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In 1972, a woman in Jefferson County had an intruder who she described as a "large, unknown animal" with long, dark hair and stood about 8 feet tall. and walked on his hind legs. The creature has long arms & claws on each hand. It's footprint was more than a foot long. The distressed woman called the police on the attempted break in while the animal went out to the barn and attached the horse in the stable. It left a huge gash on the animal from one shoulder to the other, leaving the policemen perplexed. *BRAY ROAD BEAST* There are a number of bizarre encounters between 1989 & 1992, that have been described as having features of dogs, bears, & wolves. According to the International Wolf Research Center in Ely, MN, it couldn't be a wild wolf. On the other side of logic, these encounters have had people claim they saw Bigfoot, animal mutilations, and, naturally, men in black.
In early February 1992, Tammy Bray was coming home from work along Highway H, 6 miles southwest of the Hospital Intersection, the beast crossed the road in front of her, making Tammy slam on her breaks. Like a deer in the headlights, the breast looked at her. She noticed his broad chest, pointy ears, matted brows, black fur with a narrow nose, thick neck, & shining yellow eyes. She then hurried home to tell Scott Bray her experience. In November 1999, 24 year old Lorraine Endrizzi was on the curve of Bray Road, when she saw the hunched over creature on the side of the road. When she slowed down, she could see grayish, brown hair, fangs, pointy ears, & long snout, like a wolf with glowing yellow eyes. She was 6 feet away & stared at the beast for 45 seconds. The beast scared her because it was so human-like. On October 21, 1999, while driving along Bray Road at the intersection of Hospital, 18 year old Doristine Gipson of Elkhorn, hit something with her right tire. Panicked, she checked to see what she hit, when a beast raced towards her, jumping onto the car but slipped off due to the dew in the air. Gipson returned to the spot later that evening with a friend he was taking trick-or-treating. Once again, she spotted the beast. In Winter 1999, Scott Bray, a dairy farmer from Elkhorn, told local authorities he saw a "strange looking dog" in his pasture near Bray Road. The beast had the same characteristics as the previous stories with pointed ears, hairy tail, long gray hair but Scott added a muscular chest. Scott followed the "dog" to a rock pile where he lost sight of the creature but followed huge footprints that led to the grassy pasture. Again, in Winter 1999, Russell Gest of Elkhorn, reported the beast a block away from him in an overgrown area where he heard weeds move. It stood approximately 5 feet tall and started approaching Gest so he turned to run. When Gest checked to see if the beast was following him, the creature returned to all fours without chasing him.
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In the 1980s, there was a last attempt at renovating the house after being bought by Raymond Bober. Raymond and his wife, Marie, planned to turn the old mansion into a restaurant and inn. It was a scenic location and they were clueless of their daughter's, Ginger Hinshaw, experience. Despite Ginger's pleas for them not to go through with the purchase, Bober was stubborn.
In 1983, Will Pooley, a freelance writer, set out to discredit Bober's findings and said that if Raymond found the deed, it wasn't legit because the British government was not in favor of the individual purchase of Native American land but rather given land for their assistance. Also, the fact that the Sioux never claimed land east of the Mississippi; they were not one tribe but a nation of tribes, and were never in Wisconsin. The other side of that coin is that Summerwind was build 130 years after Carver died. Even Herb Dickman, who helped pour the foundation, knew that nothing like a box was thrown in. To this day, it is unknown whether or not Bober even owned the land because the bank owned it & did not know what Bober was up to. In 1986, investigators thought they could renovate the place. That did not go in their favor. In the summer of 1988, the house was struck by lightening which burned down much of the house.
August 1914, while Mrs Mamah Borthwick Cheney's children visited, tragedy struck. Mrs. Cheny was a very stubborn woman who fired servants and staff members for the slightest offenses that seemed minor in the long run. One day, she fired a servant named "Barbados", he would return with gasoline and revenge on his mind. While Mrs. Cheney, her children, and some guests were having lunch, he poured gasoline around the two dining rooms they inhabited. He set the rooms ablaze just before running in and killing 7 of the 9 people with a hatchet, including Mrs. Cheney. When firefighters arrived, they rescued the two dying and badly burned victims to a cottage on the property named "Tan-Y-Deri". The female ghost of Mrs. Cheney, wearing a long, white dress, stays at the cottage as she roams around seemingly peaceful presence. Rather she is restless and frustrated as the doors and windows open and close on their own, and lights turning on and off.
Mrs. Gidding's fired her servant girl and Mary's father severly beat her and she tried to commit suicide by drowning herself in the local river but unfortunately for her, she was rescued. A high-standing doctor from Chicago was intrigued with her story. He studied her in a facility. What he discovered was that she sleepwalked & was "neurotic". Eventually after she was diagnosed and eventually cured, she was taken in by the doctor and his family.
Rumors of gas leak causing hallucinations arose but Wisconsin Power & Light Co did not find anything wrong. Tallmans thought the bunk beds were the problem & they buried them in a landfill.
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