Post by owkenny on Jul 26, 2010 0:57:35 GMT -6
Heres a place i bet is haunted, maybe you should add it to the list. Its the Woodland Hotel in Owen, Wisconsin. (like dead center between chippewa falls and wausau on HWY 29).
First off, i need to mention the Clark County Hospital, which is now the health care center. It was a mental institute and its right outside of Owen.
What i was told by my grandma (who managed the hotel for a while) was that before she took it over, the previous owner would have recoveries from the mental hospital live in the hotel. The owners of both were good friends so the Hospital guy would send his newly admitted to the world again patients to the hotel, thus earning the manager money. Some stories say he would even send ones too difficult to deal with there just to get rid of them. So you can imagine this hotel had many unstable people living there over the years but theres another story to investigate.
There was a janitor or custodian or something that everyone figured lived in the basement since he never left unless you asked him to do something. Well i was told that he was found dead one day sitting in a chair in the basement. He had been dead for a while and skin turned pale.
The building was leased out for renters for a while but now i believe it is abandoned. The strange thing is, the lights were on in the basement at night for about 2 weeks after it was abandoned. The town being so small, Ive only managed to find a little bit of info on it. All this stuff above was gotten from my grandparents/parents that grew up during all this. You should look into it, maybe add it to the list of locations. Im on a mission to get a tour or any excuse to get inside.
First off, i need to mention the Clark County Hospital, which is now the health care center. It was a mental institute and its right outside of Owen.
What i was told by my grandma (who managed the hotel for a while) was that before she took it over, the previous owner would have recoveries from the mental hospital live in the hotel. The owners of both were good friends so the Hospital guy would send his newly admitted to the world again patients to the hotel, thus earning the manager money. Some stories say he would even send ones too difficult to deal with there just to get rid of them. So you can imagine this hotel had many unstable people living there over the years but theres another story to investigate.
There was a janitor or custodian or something that everyone figured lived in the basement since he never left unless you asked him to do something. Well i was told that he was found dead one day sitting in a chair in the basement. He had been dead for a while and skin turned pale.
The building was leased out for renters for a while but now i believe it is abandoned. The strange thing is, the lights were on in the basement at night for about 2 weeks after it was abandoned. The town being so small, Ive only managed to find a little bit of info on it. All this stuff above was gotten from my grandparents/parents that grew up during all this. You should look into it, maybe add it to the list of locations. Im on a mission to get a tour or any excuse to get inside.