June 11, 2024 • 21 mins
We're packing our bags and heading to the "Waterpark Capital of the World"—Wisconsin Dells. But don’t worry, this isn’t your average splash-and-dash vacation. Think Wisconsin Dells is just water slides and kiddie pools? Think again. We’re talking about attractions so bizarre they make your weird uncle's attic look like a Bed Bath & Beyond.
Join Jessica and Karmen as they unravel the story behind the most infamous resident of the Dells: the mummified head of Dells serial killer. Yes, you heard that right. A head. Mummified. On display. And that's just the tip of the creepy iceberg. Don't miss your exit.
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(00:00):
I'd love shoes, And sometimes Ido feel bad because I buy a lot
of shoes and I know they're probablygoing into a landfill somewhere or they're going
to end up in the ocean eventually, you know, and it makes me
feel bad. And that's why Iwas so happy to wear these Blue Views.
And they're cute. Yeah, theylook cute with my dress. They
look cute with shorts and cute colors, and you know, I was like
(00:25):
pleasantly surprised when I unboxed my shoesand that blue was just so such a
pretty color blue. And then notonly that, I have a lot of
shoes, and these ones they wereso comfortable, Like I'm wearing them everywhere
because they're so comfortable, they're solight, they're so breezy. They you
know, Yeah, I will definitely, and I'll wear them in the winter
with socks, Don't get me wrong, I will. I'm happy to do
(00:47):
this, to step into style withoutcompromising the planet. That's really nice.
So happy to have this exciting partnershipbetween Blue View Footwear and the nineteen Media
Group network. And if you wantto check out the amazing styles there,
just visit bit dot l y Forwardslash blue View nineteen to start your sustainable
(01:07):
style journey. Our friends over atblue View Footwear are renowned for introducing the
world's first fully biodegradable sneaker. Byusing plant based plastics, they are leading
a revolution in cleaner materials and manufacturing. Also, they have sleek and contemporary
styles that cater to a wide rangeof tastes. Blue View Footwear believes that
(01:30):
fashion and sustainability can coexist harmoniously.Explore their incredible collection of equal friendly footwear
by visiting bit dot l y slashblue View nineteen. If you let us
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today and you'll see the ultimate collaborationof fashion, sustainability and media excellence.
Heck yeah, I'm wearing nine rightnow. Navigating to small town US as
(02:30):
Harlee Kallion. Hello, Jessica,Hi Carbon, how are you. I'm
doing Okay, it's kind of hotin Tucson, Arizona. Yeah, it's
always hot here, but it's alittle bit more hot than normal lately.
Oh my god. Successive as theWeather Channel says you know, I would
(02:53):
challenge that loomy lady to come toTucson, yeah, see and see how
her product holds up with the sloppycrotches around here, because oh my god,
I agree, it's so uncomfortable.I had the exterminator at my house
and I was wearing like a tanktop, you know, and it was
(03:15):
like one of those loose fitting taktops. So yeah, it was. It
was in the morning and the wholetime, just like boom sweats, just
like rolling down and it's and Ithink I probably did one of those like
things where you just like pick upyour chee cheese and life underneath with your
(03:36):
shirt, you know, real classystuff. I have a pretty sexy move
if I do say so. Yeah, I think I did that like twice.
It was just not stop horrible.It's like it's to a place where
you just don't care. You'd ratherdo that be comfortable than really be embarrassed.
I don't really get embarrassed by them. But do you remember the product
I used to see this product?It was probably a maid on made for
(03:58):
TV only product or whatever it's called, but it was like that towel bra
No, oh my god, canyou imagine how those smell. Oh my
god, I get the how uncomfortableit looked too, and like, oh,
like you know, you don't haveit stopped you from having that sweat.
You could wear it around during theday. I'm like, yeah,
okay, who invented this? Thetowel bra? That's even a gross word,
(04:24):
just towel bra, you know youOkay, I guess you would get
like those those terry cloths sweatbands,uh huh, right around your oh yeah,
for your instead of around your head. You know, put ankel one
just a little bit larger to goaround and just wear that. That makes
more sense to me. Disposable maybedisposable ones, Yeah, a couple use
(04:46):
only you know those little sponges thatthey the little flat sponges that are like
the size of a piece of paper. Yeah yeah, and then you put
them in water and they grow up. Yeah, we'll get those. Oh.
