In the early 1900's ( the early industrial age) most of the Country was whacko. If I correctly recall, this fact is mentioned in "Wisconsin Death Trip". Regardless, these events remain oddly palpable and indelibly etched in Wisconsin's dark history. No doubt exposure to toxic substances in medications and other manufactured items took a physical and mental toll on those who lived through that era.
The Town's successive hardships occurred during a US recession. Not cursed, just a victim of the times, like other Towns during the era. Love the "Cursed" angle though. Explains the recurrence of recessions and inflation, like now.👍🏾 on point.
My mother in law grew up in Black River Falls during the Depression. She was the youngest of five siblings. Her father was a lumberjack. He left the family alone to go work during the winter. When he returned in the spring his wife was in bed with the five children. Three of them were dead from fever. His wife had lost her sanity from grief. She spent the rest of her life institutionalized. The two remaining kids were taken in by cousins.
My brother was mute and only spoke in whispers when he was young. He was normal until my father got mad at him and when they went on a walk in the woods left him there at age 4. When my dad came home alone my mom sent my brother out to find him. He was a different child after that. He finally got some help. He is on disability for social anxiety now. Better but not normal. Muteness can be caused by many things.
Hey I live here! Not born here but came here in 2017. I love it here. Great neighbors, coworkers, shop keepers, and such. Just one picky ordinance control officer. 😆 Good ATV trails. Lake Wazee it great! We will take all the small town publicity we can get. If they want to think we are haunted and cursed then fine come see for yourself 👍
Great video, I am from Black River falls, there is a lot of history in this town, some good, some bad, the flood of 1911 is still the worst thing that happened here, keep the videos coming, 😉👍
Plainfield Wisconsin also has dark history. The home of Ed Gein. He inspired Psycho, The Texas chainsaw massacre, and many other horror films. But like the town in the video. It's a very peaceful place now.
My mom had a great-grandmother that got buried alive. Her grandmother kept having a dream that she was still alive. Finally, in desperation they dug her up. All her fingernails on both hands were gone. Claw marks all over the inside of the lid of her coffin. Happened, somewhere in Wisconsin. Tried to claw her way out. Incredible.
Makes you think that any job that even seems uneventful can have great disasters if not completely done right. I'd rather be cremated and never wake up in a box
Ahhh BRF! I know that town all too well. I've installed cable in those apartments and the residents all had awesome Ghost stories. I grew up 30 miles south in Sparta WI and currently live in the heart of The Driftless Region..Viroqua. Great video!
I used to live in black river falls Wisconsin for three years and this the first time of hearing about this. Great history of black river falls Wisconsin.
I'm using Black River Falls as a setting for my horror story. lol While I've read up on some information about the town, this was also a helpful and nice video to watch. Thanks for sharing and showing the area. :)
I've had this book for years, it's always creeped me out to a weird level, fantastic link to the past you created here, thank you. I have the book in my lap now, I've subscribed.
Yeah, the book is a bit creepy while being interesting at the same time. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for subscribing! Hope to see more comments from you in the future.
I have a BRF ghost story true and from 1978.Its too long and too scarey.I lived in a haunted apt. and I left abruptly after 2 1/2 months. SCARY!!!We called ourselves Ghostbusters.Before the movie!
Quaint and interesting little town. That mural on the side and back of the building is awesome! The town looks very well kept. You can see the pride of the residents.
I moved here 3 years ago & absolutely love it❤️ Karma New & Used is the antique shop with the murals. Dave the owner is very passionate about his shop. It's a wonderful place to live❤️
I'm surprised you haven't gone over to Plainfield, just east of there. Has a dark history as well. It's where Ed Gein is from, you know the guy that inspired "Pyscho", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", and Buffalo Bill in "Silance of the Lambs".
The name of Black River Falls would draw me to explore the town. Strange and dark happenings there, Wow! The land was cursed is scary. Wow, a lot of things were happening there! Union Place Apartments is unque, and I can see it being a high school before. Wow the story of the two boys who murdered the farm owner is sad. Yikes the story of the guy killing himself wurh dynamite is crazy! The story of the mute boy is interesting 😮! Love the building with auto Mural is cool! The story of the woman buried alive is sad😢! Thanks for sharing!
