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The Paulding
Light
aka The Watersmeet Light
aka The Dog Meadow Light
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unexplained
phenomenon
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mystery
light
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location: Watersmeet,
Michigan
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Although
technically in Michigan, it was impossible to ignore this site of
mystery, as too many Wisconsinites have crossed into Yooperland to view
it for themselves. The Light is visible from a rural roadway, its
source as yet undetermined. Is it merely automobile headlights
seen from a distance? Swamp gas? Reflections in the
clouds? Many who have gone to see the Light for themselves would
insist that it cannot be explained away so easily. UPDATE:
During a visit to see the light, a man standing nearby told of how the
"true" Paulding light was not the stationary light seen in the
distance at the end of the road, but instead it would rise up and swoop
over the trees, sometimes coming closer to those who watched on the
road. When seen, the "true" Paulding light could not be
misidentified as headlights or reflections, but considered something
truly unexplainable. This description has been repeated by other
such witnesses. |
From Eagle River, take Highway 45 northward, crossing the border
into Michigan. Continue past Watersmeet for 5 miles.
Turn
left on Robbins Pond Road. Follow the road for 1/4 mile until you see a
dead end barricade.
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Backwoods Wisconsin
www.backwoodswisconsin.com Unexplained
Research
www.unexplainedresearch.com Watersmeet
Official Site
www.watersmeet.org Castle of
Spirits
www.castleofspirits.com Prairie Ghosts
www.prairieghosts.com Ghosts.Org
www.ghosts.org "The
Paulding Light"
(an independent film)
www.pauldinglight.com Roadside
America
www.roadsideamerica.com book
"The Haunted Northwoods"
by Tom Hollatz & Seal Dwyer
North Star Press (2000)
pages 37 - 52, 107
buy
it at Amazon.com
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book:
"Haunted Wisconsin"
by Michael Norman &
Best Scott
Trails Books (revised 2001)
pages 35 - 42
buy it at Amazon.com
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book:
"Weird U.S."
by Mark Sceurman & Mark Moran
Barnes & Noble Books (2004)
page 104
buy it at Barnes
& Noble.com |
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Summerwind Mansion
wisconsin's
most haunted house
(burned ruins on
private property)
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haunted
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location: Land
o' Lakes
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| Summerwind as it
looked before 1988. |
| photo courtesy of Wausau
Paranormal Research Society |
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"Shadows moved through the
house, mumbling voices were heard, and the apparition of a woman was
frequently seen floating through the French doors into the parlor. Other
strange things went on in the house. Windows raised by themselves,
appliances failed for no reason, and eerie noises echoed through the
house at night. Then, while remodeling a closet, the couple found the
mummified remains of a human corpse."
- section from The W-Files report |
located on West Bay Lake, which is on County Road B (12 miles
west of Land o' Lakes, 14 miles northeast of Boulder Junction).
There are two accesses to Helen Creek Road from Hwy B. Take
the westernmost one. Turn left at the first legitimate
intersection (it has two street signs for Helen Creek Road).
Continue until you see a sign for the addresses "7112
to 7146". Turn left on that road. When you
reach the addresses "7112 7116 7120",
look for a small driveway to your right. If you reach 7124, you
went too far. The ruins are not clearly visible from the road if
the leaves are still on the trees.
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Official
Site(s)
1. summerwindmansion.com
2. www.summerwindmansion.net
Prairie
Ghosts
www.prairieghosts.com
The
W-Files
www.w-files.com
Wausau
Paranormal Research Society
www.pat-wausau.org
Wisconsin
Ghostboard
wiscghostboard.proboards45.com
"A
Haunting" DVD
shopping.discovery.com
book:
"The Carver Effect"
by Wolffgang von Bober
(2nd edition pub. 2005 by Raymond H. von Bober)
buy it only
here!
book
"The Haunted Northwoods"
by Tom Hollatz & Seal Dwyer
North Star Press (2000)
pages 4 - 35
buy
it at Amazon.com
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com
book:
"The Wisconsin Road Guide to
Haunted Locations"
by Chad Lewis and Terry Fisk
Research Publishing Co.
