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  656 Pleasant St.
Beloit, WI  53511
(608) 362-9099

hours:
• February thru December  (Tues - Sat)  10am – 4pm
• plus, June thru August  (Sundays)  1pm – 4pm
CLOSED HOLIDAYS

  Rock County Historical Society Museum
440 N Jackson St.
Janesville, WI  53548
(608) 752-4519

hours:
(Wed & Thurs)   9am – 3pm
CLOSED HOLIDAYS

  3401 Milton Ave. (Highway 26)
Janesville, WI  53545
(608) 752-9110

Another FAST Corp masterpiece.

  From Milton, head southwest on County Road Y for 1 mile.  Turn right (west) onto E. M-H Townline Road.  Head west for about 2 miles (passing under Highway I-90) to the farm.

  From Janesville (starting at Highway I-90), head west on Highway 14 for 1½ miles.  Turn right on N Newville Road and continue north for 2½ miles.  Turn right on E. M-H Townline Road. The farm is on the north side of the road.

  1329 E. M-H Townline Rd.
Milton, WI  53563
(608) 754-0247

  Perhaps at OAKS CAMPGROUND (now closed)???
8031 E State Line Road
Clinton, WI  53525
(262) 296-1800

  (north side of Highway I-43 just northwest of Clinton)
8729 East Little Lane
Clinton, WI  53525
(608) 676-4283

"Miracle, the Sacred White Female Buffalo Calf, was born on the farm of Dave, Valerie, and Corey Heider near Janesville, Wisconsin during the morning of August 20, 1994.  Not an albino, she was considered to be the first white buffalo calf born since 1933.  Furthermore, she was extremely important to the religious beliefs of many American Indian and Canadian First Nations tribes...The Heider Farm is still open to visitors who wish to come pray or pay their respects at Miracle's Grave."
- section from Official Site

  2739 S. River Road
Janesville, WI  53546
(608) 752-2224

hours:
(Mon - Sat)  10am – 4pm  /  (Sundays) by appointment

"Visitors also tour the log cabin built in 1837 that served as a tunnel to the Milton House and was a hideout in the Underground Railroad."
- section from Explore Wisconsin website

  18 S Janesville St.
Milton, WI  53563
(608) 868-7771 or (608) 868-7772

hours:
• May  (Sat & Sun)  10am – 5pm
• Memorial Day thru Labor Day  (daily)  10am – 5pm
• September thru October by appointment only

  (visible from west side of Highway I-90)
3000 Kennedy Dr.
Beloit, WI  53511
(608) 365-9501

In the book "Oddball Wisconsin", author Jerome Pohlen hints at a bit of humorous yard decorating south of Janesville.

UPDATE:  After a visit to the address, no sign of Mr. Lucky is evident.

  Riverside Park on the Rock River
Riverside Drive (Highway 51)
Beloit, WI  53511
(608) 364-2929

  3525 S Riverside Dr.
Beloit, WI  53511
(608) 312-2030

hours:
mid-March thru September  (Tues - Sun)  11am – 8pm
(Mondays)  4pm – 8pm

  2020 Center Ave.
Janesville, WI  53546
(608) 756-0368

  2970 Milwaukee Road
Beloit, WI  53511
(608) 364-1900

  215 S River St.
Janesville, WI  53548
(608) 756-1201

  8015 E County Road N
Milton, WI  53563

  2713 Hayner Road
Janesville, WI  53548
(608) 757-1200

  7017 S. Carvers Rock Rd.
Clinton, WI  53525
(608) 774-4668 / (608) 676-4495

"Take a self-guided tour of Beloit College to discover the twenty- three conical, linear, and animal shaped effigy mounds scattered throughout the campus. Built around AD 700 to AD 1200 by Native Americans, the mounds are believed to have helped define territories, build family unity, and in some cases used as final resting places for tribal members. Once estimated to number as high as 20,000, the Beloit College Effigy Mounds now represent a few of the less than 3,000 remaining mounds in North America. Many of the tools and broken pottery excavated can be seen in the permanent collection of the Beloit College Logan Museum of Anthropology."
- section from Beloit Visitors & Convention Bureau website

Beloit UFO Sightings

"As the airplane got closer to the light, the bright light in the center, changed shapes, it got oblonged and grew 2 armlike looking things from it (like a stick person without the legs)."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 07-13-01 report

Weary Road

The ghost of Old Man Weary is said to haunt this rural road.  If you park on the bridge at night and turn off your cars engine, beware.  Word has it that it takes three separate visits to the bridge to provoke an encounter.
Note: Some websites list Weary Road as being near Stoughton.  Well, it's a hell of a lot closer to Evansville.