It's all perspective. Black River Falls is where my grandparents retired in a cabin/log home that my grandpa built just outside of town. For me, it was a beautiful and magical place where I'd go fishing with my grandpa, get together at Thanksgiving and Christmas with my family, and have family reunions there. It's just the opposite of cursed for me. I was totally oblivious to the history of the town. The only curse is that the town has gotten too big and hardly resembles the place I knew from the '80s and '90s, but I guess I can say that about most places.
Oh I remember that Wisconsin Death Trip I’ve seen that book years ago! Didn’t Ed Gein live near there too? I’ve been to Black River Falls, gambled , & had lunch in a cool old tavern that used to have ladies of the evening upstairs back in the day! It was a cool place!
Enjoyed this one. I've heard and read about Black Rivers. When I was 12. I was shown a photo from 1898 of a mother, and her two year old child in a coffin. The coffin was in a living room of a house the two lived in. I was told they had been murdered by an intruder. It creeped me out then at 12, and it does when I think about the picture now a days.
Headed back to BRF next month. We try to visit at least once a year. What gives me the true creeps is the local Lake Wazee. I could barely function in that location, I truly think it is haunted. I wish you'd stopped at the steam locomotive. It's now a static display, but was originally the "WOOFY' - Warren and Ouachita RR. It used to run at Mid-Continent RR Museum in North Freedom. Heart breaking to see it just sitting there.
@@Steve-318 Thanks, yes I know it was an Iron mine until the early 1980's.. It's now a favorite spot for scuba teams. Did you know it also has underwater cars and boats for them to explore, lol? Still, the place feels haunted to me ... gets me to the core. I didn't know it was deeper than Green Lake, now I really won't go near it, lol!
I also had a very odd, uneasy feeling when I was at Lake Wazee. I have had zero desire to go again. I didn't know anything about it's past until reading this comment so it confirms I had a strange feeling for a reason.
Love your Videos. I'm in the Amberg- Wausaukee area. Have you seen the pickup truck up on top of a silo southwest of Crivitz? Not exactly sure of the roads name, but it's on the backroads west of Pound.
This video makes a lot of sense. I used to Scuba dive at Lake Wazee East of Black River Falls. For the most part visiting there is not a good experience. The town really has nothing to offer and my interaction with the locals has been somewhat off putting. I have traveled everywhere from Key West Florida to Grand Marais Minnesota, from New Jersey to Monterey California. I will never darken that towns door step ever again.
In 1829, a doctor invented a safeguard gadget that enabled a person accidentally buried alive to ring for help. He rigged strong lengths of string attached with bell above-ground. And attached the other end around ankles/wrists of deceased in casket to sound an alarm.
Okay, so where the heck is the cemetery you showed at 8:28? Because I live in BRF and that’s not Riverside Cemetery or anywhere else in Jackson county that I recognize.
Well after about ten minutes of research I figured out the grave at the front of that clip, the one with Clarence E. Belford, is down in Hardin County Illinois. So definitely NOT a cemetery here in BRF. Not sure if you need to clean up and better organize your B-roll footage or if you tried sneaking one past us. Either way that’s not a local cemetery.
My uncle owns a good bit of farmland there. He's owned it for at least 30 years. He had never heard of the Wisconsin Death Trip until I told him about it in the early 2000s.
I grew up here and it’s just like any other small town you come across. Everyone knows everyone and most of the people are friendly to visitors and tourists. The town just got a bad rap because of Wisconsin Death Trip.
A fella from the falls came to osseo.one night,messed with my cousin an i.he ended up dead,in a role over crash in a. Water filled ditch.we were in a bar,my cousin had his Navy clothes, on,curcheif, this fella was ragging on him about the navy,he grabs both ends to his curcheif ,and pulled it tight around his neck,A fight persude,A 25 auto pistol fell out of my pocket,he went on ,bar hoppoing,we went home,I got a fine,for the gun,( we had been out target practiceing,and forgot it was in my jacket pocket) we went home went to bed,next morning my mom said that there had been a car accident, about 2 miles from our place,I sat up in bed suddenly, when she told me his name,it was the same guy we had the problem with,,but we had nothing to do with the accident, yet ,I knew ,it was him,some how,it still bothers me,jut some of the weird,odd,things that I have experienced in my 78+years on this earth,
You should check out Whitewater Wis.....also known as the Salem of the west. Where in their library is a book so dangerous that it can never be checked out viewed because everyone who has went insane or committed suicide. There is also a down room that was at the intersection of three cemeteries and people who lived in that room meet with tragic endings
The band Static X debut album named after the book WI death trip created demand to put it back into print after being out of print for a long time. Glad to have seen the band b4 the release, and many times after... I even met them got to hang out with Tony bassist and marty friedman in mlk hooters as a 13 yr old. Curses, witchs, and superstitious ideas are the simple way to avoid deeper questions and lead to many innocent ppl being hurt. Life in general was dark and hard at these times. Having more business and wealth than most small towns probably caused much more drastic reactions when banks fell.
