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Explore 50 haunted places in Wisconsin. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Maribel, Wisconsin · Other
The ruined Maribel hotel acquired the nickname Hotel Hell through stories of eerie singing, a little girl in a dark dress and an oppressive presence near the basement. HauntedPlaces.org also records a spectral carriage drawn by pale horses. Tales of glowing walls and repeated fires have grown far beyond the site's documented history.
La Pointe, Wisconsin · Other
Michigan Island's lighthouse folklore explains a repeatedly slamming door as the work of a former keeper. According to HauntedPlaces.org, the door is heard shutting twice during storms even when it is already fastened. The tale attaches the haunting to a keeper's accidental death, but that backstory has not been independently verified.
Washington Island, Wisconsin · Other
Footsteps on the stairs and doors closing by themselves keep Tom Nelsen in the conversation at his island tavern. The pub’s ghost tradition is modest, familiar and closely tied to its founder.
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin · Other
A small boy is the best-known apparition in Fond du Lac's Octagon House. HauntedPlaces.org also records footsteps, stray lights, shifting objects and doors moving without an apparent hand. One particularly odd account concerns a spinning wheel that seemed to come apart almost instantly. These are reported experiences at the house museum.
Baraboo, Wisconsin · Other
At the Old Baraboo Inn, investigators and customers describe shadows, unexplained voices, wandering lights and objects moving by themselves. The spirits named in HauntedPlaces.org's account include a woman called Mary, children, cowboys and former owners. Reports also include an elderly woman's apparition and a tap on the head when nobody seemed nearby.
Bayfield, Wisconsin · Hotel
The Old Rittenhouse Inn's ghost story is a simple porch sighting: guests have reportedly seen a tall, white-clad figure standing outside the historic bed-and-breakfast. HauntedPlaces.org records the apparition without a name or a verified explanation for who the figure might have been.
Peshtigo, Wisconsin · Other
Visitors to the Peshtigo Fire Museum have reported voices, apparitions and the smell of smoke without an obvious source. HauntedPlaces.org also retells a dramatic claim that a passerby saw phantom flames around the building. The museum occupies a church constructed after the 1871 disaster, so it is not a surviving burning church from that night.
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin · Hotel
Hotel Retlaw's folklore centers on a former owner whose apparition supposedly remains at the property. In the account collected by HauntedPlaces.org, taps and lights switch on without an obvious cause, and unexplained cries or other noises interrupt the hotel's rooms and corridors.
Kenosha, Wisconsin · Theater
The Rhode Center for the Arts has a theater ghost with no established name. HauntedPlaces.org records witnesses hearing voices and unexplained noises, as well as seeing a male figure in the building. The Lake Theater and Gateway Theater names refer to earlier uses of this same Kenosha venue.
Ashland, Wisconsin · Theater
Unexplained footfalls, moving doors and a toilet flushing on its own feature in Rinehart Theater's local lore. HauntedPlaces.org also records actors arriving to find three burning candles arranged around a rose on the stage. The source gives no verified explanation for that theatrical-looking discovery.
Madison, Wisconsin · Other
The grounds of the former Lake View Sanatorium carry stories of apparitions, murmuring voices and sudden pockets of warmth or cold. HauntedPlaces.org also records visitors feeling their hair tugged on the wooded trails and seeing unusual light or figures around the building. The cemetery and woods are part of the same site tradition.
Egg Harbor, Wisconsin · Other
Stories from the original Shipwrecked building feature former proprietor Verna Moore speaking to staff and rearranging furniture. The HauntedPlaces.org account also describes a Victorian-dressed woman outside, an attic apparition and crying upstairs. These reports belong to the earlier structure: a major 2017 fire was followed by a new building on the site.
Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin · Other
Summerwind's legends begin with Robert Lamont mistaking an apparition for an intruder and firing at it. Later occupants described shadows and inexplicable noises in the house. A much-disputed story added a body hidden behind a closet; it belongs to the mansion's supernatural mythology, not established history. The house burned in 1988.
Elm Grove, Wisconsin · Theater
Sunset Playhouse's resident prankster is said to be actor Lester 'Pinky' Schultz. In the tradition recorded by HauntedPlaces.org, Schultz died after leaving the stage in 1968 but continued to make his presence felt. One group in the boardroom reportedly found the doors suddenly slamming around them.
Greenbush, Wisconsin · Other
The Wade House's resident presence is described as gentle rather than threatening. According to HauntedPlaces.org, museum guides have felt a light push and heard fabric-like rustling in the bedrooms of the old stagecoach inn. The account leaves the spirit unnamed and centers on small sensory encounters during work in the house.
Spring Green, Wisconsin · Other
A woman in a white gown is said to appear at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin. HauntedPlaces.org adds accounts of windows moving on their own and lights flashing in the apparently empty building at night. The brief tradition does not establish the apparition's identity, and no specific historical victim is assigned to it.
Kohler, Wisconsin · Hotel
An American Club guest reportedly tried to speak with a silent man in worn flannel, only to learn that surveillance footage showed no companion. HauntedPlaces.org also recounts a woman in a blue hat appearing near a fireplace in the older east wing. Both figures belong to the hotel's guest-story tradition.
Menomonie, Wisconsin · Other
The Devil's Punchbowl has a stranger reputation than its wooded setting suggests. HauntedPlaces.org recounts odd noises, abrupt chills and floating lights, together with a local gnome tradition. In one version, people who mock the little beings return to find their cars will not start.
Kewaunee, Wisconsin · Hotel
The Karsten hotel's reports range from running childlike footsteps to flute music, whispering and the sound of furniture being shifted. HauntedPlaces.org places a woman's sobbing on the second floor and names Mr. Karsten among several supposed residents. Guests also describe changing temperatures, unfamiliar scents and figures that disappear.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin · Hotel
Milwaukee’s ornate Pfister Hotel is said to unsettle even visiting professional ballplayers, who tell stories of radios switching on and rooms rearranging themselves.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin · Other
HauntedPlaces.org records a laughing little girl at the Rave and reports of objects thrown from its roof without a visible person. The basement pool and boiler-room areas have their own reputation: visitors describe a bleach-like odor, an oppressive presence and sounds attributed in venue folklore to a former caretaker.
Mineral Point, Wisconsin · Hotel
Walker House stories include floating heads, sudden blasts of cold air and a mischievous presence blamed for locking staff in a walk-in freezer. HauntedPlaces.org connects the reports to a hanging outside the inn. The historical execution and the various later ghost explanations should be kept distinct.
De Pere, Wisconsin · Hotel
A disappearing bartender is among the Union Hotel's most unusual stories: patrons reportedly received drinks from him before he vanished. HauntedPlaces.org also describes lights across the hotel switching on or off and staff feeling watched. The account belongs to De Pere's historic hotel, not other Wisconsin businesses called Union House.
Algoma, Wisconsin · Other
At von Stiehl Winery, staff and visitors have reportedly heard footsteps and seen a figure near the bottling room. The HauntedPlaces.org submission attributes the presence to a former owner. Bottles and furniture are also said to turn up in different positions without anyone admitting to moving them.