Badger Bizarre

In 1900, strange rock formations were found in the middle of Rock Lake, a lake directly bordering Lake Mills, and 4 miles from the ancient Native village of Aztalan. For well over a century, these formations have been debated by scientists and resarchers about who built them, how, and if they are manmade at all - or even extraterrestrial.

Scott and Mickey discuss these possibilites, and get into a deeper discussion about the present-day popularity of alternative history shows, such as Ancient Aliens and the Curse of Oak Island, and whether this line of research not based in the accepted narrative should be promoted.

In our opening banter, we discuss and give our opinions of Netflix's "Dahmer" series.

Tune in now to the best in WI true crime and bizarre tales - Episode 15 of Badger Bizarre!

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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

Halloween is here and Scott and Mickey are celebrating by discussing Part 2 of the top 10 Most Haunted Wisconsin Sites, as collected by the most popular "Top 10 " lists.

A compilation of haunted sites are discussed, including Summerwind Mansion, Hotel Hell, Shakers Cigar Bar, the Pfister, and more. The history of the various places is discussed, where the legends of the hauntings derived from, and whether, in our opinion, they have any validity whatsoever and why these ghost stories, real or not, matter.

So, grab your pumpkin spice latte, cozy up and listen to the best in Wisconsin true crime and paranormal happenings - Badger Bizzare!

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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

The Halloween season is upon us and Scott and Mickey are celebrating by discussing the top 10 Most Haunted Wisconsin Sites, as collected by the most popular "Top 10 " lists.

A compilation of haunted sites are discussed, including Summerwind Mansion, Hotel Hell, Shakers Cigar Bar, the Pfister, and more. The history of the various places is discussed, where the legends of the hauntings derived from, and whether, in our opinion, they have any validity whatsoever.

So, grab your pumpkin spice latte, cozy up and listen to the best in Wisconsin true crime and paranormal happenings - Badger Bizzare!

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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

Scott and Mickey have a passionate discussion about the case of Randall Woodfield, the former draft pick of the Green Bay Packers who went on to become the infamous "I-5 KIller," one of the most notorious American serail killers in history.

His time in Wisconsin is examined, including his time with the Packers in 1974 as well as with the semi-pro football team, the Manitowoc Chiefs.

How did somebody who seemingly had it all: a superstar athlete with a stable, loving family, an upper class upbringing, and a chance to live his NFL dream, fall so far?

Listen now to episode 12 of Badger Bizarre!

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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

Scott and Mickey discuss the anti-war protests during the Vietnam War as they occurred on the campus of UW-Madison.

During the tumultuous 1960's, anti-war protests and demonstrations rocked college campuses across the nation, none moreso than those that happened in Madison. The Dow Day Riots are discussed, along with the act of domestic terror, the bombing of Sterling Hall.

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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 War at Home" Documentary

"Two Days in October" Documentary

UW Archives

UW Alumni - "The Blast that Changed Everything"

"Ohio" - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. (Fair Use Index)

Scott and Mickey discuss the general history of organized crime in Wisconsin's beautiful Northwoods, specifically Hurley and its link to the Chicago Crime Syndicate.

Familiar names in American True Crime synonomous with the Northwoods are examined, as well as one very familiar name known throughout the world that you likely may not have known was ever thought to be in the area.

Tune in to find out who...

Its a tale you'll only hear on America's Scaryland - Badger Bizarre!

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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

Scott and Mickey are joined by Jim Cooper from the Midwestern Paranormal Investigative Network to talk about the paranormal angle to Peshtigo, WI. Scott and Jim conducted an investigation several years ago in Peshtgo, the site of the deadliest fire in American history.

Scott and Mickey also chat with Craig Nehring of the Fox Valley Ghost Hunters, who is the foremost expert of Summerwind Mansion, about the mystery of how the mansion burned down.

Grab a drink, turn out the lights, and listen in to a casual conversation with Scott, Mickey and Jim about their experiences in paranormal investigating.

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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

Fox Valley Ghost Hunters Facebook

Craig Nehring's Books:

Wisconsin's Most Haunted

Wisconsin's Most Haunted Vol. 2

Archives of a Ghost Hunter

In the 2nd of a 3 part series, Scott and Mickey discuss one of the most infamous dates in American history, October 8th, 1871.

Of course, that is the date of the Great Chicago Fire, maybe the most famous fire in our nations history. Though on that very same day, and burning at the very same hour, was another fire 250 miles north, in the forests of Peshtigo, WI.

