On the night of December 26th, 1983, friends Margaret Anderson and Terry Apfel entered a Green Bay bar named the Back Forty, at 618 Bodart Way, during a night out. 

The Back Forty was owned by a member of the Drifters Motorcycle Club, and known as a popular hangout for Drifters members, and members of other motorcycle clubs as well.  Clubs like the DC Eagles, thought by some to be a more menacing, renegade motorcycle gang.

The motorcycle club subculture was prominent in NE Wisconsin at the time, and still holds a steady influence today in the region. 

On this particular night, however, during the holiday season of 1983, members of the Drifters and the DC Eagles committed acts so disturbing, the event is still remembered today for its pure cruelty and brutality, even leading to the motorcycle clubs themselves to aid in the resulting investigations. 

Scott and Mickey discuss this case, called the most brutal murder in Green Bay's history, and some of the arising issues in our sentencing laws. 

In the opening banter, we recap the 2nd Annual Great Lakes Paracon, and a sad update on Elijah Vue.

All here, on Episode 45 of Badger Bizarre, "Margaret Anderson."

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Opening Trailer:

Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI

Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media

Attribution for Music:

Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/

Intro: https://pixabay.com/

Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/

Attribution for logo design:

Red Claw Scratch Photo

Sources:

Adams, Barry - "This Haunted High School will give you the Chills."

Dauplaise, Mike - "Torture at the Back Forty."

Green Bay Press Gazette - Archives

Justia US Law - State V. Whiting

mikedauplaise.com

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In October of 1978, Adams County was rocked by the brutal murder of 20-year-old Nancy Potts, a nurse practitioner at Adams County Memorial Hospital, who was supposed to be married on the very day her body was found.

The killing of this seemingly innocent would-be bride opened up unhealed wounds around past violent crimes in the area, including an unsolved double murder with ties to Nancy's fiancee, Kenny Ray Reichhoff.  Reichhoff was actually associated with several other deaths over previous  years, which impacted his reputation in the community, shocking locals when the truth of Potts's murder was finaly realized.

Scott and Mickey discuss this story, which takes place over several years.  Many details remain unsolved still today, accentuating the dark secrets many small towns in Wisconsin still hold.

In the opening banter, we discuss some upcoming appearances, an earthquake in WI (what?) and some of the most famous UFO sightings in our state.

All here, on episode 44 of Badger Bizarre: "Kenny Ray & Nancy."

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Opening Trailer:

Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI

Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media

Attribution for Music:

Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/

Intro: https://pixabay.com/

Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/

Attribution for logo design:

Red Claw Scratch Photo

Sources: 

The Capitol Times - Archives

Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Archives

Wisconsin State Journal - Archives

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In 1949, St. Coletta of Wisconsin, a non-profit organization in Jefferson providing residential services for people with disabilities, accepted a new resident.

This resident had a unique history, however, and the facility would need to implement very specific arrangements. 

Her name was Rosemary Kennedy, the 30-year-old sister of the current senator from Massachussettes, and future President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.

Rosemary's life to that point was one of both privelage and hardships, as physical and intellectual disabilities led to her being bounced around between numerous group homes and boarding schools, as the Kennedy family's ambitions left them unabe to adhere to her needs at home. 

In 1941, a horrific failed lobotomy performed on her when she was only 23 complicated her situation even more, leading her parents to send their daughter away, and her siblings wondering what had happened to her.

Scott and Mickey discuss this heartwrenching story, and Wisconsin's connection to the most influential American family in history. 

In the opening banter we discuss one of the oldest cold cases in the state finally being solved, and which haunted cemetery in the state is also "one of the most beautiful." 

Only here, on episode #43 of Badger Bizarre, "Rosemary Kennedy."

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Opening Trailer:

Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI

Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media

Attribution for Music:

Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/

Intro: https://pixabay.com/

Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/

Attribution for logo design:

Red Claw Scratch Photo

Sources:

Boston Herald - Archives

Callahan, Maureen; "How Rose Kennedy Became the Most Dangerous Member of the Famous Family."

