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    Haunted Green Bay
    Haunted Green Bay
    Haunted Green Bay
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    Haunted Green Bay

    By Timothy Freiss

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    Titletown, USA turns into Ghost Town, USA with chilling tales of weird Wisconsin.
     
    Green Bay has always been a city with a fierce sense of tradition complemented by a friendly atmosphere. Those qualities seem to attract not only living visitors but also spirits of the dead. Tour the city’s haunted past with Tim Freiss as he follows the trail of the tragic, the inexplicable and the just plain spooky. From the desecration of the father of Wisconsin’s burial spot to the winery that was a stop on the Underground Railroad to the nightclub haunted by a bullet-riddled love triangle, Haunted Green Bay stirs up the kind of history that keeps us awake a little bit longer once the lights are out.
     
    Includes photos!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 24, 2010
    ISBN9781614230083
    Haunted Green Bay
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    Timothy Freiss

    Timothy Freiss was born in Menominee, Michigan, a small town sixty miles north of Green Bay. After high school, he was a military policeman in the Marine Corps and had a short stint as a jailor for the Menominee County Sheriff Department. Tim would move on to a career in the paranormal, and through publishing his first book, Haunted Green Bay , and running Green Bay Ghost Tours and the Nightshades Paranormal Museum, he has acquired substantial knowledge of the history of the Green Bay area. He currently resides in Green Bay with his wife, Cherri, and his three kids.

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      Haunted Green Bay - Timothy Freiss

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      TIMOTHY FREISS

      Published by The History Press

      Charleston, SC 29403

      www.historypress.net

      Copyright © 2010 by Tim Freiss

      All rights reserved

      First published 2010

      e-book edition 2011

      ISBN 978.1.61423.008.3

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Freiss, Tim.

      Haunted Green Bay / Tim Freiss.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references (p.      ).

      print edition: ISBN 978-1-59629-985-6

      1. Ghosts--Wisconsin--Green Bay. 2. Haunted places--Wisconsin--Green Bay. I. Title.

      BF1472.U6F76 2010

      133.109755’61--dc22

      2010033588

      Notice: The information in this book is true and complete to the best of our knowledge. It is offered without guarantee on the part of the author or The History Press. The author and The History Press disclaim all liability in connection with the use of this book.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form whatsoever without prior written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      I would like to dedicate this book to my wife, Cherri, and to my children—Trevor, McKenna and Evan—who stuck by me through the continuous days and months to get this completed and who gave up their whole summer to let me pursue this adventure. To my daughter, Meredith, whom I wish lived closer and could see more often.

      To my parents, Mae and Ken, whom I miss every day.

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Early History

      Fort Howard Ghost

      Green Bay’s Haunted Past

      Envy Nightclub

      Captain’s Walk Winery

      The Story of Adele Brise

      Somewhere in Time Antiques

      Titletown Brewery

      National Railroad Museum

      Union Hotel

      YMCA

      Baird Creek

      Lawrence Cemetery

      The Lorelei Inn

      Regina’s Seven Pillars

      Bay Beach Amusement Park

      The Gift Itself

      Bellin Building

      Cloud Nine

      Murder at the Golden Pheasant (Lee’s Cantonese)

      UWGB–St. Norbert’s Dormitories

      The Haunted House

      The Cotton House

      Bibliography

      About the Author

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Heidi Gazza

      Dale Johnson

      Vickie Patterson

      Gail Ives

      On Broadway, Inc.

      Neville Public Museum

      University of Wisconsin–Green Bay

      White Pillars Historical Society

      Brown County Public Library

      McKenna Freiss

      INTRODUCTION

      In being an honorary part-time member of the SOS (Shadows of Spirits) paranormal investigation team of Green Bay, I am fortunate to have been invited along at times to help the team investigate some pretty cool and historical places. It was during one of these investigations I would have my very first personal paranormal experience. It involved an old 1800s jail located in the neighboring town of Kewaunee, just thirty minutes north of Green Bay. Kewaunee is surrounded by the blue water shores of Lake Michigan and is a hot spot both for tourism and commercial fishermen. It seems that Kewaunee is also a hot spot for ghosts. Many of the buildings in this area have had reports of paranormal activity. The one that I know for sure as being haunted is currently being used as a historical museum but at one time was a jail. My experience happened when I was investigating one of six jail cells. The cell was being used as a display room for tools that were used in the 1800s.

      Since I don’t have any investigative tools of my own other than a really cheap EMF (electric magnetic field) detector, which I didn’t have with me that night, I was given a Maglite miniflashlight—the kind that you turn the handle to operate. These flashlights are often used by paranormal investigators as tools to communicate with a spirit or spirits. How it works is you ask the spirit to either turn on or off the flashlight in response to yes or no questions. I placed the flashlight down on a display table with it in the off position and began to ask questions to the spirit. The first question I asked was if anyone was with me in the cell. Slowly, but surely, the flashlight began to flicker and then turned on to a solid beam of light. At the same time that this was happening, my head started hurting and I felt a weak feeling coming over me, like my energy was being taken. The feeling subsided and I continued asking questions. Each time my questions were answered, the flashlight turned on and off, while at the same time I would receive the same headache and feeling of weakness. By the end of the investigation it was determined the spirit was a small boy around the age of five. He was possibly connected to the Indian burial ground that was in this area before the jail was built. After the investigation was complete, the historian who let us in the museum that night told us a story of an Indian child’s skull and bones that were found when excavating the dirt for the basement of the building. The story reports that the construction workers who unearthed the remains were found kicking and passing the skull back and forth among each another. The bones were then gathered, put in a box and reburied in an unmarked grave somewhere on the property.

      Along with many other varied interests, I have also always been a big fan of a good ghost story. My fascination with the paranormal has always been with me since I was a child. But my quest for answers for the unexplained started just eighteen years ago on February 19, 1992. It involved my oldest daughter Meredith and my father who died of cancer.

      My father and daughter were very close. They spent many summer evenings together on the back porch talking and also watching old movies on the television while eating their favorite snack, popcorn. She loved her Papa and the feeling was mutual. During the time that my father was bedridden and dying, he would always state how bad he felt that he was unable to spend the time with my daughter like he had done prior to his sickness. He often said to me, Tell Meredith that I love her and that, when the time comes, Grandpa said good-bye. On the night that he died, he was finally able to deliver the message himself. The night of his death, my daughter—who was four years old at the time—came out of her bedroom saying that Papa was there as a bluish-white light. She stated that he told her he loved her and told her good-bye just as he had wanted. Now my father was never heard from in that way again, but I know sometimes I can still feel his spirit with us. So whether you are a true believer or not, one thing is for sure—the love of our family carries on even after death.

      EARLY HISTORY

      The first European explorer who was credited with discovering this great state of Wisconsin was a French man named Jean Nicolet from Quebec, Canada. In 1634, he landed on the shores of Red Banks, which is located on the northern outskirts of modern-day Green Bay. Nicolet was known for always dressing in bright-colored clothing and carrying two pistols with the intent to gain respect from the Indian tribes he would sometimes encounter on his travels.

      Nicolet did gain the respect and friendship of the Winnebago tribe that was native to this area. The Winnebagos helped Nicolet in the exploration of the land and Fox River. He would travel the Fox River until it began to widen, which convinced him he had found a passage to the South Sea that led to China. Nicolet returned to Quebec, Canada, to inform the people of his amazing discovery. Of course, it wasn’t the South Sea that Nicolet had discovered, but if only he would have traveled just a little bit farther he would have

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