And although after the flames were out, the city of Chicago received all of the nation's attention, its sympathy, its aid, the people in and around the town of Peshtigo, WI received none of that, even though the fire in Peshtigo dwarfed the Great Chicago Fire, in the number of lives lost, by upwards of 8 times.

It is still today the deadliest fire in the history of North America and one of the worst wildfires the world has ever seen. But yet, unless you live in WI, and really even if you do, chances are you've never heard of Peshtigo, or the fire that ravaged the town and 1.2 million surrounding acres.

Chances are you haven't heard the survivor accounts of people seeing their family members incinerated by an actual fire tornado, accounts of buildings being swept off the ground by 100 mile an hour winds and exploding in mid-air, or the accounts of seeing the annihilation of the town as the sun rose up the next day, and noting not one building, not one, still stood.

It's a fire that's often deemed as "Forgotten" by the annals of history; lost in the shadows of the Great Chicago Fire, about which many folk tales have been told and songs written in the decades since, while Peshtigo lay dying...

But Peshtigo didn't die. It rebuilt, literally on the ashes of itself and today is alive and well. Located just off the shores of Lake Michigan and 40 minutes north of the city of Green Bay, Peshtigo embraces its tragic history.

Tune in to hear more about "The Forgotten Fire."

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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:

Gess, Denise and William Lutz: https://www.amazon.com/Firestorm-Peshtigo-Deadliest-American-History/dp/0805072934

Pernin, Peter: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Peshtigo-Fire-Eyewitness-Wisconsin/dp/087020310X

Wells, Robert W: https://www.amazon.com/Embers-October-Robert-Wells/dp/B005QAF0MW

The Peshtigo Fire Museum: http://www.peshtigofiremuseum.com/

In the first of a 3 part series, Scott and Mickey discuss one of the most infamous dates in American history, October 8th, 1871.

Of course, that is the date of the Great Chicago Fire, maybe the most famous fire in our nations history. Though on that very same day, and burning at the very same hour, was another fire 250 miles north, in the forests of Peshtigo, WI.

And although after the flames were out, the city of Chicago received all of the nation's attention, its sympathy, its aid, the people in and around the town of Peshtigo, WI received none of that, even though the fire in Peshtigo dwarfed the Great Chicago Fire, in the number of lives lost, by upwards of 8 times.

It is still today the deadliest fire in the history of North America and one of the worst wildfires the world has ever seen. But yet, unless you live in WI, and really even if you do, chances are you've never heard of Peshtigo, or the fire that ravaged the town and 1.2 million surrounding acres.

Chances are you haven't heard the survivor accounts of people seeing their family members incinerated by an actual fire tornado, accounts of buildings being swept off the ground by 100 mile an hour winds and exploding in mid-air, or the accounts of seeing the annihilation of the town as the sun rose up the next day, and noting not one building, not one, still stood.

It's a fire that's often deemed as "Forgotten" by the annals of history; lost in the shadows of the Great Chicago Fire, about which many folk tales have been told and songs written in the decades since, while Peshtigo lay dying...

But Peshtigo didn't die. It rebuilt, literally on the ashes of itself and today is alive and well. Located just off the shores of Lake Michigan and 40 minutes north of the city of Green Bay, Peshtigo embraces its tragic history.

Tune in to hear more about "The Forgotten Fire."

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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:

Gess, Denise and William Lutz: https://www.amazon.com/Firestorm-Peshtigo-Deadliest-American-History/dp/0805072934

Pernin, Peter: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Peshtigo-Fire-Eyewitness-Wisconsin/dp/087020310X

Wells, Robert W: https://www.amazon.com/Embers-October-Robert-Wells/dp/B005QAF0MW

The Peshtigo Fire Museum: http://www.peshtigofiremuseum.com/

Scott and Mickey talk about the urban legend of Haunchyville, a supposed secret community of little people living in the woods outside of Muskego, in Waukesha County.

What begins as a discussion about a tall tale, hard to believe on its surface and embellished by generations of teenagers, turns into an emotional telling of our own state's complicity in our shortcomings in how we look at and treat each other, and the unfortunate effects one of our most celebrated industries may have had on those attitudes today.

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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

Marquette University Television : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfGaKms-pPc

Creepy Circus Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHDohbHFWF4&t=2105s

Sources: https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Wisconsin-Wisconsins-Legends-Secrets/dp/0760759448

https://www.amazon.com/Truevine-Brothers-Kidnapping-Mothers-Quest/dp/0316337544