Kaempffert, Waldemar; "Turning the Mind Inside Out."

Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth; "The MIssing Kennedy Daughter"

Larson, Kate Clifford; "Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter"

Washington Times-Herald - Archives

Czachor, Emily Mae; "DNA Breakthrough Solves 1963 Cold Case Murder at WI Gas Station."

Walnut Grove Cemetery

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On March 4th, 1998, the small town of Dane, WI awakened to the shocking news that the Rev. Alfred Kunz, the priest at St Michael's Catholic Church had been murdered in a brutal scene in the elementary school. 

Found as teachers began to arrive for the school day, Father Kunz was lying in a pool of blood in a hallway, a gaping wound in his throat, which was slit by an edged weapon. 

In the 26 years years since the homicide, the investigation into Kunz's murder has been the most extensive and expensive in Dane County's history, featuring a suspect list including everyone from local petty thieves, to the hierarchy of the clergy. 

Scott and Mickey discuss this still unsloved crime which has captivated true crime slueths worldwide, and the shocking secrets which have since come to light.

In the opening banter, we discuss the legends of Wisconsin Lake Monsters, as told by Chad Lewis.

All here, in episode 42 of Badger Bizarre, "The Murder of Rev. Alfred Kunz."

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Opening Trailer:

Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI

Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media

Attribution for Music:

Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/

Intro: https://pixabay.com/

Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/

Attribution for logo design:

Red Claw Scratch Photo

Sources:

Catholic Online

Illinois Atty General - Survivor Narratives

Hanneman, Joseph - The Catholic World Report

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Archives

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - "Unsloved" Podcast; Season III

Nowlen, Chuck - The Devil and Father Kunz

Roman Catholic Faithful

Wisconsin State Journal - Archives

Lewis, Chad - Lake Monsters of Wisconsin

On August 25th and 26th, 1990, Alpine Valley Music Festival hosted 2 sold-out shows featuring headliner Eric Clapton, along with special guests, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, and the Robert Cray Band.

Both shows played to 40,000 strong, and the second show ended with one of the most legendary collections of guiratists on one stage at the same time, when Clapton was joined on stage by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, Jeff Healy, Buddy Guy, and Stevie's brother, Jimmie Vaughan.

The concert turned out to be Stevie Ray's final show, as by the end of the night he would be dead, and the music world left stunned and saddened.

What exactly happened on that night? And why, almost 35 years later, do people who witnessed the show still talk about Stevie appearing almost supernatural... as if almost already a ghost?

Scott and Mickey discuss one of the most iconic shows in rock music history, its aftermath, and Stevie Ray Vaughan's life, one that ended way too soon, on the side of a ski hill in East Troy, WI.

Hear it all, on episode 41 of Badger Bizarre, "Stevie Ray Vaughan."

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Opening Trailer:

Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI

Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media

Attribution for Music:

Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/

Intro: https://pixabay.com/

Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/

Attribution for logo design:

Red Claw Scratch Photo

Sources:

Aledort, Andy; Alan, Paul; "Texas Flood; The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan"

"Amplified; Stevie Ray Vaughan - Rise of a Texas Bluesman"

Cahoon, Colin P; "The Truth About What Really Killed Stevie Ray Vaughan"

Huffington Post

https://srvarchive.com/

Authors Heather Bourget and Kristin Menth have conducted paranormal investigations in some of the most haunted places in the nation, all part of continuing their quest to discover the true answers to the questions of the unexplained.

In their book, "Unlock the Unknown; Keys to the Paranormal," Heather and Kristin document their investigations in many of these locations, including numerous places right here in the great Badger State. The book details their experiences while in these famous ghostly haunts, including methods and techniques, equipment utilized, as well as the dedication it takes to conduct proper research, validation of historical accuracy, and evidence review for the absolute best results. 

