Guest's Stories
Milwaukee Area Paranormal Investigations
"Follow me into the shadows..."
My family and I had lived in old army barracks on the south side of Milwaukee for 15 years. We strongly believe that our apartment was haunted. Things were occurring that were unexplainable. I remember my brother screaming in the middle of the night from his bedroom that was adjacent to mine. I ran out of my room and swung his door open to reveal him sitting up. I asked him what was wrong and he said that when he was sleeping he could feel something standing in front of him. So he opened his eyes and saw the image of a man's face staring him in the eyes. He thought it was me but then he realized that I had to open the door to get into the room. He said the image moved back almost instantly into the darkness when I rushed in.
On another day my brother was taking a shower and I was downstairs with my mother. From upstairs we heard a loud scream and I ran upstairs to see what was the problem. My brother comes running out of the bathroom with a huge red hand print on his back. I had asked him what was the matter and he said that he felt a slap on his back and thought it was me playing a joke on him. Since that day my brother never took a shower again with the bathroom door closed.
On another evening my family and I were sitting in the living room. The front door was open. The front door was made of metal and the screen door was closed. All of a sudden the metal door slammed shut. We jumped. We all heard foot steps "walking" to the kitchen. In the reflection of the glass of our grandfather clock we saw the kitchen light go on. We all started laughing and realized that we are not alone!
I too have been the recipient of these mysterious sightings. One day after school I was sitting on the couch watching T.V. and kept seeing this black swoosh going past my eyes. Every time I would turn my head nothing was there. But I could FEEL something there. So I continued to watch T.V. trying to ignore what I saw. I brought up to my mother that I kept seeing things and she said that she has too. She told me that there were more than just three people living in our apartment.
The scariest encounter of all was when I was laying in bed. I remember trying to fall asleep. Just as I was nodding off I had this huge pressure on my legs. I could not move them. I tried, but the more I tried the more pressure there was. I saw two hand prints in my comforter where the pressure was. Someone or something was preventing me from moving. I remember not being able to scream. Nothing would come out. I tried and tried to move but nothing. Then in a few seconds the pressure released and the hand prints disappeared. I was able to move, however I was still paralyzed with fear.
Brian's Story (Milwaukee)
Let me start with this: we have lived in the same apartment for 31 years, strange things had been taking place over time, but as anyone will, you try to rationalize it and find a reason for the things that happen! Well, that all changed 10 years ago, my son mike was 3 at the time. He had been asleep for a while and shot up out of a sound sleep, screaming at us to stop the man in the coveralls from hurting the woman in the checkered dress!!! We asked him what he was talking about, at this point he said the man in the coveralls, was trying to stick a pitchfork into the woman in the checkered dress in our hallway!! As any parent will do, we told him he was having a bad dream and its ok to relax, he fell back to sleep and we dismissed it. At 7 am the next morning, Mike woke up and took off down the hall he was upset and looking all over the floor, we asked him what he was looking for, his answer shocked us!! " I'm looking for all the blood!!! He stabbed her with that pitchfork!!" After a few moments I regained my lower jaw and told him, see nothing is there, nothing happened!! He told me it was there and he did see it!!! He was very upset! Later that day I was telling a neighbor about this and was overheard by a man that lives behind our apartment, he walked up to me and said: " I heard that story as you were talking and thought I should tell you something... I was a farmhand on the land many years ago, and your complex is built on the farm area, the man I worked for was a drunk, violent at times. Well, one of those times was fatal! He had been drinking all day and became very wild, he took a pitchfork and stabbed his wife, dragged her body to the house and set it on fire to cover up the murder. He too, expired in that fire along with a child. So your son spoke the truth!!!"
Pam's Story (Milwaukee)
Since that day we no longer try to explain away strange events, in fact, our oldest daughter was married and we had a dinner party at the hotel, also on the same land right behind our complex, as the waitress was lighting the candle on the tables, she would get 2 lit and by the time she got to the 3rd, the first 2 would go out! I was busy taking pictures and was not paying attention to what she was doing, that was until she started mumbling to herself!!, I asked if all was ok? She said I'm trying to figure out where the draft is coming from!! After checking for fans, doors etc, and finding nothing, she once again lit the candles, this time all went well. Shortly after, I went to the bar to have a cigarette, since it was a smoke free dining hall, even the candles had to be smokeless or they were not allowed!