It could be like natural push ups, you know, like as you
sweat, as you get oh yeah, the more yea sweat, the bigger
(05:12):
you get. Oh, we've gotit all figured out. Oh my gosh.
Yeah. Yeah, a moisture mattressright under your chee chase. It
is like it's just the worst,you know, and it's just it's so
uncomfortable when you feel it rolling downyour tummy and it's like, oh yeah,
(05:32):
my god, it's the worst.It's one of the worst feelings.
I have to say. Yeah,it's justugh. And you know, I'm
sorry, but loony does not helpthat, Like, no, no,
it's true. It just you know, there's a certain temperature that you know,
it's just not rated for certain temperaturesor maybe but maybe you have to
apply more frequently than what she says, like seventy two hours, you know,
(05:57):
yeah, no, that don't workhere. No, yeah, this
is going seventy two hours, Yeah, without showering, Like who's like,
you know, going in the showeringgoing oh yeah, I'm good for seventy
two hours. I don't need toput more right rightwashing that stuff. Wow.
Total Ugh. We're headed to theMidwest, Carmen. We're headed to
the Midwest. Who and first stopWisconsin And I've got a weird place for
(06:19):
you. But before we get tothe weird place in Wisconsin, I want
to see if you know about theseweird town names in Wisconsin. Okay,
you ready? Yeah, can youtell me a little bit about how they
got their name. Are you readyfor this? Sure? Iola, Wisconsin.
(06:40):
Yes, there were two sisters whowere born. They were of Native
American descent, but their father wasYeah, their father was an American soldier.
They were twins and their names wereIola and Ariola. I knew you're
gonna say it just because I saidIola. I just had to FeelA that
Ariolo was coming for some reason.Well, that's her name, Knick Knnick
(07:06):
and Nick have a picanic that wasclearly what's his name? Who's that?
Dumb bear? Oh? Yogi YogiBear? Yeah? Yeah, okay,
Yogi Bear can pannic and Nick?Yeah. So when Yogi Bear is not
(07:26):
at Yosemite, I think you shouldtravel a little bit. But uh yeah,
I think they let him name sometowns he called Nick, Hey,
what about this one? Shaw Wamaagain? Nicola again? Nicola? Yep,
that's just fucking drunk people making upnames. Shoe again, Nicola,
show show show on again, showagain, your Nickel, show him again,
(07:55):
your Nicola. And by Nicola,I mean, why Ouiga? Why
you Weiga? Why Oiga? Why? I don't know why you it's a
question or a town. There's justlike a lot of drunk town names there.
Honestly, why are you egan?Here's one Dickieville, A Dickieville or
(08:22):
dickie Vill, dickie Bille, Dickieville. Well, there's a lot of rural
areas in Wisconsin, you know,So whenever you have more than three penises
in the same location, you havea Dickieville. Sure, sure, sure,
And they couldn't just call it dickTown. No, that would that
(08:46):
would be too obvious, That wouldbe fairy vulgar. But I think everybody
knows when you want a little action, you go home. Dickieville. How
about us, Spread Eagle, Wisconsin. It's for real, it's pretty Eagle.
