Ghost stories from Wisconsin

The Cold Draft from the Attic

Marta had always known her husband, Leo, was a skeptic when it came to the paranormal. He would scoff at any mention of ghosts, dismissing them as products of overactive...

The Man on Market Street

I remember the exact moment the world tilted on its axis. It was a Tuesday, the kind of crisp autumn day that makes you forget the city’s grime. I was...

The Candle at the Window

I had sworn off the whole ghost-hunting gig after the incident at the old mill, but when my old friend Rhea mentioned over cheap beers that her house had started...

The Linoleum Tiles

Every Thursday, at a quarter to six, I’d walk the half mile from my apartment to the old Mercy Chapel. It wasn’t a church anymore, not officially. It was a...

The Last Glass of Lemonade

I never believed in ghosts, not really. Not even after all the things I saw as a kid—the shifting shadows, the cold spots, the sense of being watched. I learned...

The Lantern of Hollow Creek

My name is Elara, and I’ve always seen things others can’t. Since childhood, the dead have walked beside me—some wispy, some solid as you or me. I learned to hide...

The Cold Thread

Lila had always considered the bathtub her sanctuary. After long days at the pottery studio, where the clay clung to her skin and the wheel’s hum rattled her bones, she...

The Hollow Between the Cots

The summer I turned twelve, my family moved to a converted lighthouse on the craggy coast of Maine. My father, a marine biologist, had taken a position at the local...

The Carpet’s Memory

It started three weeks before the winter solstice, when the days were already short and the house seemed to gather darkness early. My name is Lena, and I live with...

The Hollow Ticker

When the Peralta family moved into the old farmhouse on Cedar Ridge, they knew it needed work. The paint peeled like sunburned skin, the porch sagged, and the wind had...

The Missing Cuckoo

I’d flown into Denver to visit my father for his seventieth birthday, staying in the dusty ranch house he’d inherited from his own father. It was a place of creaking...

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