Originally Posted in the Blog Universe On Thursday 3^rd 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.

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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