Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets [Hardcover]

Linda S. Godfrey (Author), Richard D. Hendricks (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Sterling; First Edition edition (April 7, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0760759448
• ISBN-13: 978-0760759448
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 9.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #351,275 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born a poor, freckled child. Now I write books about strange creatures, things and people, and sometimes illustrate them, to boot.

This is exactly what I told my 5th grade teacher, Mrs. Ione Kopitzke, I wanted to do when I grew up. I remember she replied, almost crying, "Oh Linda, I think you can do better than that." Her picture is now in the front of my book, "Strange Wisconsin: More Badger State Weirdness." Right next to freckled little me in my "L" initial blouse. That book won a bronze medal in the Independent Publishers 2008 Best Book Awards, and a Midwest Book Review's Editor's Choice. See how neatly life shakes out sometimes?

Before I started writing books, I received an art education degree from UW-Oshkosh, taught art and was a cartoonist and newspaper reporter. I live in southeast Wisconsin with my husband, youngest son and Lhasa Apso named Grendel.

You might catch me on an episode or two of HC's Monster Quest and other TV and radio shows. Check out beastofbrayroad.com for updates.

Customer Reviews

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41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book!!! First review by a native Wisconsinite, October 21, 2005

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DJ JyMe "Knowledge is Power" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Hardcover)

Do you like stories about strange phenomena, ghost stories, or stories that simply tingle your spine? How about stories about strange places that exist? Perhaps you are the type of person who is interested in UFO's. What about stories about interesting persons who have their own stories to share? What if I could tell you that this book is all of that and more?

Who would think of a fairly quiet place like Wisconsin as being a state full of weirdness!? Everything from UFO's and ghosts to the world's largest, well, urinal, this book covers it all.

It is very hard to put this book down once you begin to read it, and after reading it, I still find it hard to put the book down! Each story in this book is priceless, and the authors made sure that the book was very reader-friendly.

The only problem I had was that I couldn't rate this book any higher than 5 stars.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars gift, February 6, 2007

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J. Pelot (central wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Hardcover)

bought this as a gift and it was LOVED!! my sis gets into stuff like this and of course we are from wi .. so she loved every page!!! great gift for people who like wierd stuff!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good ole Wisconsin, February 9, 2007

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lost - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Hardcover)

This was an amazing book, I'm planning on buying myself a copy since checking it out from the library. The only problem I had with it is they got a few addresses wrong. The truck in the tree in Clinton, WI... They say it's visible from interstate 90. I'm not good with road names but my dad is, an 84 native of rock county says it's no where near 90. In the picture it's obvious that they went buy the house, I know these people personally and they don't mind visitors so I'm confused as to why they didn't mention the road it's on.