It's pretty Eagle. That's probably wherethey invented the pap smear. I'm
not sure, but Spread Eagle,Yeah, I can't even imagine what was
(09:11):
going through their minds. I don'tknow. Fred Eagle, Wisconsin. Pretty
interesting thing. Like I guess Iwould feel a little bit like an easy
saying where I'm from, Like I'mfrom Spretady Eagle. I'd be better than
being from Dickville, Dickyville, Dickyville. I think Dickville, Dickville is better
than Dickyville. Dickieville implies like atiny little Wiener. I mean, isn't
(09:35):
there a town there called Sheboygan?Sheboygan? Yeh, Sheboygan sounds like something
you do in the backseat of acar when you're too young to rent a
hotel room. Oh, we wasSheboygan and that? Oh so I want
to take you to a town that, you know. I'm from the perpenentsul,
(09:56):
Michigan, which is attached to Wisconsinand a out four hours four to
five hours south of where I wasliving. There's a town called Wisconsin Dell's
And I'm telling you, Wisconsin Dell'swas the place to go on vacation if
you were from anywhere in that area. Yeah, screw Disney World all these
(10:16):
other places you could go. Youwent to Wisconsin Dells if you were from
where I'm from. And everybody's gottheir own tales of, you know,
going to the Dells. Okay,okay, So is that like Wisconsin's version
of the Hampton's No, No,oh, It's more like Wisconsin's version of
(10:37):
some sort of kind of like disneyLand, I guess, but it's on
a much lower scale, like definitelynot Disneyland. It's like an amusement park
mixed with a circus also missed,mixed with some sort of carnival and weird
other things that are It's like it'slike a a like Hollywood kind of yeah,
(11:03):
a little bit more like that,although not as many roller coasters,
a lot of water parks. It'skind of weird because the dolls are actually
why it became a big tourist destination, and it's actually I think one hundred
and seventy years old the dells are, so it's been around for a long
time, but it's been over timebecoming more because of the natural water that's
(11:26):
already there in the Wisconsin Dells.There's a lot of things to do there,
but essentially people go there because thatwas the first indoor water park in
the United States because they had tokind of be indoor because of the weather
in Wisconsin. Yeah, so there'sall these sorts of things they don't really
mesh together, like this is likean amusement park that really doesn't make sense.
It's got a lot of history inthat. There are what's called the
(11:50):
Ducks. Have you ever heard ofthe ducks? By chance? Like the
Wisconsin When I say Wisconsin ducks.What's the first thing you think of.
I would probably think, like thevariety of waterfowl you guys have there.
Yeah, that's like that really iswhat a lot of people. But when
I say, like the Wisconsin ducks, it's actually a World War two vehicle,
(12:13):
which is half boat half far OhI love an amphibious vehicle. Yes,
it's an amphibious vehicle, and they'rethe only ones that are truly amphibious.
From that World War two error,they overproduced them at the end of
the war, and even though theywere like renowned for helping out in certain
situations overseas, they came to theUnited States. It was actually a d
(12:35):
ukw but they were nicknamed by theservicemen ducks, Okay, and yeah,
so they use them to get aroundover in the dells. You can get
tours in the dells, so thatgoes on land and in the water.
They're all over the place like kindof like a hay ride, only on
a boat on the road. Idon't know, it's weird, like a
(12:56):
boat on a trailer on the road. I've always wanted an amphibious vehicle.
I thought it would be so great. I still do, honestly, like
if we had water around here,wouldn't it be wonderful to have a submarine
that could also like drive out ofthe water and onto land. Yeah,
that would be cool. That wouldbe cool, just really quickly. In
(13:18):
addition to having like these cool ducksand water world adventures or whatever, they
also have a lot of things like, for instance, the Wizard Quest,
which is a full side wizard questinglabyrinth where your family can work together to
solve riddles and release the wizards.They have a lots of different like arcades
(13:41):
and stuff. They've got a yettiyard, next level adventures, you know,
anything you can think of doing.Like I said, on a carnival,
in a circus or in a waterpark is all in one spot,
and it was the place to goto get your candy bud. All the
things that you know were kind oflike forbidden that your parents didn't want you
(14:03):
to have. It was fun togo because they had so much of it.
They're just walking up and down.You could just be like like a
carnival, I guess, or likethe fair, like in general your state
there right, it was just feltlike that's all in one place only like
on steroids. When I heard youwere going to Wisconsin. I was like
looking around at things that I mightbecause I have family in Wisconsin, but
(14:26):
I haven't been since I was akid. You talk about the Dells,
well, I do know the originof the name. It's a French Canadian
word. Yeah, and it's it'spronounced d I don't know, maybe I
did that a little bit like avampire, but it's dell. Okay,
Okay, that sounds right, yeadal and sorry, French Canadians everywhere not
(14:56):
signed, and it means rap itsare narrows. However, there is also
a translation where it means slabs.Huh. So, oh, there is
a good what is it like agulch there? There's like a gorgeous yeah,
yeah, sandstone gorgeous. So theyeah, so the Wisconsin River winds
(15:18):
through these gorgees and has caused thebig gorgeous yeah, like a canyon.
