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W-File: gh_oshkosh3.html
Type:
Ghost
Location:
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Source: The book
Wisconsin Lore by Robert E. Gard and L. G. Sorden,
page 31 (published 1962)
The Haunted Rocking Chair
"THE ROCKING CHAIR STILL ROCKS
A surprising number of murdered people who died violently have remained active as Wisconsin ghosts.
One evening about seventy years ago (Note that the book was written in 1962 - Jim),
near the old site of a grove of great oaks, the first murder happened
in Oshkosh. A man, accompanied by his little boy, was carrying a
rocking chair home. He became tired, and when he had gotten down a ways
on the high boardwalk which had been built bordering the grove, he
stopped to rest and sat rocking in his chair.
Two drunken men came by and became angry at seeing him at such leisure.
There was a quarrel; the drunks killed the man and ran away. The little
boy had, in the meantime, hid under the sidewalk, but finally ran
across the street for help. When the neighbors came the man was dead in
his chair.
For a long time thereafter wayfarers could hear his groans and the
creak of his rocker under the oaks at night, and even today on a stormy
night, one may hear the sounds, the echoes of the first slaying in
Oshkosh."
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