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Madison
Feb 6, 2005 15:26:24 GMT -6
Post by Jeremiah on Feb 6, 2005 15:26:24 GMT -6
Hello all I am Jeremiah. I am 22 years old and am very interested in the Paranormal. I was interested to find out if there are anyone else here that is from the Madison area that is willing to let me know of some places that are haunted so I can check them out and see what I can dig up. Like I said I just moved here and I do not know anyone so if anyone would like to meet and hang out sometime I would like that. I can be reached at Jeremiah_M_21@yahoo.com or here. Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing from you
Jeremiah
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Madison
Mar 25, 2005 13:37:35 GMT -6
Post by jaywro on Mar 25, 2005 13:37:35 GMT -6
I go to school in Madison and from what I hear (most of these are on this message board) is that Science Hall on campus is (it is a big red brick bldg located near Memorial Union) is haunted: both the 4th(?) floor and the basement which I hear was an infirmiry during the Civil War. I hear Picnic Point is also haunted- an old Native American legend- if you follow what is known to UW students as the Lakeshore path to the west it will lead you to Picnic Point. Good luck and you can email me at wroblewski@wisc.edu if you want to chat.
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Madison
Mar 26, 2005 15:41:01 GMT -6
Post by weirdwi on Mar 26, 2005 15:41:01 GMT -6
Re: Science Hall, that's not quite true. If you want the Civil War, then look to Camp Randall. And to the graves in Forest Hill Cemetery. Science Hall is the site of the former medical school. Human cadavers were stored in the basement for anatomy classes. Clarence Olmstead wrote: "Hearses could regularly be seen entering the rear parking lot to deliver coffins which disappeared into the underground morgue." The basement also held dog kennels. The dogs of course were also subject to slicing and dicing in the facility. Former geography professor Warren J. Meads used to complain bitterly about the foul odors wafting around Science Hall. Wisconsin's great folklorist, Charles E. Brown wrote about Meads' perceptions: "Then the abominable smells of the embalming fluid, ripe corpses and caged canines on the floor above escaping from opened windows crawled down the side of the building and were wafted into Professor Mead’s windows. In a very few minutes the place smelled like an abattoir or rendering plant. He was fairly driven out of his sanctum by the vile stenches. The Professor was in despair and angry." When I think of Science Hall, that's what I think of. A few years ago I shot a segment with Fox 47 in one of the stairwells near the top of the building. It provided an appropriate ambience. During this session, I told the reporter Lisa Fielding that elevators would regularly stop on floors though no one had called them nor was anyone riding inside. The elevators, of course, were used to convey the corpses of both humans and dogs to the upper reaches, where dissection classes were held. The camera guy set up his gear in front of an elevator. He was focusing on the elevator, and wanted me to tell the story of the elevators opening by themselves. Right on cue, the elevator door opened -- voila, no one inside. According to Native American legend, Picnic Point was home to witches. Lake Mendota's lake monster, Bozho, was also encountered near there. And of course, a certain group in the library school graduate program burned books in a bonfire there on Hallowe'en night, 1989. Richard Hendricks rdh@execpc.com Weird Wisconsin www.weird-wi.com/
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Madison
Mar 27, 2005 13:41:59 GMT -6
Post by katie kintner on Mar 27, 2005 13:41:59 GMT -6
Good stories, Richard! I used to work in HC White Hall and that place, despite its relative newness, has some spooky spots. The library school (AKA SLIS) library was closed for Christmas break but although the library itself was locked, library staff and student assistants were inside the library doing "catch-up" work. One afternoon a student assistant came into the library's technical services room, a strange smile on her pale face. She told me she had been in working in the reference stacks when she heard a woman's voice softly say "Sally Brown". There was no one else in the library at time. Who the heck was "Sally Brown"? Out of curiosity, we checked the school's alumni records but found no reference to anyone by that name, though we did find a "Sarah Brown". Yes, it could have come up through the building's ventilation system, but then we would have been hearing voices all the time and certainly hearing more than just "Sally Brown". Another spooky spot would probably be the entire Memorial Library. If you have a proper ID, you could probably get a day pass into the library and spend some time in the old and new bookstacks, especially the old basement stacks. I was a shelver in the basement for about a year and though it has been remodeled since then, it is STILL a spooky place, reminescent of the opening library stacks scenes in "Ghostbusters". It had shelving drawers then, which was easy for vagrants to hide sleeping bags, etc in. and then hide down there before closing so they could spend the night. I haven't heard any specific ghost stories per se when I was working there but then the opportunity for discussion didn't arise much. I did have ONE weird thing happen to me there. I was in the ILL office (rm. 231) working one day and a 3x5 card simply disappeared out of my hand. Poof, gone, I felt it go. Thinking I had dropped it, we searched high and low--it never turned up, at least not in a place where we could find it. Memorial library is also the place where good old Eugene took an axe out of a fire extinguisher case and went after a student (she wasn't killed though). If you go over to the East side of town, along Atwood Avenue near the railroad crossing there is rumored to be the ghost of a little girl. I used to live near there and I think she might have come into my neighbor's apartment one day and eaten some ice cream, but that's another story.