Yeah, like a canyon, likea tiny little canyon craft on the earth.
So it was the lorentid ice sheetthat moved into Wisconsin thirty one thousand,
five hundred years ago. That itwas the same glacier that scraped the
(15:41):
land of its nutrients in central Wisconsin, and that's where we had talked about
another person from Wisconsin, mister edGain. Oh yes, yeah, so
Christina killers in Wisconsin. Yeah,well, this glacier did some damage and
leaving his land sandy and barren,and he was a struggling farmer and that's
(16:03):
why he turned to crime. Ohyeah, I think it would have been
otherwise normal if he could just growsome corn or something. Yeah, that's
what happens. So the same massof ice that tore that land up in
that area known as the Kettle Morainem there's also a lot of UFO activity
(16:25):
around that area. Lots of weirdstuff in the dells, lots of weird
stuff. Yeah. Something that reallycaught my attention was this this frozen head
of a serial killer. Did youhave you ever seen that? I knew
that there was something there. I'venever gotten in it before because it wasn't
like something I wanted to see,but I heard there was something like that
(16:47):
there. Yeah. So there's alot of like that what they're calling kitchy
north Woods lodges, Native American totemskind of stuff, and that kind of
stuff is like always spooky, especiallyafter watching you know, any scary movie
you see, like one of thoseroadside motels in the woods, and you
know, when we were kids andwe'd travel with my parents, I think
we probably stayed at them. Andthose are also a lot of those hotels
(17:11):
have the vibrating beds that we've talkedabout and love so much. Yeah.
Yeah, there was a man namedPeter curtain Ku r t Ian Okay,
in nineteen twenty nine, and hestalked his stock people. Then he would
strangle them and then stab them repeatedlywith scissors or or if he was you
(17:37):
know, I don't know, dependingon his mood, he would also bludgeon
them with hammers. Oh, butthis is where it gets weird. Okay,
that's not the weird part. That'snot the weird part. Unfortunately,
then he would suck blood from theirgurgling wounds, so he would keep them
alive long enough, make sure thatthere was some arterial splurting, and he
(18:03):
would suck the blood. There's aquote when somebody talked to him about this.
Now, this guy died a longtime ago, but this is still
like, really really creepy. Here'sa quote. I drank the blood from
the wound and ejaculated. No ohno, yeah, he was executed in
(18:25):
nineteen thirty one, and he alsosaid this, I probably drank too much
blood because I vomited. Oh well, yeah, I mean it's not good
for humans to drink humans. Ohgod. Yeah. Yeah. So he
was a German immigrant, I think. And they said the German word for
(18:45):
the acts he engaged in is lustmord lustmr d and its translation is sex
murder. Last ward, we shouldstart a summer camp there. So his
head is mummified inside the some museumthere and you can you can see Wisconsin
(19:07):
Dell's. Yeah. Oh, isn'tit. I think I've heard that.
So the guy of the murderer,the murderer whatever, his one of them
one of the Yeah, this isPeter curtain. It's split open, right
or no? Is it split Okay, yeah, that's the thing that I
heard. Yeah, it's mummified andsplit open so you can like see inside
(19:29):
it and it's just on display inone of these weird attractions that the Dells
has. Yeah, I know whowould want to have that. We'll leave
it to the Dells in Wisconsin tohave this weird crap. I swear,
Well, there's a lot of ghostsin that area, so yeah, I
don't know. I would like togo and maybe do a water water park
ride. Oh yeah, I wouldlike to do the haunt do the fun
(19:52):
thing, then the haunting thing,and then another fun thing, you know,
sandwich in my hauntings. Yeah,so that way it can be like,
you know, you don't get tooscared because then you're gonna like just
some fun after Anyways, that's justlike the way I set up my scary
movies. If I'm watching a scarymovie, then I have to watch something
funny afterwards, because that way Ican kind of mentally decompress, don't I
(20:15):
hope I don't have dreams about PeterCurtin tonight. And that's a funny name.
