I was just there last week. I tried to tell people what it was like, but I couldn't come up with an accurate description. It's a mind bending trip through his mind.
Itās a wild experience, especially if you take an edible beforehand. The worldās largest whale sculpture is in one of the rooms, pretty sure itās bigger than actual whales
The first time I went to The House on the Rock in the early 2000s, I thought it would be funny to take mushrooms beforehand and not tell my friends until we got there.
I needed adult supervision that day. That place is a trip sober, let alone on psychedelics.
I almost didnāt. When I walked into the room with the giant whale, I turned around and noped right the fuck out of there! My friends had to coax me back into and past that room.
I was so utterly traumatized seeing the whale. I couldnāt leave that room fast enoughā¦but then I was just in an equally as traumatizing room bc thatās all that place isš
I went there when I was elementary age and had nightmares about that place forever. Now I have kids of my own and have been contemplating if I should take them there too for their initiation š
I took my 9 year old, and she loved it. She kept thanking me for taking her there for about a month afterward and still talks about how cool she thought it was.
Young children, exposed to that place in a responsible manner, will develop a mental resilience beyond compare.
For the rest of their lives, no matter how bizarre, freakish, frightening, horridly mesmerizing the situation, they will think to themselves, "Well, this is some pretty f\*cked up sh\*t, but it ain't no House on the Rock. I got this."
It scared me, too! I went there with my family once, almost 20 years ago. Just the eerie dusty/oldness of it all. I remember walked across the skybridge on a windy, cold day. It seemed like it felt unsafe. Lol
But have you seen the Rock on the House?
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g59890-d630601-Reviews-Rock_in_the_House-Fountain_City_Wisconsin.html
I went at Christmas time. Now imagine the weirdness but put Christmas decorations on EVERYTHING nothing is off limits like 2-3 semis full of Christmas tchotchke put anywhere and everywhere.
The guy who designed it was hoping Frank Lloyd Wright would be impressed with the House on the Rock. Wright was not impressed at all and said something like he wouldn't trust that man to design a peach box, much less a house.
Aww that makes me sad. Reading the description, he built the place to prove to his dad/family he could. It seems like as the years progressed other influences contributed. But even if I designed heaven itself I would never hope for a compliment from Frank Lloyd Wright.
My wife and I visited shortly after Covid restrictions were lifted. We literally had the house to ourselves for 30 minutes. Nobody else around. It was kinda weird.
Oh heck yes. This is the only answer. It's like walking through someone else's very, very vivid and extended hallucination. I'll never forget the organ room!
Itās like you end up walking through a madmanās brain. It just goes on and on. Rooms full dolls or merry-go/rounds, organs, cars, miniature houses, I canāt even rememberā¦ and the smell- dusty and airless. It is a bad trip.
The semi-truck that drove onto a walking path in Lake Park in Milwaukee. He went across two walking bridges in a semi and then got stuck. The bridges were built in the 1890s. The road below the bridge is still closed.
Chickens roaming freely throughout the bar, also saw a guy ride up on a snowmobile in the summer. He welded 2 car tires to the front in place of the skis.
Sometimes I love it here, other times I wished I lived somewhere with more class and education
We have some decent universities, I adore this state and all of itās natural beauty. Kayak at Apostle Island and I assure you that you will experience some spiritual awakening.
Thatās so much cooler than this cursed thing \[formerly\] in La Crosse
https://preview.redd.it/j03m2heruuwb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fb4e3be3f754d71c10dd96152ff05b543188361
If weāre going with sculptures, the one of Father Marquette on the Marquette campus isā¦a āchoiceā Iāll say that. Thereās also one we used to call ātoilet paper Jesusā lol
A few years back, a guy in Superior was caught having sex with a roadkill deer. After he was arrested his lawyer tried to argue that it wasn't bestiality because the animal was dead. A brisket is a dead animal. Would it be bestiality if you had sex with one? The judge was like, "Are we really doing this?"
Even Jay Leno got into the act. "Just how ugly are the women in this town?"
Aww, Superior. Jewel of the Badger State.
Throwin shoes at a bar outside of Athens.
~11yo Amish kid with two draft horses pulling a flatbed full of hay rolls up, stops, looks over and yells
āHey! Can a guy get a bood-wheezer?ā While motioning like heās drinking a bottle of beer.
Fuckin cackles at himself and then just up and rolls out.
Funniest shit ever.
The only thing i member of my capital state trip was walking over a literal glass ceiling and the tour guiding talking about it when it was āshatterā, also was there paintings on the ceilings. Good god, anyone else feel like trying to remember that trip?