REVIEW:  After a visit to Weary Road (in the daytime), it does indeed give off an odd vibe.  There was an abandoned car with the word "HELP" written on the windshield in duct tape (probably by high schoolers) near the bridge.

Alleged Alien Abduction  (1966)

Janesville UFO Sightings

"We have entered the woods only a few times with about 7 people each time. Once inside we would all see a strange set of lights hovering above the woods and would sometimes see a white person-like being staring at us in the woods."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report - 08-15-98 story

Fulton Cemetery

Paranormal activity has been reported.  See links at right.

Frozen Alligator Found Near Rock River  (1892)

Milton UFO Sightings

"I look up in the sky and above the field behind our garage maybe 200 ft above the ground and 200 ft back was a round metal object with a row of what looked like round windows and they were spinning separate from the craft just up from the middle, didn't make a sound."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report - June 1971 story

UFO Observed During Ghost Hunt  (2003)

"Upon preparing to leave, we noticed a multi-colored spherical shaped object in the far sky. It changed colors within a set pattern, from yellow to red to blue to a greenish hue back to yellow, and remained mainly stationary."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Memorial Community Hospital

The hospital is supposedly haunted by a former nurse.

UFO Over the Hayfield  (2002)

"It had streak (iridescent green) behind it like it was going very fast. It went back and forth at different angles until it just took off even faster and we lost sight of it."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

UFO Seen During Lunar Eclipse (2003)

"Also it seemed to be shining a red light down into the forest as if it were looking for something."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Avon Cemetery

Milton House

  18 S Janesville St.
Milton, WI  53563
(608) 868-7771 or (608) 868-7772

"Lima Marsh Monster"

A large, hairy, bipedal beast is witnessed on at least two different occasions in the general area of the Lima Marsh wildlife preserve.

Spaulding House
"Janesville's Haunted Antique Store"

Strange goings-on have been witnessed by employees and customers alike in this old brick building, now home to Outdoor Events Event Planning & Catering.

Bright Lights in Sky  (2005)

"The blinking lights were bright enough to light up the whole sky, which was cloudy so it looked pretty cool."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 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.

Scotch Hill Cemetery

Sweet Repeats Consignment Store

Unexplained events at this location have provoked the investigation as to whether or not their origins are paranormal.

McNeel Middle School

"In the backroom of the stage where all of the costumes are kept and sometimes students gather to discuss or do homework during free time there is said to be a man who used to live on that spot where McNeel was built who haunts it. One of the worst experiences was when the Theatre teacher Ms. Franze was sleeping on the couch and when she awoke there was blood everywhere and students soon pointed out that she had an electricity plug stuck into the back of her head. The ghost also writes in the mirror hanging on the wall and slams the door. There's a chalkboard in the room on which 666 will be scratched and no one will be able to erase it and then a few days later disappear and then reappear. It's very quiet back there and there's always a dark feeling like you're not supposed to be in there. Ceiling tiles also fall down but only if someone had been standing there just seconds before. This has happened on many occasions."
- section from The Shadowlands website

Lappin-Gessert-Rossiter Home
private property

Prominent among the unexplained events in this historic home is the presence of a young girl who has been seen clad in a century-old style dress.

Milton High School

"In rooms 145-148 there are two ghostly figures of old teachers that are seen. They died when the school caught fire in the 60's. If you sit in any desks one of the women will walk past you and give you an evil look. You’ll feel very disoriented and uncomfortable. If you look at the chalkboard you'll see that the names of all the children these two punished are writing there. You can't erase them. Also, if you were to sit in the Auditorium that was just built, you will hear the curtains open slightly and then fall to the floor."
- section from The Shadowlands website

"Reports of a lady in White & many white figments float through the air.  June 2008 Investigation: The reports of a woman in white is easily dismissed because of the very lifelike statue that is illuminated by lights all around it. It's very scary, but definitely not a ghost. Also, the white lights throughout the cemetery are markers so that people don’t trip at night. Regardless, they are just lights. Also, people leave the covered candles by graves and create the same effect, only creepier, as they flicker in the wind sometimes. No paranormal activity."
- section from The Shadowlands website

