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Podcast: Haunted American History
Episode: The Ridgeway Ghost- Wisconsin
Description: On the lonely roads of Ridgeway, Wisconsin, drivers have reported chilling encounters for more than 150 years. A phantom figure—sometimes a man, sometimes a shapeless mist—appears without warning, only to vanish as quickly as it came. Known simply as the Ridgeway Ghost, its legend is steeped in 19th-century murders, frontier justice, and a community terrorized by what they believed was a restless spirit.Is the Ridgeway Ghost a product of folklore passed down through generations, or is there truly something lurking on those rural Wisconsin roads? Tonight, we follow the trail of one of the Midwest’s most...