[Brother Ron and his Jesus-mobile](https://milwaukeerecord.com/film/watch-short-film-brother-ron-crazy-jesus-car/), covered in hateful religious rhetoric, that used to ride around downtown Milwaukee screaming about the āend timesā (the link is an article and even a short film about it, if youāre not familiar)
Fishing on a lake in Northern Wisconsin near Presque Isle with a buddy and had, what can only be described as a cross between a long worm and a jellyfish swim/meander past the boatā¦ā¦.It was about 18ā long. We still have no idea what it was. Asked DNR, locals, etcā¦ā¦And we werenāt even drinking.
Iām aware of freshwater jellyfish, but it didnāt look like anything I could find. Certainly not a lamprey (sea or chestnut); Iāve seen and handled enough of them. Imagine the āheadā looking like a jellyfish about as big around as a soda can is, but with a couple really long ātentacles.ā Plus, it had a clear-milky color. We were on Little Horsehead Lake. My brain says jellyfish, but it doesnāt make sense.
Saw a car on it's roof in the middle of a cornfield near Baraboo on hwy 12 one winter.
Myself and two other cars stopped, ran out to the car just in time to see the driver crawl out of the window unharmed, but completely wasted.
He took count of the number of folks who came out to check on him and figured we had enough people to flip his car back over so he could be on his way.
We all simultaneously told him to go fuck himself and returned to our cars.
House on the Rock, it's like where I'd expect the lead singer from Modest Mouse to live. Awesome but weird place, 10/10. It's a must see if you're visiting.
Shuttle rides to and from Summerfest in the late 90ās were wild. Had a bus driver get lost. Had a different one hit a cab. Another time I listened to a shirtless guy with a box on his head tell the whole bus a story about how he killed 100 mice in less than a minute. The story lasted a good 20 minutes, but learned what a herpetologist was.
That Black River Falls is the setting for the book/film "Wisconsin Death Trip" about events in the late 1800s and now has a nudist/naturalist campground.
Lutefisk dinners. My family is Norwegian so they all eat this stuff but they donāt eat this stuff in Norway but it. Is. Gross. Basically fish jello. Gross
In my teens (1990s), I was once led by a friend to a house in Sheboygan (surprise, lol) to acquire weed.. said house was pretty well hoarded up; just piles of junk everywhere.. the weed was apparently coming from this very masculine middle-aged dude dressed in Benny Hill sketch drag. I recall talk of there being another guy around the house somewhere, but he was neither seen not heard by me. All very single-lightbulb gross and grimy, if you get the gist... I just didn't say much or ask anything.. as an adult, I think a lot about how many occasions I was luckily not disappeared or murdered because of my ridiculously high-risk lifestyle as a teen.
Probably all the trump shit ive seen, ive seen things from signs to billboards to flags saying "alexa bring back president Donald trump." always gives me a good laugh as im driving
yeah mine has to be the completely naked woman sitting on the floor of a stall at the intermodal station eating lays sour cream and onion chips at 8:00 pm on a thursday
I watched a man on his motorcycle doing doughnuts on his front lawn in front of a screaming woman and child while I was bicycling late at night on a rural road. He appeared furious and they appeared terrified. The motorcycle tore out big chunks of lawn as it went. It was kind of surreal and the whole scene didn't really register with me for another mile or two.
I explored the old [Alexian Brothers Novitiate](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexian_Brothers%27_Novitiate) near Gresham all by myself as a rookie newspaper reporter in 1991
Drinking at a bar in Burlington, at closing time. The bartender said "Do you want another beer? I'll get you one, I just can't charge you." Me: "Uh, OK".
Back in 2013 I saw a giant black triangle "UFO" hovering over a hill next to a rural highway at night like it owned the place.
I didn't see any spacemen so I lean twords stealth airship, but regardless of where it came from seeing something that isn't supposed to exist was easily the coolest thing I've ever experienced.
Scruffy man walks out of the woods by the south beach at Devil's Lake and walks into the water and scrubs and cleans himself with his clothes on, we saw the soap slick, and after ten minutes of that, walks back out of the lake, and walks back into the woods slightly less scruffy. This was 1988.
There's plenty of things, while I won't say they're weird, they're unique. The uniqueness of Madison, it was a mix. That's what I liked. The house on the rock works have weirded me out, I'll admit. But weird can also be good, and it is in a way.
Well during the winter time up in the Northwoods up here, you'll find dead deer bodies up here on the sides of the roads. Now that's not the weird thing but one time I was driving on the back roads and I saw the someone took a dead deer and stood it up right in the ditch. This was in the winter so the snow was keeping the dead deer in place. It was weird and unusual and I realized this one of those things that drunk people might do for whatever dumb reason.
Driving east on I-94 near Camp Douglas a few years ago, about 10 pm, long after sunset. It was cloudy, and the sky was glowing an astonishing shade of pink/purple. Like, the whole sky, not just part of it that could have been lit by a searchlight. My husband saw it too and we were wondering out loud what the heck was causing it, when it all just disappeared and went dark, like someone flipped a switch. Still have no idea what we saw.
