. It operated until April, 1983 and the remains of the company have been abandoned ever since.
- Haunted Cemeteries
Flickr/Lynn Friedman Cemeteries are often the source of tall tales and legends thanks to their inherent ties to death and the afterlife. None of us really know what happens, but plenty of folks seem to think the veil between alive and dead is a lot thinner at a cemetery.
- The Best Places to Spot A Ghost
Flickr/MarquetteUniversity Wisconsin seems to be particularly adept at creating a ghost story. Tragic deaths, more than 250 years of history and a love for old buildings mean our state is a breeding ground for the paranormal. Every county seems to have their own legends, but these are some of the most documented and agreed-upon places in the state with apparitions and the unexplained.
- Creepy Ghost Towns
Wikimedia Wisconsin has gone through cycle after cycle of changes, and at times those changes have meant leaving behind a little piece of the past. All of the town below were abandoned for one reason or another and now stand empty, simply existing as ghosts of our collective past.
What other truly scary spots do you love to visit? Let us know in the comments!
Facebook/SummerwindMansion
From the abandoned Summerwind Mansion to Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel, this trip will take you to a ton of different haunted spots in Wisconsin.
Marshfield Scrap
Built in 1909, Wood County Asylum and its surrounding buildings have been of much interest to ghost hunters. Multiple groups have recorded what seems like voices and one group captured a picture that seems to show a spirit looking right into the camera.
Facebook/TheRave
The historic Eagles Ballroom building has gone through many changes, and at one point was an athletic club that featured a gymnasium, basketball court, and 70-foot-long swimming pool.
Flickr/JoshuaMayer
From natural disasters to haunted spots, this list tells you all about the spookiest spots.
Wikimedia
Constructed in 1930 as a tuberculosis sanatorium and general hospital for Dane County ,but out of use for that purpose since 1966, Lakeview Sanitarium has come to be known for its strange happenings.
Flickr/KenFager
Buckstaff Furniture in Oshkosh was founded in 1850. It produced home furniture, but was widely known as a casket and coffin company.
Flickr/Chris
The Alexian Novitiate was built as a private mansion in 1939 in Gresham (Shawano County) for a widow and her daughter from New York. It was donated to the Alexian Brothers in 1950 and became a Novitiate, or a place where young men considering the priesthood were trained.
Flickr/BrettWood
Legend says a family - mom, dad and a young daughter - slipped on icy roads and put their car over Siren Bridge in the 1980s in Siren. Ever since, folks driving in the same area have experienced eerie sensations.
Flickr/Thomas Hawk
Back before there were pipelines criss-crossing the country, natural gas was created in areas that didn’t have it naturally occurring. Built in 1906, The Milwaukee Solvay Coke and Gas Co. built a plant on Milwaukee’s near south side. It operated until April, 1983 and the remains of the company have been abandoned ever since.
Flickr/Lynn Friedman
Cemeteries are often the source of tall tales and legends thanks to their inherent ties to death and the afterlife. None of us really know what happens, but plenty of folks seem to think the veil between alive and dead is a lot thinner at a cemetery.
Flickr/MarquetteUniversity
Wisconsin seems to be particularly adept at creating a ghost story. Tragic deaths, more than 250 years of history and a love for old buildings mean our state is a breeding ground for the paranormal. Every county seems to have their own legends, but these are some of the most documented and agreed-upon places in the state with apparitions and the unexplained.
Wisconsin has gone through cycle after cycle of changes, and at times those changes have meant leaving behind a little piece of the past. All of the town below were abandoned for one reason or another and now stand empty, simply existing as ghosts of our collective past.
Looking for more haunted Wisconsin spots? Check out Spend A Night In These 11 Haunted Wisconsin Hotels… If You Dare.
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