Dead Man's Crossing- Portage WI

[whatwasthat2]

This is an old ghost story that is mostly forgotten. On highway 16 is a white picket fence built around two oak trees. There is a white cross nailed to the fence. There are train tracks that run close to the road. Some say that during the early 1900s, two girls walking along the tracks found a corpse that couldn't be identified. Some railroad workers buried the man between the two trees and marked it with the fence. According to some, the man's ghost can be seen walking down the tracks.

[darkman]

what road is it near from highway 16??? sounds like it may be near church road cemetary.

[whatwasthat2]

Yes, it's very close to Church Rd. Cemetery. In fact, that's probably why the story is mostly forgotten today.

[darkman]

you know someone told me that a man was hit by a train years ago, must be the same story.