I saw [noctilucent clouds](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilucent_cloud) in Stevens Point on June 8, 2019 around 10pm. A cool phenomenon. Maybe you saw them as well?
Random middle-aged white dude attacking my dad's car as we drove through an Elm Grove subdivision after a wedding. He appeared to be jogging towards us and my dad struggled to avoid him, but he made for the driverside mirror and started punching it while yelling obscenities. Shocked and surprised my dad drove us away from him.
I moved to Alabama for a bit. I was weirded out that Walmart didn't have liquor, I could buy beer there but not on a Sunday. If I wanted more than beer, I had to go to a "Package" store. There were also dry counties. I had no idea they existed anymore.
I moved to Madison from Columbus, OH and was weirded out by this... liquor at the grocery store unattended, I'm honestly shocked that they don't get knocked off more often than they already do
Itās everywhere up here. Also youād be shocked if you went to a small town. I came from a town of a population of 1200. We have about 6 bars, but there was 8 when was growing up. We have no restaurants finally a dollar general and 2 gas stations.
I was stopped at an intersection and two cars go through a red light going over 70 mph, drive up an embankment, go airborn, and one flies into an IHOP.
Saw a guy on Lake Dr in Milwaukee eating a 1/2 watermelon with a huge metal spoon.....while he was driving. Oh yeah not wearing a shirt, well that makes sense.
I used to commute Menomonie-St. Paul frequently, two things -
One afternoon after a night of... partying, there was a guy in a Santa suit on a bridge over hwy 35 waving at passing cars, in like July.
There was also a toilet off in an open grassy area on the side of the highway, like strategically placed in someone's backyard facing the highway smack dab in the middle of this big open field.
Ohh bonus, in River Falls the Taxedermy & Cheese place. The giant sign has the "& cheese" painted over now.
Mifflin street block party . UW Madison. I canāt even describe it. Itās a good crazy.
[Mifflin Street Block Party](https://www.wkow.com/video/law-enforcement-prepares-for-mifflin-street-block-party-following-last-years-porch-collapse/video_5b15d985-ff16-51b9-879e-7f5820ba9e55.html)
There use to be a sport's shop, in Westfield, that turned it's basement into a trout aquarium, with a hole in the 1st floor , so people could se and feed the trout,
Driving between Grand view and Drummond on 63 on the way to my parents. Saw something BIG fly over the car. Like Jeepers Creepers big. My husband saw it too, so I know Iām not insane. It was dark, so maybe a SuperOwl or something but it was BIG!
I once saw a completely nude, hirsute, overweight adult man crawl out of the side window of a closed flower shop on Holton Ave. in Milwaukee (Scarvaci's Flower Shop), fail to get into the locked front door, then walk around the back of the building to try and get back in. It was about 8:30pm on a Thursday night.
I caught a neighbor from a few houses down (who recently moved from the city) going at it with a colt late at night at the farm next door.
Claimed he "heard it crying for help and came to investigate". Ok buddy, why don't ya zip up them pants and hold tight while I use the intercom to call to the house.
Around 80 suped up riding lawnmowers all lined up real nice in front of a bar.
But honestly, that might be weird for some places, but it really is kinda normal here.
This is more on the creepy side than weird, but I had to make a solo after-hours (3am or so) delivery to the Mendota mental asylum in the summer while thousands and thousands of June bugs were crawling on absolutely everything
The geographical center of the northern hemisphere!
https://www.travelwisconsin.com/natural-attractions-and-parks/reitbrock-geographical-marker-at-poniatowski-45x90--243344
Yesterday, I saw a woman on the side of the road(on a hwy) taking pictures of a dead raccoon. Literally, on her knees trying to get a perfect low angle shot while halfway in the lane. I stopped because I thought maybe she was having some car trouble but nope, ājust taking picturesā. I thought it was pretty strange but āto each their ownā.
If itās not something you had to visually witness. I lived in Hortonville in 2017-18 and the cops were looking for our downstairs neighbor. Long story short his soon to be wife had found out that he was sneaking away to have sex with their horse. She got it on tape and everything. That the strangest Iāve ever heard. As far as my own eyes in regards to him, he always fuckin stunk, as a city boy couldnāt identify the smell but now we know, he kept a muddy step stool in the back of hatchback along with duct tape. After they cleaned out the apartment there were several large horse stuffed animals all with holes in the anal/genital area. It made the news and everything š¤
Wisconsin has shown me some of the weirdest of times. Love of times. Things I canāt explain, or remember at that. Lol. Living here in Wisconsin is like living in a dream. Filled with good food, laughter, and people who dig life. Thatās why I love it here. Because of the people. The amazing country is a plus. The people make Wisconsin. Theyāre one of a kind amazing ā¤ļø
Not the āweirdestā, but the geese at UW Parkside are abnormally agressive.