Yes that town is cursed...as the entire east side of st paul is...as many towns in iowa are.... because of the amount of native people slaughtered to get that land...so many of the areas by the body of waters were native burial grounds...they just built on top of them... never moved them... Indian mounds Park in st Paul had 100s of burial mounds all over the east side...now there's 4
I was born & raised in Black River Falls & can confirm it’s cursed. Mother & I lived in a haunted house for 13 years in the grove, few blocks away from main st. Very beautiful area & much to offer. But the town possesses multiple active haunted houses/establishments/parks/murders/never ending suicides.. Perry Creek park is worth looking into & was a hot spot for teens to explore late at night & experience/see more than what we hoped for. WI Death Trip was shown to us in some classes in the BRF high school. I fled to Montana a few years ago & will not be returning to the Black Hole 🙏🏼👌🏼🤠
@SightseeingSally see what you can find out about Cameron. I've lived here for 60 years. Must be some history i don't know about. Stop by I'll buy you a beer. Lol
I live about 25 miles away, pretty nice toads for motorcycles all around the area. There is a pretty shady side to BRF, a certain population as gotten into hard drugs and the "fire water".
beautiful wedding venue in BRF called Burlap and Bells! Their rentable house has incredible on a bluff. You can see basically 180 degrees for miles and miles
How come there was no mention of the Winnebago being sent to Nebraska and the Ho Chunks forming? Think it's possible there might be a little something to that bad luck medicine? Miss yah KarynYT. 😇❤😈
@2:31. I went to see patients on that house up on the hill. It took forever and was choking full level of smoke. I do not miss being the insurance company Dr one bit. Also when 2 people have dementia and hearing loss it is just hard. You have to just get the gist and answer for them the best i can. Bc other people who really want and need my help suffer if I waste too much time on a people like that. Edit: I remember that day ended with a 9pm visit to a widower's house. Oh man, he needed help pretty bad. I was starving. Cant believe he waited so long for me.
4:29 LOL I was born in Cortland Ny in the 1960 to 1980 it had over 200 infant sacrifice ,the old school witch covent did unspeakable thing for years you go there and you will see things staring out of attic windows from the corner of your eye ..
I have enjoyed several but not every one of your sightseeing videos. Just a suggestion: your productions could benefit by also using a drone camera. The You Tube work of s/v Delos is a good example,
The book was also made into a movie of the same name. I don't think it's very easy to find, but it's worth the effort. It's very trippy and creepy as you might expect from watching this video. And if you like this, seek it out.
Black River Falls was served by the branch line of the former C&MO RR later UP RR until the final run of the branch line local freight that served the iron ore mine many years ago.
Sally, this is the second video of yours. So I subscribed. You remind me of another Channel I follow Wonderhussy you two are so similar in your narrative style. She even says wah wah when mentioning a regret or dissipointment😅 . Are you related.?😮
I wonder if Static X, a rock band, took the title of Wisconsin Death Trip for their album. Great video! I am in WI, not far from Black River Falls. I love all the small towns in this area.
Sand pillow circle or something like that. It was the street I stayed on when I was little and the house was haunted as hell all I remember from black river falls is my parents had a Medicine man come to the house. We got sent to the park not to far from the house and I remember seeing like a hundred or so white birds come flying from the house. That experience and some creepy stuff I’ve seen in the house I will Remember forever
2:22 "G. Drinkwine, father of Miss Lillian Drinkwine, who commited suicide a few days ago, attempted suicide at Sparta. He swallowed a large quantity of cigar stubs." And then there's the bottom sign at 1:11 😳 Still, it seems like a nice town, I could live there. 😉👍 Thanks Sally! 🤠👍
This place was not cursed, Sally doesn't tell the whole story. Ppl were eating rye the was getting wet n it was making them go mad /tripping n dong things that they would never do. There is a book n a documentary on it that will explain everything.
