Janesville Mn Doll In Attic

During the 1970s a man lived by himself in janesville minnesota.

Janesville mn doll in attic.

I grew up in janesville minnesota a town of 2 100 people in southern minnesota the town s more than a dot on the map but not by much. Children noticed the doll in the attic window and became weary of it claiming its expression would change. They called it the janesville doll and some say it was possessed by the tortured spirit of a little. Ward was born in the house he lived in all his life and the doll sat up in the attic for several decades.

I first read about the janesville mystery doll or mystery boy a long while ago in a book about minnesota roadside oddities. It still has the high school a grocery store some bars that are often home to amusing fist fights between really skinny guys who drink like 300 pounders and a dairy queen it s also home to the doll in the window which is probably a copyrighted phrase by. Ward s house was the home to the famous janesville doll in the window for decades. His presence is felt by all who pass by and an uneasiness sits in the air like a heavy fog.

There was a small square window in the attic that faced the street. And when i drove through janesville mn during a summer day in 2010 there he was in that attic window staring out over town creepy and mysterious just like the elusive back story on why he was there. His blank stare hides behind his porcelain face as he overlooks the street below. Ward was born in the house he lived in all his life and the doll sat up in the attic for several decades.

For years the quiet town janesville minnesota was haunted by an eerie figure in an attic window. March 5 2014 at 10 48 am. The owner of the house ward wendt died in 2012 at the age of 84. In 1976 the man took a porcelain doll and placed it in the window.

Since 1976 a mysterious doll has been sitting in the attic of a home in janesville minnesota. Why is the doll.