By the way, Yeah, aren'tyou? Is it your zipper like
a Peter curtain? Make you fifthgrade humor? Thank you, Carmen,
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I'd love shoes, And sometimes Ido feel bad because I buy a lot
of shoes and I know they're probablygoing into a landfill somewhere or they're going
to end up in the ocean eventually, you know, and it makes me
feel bad. And that's why Iwas so happy to wear these Blue Views.
And they're cute. Yeah, theylook cute with my dress. They
look cute with shorts and cute colors, and you know, I was like
(00:25):
pleasantly surprised when I unboxed my shoesand that blue was just so such a
pretty color blue. And then notonly that, I have a lot of
shoes, and these ones they wereso comfortable, Like I'm wearing them everywhere
because they're so comfortable, they're solight, they're so breezy. They you
know, Yeah, I will definitely, and I'll wear them in the winter
with socks, Don't get me wrong, I will. I'm happy to do
(00:47):
this, to step into style withoutcompromising the planet. That's really nice.
So happy to have this exciting partnershipbetween Blue View Footwear and the nineteen Media
Group network. And if you wantto check out the amazing styles there,
just visit bit dot l y Forwardslash blue View nineteen to start your sustainable
(01:07):
style journey. Our friends over atblue View Footwear are renowned for introducing the
world's first fully biodegradable sneaker. Byusing plant based plastics, they are leading
a revolution in cleaner materials and manufacturing. Also, they have sleek and contemporary
styles that cater to a wide rangeof tastes. Blue View Footwear believes that
(01:30):
fashion and sustainability can coexist harmoniously.Explore their incredible collection of equal friendly footwear
by visiting bit dot l y slashblue View nineteen. If you let us
know that you made a purchase,we'll give you a shout out at our
next show Again. Just visit bitdot l y forward slash blue View nineteen
(01:53):
today and you'll see the ultimate collaborationof fashion, sustainability and media excellence.
Heck yeah, I'm wearing nine rightnow. Navigating to small town US as
(02:30):
Harlee Kallion. Hello, Jessica,Hi Carbon, how are you. I'm
doing Okay, it's kind of hotin Tucson, Arizona. Yeah, it's
always hot here, but it's alittle bit more hot than normal lately.
Oh my god. Successive as theWeather Channel says you know, I would
(02:53):
challenge that loomy lady to come toTucson, yeah, see and see how
her product holds up with the sloppycrotches around here, because oh my god,
I agree, it's so uncomfortable.I had the exterminator at my house
and I was wearing like a tanktop, you know, and it was
(03:15):
like one of those loose fitting taktops. So yeah, it was. It
was in the morning and the wholetime, just like boom sweats, just
like rolling down and it's and Ithink I probably did one of those like
things where you just like pick upyour chee cheese and life underneath with your
(03:36):
shirt, you know, real classystuff. I have a pretty sexy move
if I do say so. Yeah, I think I did that like twice.
It was just not stop horrible.It's like it's to a place where
you just don't care. You'd ratherdo that be comfortable than really be embarrassed.
I don't really get embarrassed by them. But do you remember the product
I used to see this product?It was probably a maid on made for
(03:58):
TV only product or whatever it's called, but it was like that towel bra
No, oh my god, canyou imagine how those smell. Oh my
god, I get the how uncomfortableit looked too, and like, oh,
like you know, you don't haveit stopped you from having that sweat.
You could wear it around during theday. I'm like, yeah,
okay, who invented this? Thetowel bra? That's even a gross word,
(04:24):
just towel bra, you know youOkay, I guess you would get
like those those terry cloths sweatbands,uh huh, right around your oh yeah,
for your instead of around your head. You know, put ankel one
just a little bit larger to goaround and just wear that. That makes
more sense to me. Disposable maybedisposable ones, Yeah, a couple use
(04:46):
only you know those little sponges thatthey the little flat sponges that are like
the size of a piece of paper. Yeah yeah, and then you put
them in water and they grow up. Yeah, we'll get those. Oh.