Isn't Black River Falls in the land of the Ho-Chunk Nation? I'm almost theough the whole video & you haven't mentioned the indigenous people, the ones who were there first. Maybe 🤔 the people you talk about had a blood debt & had also stolen that land? Anyway, further south, in Sauk & Potawátomi land, my great-grandmother, Mina Jergens Allensworth, was a Temperance Lady. She & her fellow Anti-Boozers went looking for casks & bottles to bust up with axes & staubs.
You can feel the despair in this town. I also wanted to see if I see my car at all 🤣 Also this place is full of meth addicts. There is 1,000 people and 500 are on drugs
In the early 1900's ( the early industrial age) most of the Country was whacko. If I correctly recall, this fact is mentioned in "Wisconsin Death Trip". Regardless, these events remain oddly palpable and indelibly etched in Wisconsin's dark history. No doubt exposure to toxic substances in medications and other manufactured items took a physical and mental toll on those who lived through that era.
I only knew of Wisconsin Death Trip from the Static-X album
Same.
Push It 🎸😊
Should I get my shovel?! 👍
Well they got their name from a photo based book about this town called WI death trip to be clear.
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The Town's successive hardships occurred during a US recession. Not cursed, just a victim of the times, like other Towns during the era. Love the "Cursed" angle though. Explains the recurrence of recessions and inflation, like now.👍🏾 on point.
Excellent point! Thank you 😊
My mother in law grew up in Black River Falls during the Depression. She was the youngest of five siblings. Her father was a lumberjack. He left the family alone to go work during the winter. When he returned in the spring his wife was in bed with the five children. Three of them were dead from fever. His wife had lost her sanity from grief. She spent the rest of her life institutionalized. The two remaining kids were taken in by cousins.
So sad.
Only real dangers in black river falls are the floods and drunk drivers.
My brother was mute and only spoke in whispers when he was young. He was normal until my father got mad at him and when they went on a walk in the woods left him there at age 4. When my dad came home alone my mom sent my brother out to find him. He was a different child after that. He finally got some help. He is on disability for social anxiety now. Better but not normal. Muteness can be caused by many things.
Your father should be in prison
what you think happened on that walk?
That's really a sad story. I can't imagine a 4 year old in the woods by themselves. 😢
That is just heartbreakingly cruel. I hope he got his karma.
Did the law get involved? That's awful
Hey I live here! Not born here but came here in 2017. I love it here. Great neighbors, coworkers, shop keepers, and such. Just one picky ordinance control officer. 😆 Good ATV trails. Lake Wazee it great! We will take all the small town publicity we can get. If they want to think we are haunted and cursed then fine come see for yourself 👍
Great video, I am from Black River falls, there is a lot of history in this town, some good, some bad, the flood of 1911 is still the worst thing that happened here, keep the videos coming, 😉👍
My family and I used to camp at lake Arbutus all the time. I love it up there.
I can understand why. It’s beautiful around there.
Lake Arbutus and Hatfield are one of my Favorites places in Wisconsin. I love the Lake at Dexterville too. East of BlackRiver Falls on 54.
I’ve lived in Wisconsin all my life and still learning about this crazy state 😂😂
Interesting video.
Plainfield Wisconsin also has dark history. The home of Ed Gein. He inspired Psycho, The Texas chainsaw massacre, and many other horror films. But like the town in the video. It's a very peaceful place now.
Right! And the jail they hid him in is Wautoma WI. That's a museum now. I live there.
I LIVE THEREEEE :333
My mom had a great-grandmother that got buried alive. Her grandmother kept having a dream that she was still alive. Finally, in desperation they dug her up. All her fingernails on both hands were gone. Claw marks all over the inside of the lid of her coffin. Happened, somewhere in Wisconsin. Tried to claw her way out. Incredible.
Wow! 😱
What a nightmare
Prayers for that persons sad demise and anguish.😭💔
Very humbling.😞
Makes you think that any job that even seems uneventful can have great disasters if not completely done right. I'd rather be cremated and never wake up in a box
May your great great grandmother rest in peace.
Ahhh BRF! I know that town all too well. I've installed cable in those apartments and the residents all had awesome Ghost stories.
I grew up 30 miles south in Sparta WI and currently live in the heart of The Driftless Region..Viroqua.
Great video!
Grandpa Prell...White house on the left in Clifton
Barf! West Salem here…80’s
I hunt in Clifton!... small world.
