Wisconsin UFO Sightings

If you're looking to encounter extraterrestrials, these three Wisconsin UFO festivals have a long history of being attended by otherworldly beings. Some of them might even be aliens.

Grab a beer, have a brat, and get abducted by little green men.

Wisconsin has a long history of UFO sightings, and these three hotspots in particular are vying for the title of UFO Capital of Wisconsin.

Elmwood UFO Days - July 23-25, 2021

UFO Daze at Bensons - July 17, 2021

Belleville UFO Day - October 30, 2021

via Wisconsin Frights

Weird Wisconsin Subreddit

Check out the new Weird Wisconsin subreddit for strange creatures, haunted places, and bizarre history from the Badger State.

 

How long does life last in a decapitated head?

 

On this day in 1905 Dr. Beaurieux attempted to communicate with the freshly decapitated head of a convicted murderer named Languille in France.

Dr. Beaurieux wrote:

"Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds … I waited for several seconds. The spasmodic movements ceased. The face relaxed, the lids half closed on the eyeballs, leaving only the white of the conjunctiva visible, exactly as in the dying whom we have occasion to see every day in the exercise of our profession, or as in those just dead. It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice: ‘Languille!’ I saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contractions … Next Languille’s eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves … After several seconds, the eyelids closed again, slowly and evenly, and the head took on the same appearance as it had had before I called out. It was at that point that I called out again and, once more, without any spasm, slowly, the eyelids lifted and undeniably living eyes fixed themselves on mine with perhaps even more penetration than the first time. Then there was a further closing of the eyelids, but now less complete. I attempted the effect of a third call; there was no further movement and the eyes took on the glazed look which they have in the dead.

"I have just recounted to you with rigorous exactness what I was able to observe. The whole thing had lasted twenty-five to thirty seconds."

via Cult of Weird

Flying Saucer Day

Today is Flying Saucer Day, the day commemorating Kenneth Arnold's encounter with what the media later called "flying saucers" over Mt Rainier.

To celebrate, here's the story of the "flying saucer lady" Coral Lorenzen, who's 1934 UFO sighting in Barron, Wisconsin prompted her to found APRO, the world's first civilian UFO investigation group.

Read it here: Coral Lorenzen pioneered UFO research

More fun with flying saucers:

Livestock mutilation: Was Snippy killed by flying saucers?

Futuro House UFO house of the 1960s

Dundee, Wisconsin: UFO Capital of the World

Aliens serve pancakes out of their UFO

Mayville crop circles

Alien abduction insurance

UFOs at Giant Rock

Weird things to do in Wisconsin

Looking for hodags, UFO sightings, severed serial killer heads in the Waterpark Capital of the World and other uniquely weird Wisconsin things?

I research, photograph and write about the stranger corners of Wisconsin all the time. If you're looking for some weird things to do in Wisconsin, odd stories from Wisconsin history, or you want to find the most haunted cemetery in the whole state, let me be your guide.

Here are some good places to start:

Haunted places in Wisconsin

Peter Kurten's Head in Wisconsin Dells

Dartford Cemetery

Haunted bunk bed in Horicon

The haunted town of St. Nazianz

Beast of Bray Road photos

Mayville Crop Circles

Amityville Horror house in Wisconsin

Weird Wisconsin group on Quora

Ed Gein's haunted cauldron

Jeffrey Dahmer Tour

Dundee UFOs

Haunted Witch Road in Fond du Lac

Alien pancakes in Eagle River

The Giant Spider Invasion

Wisconsin Wendigo sightings

The haunted Witherell House

Milwaukee Paranormal Conference

UFO Daze at Benson's Hideaway

Wisconsin Dells haunted attractions

Wisconsin cults: Occult Rituals in the Kettle Moraine

Haunted Whitewater

House on the Rock

Bleeding gravestone of Kate Blood

Windigo Fest in Manitowoc