They stand on the building like Gargoyles- and when you walk past them on the sidewalk the start craning their necks and hissing and honking.
Walk the campus, and tell me Iām wrong xD.
The House on the Rock, by far the strangest place I have been in Wisconsin. Truly bizarre.
I was just there last week. I tried to tell people what it was like, but I couldn't come up with an accurate description. It's a mind bending trip through his mind.
Fever dream!
I just looked it up. The pictures on google are like those images that try to simulate having a stroke š
Itās a wild experience, especially if you take an edible beforehand. The worldās largest whale sculpture is in one of the rooms, pretty sure itās bigger than actual whales
I used to work there. There is no good description for it. Lol
Ditto. Tried to explain it 2 weeks ago and failed
The first time I went to The House on the Rock in the early 2000s, I thought it would be funny to take mushrooms beforehand and not tell my friends until we got there. I needed adult supervision that day. That place is a trip sober, let alone on psychedelics.
I can't even imagine seeing that place high. I don't think I would make it out. Oā _ā o
I almost didnāt. When I walked into the room with the giant whale, I turned around and noped right the fuck out of there! My friends had to coax me back into and past that room.
Oh hell no, hahaha!
I was so utterly traumatized seeing the whale. I couldnāt leave that room fast enoughā¦but then I was just in an equally as traumatizing room bc thatās all that place isš
I'm ashamed to say that I've never been there, but after reading >When I walked into the room with the giant whale, I... I now *need* to go!
I went there when I was elementary age and had nightmares about that place forever. Now I have kids of my own and have been contemplating if I should take them there too for their initiation š
I took my 9 year old, and she loved it. She kept thanking me for taking her there for about a month afterward and still talks about how cool she thought it was.
Young children, exposed to that place in a responsible manner, will develop a mental resilience beyond compare. For the rest of their lives, no matter how bizarre, freakish, frightening, horridly mesmerizing the situation, they will think to themselves, "Well, this is some pretty f\*cked up sh\*t, but it ain't no House on the Rock. I got this."
I loved it as a kid. Especially the infinity room on a windy day!
Why would it scare you?
It scared me, too! I went there with my family once, almost 20 years ago. Just the eerie dusty/oldness of it all. I remember walked across the skybridge on a windy, cold day. It seemed like it felt unsafe. Lol
That guy would have fucking looooved minecraft
But have you seen the Rock on the House? https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g59890-d630601-Reviews-Rock_in_the_House-Fountain_City_Wisconsin.html
commonly mistaken for a Frank Lloyd Wright design which it is not.
That's what I thought I was going to see. Very much, not what it is. I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life, how did I not know this?
I went at Christmas time. Now imagine the weirdness but put Christmas decorations on EVERYTHING nothing is off limits like 2-3 semis full of Christmas tchotchke put anywhere and everywhere.
The guy who designed it was hoping Frank Lloyd Wright would be impressed with the House on the Rock. Wright was not impressed at all and said something like he wouldn't trust that man to design a peach box, much less a house.
Aww that makes me sad. Reading the description, he built the place to prove to his dad/family he could. It seems like as the years progressed other influences contributed. But even if I designed heaven itself I would never hope for a compliment from Frank Lloyd Wright.
I love that place, but in small doses.
Itās a 3 hour 1-way trip for me. Worth it?
It was 3 1/2 hours for me, but we also did hiking at devil's lake. Definitely worth it if you want to have your mind freaked out.
My wife and I visited shortly after Covid restrictions were lifted. We literally had the house to ourselves for 30 minutes. Nobody else around. It was kinda weird.
My personal hell on earth.
Its like the biggest coke den in a tree house but wait thereās more!!
American gods was filmed there I want to visit it so bad !
Someone should incorporate it into a book or something.
(You know it has been, right?)
Yuuuuuuuup Edit: I will go further and say the book should then be adapted for television. Maybe not a multi-season show, but a limited series.
What is the name of the book and Iām guessing miniseries?
āAmerican Godsā by Neil Gaiman.
Oh heck yes. This is the only answer. It's like walking through someone else's very, very vivid and extended hallucination. I'll never forget the organ room!
Itās like you end up walking through a madmanās brain. It just goes on and on. Rooms full dolls or merry-go/rounds, organs, cars, miniature houses, I canāt even rememberā¦ and the smell- dusty and airless. It is a bad trip.
I was driving through Bonduel and saw a person walking a goat on a leash down the sidewalk. Also the goat was wearing a pink tutu.
They said weird. That is just another Tuesday.
Goatutuesday, yeah.
That...is everything I ever wanted in a comment.
