In the shadowy corners of Wisconsin’s oldest mining town, something pale, caped, and terrifying has been leaping fences — and into legend — since 1981. But the vampire isn’t the only creepy creature to beware of in Mineral Point.

In the shadowy corners of Wisconsin’s oldest mining town, something pale, caped, and terrifying has been leaping fences — and into legend — since 1981. But the vampire isn’t the only creepy creature to beware of in Mineral Point.
Cemeteries may look peaceful by day, but when the sun dips below the horizon, they become eerie thresholds where history, sorrow — and something else — linger near the stones in the dark.
The headstones don’t speak — but something beneath them remembers, and it’s not done watching the living.