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  Benson's Hideaway
(3 miles north of Dundee off Highway 67)
N4241 Boy Scout Road
Campbellsport, WI  53010
(920) 533-8219

"In this schoolhouse, on March 20, 1854, the first mass meeting in the country was held that definitely and positively cut loose from old parties and advocated a new party under the name 'Republican'. "
- section from Ripon Chamber website

  303 Blackburn St.
Ripon, WI  54971
(920) 748-6764

hours:
• Memorial Day thru Labor Day  (daily)  10am – 4pm
• May, September & October  (Sat - Sun)  10am – 4pm

  Fond du Lac Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
(Highway 41 East Frontage Road, 1 mile south of Highway 23)
171 S Pioneer Road
Fond du Lac, WI  54935
(800) 937-9123

hours:
(Mon - Fri)  8am – 5pm
(Saturdays)  9am – 3pm  /  (Sundays)  11am – 3pm

  5 miles north of Fond du Lac on the east side of Highway 45 just north of Lincoln Road

  (on County Road G, north of Highway 67 & across from the Mullet Creek Wildlife Area)
N5901 County Road G
St. Cloud, WI  53079

"Witch Road"
aka Callun Road

A haunted road complete with dilapidated witch house.  Check out the Unexplained Research link at right.

Campbellsport UFO Sightings

"I have to say it was the size of a football field and it had windows in it that were lit up. I watched to see if I could see movement or anything else, but could not."
- section from UFO Wisconsin May 1994 report

Dad Putting Kids to Bed Spots Triangular UFO  (2002)

"The object was a reddish-orange color and was moving very fast."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

"Youth Claims Seeing 2 Green Men from UFO"  (1976)

"Mark said he drove over to the area where the object had landed and saw the two green men when he shone the car's bright headlights."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Eel-Like Monster of Long Lake

"UFO Frightens Cows Near Eden"  (1988)

" 'I wanted to know what was out there that had scared them,' Dins said. 'So I walked around the building and off to the east there was this big, oval or saucer-shaped thing with orange lights.' "
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Devils Lake

The Weird Wisconsin website ponders the multitude of Devil-related place names in Wisconsin

Ripon UFO Sightings

"It was in the sky, and looked like an asteroid but a lot lower and moving at a much slower pace...After another minute or so, it stopped in mid air..."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 04-08-02 report

Dundee UFO Sightings

"These objects appeared at about 10:05 pm, and stayed together for about 15 minutes. Suddenly, there was a loud pop like a firecracker and the spheres broke apart. The large object with the orange/yellow light broke in two and fell straight toward the ground. One of the smaller objects shot off to the right in a straight line until it eventually disappeared."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 07-21-01 report

Lights in Sky Over Darkened Road  (1984) 

"The one light suddenly broke into two-horizontally-and raced off over our heads-not making a sound and with such speed we actually couldn't believe what we had seen."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Campers Observe UFO  (2004)

"The bottom of it was brighter and looked almost like fire.  Many people from sites around ours went to the road to watch."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Haunted Campbellsport Inn
formerly the Amber Hotel

The friendly ghost of former owner Edward "Mush" Bauer (1906 - 1957), who once tipped the scales at almost 800-lbs., remains on the premises.

"The Night Rider"

An unexplained phenomena haunts a farm family.

Couple Watches Bizarre Balls of Light Near Jets  (2005)

"There were about 6-8 t and then they were gone. At first I thought two planes collided, but there was no explosion. It was not travelling (sic) across the sky like a meteor or anything."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Capone's
(old Club Harbor Bed & Breakfast)

They say if you look in a window on the 3rd floor, you will see a woman who died tragically in that room years ago.

Back in college, there was a women in a window on the third floor in Pioneer Hall that...  Maybe I should post that story on a different website.

Orange Glowing Ball Observed in Sky  (2006)

"....and then when it was over our heads we saw that the glow was pulsing....but then when we saw it from the back it looked like 2 of them...."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Crop Circle on Long Lake  (1995)

"Taking a row boat out to the site, they saw that they could actually get out of the boat and walk on the flattened reeds as it had become like a mat floating on the water."
- section from The W-Files report

"Ghosts of America" Haunted Location Reports
(take with a grain of salt)

The reports on this site are presumably fiction, using random Wisconsin place names in the stories listed there.  Even so, you might get a kick out of reading them.

Ripon College

There are many stories about phantoms (& demons) roaming the campus of Ripon College, including locations such as the C. J. Rodman Center for the Arts, Brockway Hall, Bovay Hall, and Scott Hall.

Campus Cinema

The book "Strange Wisconsin" reveals incidents of the paranormal persuasion that have occurred at this theater.

This plot of land once covered 5 acres with 2500 varieties of peonies, first planted by Wilbur Sisson in 1918.  Rosendale once boasted a Peony Festival to celebrate the colorful, short-blooming flower during the second week of June, but it may soon return.

"The 75-foot light tower that currently marks the entrance to Pipe Creek from Lake Winnebago was originally built as a water tower for the Fond du Lac Table Factory. In 1936, the tower was moved to Calumet Harbor where it began its second life as an observation tower and navigational aid....In 1992, through the joint effort of the Columbia Park Tower Fund and Fond du Lac County, the tower was restored and opened once more for climbing."
- section from Lighthouse Friends