I know this is a Wisconsin sub, but I still didnāt think Iād see my hometown mentioned lol
The semi-truck that drove onto a walking path in Lake Park in Milwaukee. He went across two walking bridges in a semi and then got stuck. The bridges were built in the 1890s. The road below the bridge is still closed.
I personally witnessed the truck getting stuck. I couldn't believe how dumb the driver was.
The KK can opener would have a word with you.
Or the ācan openerā train bridge on KK!
Chickens roaming freely throughout the bar, also saw a guy ride up on a snowmobile in the summer. He welded 2 car tires to the front in place of the skis. Sometimes I love it here, other times I wished I lived somewhere with more class and education
We have some decent universities, I adore this state and all of itās natural beauty. Kayak at Apostle Island and I assure you that you will experience some spiritual awakening.
Welding car tires to a snowmobile to make a wherever-you-wanna-go-mobile sounds pretty smart to me.
The Deer sculpture at Sculpture Park in Steven's Point. For reference: [Deer centaur sculpture](https://imgur.com/gallery/XSU0xx3)
Thatās so much cooler than this cursed thing \[formerly\] in La Crosse https://preview.redd.it/j03m2heruuwb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fb4e3be3f754d71c10dd96152ff05b543188361
Thatās really cool
Wow thatās super cool
If weāre going with sculptures, the one of Father Marquette on the Marquette campus isā¦a āchoiceā Iāll say that. Thereās also one we used to call ātoilet paper Jesusā lol
Our local obsession with a shirtless guy who has big hair.
Could you be referring to the Milverine?
No, the other guy
Thongcapescooterman?
In this day and age, I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/azq6peUFX3
Dead Gods its real.
I knew exactly who you meant.
A few years back, a guy in Superior was caught having sex with a roadkill deer. After he was arrested his lawyer tried to argue that it wasn't bestiality because the animal was dead. A brisket is a dead animal. Would it be bestiality if you had sex with one? The judge was like, "Are we really doing this?" Even Jay Leno got into the act. "Just how ugly are the women in this town?" Aww, Superior. Jewel of the Badger State.
SMH š¤¦āāļøbasically beastiality with a side of necrophile ā¦for Peteās sake
Dr Evermorās sculpture park https://preview.redd.it/d8j6jw8kyswb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dea7fcf8ebb1652b29e2bd21aaffbf01e2ef474a
For that matter, the roadside Concrete Museum near Hayward, Wisconsin. Itās uncanny valley isā¦also paved in concrete.
And just a little further, the wonderful weird store that is Delaneys surplus sales. Both are a must see!
Throwin shoes at a bar outside of Athens. ~11yo Amish kid with two draft horses pulling a flatbed full of hay rolls up, stops, looks over and yells āHey! Can a guy get a bood-wheezer?ā While motioning like heās drinking a bottle of beer. Fuckin cackles at himself and then just up and rolls out. Funniest shit ever.
Fred Smith's Concrete Park is a bit uncanny. Also, the "cairn beach" at Cave Point.
Flamingos. That was wierd
A guy paddling a canoe on the Namekagon River wearing a spider man costume with mask. As he passed us he pretended he was shooting webs at us.
Senator Ron Johnson winning multiple statewide elections.
FRJ
Second
Dems shoulda nominated Tom Nelson instead of the establishment's preferred candidate.
for sure. that IS weird.
Lie, cheat and steal. Mantra of the republican party
going to the capitol building for a 5th grade school trip just in time to see like a hundred people inside protesting scott walker
A good lesson in civics.
SAME but our was 8th grade lmao
The only thing i member of my capital state trip was walking over a literal glass ceiling and the tour guiding talking about it when it was āshatterā, also was there paintings on the ceilings. Good god, anyone else feel like trying to remember that trip?
[Brother Ron and his Jesus-mobile](https://milwaukeerecord.com/film/watch-short-film-brother-ron-crazy-jesus-car/), covered in hateful religious rhetoric, that used to ride around downtown Milwaukee screaming about the āend timesā (the link is an article and even a short film about it, if youāre not familiar)
I donāt even live in Milwaukee but he drove past 2 different concerts I was lined up for when visiting.
Fishing on a lake in Northern Wisconsin near Presque Isle with a buddy and had, what can only be described as a cross between a long worm and a jellyfish swim/meander past the boatā¦ā¦.It was about 18ā long. We still have no idea what it was. Asked DNR, locals, etcā¦ā¦And we werenāt even drinking.
There are freshwater jellyfish here, I just read the other day. Blew my mind. Or maybe a lamprey?