Scott and Mickey sit down with Heather and Kristin for a livley discussion about their book, their paranormal joureys, and just what being a true paranormal investigator really entails. 

The opening banter provides updates on several cold cases throughout the state, including the skeleton of... Santa? found in a chimney in Madison.

Hear it all only here, on Episode 40 of Badger Bizarre, "INTERVIEW: Unlock the Unknown; Keys to the Paranormal."

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Opening Trailer:

Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI

Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media

Attribution for Music:

Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/

Intro: https://pixabay.com/

Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/

Attribution for logo design:

Red Claw Scratch Photo

Please visit https://www.keystotheparanormal.com/ to purchase Heather and Kristin's fantastic book.

Sources:

Betty Rolf - Appleton Post-Crescent

Derby Wagner - Richardson - JS Online

Skeleton in the Chimney - Madison Magazine

Vernon County Jane Doe - NBC News

Wisconsin's thoroughfares are steeped in paranormal legend, often times having multiple roads being named in the nation's "Most Haunted" directories.

Murder victims, bloody brides, phantom cars, family tragedies, and lynched witches all make up some of the colorful stories of our highways, byways, and bridges, some having endured for many generations, others having been born of more recent events.

Scott and Mickey discuss a number of these legendary haunted roads, attempting to locate possible origins of the legends and the meanings behind them, while understanding that some of these are stories born from actual events, lived by real people, and deserve to be looked at a little more respectfully than maybe they have been up to now. 

In the opening banter, we discuss several updates to previous cases, as well as the beginnings of a larger project we hope you join us in participating in.

All here, in Episode 39 of Badger Bizarre, "Wisconsin's Legendary Haunted Roads."

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Opening Trailer:

Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI

Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media

Attribution for Music:

Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/

Intro: https://pixabay.com/

Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/

Attribution for logo design:

Red Claw Scratch Photo

Sources: 

ancestry.com

Brassard, John Jr - "Call Me Randy; The Soft-Spoken Killer"

Capitol Times - Archives

findagrave.com

Fond du Lac Reporter - Archives

Sheboygan Press - Archives

stevenspoint.com

Stevens Point Journal - Archives

Wisconsin State Journal - Archives

Get your tickets to the Great Lakes Paranormal Conference:  Sept 13, 14, and 15...

https://www.greatlakesparanormalconference.com/

On Easter morning, 1994, 40-year-old Ruben Borchardt was murdered in his own home by 2 intruders.  Ruben was a life-long resident of Jefferson County, well-known, liked and respected in his community.   

Ruben was a loving father and also a widower, losing his wife and mother of two of his children in a tragic car accident in front of the home that he built by himself for their family.

The investigation into Ruben's murder would shatter sercrets of a seemingly happy family, ripping open old wounds clearly still unhealed, and would become storyline material for scripted TV series, docu-dramas and Hollywood talk shows gracing televisions in homes across America.

Scott and Mickey discuss this case and the pattern of behaviors seen in countless relationships, throughout time, of manipulation, gaslighting, domestic violence, abuse, and worse. 

In the opening banter we discuss several ongoing high-profile true crime cases in our state, and just where in our world was Carmen San...er..no... Al Capone?

Only here, on Episode 38 of Badger Bizarre, "The Ballad of Ruben Borchardt." 

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Opening Trailer:

Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI

Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media

Attribution for Music:

Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/

Intro: https://pixabay.com/

Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/

Attribution for logo design:

Red Claw Scratch Photo

Sources: 

"American Justice; S13, Ep 15, Diane Borchardt" - A & E Network

Bartlette , DeLani - "Diane Borchardt; The Murderous Mrs. B."