The sunglasses either on or off lol
SO glad to see that you are still making videos! My Best to you and Marty.
With more to come. Thank you!
@@SightseeingSally Go Sally !
I used to live in black river falls Wisconsin for three years and this the first time of hearing about this. Great history of black river falls Wisconsin.
I'm using Black River Falls as a setting for my horror story. lol
While I've read up on some information about the town, this was also a helpful and nice video to watch. Thanks for sharing and showing the area. :)
I've had this book for years, it's always creeped me out to a weird level, fantastic link to the past you created here, thank you. I have the book in my lap now, I've subscribed.
Yeah, the book is a bit creepy while being interesting at the same time. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for subscribing! Hope to see more comments from you in the future.
BRF is a nice town. Did you guys find the little ice cream stand Dairy Way on Highway 12 south?
I have a BRF ghost story true and from 1978.Its too long and too scarey.I lived in a haunted apt. and I left abruptly after 2 1/2 months. SCARY!!!We called ourselves Ghostbusters.Before the movie!
Is that still open? Wow
Awesome ice cream stand there, had it once or twice
Quaint and interesting little town. That mural on the side and back of the building is awesome! The town looks very well kept. You can see the pride of the residents.
I moved here 3 years ago & absolutely love it❤️
Karma New & Used is the antique shop with the murals. Dave the owner is very passionate about his shop.
It's a wonderful place to live❤️
I have been enjoying that area since 1977, camping with good friends and having a lot of fun. Was just there over labor day.
Ill tell ya Sally. You do a great job with these videos! What talent! Regards from Ody Slim.
BTW, I am still waiting to see Couderay :-)
Some pretty creepy stories! Hard to believe because the town now looks so quaint. I liked this video!😊❤
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
I'm surprised you haven't gone over to Plainfield, just east of there. Has a dark history as well. It's where Ed Gein is from, you know the guy that inspired "Pyscho", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", and Buffalo Bill in "Silance of the Lambs".
Here, sounds like you missed the Plainfield episode:
This forgotten Wisconsin town has a dark secret
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@@SightseeingSally Just found it, Thanks.
Nice dramatic rendition. Since I was stationed at Ft. McCoy back in 1970 this peaked my interest.
The name of Black River Falls would draw me to explore the town. Strange and dark happenings there, Wow! The land was cursed is scary. Wow, a lot of things were happening there! Union Place Apartments is unque, and I can see it being a high school before. Wow the story of the two boys who murdered the farm owner is sad. Yikes the story of the guy killing himself wurh dynamite is crazy! The story of the mute boy is interesting 😮! Love the building with auto Mural is cool! The story of the woman buried alive is sad😢! Thanks for sharing!
There's a town called Black Earth as well. And Bara"boo".
It's not cursed
You need to see the documentary it's called wisconsin death trip u can get it from the library.
It's all perspective. Black River Falls is where my grandparents retired in a cabin/log home that my grandpa built just outside of town. For me, it was a beautiful and magical place where I'd go fishing with my grandpa, get together at Thanksgiving and Christmas with my family, and have family reunions there. It's just the opposite of cursed for me. I was totally oblivious to the history of the town. The only curse is that the town has gotten too big and hardly resembles the place I knew from the '80s and '90s, but I guess I can say that about most places.
That's some wild an Crazy stuff sister!
For sure! Thanks for watching 😊
Very interesting and obscure history. Good job Sally. Thank you, Lynn & Steve😯
You’re welcome and thank you!
I live in what was an old hospital. Our bedrooms and bathroom have original wood doors, the whole place is really cool to me anyway lol
I'm glad people are finally bringing this stuff to light. Most people who live here even don't know👍🏻
Does anyone know why we're called the badger state?
Oh I remember that Wisconsin Death Trip I’ve seen that book years ago!
Didn’t Ed Gein live near there too?
I’ve been to Black River Falls, gambled , & had lunch in a cool old tavern that used to have ladies of the evening upstairs back in the day! It was a cool place!
Yes. In Plainfield.
Pls do more videos on historical ghost towns of Wisconsin
Enjoyed this one. I've heard and read about Black Rivers. When I was 12. I was shown a photo from 1898 of a mother, and her two year old child in a coffin. The coffin was in a living room of a house the two lived in. I was told they had been murdered by an intruder. It creeped me out then at 12, and it does when I think about the picture now a days.