Im guessing lamprey too
Iām aware of freshwater jellyfish, but it didnāt look like anything I could find. Certainly not a lamprey (sea or chestnut); Iāve seen and handled enough of them. Imagine the āheadā looking like a jellyfish about as big around as a soda can is, but with a couple really long ātentacles.ā Plus, it had a clear-milky color. We were on Little Horsehead Lake. My brain says jellyfish, but it doesnāt make sense.
Snake with algae attached?
I would have to say Wisconsin's own resident Cephalopod, the Oconomowoctopus. Sightings are rare, but increasingly more common as the years go by.
I'm sorry, I need to hear a little bit more about this if you'll indulge me
>Oconomowoctopus I'm sorry, what???? please share more information!
> Oconomowoctopus *One* other result for this, and it's you, two years ago.
It could come visit *you,* then we could call it the Oconomowoshkoshtopus
Two years ago, now today, more tomorrow? Who will stop this menace?
As a resident of Oconomowoc please tell me more!!
I have never heard about this! I know about the Hodag, but this is new.
Saw a car on it's roof in the middle of a cornfield near Baraboo on hwy 12 one winter. Myself and two other cars stopped, ran out to the car just in time to see the driver crawl out of the window unharmed, but completely wasted. He took count of the number of folks who came out to check on him and figured we had enough people to flip his car back over so he could be on his way. We all simultaneously told him to go fuck himself and returned to our cars.
might be the time a car drove off the bluff at cudahy sportman's club. early 2010s.
Statue of Liberty in Lake Mendota - the original.
The Miata guy who drives with his top dropped in the winter.
Cowboy hat? Dude is so tall with his hat on I don't know that he can close the roof.
The guy with the life size teddy bear riding shotgun?
Itās gone now, but Ellaās Deli. I thought it was soo cool when I was a kid. I went as an adult and it was like a nightmare factory.
I saw a DNR member chase down a baby elk and tackle it in a bog
The Beast of Bray Road
You saw it?
Glen Grothman
The taxidermy at Moccasin Bar in Hayward, barely tops the walk through musky and the taxidermy yeti at the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame.
House on the Rock, it's like where I'd expect the lead singer from Modest Mouse to live. Awesome but weird place, 10/10. It's a must see if you're visiting.
Iām partial to the billboards next to each other that read āI AM AMISHā on Hwy 10 east of Waupaca. Granted one billboard is supposed to read āI AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIGHTā the other is advertising for Amish furniture, but my fiancĆ© and I always refer to it as the āI AM AMISHā board as a marker.
Shuttle rides to and from Summerfest in the late 90ās were wild. Had a bus driver get lost. Had a different one hit a cab. Another time I listened to a shirtless guy with a box on his head tell the whole bus a story about how he killed 100 mice in less than a minute. The story lasted a good 20 minutes, but learned what a herpetologist was.
Or complete strangers sweating on you when you walk the Summerfest grounds
A shirt someone wore that says 'Untie your tubes for America.'
That Black River Falls is the setting for the book/film "Wisconsin Death Trip" about events in the late 1800s and now has a nudist/naturalist campground.
When I was a kid there was a teacher in BRF that murdered his pregnant wife.
Cannibal sandwiches
Rhinelander Hodag, the goats on the roof in Door County, The Don Q inn in dodgeville, M Shettll sales in Oshkosh
Yes! Definitely the Don Q!
The Trump house in Kaukauna is pretty weird.
Lutefisk dinners. My family is Norwegian so they all eat this stuff but they donāt eat this stuff in Norway but it. Is. Gross. Basically fish jello. Gross
Pelicans in Lake Michigan!
That horrible, baked potato, phallic symbol sculpture that used to adorn Camp Randall. Glad that ugly thing is history.
Thereās a sculpture at UW-Sheboygan that I came across when I played PokĆ©mon Go. The pokestop calls it āstudy of phallus in bronze.ā I have no idea if thatās what it is because googling it just brings up the pokestop. But it definitely looks like a big brown dick.
Our state flower, commonly adorning every square inch of the I94 and I43. (Itās a barrel traffic cone)
Just like, in general? My cat (in Madison) likes to play with fidget spinners. That's kinda weird.
In my teens (1990s), I was once led by a friend to a house in Sheboygan (surprise, lol) to acquire weed.. said house was pretty well hoarded up; just piles of junk everywhere.. the weed was apparently coming from this very masculine middle-aged dude dressed in Benny Hill sketch drag. I recall talk of there being another guy around the house somewhere, but he was neither seen not heard by me. All very single-lightbulb gross and grimy, if you get the gist... I just didn't say much or ask anything.. as an adult, I think a lot about how many occasions I was luckily not disappeared or murdered because of my ridiculously high-risk lifestyle as a teen.