It could be like natural push ups, you know, like as you
sweat, as you get oh yeah, the more yea sweat, the bigger
(05:12):
you get. Oh, we've gotit all figured out. Oh my gosh.
Yeah. Yeah, a moisture mattressright under your chee chase. It
is like it's just the worst,you know, and it's just it's so
uncomfortable when you feel it rolling downyour tummy and it's like, oh yeah,
(05:32):
my god, it's the worst.It's one of the worst feelings.
I have to say. Yeah,it's justugh. And you know, I'm
sorry, but loony does not helpthat, Like, no, no,
it's true. It just you know, there's a certain temperature that you know,
it's just not rated for certain temperaturesor maybe but maybe you have to
apply more frequently than what she says, like seventy two hours, you know,
(05:57):
yeah, no, that don't workhere. No, yeah, this
is going seventy two hours, Yeah, without showering, Like who's like,
you know, going in the showeringgoing oh yeah, I'm good for seventy
two hours. I don't need toput more right rightwashing that stuff. Wow.
Total Ugh. We're headed to theMidwest, Carmen. We're headed to
the Midwest. Who and first stopWisconsin And I've got a weird place for
(06:19):
you. But before we get tothe weird place in Wisconsin, I want
to see if you know about theseweird town names in Wisconsin. Okay,
you ready? Yeah, can youtell me a little bit about how they
got their name. Are you readyfor this? Sure? Iola, Wisconsin.
(06:40):
Yes, there were two sisters whowere born. They were of Native
American descent, but their father wasYeah, their father was an American soldier.
They were twins and their names wereIola and Ariola. I knew you're
gonna say it just because I saidIola. I just had to FeelA that
Ariolo was coming for some reason.Well, that's her name, Knick Knnick
(07:06):
and Nick have a picanic that wasclearly what's his name? Who's that?
Dumb bear? Oh? Yogi YogiBear? Yeah? Yeah, okay,
Yogi Bear can pannic and Nick?Yeah. So when Yogi Bear is not
(07:26):
at Yosemite, I think you shouldtravel a little bit. But uh yeah,
I think they let him name sometowns he called Nick, Hey,
what about this one? Shaw Wamaagain? Nicola again? Nicola? Yep,
that's just fucking drunk people making upnames. Shoe again, Nicola,
show show show on again, showagain, your Nickel, show him again,
(07:55):
your Nicola. And by Nicola,I mean, why Ouiga? Why
you Weiga? Why Oiga? Why? I don't know why you it's a
question or a town. There's justlike a lot of drunk town names there.
Honestly, why are you egan?Here's one Dickieville, A Dickieville or
(08:22):
dickie Vill, dickie Bille, Dickieville. Well, there's a lot of rural
areas in Wisconsin, you know,So whenever you have more than three penises
in the same location, you havea Dickieville. Sure, sure, sure,
And they couldn't just call it dickTown. No, that would that
(08:46):
would be too obvious, That wouldbe fairy vulgar. But I think everybody
knows when you want a little action, you go home. Dickieville. How
about us, Spread Eagle, Wisconsin. It's for real, it's pretty Eagle.