Proud Wisconsinite!! Lived here all my life and never knew this... Thanks!
Cheesehead!! Greetings from Chicago
Headed back to BRF next month. We try to visit at least once a year. What gives me the true creeps is the local Lake Wazee. I could barely function in that location, I truly think it is haunted. I wish you'd stopped at the steam locomotive. It's now a static display, but was originally the "WOOFY' - Warren and Ouachita RR. It used to run at Mid-Continent RR Museum in North Freedom. Heart breaking to see it just sitting there.
That was an open pit iron mine, it's now the deepest lake in Wi at 350 feet.
@@Steve-318 Thanks, yes I know it was an Iron mine until the early 1980's.. It's now a favorite spot for scuba teams. Did you know it also has underwater cars and boats for them to explore, lol? Still, the place feels haunted to me ... gets me to the core. I didn't know it was deeper than Green Lake, now I really won't go near it, lol!
I also had a very odd, uneasy feeling when I was at Lake Wazee. I have had zero desire to go again. I didn't know anything about it's past until reading this comment so it confirms I had a strange feeling for a reason.
Love your Videos. I'm in the Amberg- Wausaukee area. Have you seen the pickup truck up on top of a silo southwest of Crivitz? Not exactly sure of the roads name, but it's on the backroads west of Pound.
This is wild! Very cool video!
I always enjoy your stories about the towns you visit! You always find good stuff!! Thanks Sally❤
This video makes a lot of sense. I used to Scuba dive at Lake Wazee East of Black River Falls. For the most part visiting there is not a good experience. The town really has nothing to offer and my interaction with the locals has been somewhat off putting. I have traveled everywhere from Key West Florida to Grand Marais Minnesota, from New Jersey to Monterey California. I will never darken that towns door step ever again.
Are you from Illinois?😂
Why not???
You Look Exactly Like My Best Friend Who Passed Away Back In 2004 Really Great Video 👌👍✌️👋
In 1829, a doctor invented a safeguard gadget that enabled a person accidentally buried alive to ring for help. He rigged strong lengths of string attached with bell above-ground. And attached the other end around ankles/wrists of deceased in casket to sound an alarm.
Good story! How about the town of Hancock, Wis? Used to go there on family vacations many years ago.
Anything of particular interest there?
Some campgrounds, fish lake and hancock lake.
Very old town
Okay, so where the heck is the cemetery you showed at 8:28? Because I live in BRF and that’s not Riverside Cemetery or anywhere else in Jackson county that I recognize.
Well after about ten minutes of research I figured out the grave at the front of that clip, the one with Clarence E. Belford, is down in Hardin County Illinois. So definitely NOT a cemetery here in BRF. Not sure if you need to clean up and better organize your B-roll footage or if you tried sneaking one past us. Either way that’s not a local cemetery.
You should go check out Galena, IL Sally 👍
I don't know if it's cursed or not but i remember losing $300 in two hours once at the Casino... I'm pretty sure I was in Black River Falls 😂
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Still not as bad as Plainfield Wi. Remember Ed Gein ? 😳
My grandma lived two houses down from him n had many meals with him n my grandpa
@@codyyanke2541That must have been a hella creepy experience for them... 🙈
Very interesting video!
Horrifying story of the woman buried alive. 😮😭
Thanks! Yes, it certainly was.
My uncle owns a good bit of farmland there. He's owned it for at least 30 years. He had never heard of the Wisconsin Death Trip until I told him about it in the early 2000s.
I plumbed those apts.
Wow what an interesting history of Black River Falls!!!!!!!! Thanks!!!!
You’re so welcome!!! Probably wasn’t quite what you expected, eh?
Sometimes the unexpected is superior to the expected. @@SightseeingSally
I love the way you look in your glasses. Do your own thing.
Hypnosis is a legit medical field...no relationship to witch craft etc.
@@SightseeingSally any relationship to static x album lol jk
Lived a short distance from Black River Falls for years.
I've heard the book of "WI Death Trip", totally unaware of the history.
I grew up here and it’s just like any other small town you come across. Everyone knows everyone and most of the people are friendly to visitors and tourists. The town just got a bad rap because of Wisconsin Death Trip.
Hi, Sally. I always thank you for your videos. Have a great week.🎉.
