Originally Posted in the Blog Universe On Thursday 3rd January 2008 – 11:47:06 PM

Cryptozoologist Nick Redfern offers a nice review of Linda Godfrey’s new STRANGE WISCONSIN book at his blog, There’s Something in the Woods:

“The ‘Pig-Men’ of Brussels sound like something out of Deliverance; the beast that haunts the pet cemetery at Chilton in Wisconsin’s Calumet County is best avoided by those of a nervous disposition; and the story of the ‘big dead thing’ will doubtless frustrate cryptozoologists everywhere, given that the witnesses might actually have let prime evidence for the existence of a cryptid slip through their fingers.”

I hadn’t heard of the Pig-Men until now, and I generally don’t believe in the more fanciful cryptids that get reported these days.

But I will say that the Strangeness Quotient of Wisconsin is much higher and much more authentic than the SQ in most places of these United States.

The Van Buren Boys? Or John Birchers?

That is inclined to happen when:

  • Your state is cradled by two Great Lakes, which have roughly 3,000 shipwrecks on the bottom.
  • Your state produced 39,000,000 tons of animal waste in 1997, which is the polite way of saying there was no shortage of cow shit and pig excrement in Cheeseland that year.
  • Your state was home to Project ELF, a.k.a. the Navy’s Extremely Low Frequency communications system.
  • Your state is the site of a murder scene where a man was thrown down a two-story paper mill vat because he was suspected of snitching on a co-worker’s extension cord theft.
  • Your state gave rise to Joseph McCarthy.
  • Your state is the headquarters for the John Birch Society.
  • One of your state’s most noted authors said that the South-Central part of Wisconsin contains “Cthulhu power zones.”
  • Your state typically leads the nation in brandy consumption.
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