It's pretty Eagle. That's probably wherethey invented the pap smear. I'm
not sure, but Spread Eagle,Yeah, I can't even imagine what was
(09:11):
going through their minds. I don'tknow. Fred Eagle, Wisconsin. Pretty
interesting thing. Like I guess Iwould feel a little bit like an easy
saying where I'm from, Like I'mfrom Spretady Eagle. I'd be better than
being from Dickville, Dickyville, Dickyville. I think Dickville, Dickville is better
than Dickyville. Dickieville implies like atiny little Wiener. I mean, isn't
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there a town there called Sheboygan?Sheboygan? Yeh, Sheboygan sounds like something
you do in the backseat of acar when you're too young to rent a
hotel room. Oh, we wasSheboygan and that? Oh so I want
to take you to a town that, you know. I'm from the perpenentsul,
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Michigan, which is attached to Wisconsinand a out four hours four to
five hours south of where I wasliving. There's a town called Wisconsin Dell's
And I'm telling you, Wisconsin Dell'swas the place to go on vacation if
you were from anywhere in that area. Yeah, screw Disney World all these
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other places you could go. Youwent to Wisconsin Dells if you were from
where I'm from. And everybody's gottheir own tales of, you know,
going to the Dells. Okay,okay, So is that like Wisconsin's version
of the Hampton's No, No,oh, It's more like Wisconsin's version of
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some sort of kind of like disneyLand, I guess, but it's on
a much lower scale, like definitelynot Disneyland. It's like an amusement park
mixed with a circus also missed,mixed with some sort of carnival and weird
other things that are It's like it'slike a a like Hollywood kind of yeah,
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a little bit more like that,although not as many roller coasters,
a lot of water parks. It'skind of weird because the dolls are actually
why it became a big tourist destination, and it's actually I think one hundred
and seventy years old the dells are, so it's been around for a long
time, but it's been over timebecoming more because of the natural water that's
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already there in the Wisconsin Dells.There's a lot of things to do there,
but essentially people go there because thatwas the first indoor water park in
the United States because they had tokind of be indoor because of the weather
in Wisconsin. Yeah, so there'sall these sorts of things they don't really
mesh together, like this is likean amusement park that really doesn't make sense.
It's got a lot of history inthat. There are what's called the
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Ducks. Have you ever heard ofthe ducks? By chance? Like the
Wisconsin When I say Wisconsin ducks.What's the first thing you think of.
I would probably think, like thevariety of waterfowl you guys have there.
Yeah, that's like that really iswhat a lot of people. But when
I say, like the Wisconsin ducks, it's actually a World War two vehicle,
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which is half boat half far OhI love an amphibious vehicle. Yes,
it's an amphibious vehicle, and they'rethe only ones that are truly amphibious.
From that World War two error,they overproduced them at the end of
the war, and even though theywere like renowned for helping out in certain
situations overseas, they came to theUnited States. It was actually a d
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ukw but they were nicknamed by theservicemen ducks, Okay, and yeah,
so they use them to get aroundover in the dells. You can get
tours in the dells, so thatgoes on land and in the water.
They're all over the place like kindof like a hay ride, only on
a boat on the road. Idon't know, it's weird, like a
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boat on a trailer on the road. I've always wanted an amphibious vehicle.
I thought it would be so great. I still do, honestly, like
if we had water around here,wouldn't it be wonderful to have a submarine
that could also like drive out ofthe water and onto land. Yeah,
that would be cool. That wouldbe cool, just really quickly. In
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addition to having like these cool ducksand water world adventures or whatever, they
also have a lot of things like, for instance, the Wizard Quest,
which is a full side wizard questinglabyrinth where your family can work together to
solve riddles and release the wizards.They have a lots of different like arcades
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and stuff. They've got a yettiyard, next level adventures, you know,
anything you can think of doing.Like I said, on a carnival,
in a circus or in a waterpark is all in one spot,
and it was the place to goto get your candy bud. All the
things that you know were kind oflike forbidden that your parents didn't want you
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to have. It was fun togo because they had so much of it.
They're just walking up and down.You could just be like like a
carnival, I guess, or likethe fair, like in general your state
there right, it was just feltlike that's all in one place only like
on steroids. When I heard youwere going to Wisconsin. I was like
looking around at things that I mightbecause I have family in Wisconsin, but
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I haven't been since I was akid. You talk about the Dells,
well, I do know the originof the name. It's a French Canadian
word. Yeah, and it's it'spronounced d I don't know, maybe I
did that a little bit like avampire, but it's dell. Okay,
Okay, that sounds right, yeadal and sorry, French Canadians everywhere not
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signed, and it means rap itsare narrows. However, there is also
a translation where it means slabs.Huh. So, oh, there is
a good what is it like agulch there? There's like a gorgeous yeah,
yeah, sandstone gorgeous. So theyeah, so the Wisconsin River winds
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through these gorgees and has caused thebig gorgeous yeah, like a canyon.