(2004)
pages 160 - 168
buy it at Barnes
& Noble.com
book:
"Haunted
Heartland"
by Beth Scott & Michael Norman
Warner Books (1985)
buy it at Amazon.com
buy it at Barnes
& Noble.com
book:
"Ghost Stories of
Wisconsin"
by A.S. Mott
Lone Pine Publishing International (2006)
page 172 - 190
buy
it at Amazon.com
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book:
"Weird Hauntings"
compiled
by Joanne Austin
Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. (2006)
pages 44 - 47
buy
it at Amazon.com
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book:
"Strange Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey
Trails Books (2007)
pages 59 - 60
buy it at Amazon.com
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book:
"Ghostly Tales of Wisconsin"
by Ryan Jacobson
Adventure Publications, Inc. (2009)
pages 8 - 17
buy it at Amazon.com
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"Bingo
Hall - This one likes to push people. My mom works there, a couple
of times when she was there alone with one other person she would
all of a sudden be pushed by an unseen force and was also
witnessed by the other person. Another time a surveillance man was
in to change tapes and heard screaming and a kid talking, he was
the only one there."
- section from The Shadowlands website |
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"No,
it wasn't me that pushed you. It was...an unseen
force. Yeah, that's it." |
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510 Old Abe Road
Lac du Flambeau, WI 54538
(800) 25-TORCH |
Official Site:
www.lakeofthetorches.com
The Shadowlands
www.theshadowlands.net
Wisconsin
Paranormal Investigation Team (WIX)
www.hauntedwi.com
book:
"The Wisconsin Road Guide to
Haunted Locations"
by Chad Lewis and Terry Fisk
Research Publishing Co.
(2004)
pages 158 - 159
buy it at Barnes
& Noble.com
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"There
we saw two (or possibly three close together) bright green circular
lights. They appeared to be joined, and the rings, I figured, were
due to the brightness of the light."
- section from UFO Wisconsin 05-28-04 report
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UFO
Wisconsin
www.ufowisconsin.com |
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Pancakes From Outer Space (1961)
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UFO
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location: Eagle
River
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A silver spacecraft lands
south of town.
Aliens offer pancakes to a plumber in exchange for water.
As bizarre as it sounds, this story has stirred up some serious debate. |
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| Joseph Simonton examines
one of the "pancakes" given to him by "aliens"...and
boyyyy, do they ever look good. |
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UFO Wisconsin
1. www.ufowisconsin.com
2. www.ufowisconsin.com
Weird Wisconsin
1.
www.weird-wi.com
2. www.weird-wi.com
3. www.weird-wi.com
The Anomalist
www.anomalist.com
Superior Broadcast
www.superiorbroadcast.org
book:
"The W-Files"
by Jay Rath
Trails Books (1997)
pages 1 - 6
buy
it at Amazon.com
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book:
"Oddball Wisconsin"
by Jerome Pohlen
Chicago Review Press, Inc.
(2001)
page 7
buy it at Amazon.com
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& Noble.com
book:
"Strange Wisconsin"
by Linda S. Godfrey
Trails Books (2007)
pages 19 - 20
buy it at Amazon.com
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com
book:
"Wisconsin Curiosities"
by Michael Feldman and Diana Cook
Globe Pequot Press
(2nd ed.,
2004) page 109
(3rd ed.,
2009) page 111
buy it at Amazon.com
buy it at Barnes
& Noble.com
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"The
Stevenson Creek Chimney Mystery"
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haunted
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mysterious
site
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location: Boulder
Junction
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Once there
stood a three-story home in the woods. It was built in 1905 by a
man who wanted to harvest cranberries, but things did not go as
planned. The magnificent home was abandoned and eventually
dismantled by the state for its log walls. All that remains today
is the massive three-story stone chimney, standing in the forest alone. |
"People who
have paid a visit to this place have said that you can still see people
walking into the basement, kids playing by the creek, sometimes running
in the tall grass, and windy spots around people when everything else is
calm."
- section from The
Shadowlands website |
From Boulder Junction, head south on County Road K for 2
miles. Do not turn east as K veers off in that direction.
Instead, continue south on County Road M. After
driving 1 mile on M, park at the State Forest Campground parking lot at
Trout Lake. Walk 1/3 mile north to the first hiking trail crossing
the highway. Go east for 1/2 mile until you come to a convergence
of 4 trails. Here stands the chimney.
