Wausau Paranormal Research Society Ghost Tours

Downtown Wausau is home to plenty of restaurants, shops, and nightlife, but you might not know that the area is also home to plenty of paranormal activity.

The tours are part history and part mystery. Guides tell the stories about the earthly and not-so-earthly residents of Wausau landmarks such as the Grand Theater, where the ghost of a former stage manager is said to appear from time to time.

At the former Wausau Club, now the site of the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, a woman named Martha is said to inhabit the building, decades after her death.

At the Marathon County Historical Museum, the smell of cigar smoke wafting through the air is a sign that old Mr Yawkey is at it again -- even though he’s been dead for nearly 75 years.

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