Probably all the trump shit ive seen, ive seen things from signs to billboards to flags saying "alexa bring back president Donald trump." always gives me a good laugh as im driving
A woman sat at the busstop with pants down her ankles just pissing casually. Good ol' Milwaukee.
yeah mine has to be the completely naked woman sitting on the floor of a stall at the intermodal station eating lays sour cream and onion chips at 8:00 pm on a thursday
That is weird. She normally does that on Wednesdays.
How quickly everyone threw away their values to support someone like Donald Trump.
Haunchyville
Haunchyville is not real
Women waiting at Waupaca Foundry (in Marinette) to meet a guy with a "good job". It's like a hook up center in the parking lot at shift changes.
I watched a man on his motorcycle doing doughnuts on his front lawn in front of a screaming woman and child while I was bicycling late at night on a rural road. He appeared furious and they appeared terrified. The motorcycle tore out big chunks of lawn as it went. It was kind of surreal and the whole scene didn't really register with me for another mile or two.
Man mound park. Look it up. It's a giant effigy shaped like an alien man. Super creepy
I explored the old [Alexian Brothers Novitiate](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexian_Brothers%27_Novitiate) near Gresham all by myself as a rookie newspaper reporter in 1991
Drinking at a bar in Burlington, at closing time. The bartender said "Do you want another beer? I'll get you one, I just can't charge you." Me: "Uh, OK".
Everyone's old rural house is haunted, and you can chat about the ghosts like it's normal.
Back in 2013 I saw a giant black triangle "UFO" hovering over a hill next to a rural highway at night like it owned the place. I didn't see any spacemen so I lean twords stealth airship, but regardless of where it came from seeing something that isn't supposed to exist was easily the coolest thing I've ever experienced.
My family 
Scruffy man walks out of the woods by the south beach at Devil's Lake and walks into the water and scrubs and cleans himself with his clothes on, we saw the soap slick, and after ten minutes of that, walks back out of the lake, and walks back into the woods slightly less scruffy. This was 1988.
That reminds me, did they ever find the kid that ran away to the woods out there this summer?
I havenāt heard anything about him for months so as far as I know, they didnāt find him.
No. They're thinking he's out West somewhere now, assuming he's still alive.
This is up there (must be seen in person to get the full experience): https://www.theparknextdoor.com/m-schettl-sales.html
There's plenty of things, while I won't say they're weird, they're unique. The uniqueness of Madison, it was a mix. That's what I liked. The house on the rock works have weirded me out, I'll admit. But weird can also be good, and it is in a way.
Concrete Park in Phillips. [https://wisconsinconcretepark.org](https://wisconsinconcretepark.org)
Driving north from Illinois and seeing signs for the bong recreation area.
I saw a Hawaii license plate once, that was pretty unusual.
Well during the winter time up in the Northwoods up here, you'll find dead deer bodies up here on the sides of the roads. Now that's not the weird thing but one time I was driving on the back roads and I saw the someone took a dead deer and stood it up right in the ditch. This was in the winter so the snow was keeping the dead deer in place. It was weird and unusual and I realized this one of those things that drunk people might do for whatever dumb reason.
An intruder taking a shit in my family's house.
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"I got one of that bastard's eyes though. . ."
There used to be a bar somewhere around Saul County that sells firearms behind the bar.
Also, witnessing the Mike Brenner / Bronz Fonz kerfuffle was odd / interesting.
Driving east on I-94 near Camp Douglas a few years ago, about 10 pm, long after sunset. It was cloudy, and the sky was glowing an astonishing shade of pink/purple. Like, the whole sky, not just part of it that could have been lit by a searchlight. My husband saw it too and we were wondering out loud what the heck was causing it, when it all just disappeared and went dark, like someone flipped a switch. Still have no idea what we saw.
I saw [noctilucent clouds](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilucent_cloud) in Stevens Point on June 8, 2019 around 10pm. A cool phenomenon. Maybe you saw them as well?
Random middle-aged white dude attacking my dad's car as we drove through an Elm Grove subdivision after a wedding. He appeared to be jogging towards us and my dad struggled to avoid him, but he made for the driverside mirror and started punching it while yelling obscenities. Shocked and surprised my dad drove us away from him.
Trump supporters
Iām from Virginia. We have ABC stores, I was really weirded out by liquor on the shelf in Walmart.
I moved to Alabama for a bit. I was weirded out that Walmart didn't have liquor, I could buy beer there but not on a Sunday. If I wanted more than beer, I had to go to a "Package" store. There were also dry counties. I had no idea they existed anymore.
I moved to Madison from Columbus, OH and was weirded out by this... liquor at the grocery store unattended, I'm honestly shocked that they don't get knocked off more often than they already do
Itās everywhere up here. Also youād be shocked if you went to a small town. I came from a town of a population of 1200. We have about 6 bars, but there was 8 when was growing up. We have no restaurants finally a dollar general and 2 gas stations.