A fella from the falls came to osseo.one night,messed with my cousin an i.he ended up dead,in a role over crash in a. Water filled ditch.we were in a bar,my cousin had his Navy clothes, on,curcheif, this fella was ragging on him about the navy,he grabs both ends to his curcheif ,and pulled it tight around his neck,A fight persude,A 25 auto pistol fell out of my pocket,he went on ,bar hoppoing,we went home,I got a fine,for the gun,( we had been out target practiceing,and forgot it was in my jacket pocket) we went home went to bed,next morning my mom said that there had been a car accident, about 2 miles from our place,I sat up in bed suddenly, when she told me his name,it was the same guy we had the problem with,,but we had nothing to do with the accident, yet ,I knew ,it was him,some how,it still bothers me,jut some of the weird,odd,things that I have experienced in my 78+years on this earth,
Spent all my summers as a kid up there. There is definitely something weird in that area, kids were strange, and they all had a little edge.
You should check out Whitewater Wis.....also known as the Salem of the west. Where in their library is a book so dangerous that it can never be checked out viewed because everyone who has went insane or committed suicide. There is also a down room that was at the intersection of three cemeteries and people who lived in that room meet with tragic endings
School of the blind..I remember going there when I was 9 or 10
@@tsc6454 tell me more
@@lesliehill3025 what would you like to know?
@@tsc6454 I've never heard of this. What's a good place to research?
@@lesliehill3025library in Whitewater WI State Historical Society. Maybe the UW Whitewater library
Being a resident of BRF I’m just surprised there isn’t footage of the many meth zombies that wander the town
Though I lived not too far from Black River Falls for a number of years, I never heard anything about it's dark history before.
Grew up around there, trying to tackle Kirby thundercloud in high school football was painful!
My grandpa was born and raised there. Never said much about it. He was a wonderful and loving man though.
Great episode
The band Static X debut album named after the book WI death trip created demand to put it back into print after being out of print for a long time. Glad to have seen the band b4 the release, and many times after... I even met them got to hang out with Tony bassist and marty friedman in mlk hooters as a 13 yr old.
Curses, witchs, and superstitious ideas are the simple way to avoid deeper questions and lead to many innocent ppl being hurt. Life in general was dark and hard at these times. Having more business and wealth than most small towns probably caused much more drastic reactions when banks fell.
Yes that town is cursed...as the entire east side of st paul is...as many towns in iowa are.... because of the amount of native people slaughtered to get that land...so many of the areas by the body of waters were native burial grounds...they just built on top of them... never moved them... Indian mounds Park in st Paul had 100s of burial mounds all over the east side...now there's 4
Likewise for OHIO
Center Hill Lake in Tennessee
I was born & raised in Black River Falls & can confirm it’s cursed. Mother & I lived in a haunted house for 13 years in the grove, few blocks away from main st. Very beautiful area & much to offer. But the town possesses multiple active haunted houses/establishments/parks/murders/never ending suicides.. Perry Creek park is worth looking into & was a hot spot for teens to explore late at night & experience/see more than what we hoped for. WI Death Trip was shown to us in some classes in the BRF high school. I fled to Montana a few years ago & will not be returning to the Black Hole 🙏🏼👌🏼🤠
I live in the grove & haven't experienced anything paranormal.
Which house were you at that was haunted?
I live in Cameron Wisconsin. Black river falls has a Walmart. It's not a small town. Lol
Population of 3500 seems pretty small to me
@SightseeingSally see what you can find out about Cameron. I've lived here for 60 years. Must be some history i don't know about. Stop by I'll buy you a beer. Lol
@@SightseeingSallyseems crowded…to me
Smaller than Madison or Milwaukee even eau Claire is bigger.
Thank you, I love your videos! I’m from Tomah ❤️
I live about 25 miles away, pretty nice toads for motorcycles all around the area. There is a pretty shady side to BRF, a certain population as gotten into hard drugs and the "fire water".
beautiful wedding venue in BRF called Burlap and Bells! Their rentable house has incredible on a bluff. You can see basically 180 degrees for miles and miles
How come there was no mention of the Winnebago being sent to Nebraska and the Ho Chunks forming? Think it's possible there might be a little something to that bad luck medicine? Miss yah KarynYT. 😇❤😈
Lumber was huge there
Yes it was!