Yeah, like a canyon, likea tiny little canyon craft on the earth.
So it was the lorentid ice sheetthat moved into Wisconsin thirty one thousand,
five hundred years ago. That itwas the same glacier that scraped the
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land of its nutrients in central Wisconsin, and that's where we had talked about
another person from Wisconsin, mister edGain. Oh yes, yeah, so
Christina killers in Wisconsin. Yeah,well, this glacier did some damage and
leaving his land sandy and barren,and he was a struggling farmer and that's
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why he turned to crime. Ohyeah, I think it would have been
otherwise normal if he could just growsome corn or something. Yeah, that's
what happens. So the same massof ice that tore that land up in
that area known as the Kettle Morainem there's also a lot of UFO activity
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around that area. Lots of weirdstuff in the dells, lots of weird
stuff. Yeah. Something that reallycaught my attention was this this frozen head
of a serial killer. Did youhave you ever seen that? I knew
that there was something there. I'venever gotten in it before because it wasn't
like something I wanted to see,but I heard there was something like that
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there. Yeah. So there's alot of like that what they're calling kitchy
north Woods lodges, Native American totemskind of stuff, and that kind of
stuff is like always spooky, especiallyafter watching you know, any scary movie
you see, like one of thoseroadside motels in the woods, and you
know, when we were kids andwe'd travel with my parents, I think
we probably stayed at them. Andthose are also a lot of those hotels
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have the vibrating beds that we've talkedabout and love so much. Yeah.
Yeah, there was a man namedPeter curtain Ku r t Ian Okay,
in nineteen twenty nine, and hestalked his stock people. Then he would
strangle them and then stab them repeatedlywith scissors or or if he was you
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know, I don't know, dependingon his mood, he would also bludgeon
them with hammers. Oh, butthis is where it gets weird. Okay,
that's not the weird part. That'snot the weird part. Unfortunately,
then he would suck blood from theirgurgling wounds, so he would keep them
alive long enough, make sure thatthere was some arterial splurting, and he
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would suck the blood. There's aquote when somebody talked to him about this.
Now, this guy died a longtime ago, but this is still
like, really really creepy. Here'sa quote. I drank the blood from
the wound and ejaculated. No ohno, yeah, he was executed in
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nineteen thirty one, and he alsosaid this, I probably drank too much
blood because I vomited. Oh well, yeah, I mean it's not good
for humans to drink humans. Ohgod. Yeah. Yeah. So he
was a German immigrant, I think. And they said the German word for
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the acts he engaged in is lustmord lustmr d and its translation is sex
murder. Last ward, we shouldstart a summer camp there. So his
head is mummified inside the some museumthere and you can you can see Wisconsin
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Dell's. Yeah. Oh, isn'tit. I think I've heard that.
So the guy of the murderer,the murderer whatever, his one of them
one of the Yeah, this isPeter curtain. It's split open, right
or no? Is it split Okay, yeah, that's the thing that I
heard. Yeah, it's mummified andsplit open so you can like see inside
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it and it's just on display inone of these weird attractions that the Dells
has. Yeah, I know whowould want to have that. We'll leave
it to the Dells in Wisconsin tohave this weird crap. I swear,
Well, there's a lot of ghostsin that area, so yeah, I
don't know. I would like togo and maybe do a water water park
ride. Oh yeah, I wouldlike to do the haunt do the fun
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thing, then the haunting thing,and then another fun thing, you know,
sandwich in my hauntings. Yeah,so that way it can be like,
you know, you don't get tooscared because then you're gonna like just
some fun after Anyways, that's justlike the way I set up my scary
movies. If I'm watching a scarymovie, then I have to watch something
funny afterwards, because that way Ican kind of mentally decompress, don't I
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hope I don't have dreams about PeterCurtin tonight. And that's a funny name.
By the way, Yeah, aren'tyou? Is it your zipper like
a Peter curtain? Make you fifthgrade humor? Thank you, Carmen,
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