Wisconsin

Amery

Lutheran Church

This old Norwegian church dates from 1870, and many parishioners believe it is haunted. Hushed voices are traced to the inside of walls,
conversations are heard coming from the empty pews, and the church bell has a way or ringing when no one is around. The bell ringing started
June 1981, when Reverend Elizabeth Robinson heard the bell from the parsonage across the street. She found no one in the church when she
investigated. Since then, the bell has rung by itself on several occasions. Some investigators have suggested that a phantom congregation from
long ago has returned to this simple country church.

Aztalian State Park

Aztalan State Park and Museum

This place has been called one of the most spiritually charges sacred centers in the world. The site consists of three earthen pyramids, burial
grounds, a crematorium, and other earthworks that date from AD 1100. The city was built by the mysterious Temple Mound Builders and was
probably home to over three thousand people. Two opposing religious factions, those who worshipped lunar energies and those who worshiped
solar energies, engaged in a continuing battle her for two centuries. The male-dominated son worshipers prevailed, and the site became
desecrated with bodies of human sacrifices to the sun and scenes of ritual cannibalism. Today, the area seems charged with a powerful sexual
energy. Many couples have been wed on the Pyramid of the Sun, which has also been the scene of animal sacrifices by modern Satanists. The
bodies of seven shamans have been found at the Pyramid of the Moon, which is said to exude a seductive female energy. Nearby Rock Lake
conceals an underwater necropolis of pyramid-shaped burial chambers that is still being excavated. According to Indian legends, the lake is a
sacred vortex of psychic energy in which time itself is bent. Many unpleasant paranormal experiences have been reported by sensitive individuals
in boats about five hundred feet offshore.

Green Bay

Green Bay Harbor

The phantom ship Griffin lurks in the fog off this pleasant lakeside community. The ship belonged to Robert Cavelier de La Salle, the famous
French explorer. At the time it was the largest vessel to sail the Great Lakes, and Indians believe the sixty-foot long ship was an affront to the
Great Spirit. Metimek, an Iroquois prophet, placed a curse on the Griffin. On August 7, 1679, La Salle docked the ship on Washington Island in
Green Bay Harbor and embarked on a canoe trip down the St. Joseph River to search for a water link to the Mississippi River. His ship headed
back to Niagara without him on September 18 and was never seen again, except as a ghostly outline in the fog. Legend says the Griffin "sailed
through a crack in ice," fulfilling the Indian curse.

La Crosse

Hydrite Chemical Company

At the old factory building that used to occupy this property, a strange and powerful poltergeist terrorized employees for several years at the turn of
the century. The approach of the wrathful spirit was signaled by the sound of a great wind far off in the distance. The sound would grow deafening
and suddenly abate, leaving the unseen presence behind. Witnesses heard a wild laugh, and next, objects started flying through the air in a
supernatural frenzy. Usually, the presence was heard moving through a wall where there was once a door and up a stairway to an abandoned area
above the offices, where an employee was said to have committed suicide in the 1890's. The poltergeist spirit was witnessed by several
watchmen, employees, and managers at the site. Three different companies who set up operations in the building experienced poltergeist activity.
In 1903, plant owner George Pierce died mysteriously while sleeping overnight in his office. The activity ceased only when the building was razed
and a new factory was built.

Hauck, Dennis. (1994). Haunted Places: Ghost Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO landings, and other supernatural locations. New York: Penguin Book.