My sister and I were sitting there, the bartender turned to us to ask if we would like a drink, as she did a glass in her hand exploded all over the bar!! She looked shocked and so did we, she had not bumped it, dropped it, or anything else that would cause it!!
It was not until we got the pictures back that I knew the answer to the events of that day!! In the photo was what appeared to be a smokey figure of a woman. You can see her breast line, long hair, and she seems to be bending towards the waitress, whose legs are on the right of the picture! It was at that moment she was lighting the candles, as I looked at the photo , I realized that this figure was leaning forward and blowing out the flames!!! I came to the realization that it may have been the farmers wife. I am no expert on the subject, but who else would have reason to not want fire, who else would have reason to not want drinks.
Since that day, my son in law and daughter were asleep and he woke to the feeling of male hands choking him, a voice!!! telling him to hit his wife!!! Even my son in law thought it was the farmer trying to get them to fight like he did!!!
There's more, but it's too much to deal with in one story. Now you know why I said the picture was important to the story!!! I have the original and the negative I have tried to rule out anything that would have caused that and I just don't see any other reason!!!
Andrew had just left his girlfriend's house one evening at about 11 PM to head home. The street he was driving down was pretty fogged over in a large section, and he saw flashing lights ahead. Andrew slowed down, thinking the lights belonged to a police car further down the road. As he neared the flashing lights, he noticed an elderly man dressed in a ragged suit standing by the side of the road. Suddenly, the man stepped right in front of his car!!! Andrew screamed and braced himself, knowing he didn't have enough time to safely stop. But instead of a thud, the man simply slid through the car and stared directly into Andrew's eyes. At that moment the car finally stopped. Andrew recalled that the temperature dropped so fast he thought winter set in (it was in mid July). He opened the door to see if there was a body behind him on the road, but there was nothing at all. Shaken to the bones, he called his mother and told her that ice had formed on the windows (he had no a/c in his car & the temperature outside was about 80 degrees!) His mother remained on the phone and talked to him until he reached their apartment where she was outside waiting for him. Andrew's mother told us this, "Sure enough... the temp was so cold that there was indeed ice on all the windows!" After his mother got him into the house, he went to lie down and rest but was awake every 30 minutes screaming that the eyes were staring at him! It has taken Andrew over a year just to pass that intersection again.
Just a few days after my mom died (back in 1988) I was in bed asleep when about 2-3AM I woke up to an odd sound coming from somewhere in the house. I got up, walked across the living room which divided my bedroom with the kitchen and bathroom. When I got to the bathroom, I was startled to find the water in the tub was turned on. Cold water was coming out almost full blast. I had not used that faucet since the previous morning, but I had been around most of the day, and I KNEW I had not left it running all day long.
It was an old house (built in early 1900's) but the plumbing had been updated. Still, the handles to the water were not easy to turn. There is no way that handle turned itself enough to actually let the water come out that hard. I was still too sad and out of it from losing my mom to feel scared, and just went back to bed.
But the next morning I felt comforted by the strong feeling that it had been my mom who had turned it on, just to let me know she was still around. We always talked about that throughout our lives, that if one of us died, we'd come back and make some form of contact with the other if at all possible. I felt that it had been her way, and knew that if it was at all possible she would have done that for me.
Over the course of several weeks to follow something made my lamps turn on in the middle of the night several times. They had never had tricky wiring or anything so there was no explanation. Nothing like this had ever happened to me in that house before or after that period.
Andrew's Story (Oak Creek)
Carries's Story (Waukesha)
Outside the restaurant called Bluemound Gardens in Wauwatosa, my mother and I were pulling into their parking lot and saw at the entrance what appeared to be an elder, white, man dressed in Confedrate soldier uniform standing atvattention.
He leaned on what appeared to be a sword and had a white pale look on his face. He stared at me and didn't move. People going in and out of the restaurant seemed to not notice and not being alarmed by him as they walked and drove past him, not even looking his way. When I pulled up in front to let my mother out so I could find a parking space, my mother said she looked over at the entrance of the parking lot where this soldier was and he was gone. I parked my car and also noticed he was gone. We know what we saw and saw the same thing.
Never saw this soldier again as we have been to Bluemound Gardens several times. We are too afraid to ask owners or workers at this place about this soldier. I can't find records of any one else online or incidents about soldiers haunting around... or if the land where this place now stands was a seen from like the movie Gettysburg.
Holly's Story (Wauwatosa)