Court TV - Nicolae Mui

Daily Jefferson County Union - Archives

Fond du Lac Reporter - Archives

Kirtscher, Tom - "Fact or fiction: Al Capone’s Wisconsin Stomping Grounds"

"Snapped" Oxygen Network - Diane Borchardt

USA Today - Sade Robinson

Wisconsin State Journal - Archives

The land on which Devil's Lake State Park sits on displays some of the oldest illustrations of human occupation in all of North America. The landscape still bares the work of hands of over a thousand years ago, and the legends and rich mythology of the Native Americans have lasted the test of time.

Is it posssible that some of what modern civilization has attributed to native mythology is actually very real, and affecting our world today?

Scott and Mickey discuss these legends of Devil's Lake, and stories passed down through centuries, along with some of the more recent sightings, hauntings, and bizarre ocurrances that have happened in the area over the decades, culminating in a poignant discussion about the tangible world that was left us from those who came before, and how too much of it has been misused.

The opening banter updates a few stories we've been following, including the case of missing 3-year-old Elijah Vue and the anniversary of the murder of Father Kunz. 

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Opening Trailer:

Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI

Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media

Attribution for Music:

Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/

Intro: https://pixabay.com/

Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/

Attribution for logo design:

Red Claw Scratch Photo

 Sources: 

HIstory Channel - Ancient Aliens

Baraboo News-Republic - Archives

Birmingham, Robert A; "Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes"

Devils Lake Wisconsin

Dewel, Bob; "Some Legends of Devil's Lake"

Herrewig/Mordidni; "Haunted Baraboo"

H.P. Lovecraft Wiki

Kenosha News - Archives

Legends and Archaeology of Devil's Lake

Paulides, David; "Missing 411"

Sasquatch Chronicles

Travel Channel - Hometown Horror; "Three Ring Terror"

Wisconsin DNR

Wisconsin Legends Podast; "Legendary Creatures and Cthulhu Power Zones, The Mysteries of Devil's Lake"

Wisconsin State Journal - Archives

In the summer months of 1789, during the public uprisings that would eventually turn into the French Revolution, the backlash against the French Royal family turned bloody as the family is captured and imprisoned in the medieval tower known as The Temple.

King Louis XVI, Queen Marie-Antoinette, and their adolescent children, daughter Marie-Therese and son (and heir to the throne, or "the dauphin") Louis-Charles were kept mostly separated and fearing for their lives.

Eventually, the King and Queen are executed by guillotine, leaving Louis-Charles the new king of France, at 8 years-old.  Remaining held in captivity, beaten, raped, and tortured for years, the boy dies in captivity of "prison fever," ravaged by disease and mistreatment at only 10 years old.

But in time, rumors flew, floating the idea that the boy-king was actually secretly rescued and whisked away to the New World, a different dying boy kept in his stead. 

After the rumors and innuendo had seemingly died off, 44 years later, an Indian Missionary in Green Bay, 50 year-old Eleazer Williams, claims that HE is the "Lost Dauphin" and rightful heir to the French Throne. 

Williams becomes an international celebrity, vouched for by artists, doctors, and even several members of the former royal staff that swore Williams was actually the former boy-king, thought to have died in captivity decades before.

Hear this fantastical tale of Wisconsin's brush with European Royalty, and find out of we really did have a King among us.

In the opening banter, Scott and Mickey discuss a high-profile missing child case currently in Two Rivers, and discuss the Top 10 "Magical and Mystical" places in our state.

All on Episode 36 of Badger Bizarre, "The Lost Dauphin"

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Opening Trailer:

Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI

Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media

Attribution for Music:

Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/

Intro: https://pixabay.com/

Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/

Attribution for logo design:

Red Claw Scratch Photo

Sources:

Bonaparte, Darren: Eleazer Williams "The Lost Mohawk"

Cadbury, Deborah; "The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette "

Green Bay Press Gazette - Archives

Hanson, John H; The Lost Prince (1854)

History.net/Eleazer Williams

Legends from History

Oberg, Michael Leroy; "Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams"

Wisconsin Historical Society/Eleazer Williams

Opening Sources:

Elijah Vue

Rickey Jean Bryant

Up North News - Top 10