Old Towne Mall

"A local merchant was staying late one night to complete some work. He describes hearing the doors to back door of his business shake uncontrollably. When he went to investigate, the same thing happened to the front glass doors where he witnessed the doors shake, but could see right through them to find no one there. There has also been witnesses claiming doors opening in front of people to find no one in site. A student taking a late-night class in the lower level of the mall had left the classroom to use the bathroom. While he was in the stall, He looked through the crack of the stall to see the door to the bathroom open fully, stay open for about 1 minute, then close slowly. He stated he could see right out into the hallway, but no one was there! He describes the door as a heavy, wooden door with a clasp that has to be pushed in before the door can open."
- section from The Shadowlands website

Union Hall
(formerly the Carpenter Mansion)

This former stop on the Underground Railroad has had reported paranormal activity.

UW-Rock County's Kirk Denmark Theater

"There have been the sound of doors opening and closing, lights going on or off, the sound of someone "whispering" in the theater. Witnesses have heard the doors open and people "talking" when no one was present. It is reported to be the spirit of a theater instructor by some, a director by others."
- section from The Shadowlands website

"Practical Joker"

In the book "Spooky Wisconsin" is the tale of a man whose penchant for irritating family & neighbors with incessant pranks continued even after his demise.

"Step back in time and view how life was in the Mid-1800’s in this artfully restored 1857 Victorian homestead, barn, and 1873 one-room schoolhouse. Fine period furnishings and a newly restored kitchen show how ‘the upper middle class’ lived at the turn of the century."
- section from the Beloit Visitors & Convention Bureau website

  2149 St. Lawrence Ave.
Beloit, WI  53511
(608) 365-7835

hours:
June thru September  (Fri - Sun)  1pm – 4pm

"The Helen Jeffris Wood Museum Center features a gift shop, staff offices, conference room and education rooms...The official site of Janesville's Award Winning historic house museum, the Lincoln-Tallman House.  Tour all five levels from basement to cupola of this Italian villa style mansion where Abraham Lincoln was a guest in 1859..."
- section from the Rock County Historical Society website

  440 & 426 N Jackson St.
Janesville, WI  53548
(608) 756-4509 or (608) 752-4519

hours:
(daily)  9am – 4pm

  1003 Pleasant Street
Beloit, WI  53511
(608) 365-4838 or (800) 4-BELOIT

hours:
May thru October  (Mon - Fri)  9am – 5pm
(Saturdays)  9am – 3pm

"Edgerton's downtown is a treasure trove of history. Its museums, points of interest and historic buildings take you back to another era when the town was "The Tobacco Capital of the World." The area's rich heritage is chronicled through photos, artifacts and changing displays in the Tobacco City Museum on Fulton St."
- section from the Edgerton Official Site

  210 W Fulton St.
Edgerton, WI  53534
(608) 884-4319

hours:
February thru mid-December  (Mon - Fri)  8am – 4pm

"The home where author Sterling North lived with his pet raccoon. The home and outdoor sites are restored to their 1918 appearance."
- section from the Portal Wisconsin website

  409 W Rollin St.
Edgerton, WI  53534
(608) 884-3074

April thru December  (Sundays)  1pm – 5pm or by appointment

  18 S Janesville St.
Milton, WI  53563
(608) 868-7771 or (608) 868-7772

hours:
• May  (Sat & Sun)  10am – 5pm
• Memorial Day thru Labor Day  (daily)  10am – 5pm
• September thru October by appointment only

"On the grounds of the 50-acre county park you will see an authentically restored 1868 grist mill, a new dam, mill pond,fish ladder, foot bridge, saw mill display, 1840s cooperage, visitor center, gift shop, creamery, blacksmith shop, picnic shelter, vintage garden, nature trail and more. The showpiece of the park is the Beckman Mill, the restoration of which was completed in 1997 by the Friends of Beckman Mill’s volunteer work crew. It is operational with power being supplied by its original 1860s water driven Leffel turbine. In the event alternate power is needed, the mill can be operated by its vintage two-cylinder gasoline engine. The mill was built shortly after the Civil War by millwright William Howe of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. In 1882 it was acquired by August Beckmann who had previously operated mills in nearby Juda and Hanover. The mill was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977."
- section from the official site

  11600 South County Road H
Beloit, WI  53511
schedule tour: (608) 751-1551

hours:
grounds:  (daily)  5am – 10pm
tours:  May thru October  (Sat & Sun)  1pm – 4pm

Beloit Visitors & Convention Bureau

Explore Wisconsin

Rock County Historical Society