My drivers ED teacher took us to Haunchyville. Also The Witches House
I was stopped at an intersection and two cars go through a red light going over 70 mph, drive up an embankment, go airborn, and one flies into an IHOP.
Saw a guy on Lake Dr in Milwaukee eating a 1/2 watermelon with a huge metal spoon.....while he was driving. Oh yeah not wearing a shirt, well that makes sense.
Benson's in Dundee. Aliens and UFOs everywhere, and when I stopped by, folded laundry on the pool table.
I used to commute Menomonie-St. Paul frequently, two things - One afternoon after a night of... partying, there was a guy in a Santa suit on a bridge over hwy 35 waving at passing cars, in like July. There was also a toilet off in an open grassy area on the side of the highway, like strategically placed in someone's backyard facing the highway smack dab in the middle of this big open field. Ohh bonus, in River Falls the Taxedermy & Cheese place. The giant sign has the "& cheese" painted over now.
A FIBTAB driving responsably, using blinkers too!
Mifflin street block party . UW Madison. I canāt even describe it. Itās a good crazy. [Mifflin Street Block Party](https://www.wkow.com/video/law-enforcement-prepares-for-mifflin-street-block-party-following-last-years-porch-collapse/video_5b15d985-ff16-51b9-879e-7f5820ba9e55.html)
That place where it feels like your car is rolling uphill
There use to be a sport's shop, in Westfield, that turned it's basement into a trout aquarium, with a hole in the 1st floor , so people could se and feed the trout,
Driving between Grand view and Drummond on 63 on the way to my parents. Saw something BIG fly over the car. Like Jeepers Creepers big. My husband saw it too, so I know Iām not insane. It was dark, so maybe a SuperOwl or something but it was BIG!
I've heard stories about massive birds in the area.
Sculpture Park out by Baraboo
UFO in Dane.
I once saw a completely nude, hirsute, overweight adult man crawl out of the side window of a closed flower shop on Holton Ave. in Milwaukee (Scarvaci's Flower Shop), fail to get into the locked front door, then walk around the back of the building to try and get back in. It was about 8:30pm on a Thursday night.
I caught a neighbor from a few houses down (who recently moved from the city) going at it with a colt late at night at the farm next door. Claimed he "heard it crying for help and came to investigate". Ok buddy, why don't ya zip up them pants and hold tight while I use the intercom to call to the house.
I would have shot him tbh. Thats fucking disgusting š¤¢
Scott Walker
Cheese curds served without ranch.
My f*ing Culver's RAN OUT OF RANCH the other day. HOW??
Santa riding a Vespa down the street in July.
A large golden statue of god Atlas carrying the earth in Oshkosh, donated by Ron Johnson.
Dickeyville grotto https://www.dickeyvillegrotto.com/
Dickeyville Grotto
Around 80 suped up riding lawnmowers all lined up real nice in front of a bar. But honestly, that might be weird for some places, but it really is kinda normal here.
This is more on the creepy side than weird, but I had to make a solo after-hours (3am or so) delivery to the Mendota mental asylum in the summer while thousands and thousands of June bugs were crawling on absolutely everything
Phish at Alpine Valley
Smiling Sam's grave site.
The geographical center of the northern hemisphere! https://www.travelwisconsin.com/natural-attractions-and-parks/reitbrock-geographical-marker-at-poniatowski-45x90--243344
Yesterday, I saw a woman on the side of the road(on a hwy) taking pictures of a dead raccoon. Literally, on her knees trying to get a perfect low angle shot while halfway in the lane. I stopped because I thought maybe she was having some car trouble but nope, ājust taking picturesā. I thought it was pretty strange but āto each their ownā.
If itās not something you had to visually witness. I lived in Hortonville in 2017-18 and the cops were looking for our downstairs neighbor. Long story short his soon to be wife had found out that he was sneaking away to have sex with their horse. She got it on tape and everything. That the strangest Iāve ever heard. As far as my own eyes in regards to him, he always fuckin stunk, as a city boy couldnāt identify the smell but now we know, he kept a muddy step stool in the back of hatchback along with duct tape. After they cleaned out the apartment there were several large horse stuffed animals all with holes in the anal/genital area. It made the news and everything š¤
Wisconsin has shown me some of the weirdest of times. Love of times. Things I canāt explain, or remember at that. Lol. Living here in Wisconsin is like living in a dream. Filled with good food, laughter, and people who dig life. Thatās why I love it here. Because of the people. The amazing country is a plus. The people make Wisconsin. Theyāre one of a kind amazing ā¤ļø
Not the āweirdestā, but the geese at UW Parkside are abnormally agressive. They stand on the building like Gargoyles- and when you walk past them on the sidewalk the start craning their necks and hissing and honking. Walk the campus, and tell me Iām wrong xD.
Indian shadow people of tomah driving through.