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Vilas
County Tourism Site
Boulder Junction
Hiking Trails
www.vilas.org
Wisconsin
Paranormal Investigation Team (WIX)
www.hauntedwi.com
The Shadowlands
www.theshadowlands.net
book
"The Haunted Northwoods"
by Tom Hollatz & Seal Dwyer
North Star Press (2000)
pages 118 - 128
buy
it at Amazon.com
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com
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"It
went on then faded in to nothing again. It was such a large light, I
knew it could not be human."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report
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UFO
Wisconsin
www.ufowisconsin.com |
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A
treasured painting is found in various places around the owner's house,
having been moved by mysterious means. |
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book
"The Haunted Northwoods"
by Tom Hollatz & Seal Dwyer
North Star Press (2000)
pages 58 - 59
buy
it at Amazon.com
buy it at Barnes & Noble.com |
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"The Sioux Warriors of
Strawberry Island"
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haunted
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location: Lac
du Flambeau
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In the
book "Northern Frights", author Dennis Boyer tells of dead Indians
left on an island which add up to no good. |
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The W-Files
www.w-files.com
book:
"Northern Frights"
by Dennis Boyer
Badger
Books (second ed., 2005)
pages 72 - 75
buy
it at
Amazon.com
buy it at
Barnes & Noble.com
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Hiker Finds Huge Footprints (1991)
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bigfoot
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location: Arbor
Vitae
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"...there were huge
footprints in the bog that looked almost human, but were
probable twice the size of my own (I wear size 12). I don't
think they were large bear tracks, as there were no claw marks,
nor did it look like the tracks of a four-legged animal. They
looked like huge human footprints, with really big toes."
- section from BFRO incident report |
North of Highway 51
within the southern portion of the Northern Highlands State Forest
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BFRO (Bigfoot
Field
Researchers Organization)
www.bfro.net |
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"It
would be constantly blinking colors, then moving up a bit, then over to
the left, blink some more, move around, then move to the right to it's
original position. And it would start all over again."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report
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UFO
Wisconsin
www.ufowisconsin.com |
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"But then i Heard a loud
groooooo groooooo grooooo. I just froze."
- section from BFRO incident report |
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BFRO (Bigfoot
Field
Researchers Organization)
www.bfro.net |
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The Weird
Wisconsin website ponders the multitude of Devil-related place names in
Wisconsin. |
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Weird
Wisconsin
www.weird-wi.com
or archived (here) |
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In the
book "Northern Frights", author Dennis Boyer tells of spectral
canoe riders seen gliding over the lake's surface. |
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book:
"Northern Frights"
by Dennis Boyer
Badger
Books (second ed., 2005)
pages 61 - 65
buy
it at
Amazon.com
buy it at
Barnes & Noble.com
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"We had
seen many meteorites that night, but this was definitely different. It
did not leave a streak, and it was much brighter than the meteors. It
also paused, and moved in a different direction, unlike the meteorites."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report
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UFO
Wisconsin
www.ufowisconsin.com |
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In the
book "Northern Frights", author Dennis Boyer tells of a parka-wearing specter
which is seen on several lakes in the area, including
Circle Lily Lake, Dead Pike Lake, Birch Lake and Big Crooked Lake. |
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The W-Files
www.w-files.com
book:
"Northern Frights"
by Dennis Boyer
Badger
Books (second ed., 2005)
pages 57 - 61
buy
it at
Amazon.com
buy it at
Barnes & Noble.com
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Headwaters
Restaurant and Tavern
formerly the Old Tavern
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ghost
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location: Boulder
Junction
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"Old
Tavern - is said to be haunted by a "red lady." Employees
won't talk about the subject and no one goes into the basement. The
building is one of the oldest in town."
- section from The Shadowlands website
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5675 County Road M
Boulder Junction, WI 54512
(715) 385-2601
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Official
Site
www.headwatersrestaurant-tavern.com
The Shadowlands
www.theshadowlands.net
Strange USA
www.strangeusa.com
Wisconsin
Paranormal Investigation Team (WIX)
www.hauntedwi.com |
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Horse
Rider Spots Bigfoot (1993)
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bigfoot
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location: northern
vilas county
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"It
was about thirdy (sic) yards away and i could only see it from
the waist up to the shoulders, and it looked like it had like a beer
belly. Star was 17 1/2 hands tall and this thing looked like it would
have been close to a foot taller...We also found a partial foot print.
He had his tape measure with and the print was 19 1/2" long x 7
1/2" wide."
- section from Wisconsin Bigfoot report
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Wisconsin Bigfoot
www.wisconsinbigfoot.com |
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"Ghosts
of America" Haunted Location Reports
(take with a grain of
salt)
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ghosts
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location: statewide
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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.
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"The
phantom of a down-and-out gentleman was made out howling at the onlooker
to go away in a rubber boat on Plum Lake. Other stories of this spirit
have been conveyed. In any case, it's a scary ghost that any sane person
wouldn't want to encounter."
- section from Ghosts of America website
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Ghosts
of America
www.ghostsofamerica.com |
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