That is really awesome 😎💯 that they repurposed that old school building
@2:31. I went to see patients on that house up on the hill. It took forever and was choking full level of smoke. I do not miss being the insurance company Dr one bit. Also when 2 people have dementia and hearing loss it is just hard. You have to just get the gist and answer for them the best i can. Bc other people who really want and need my help suffer if I waste too much time on a people like that.
Edit: I remember that day ended with a 9pm visit to a widower's house. Oh man, he needed help pretty bad. I was starving. Cant believe he waited so long for me.
Great video, Thanks.....
You are a fantastic story teller and video content creator. Really enjoyed this vid!!!
4:29 LOL I was born in Cortland Ny in the 1960 to 1980 it had over 200 infant sacrifice ,the old school witch covent did unspeakable thing for years you go there and you will see things staring out of attic windows from the corner of your eye ..
Awesome, thanks Sally !
Okay, the old high school was replaced by a new high school. Sooooo scary!
I have enjoyed several but not every one of your sightseeing videos. Just a suggestion: your productions could benefit by also using a drone camera. The You Tube work of s/v Delos is a good example,
The mural with Route 66 on it is strange since this town is nowhere near Route 66.
Same in Stevens point
I go to pow-wows in BRF. It’s seriously the best town we got around these parts. 🤷♀️
Gives me an idea, Halloween would be a good time for some, scary stories from, frightseeingsally.
The book was also made into a movie of the same name. I don't think it's very easy to find, but it's worth the effort. It's very trippy and creepy as you might expect from watching this video. And if you like this, seek it out.
Black River Falls was served by the branch line of the former C&MO RR later UP RR until the final run of the branch line local freight that served the iron ore mine many years ago.
Sally, this is the second video of yours. So I subscribed. You remind me of another Channel I follow Wonderhussy you two are so similar in your narrative style. She even says wah wah when mentioning a regret or dissipointment😅 . Are you related.?😮
Thanks for subscribing. Hope you enjoy the vids! And, no we are not.
I wonder if Static X, a rock band, took the title of Wisconsin Death Trip for their album. Great video! I am in WI, not far from Black River Falls. I love all the small towns in this area.
I’ve read that they did use the title from this book
In 1999 rmax played a movie doc. called Wisconsin Death Trips, just like the story you told !
Sand pillow circle or something like that. It was the street I stayed on when I was little and the house was haunted as hell all I remember from black river falls is my parents had a Medicine man come to the house. We got sent to the park not to far from the house and I remember seeing like a hundred or so white birds come flying from the house. That experience and some creepy stuff I’ve seen in the house I will Remember forever
2:22
"G. Drinkwine, father of Miss Lillian Drinkwine, who commited suicide a few days ago, attempted suicide at Sparta. He swallowed a large quantity of cigar stubs."
And then there's the bottom sign at 1:11
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Still, it seems like a nice town, I could live there. 😉👍
Thanks Sally! 🤠👍
You’re welcome 😊
This place was not cursed, Sally doesn't tell the whole story. Ppl were eating rye the was getting wet n it was making them go mad /tripping n dong things that they would never do. There is a book n a documentary on it that will explain everything.
Isn't Black River Falls in the land of the Ho-Chunk Nation? I'm almost theough the whole video & you haven't mentioned the indigenous people, the ones who were there first. Maybe 🤔 the people you talk about had a blood debt & had also stolen that land?
Anyway, further south, in Sauk & Potawátomi land, my great-grandmother, Mina Jergens Allensworth, was a Temperance Lady. She & her fellow Anti-Boozers went looking for casks & bottles to bust up with axes & staubs.
Nice Ray-Bans Sally
Thank you
Where is this "West Consin" I always hear people talking about?
And is it near Wisconsin proper?
Good stuff
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
You can feel the despair in this town. I also wanted to see if I see my car at all 🤣 Also this place is full of meth addicts. There is 1,000 people and 500 are on drugs
I live in Black River Falls currently 😂😂😂😂😂 seen the local bar on youtube!!!
My grandpa used to have a cabin in a small place called pray it’s not far from there I always thought I got wierd vibes from black river falls
you should have visited Camp NCN that place is amazing !
I pass BRF traveling from MN to WI. Great family place to stop
I live about 35 miles away from this town!
Black river falls does have a vibe to it, I never knew about its history
Hi Sally. Did you and Marty post a video this week?
Arizona’s oldest silver mining camp is a living ghost town
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Three tattoo parlours in town…they must have great Tattooathons..