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Madison
Mar 27, 2005 17:26:03 GMT -6
Post by weirdwi on Mar 27, 2005 17:26:03 GMT -6
Katie, how long ago was that voice heard at SLIS? Whenever I think of "Sally," I think of Sally A. Davis, the former director of the library school library. She passed away, I believe, in September, 2000. (And if I'm wrong, someone please correct me.) I was on a three-person panel discussing research there a few weeks ago. Talk about ghosts! Nothing supernatural, though. Although judging from some of the students, I could just as well have been standing in the former Science Hall morgue. Well, it was 9:00 a.m. on a Monday morning. ;-} I don't get to Memorial Library as often as I used to. Nothing ever snatched out of my hand, other than that d**n vendacard machine that wouldn't give my card back ... I do know the axe story. And I thought every right-thinking person lived on the east side. In my case, though, it's on the other side of E. Wash. Richard Hendricks rdh@execpc.com Weird Wisconsin www.weird-wi.com/
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Madison
Mar 27, 2005 18:53:58 GMT -6
Post by katie kintner on Mar 27, 2005 18:53:58 GMT -6
At the time, Sally was still alive and still growling whenever she saw our plants--she HATED plants. After she left, one of the staff members moved in all the big plants. Then I started there and brought in even more, some of which are still there. So it wasn't her. This would have been around 1996, I believe. The voice the student heard was soft, almost a whisper and Sally Davis was anything but. In the workroom (at the time) here was a photo of cataloging students from around the turn of the century (19th to 20th). We had always been fascinated by it because other than their dress, they looked like very contemporary young women with diverse personalities. We almost thought maybe one of the young ladies had come out of the picture. I lived off Atwood Avenue for awhile, and another while on the north side near Mendota Mental Health Institute. In fact, I've lived all over town except maybe the South Park St. area. But the east side was the best! I lived right across from what is now the Harmony Bar, on the dead-end part of St. Paul Avenue. If you go past there, you'll see one big 100+ year old house occupying the last block before the cutoff at Division Street. It has a large porch and looks like a completely different house if you look at it from the other way. It was apparently once a nursing home, and possibly had something to do with the old Kennedy (?) dairy which was situated on what is now Eastwood Avenue or thereabouts. This is where the ice-cream eating ghost did her thing. Katie, how long ago was that voice heard at SLIS? Whenever I think of "Sally," I think of Sally A. Davis, the former director of the library school library. She passed away, I believe, in September, 2000. (And if I'm wrong, someone please correct me.) I was on a three-person panel discussing research there a few weeks ago. Talk about ghosts! Nothing supernatural, though. Although judging from some of the students, I could just as well have been standing in the former Science Hall morgue. Well, it was 9:00 a.m. on a Monday morning. ;-} I don't get to Memorial Library as often as I used to. Nothing ever snatched out of my hand, other than that d**n vendacard machine that wouldn't give my card back ... I do know the axe story. And I thought every right-thinking person lived on the east side. In my case, though, it's on the other side of E. Wash. Richard Hendricks rdh@execpc.com Weird Wisconsin www.weird-wi.com/
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Madison
Apr 22, 2005 0:09:40 GMT -6
Post by hudson23 on Apr 22, 2005 0:09:40 GMT -6
One can also not forget The Majestic theatre, The Bartile (use to be known as The Esquire) as well as The BOY on the railroad tracks on Wabesa Street (sp) The only experiences that I have personally had were with the boy on the railroad tracks right by Ironworks and the ghost in The Bartile Theatre which is the ghost of the old manger. So, yes in certain areas and settings Madison will provide spirits for those who want it.
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