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.

Janesville mn doll in attic. Janesville mystery doll janesville mn says. During the 1970s a man lived by himself in janesville minnesota. 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. I first read about the janesville mystery doll or mystery boy a long while ago in a book about minnesota roadside oddities.

His blank stare hides behind his porcelain face as he overlooks the street below. The doll became so famous that it became a legend in janesville and even has its own website loaded with stories of the doll. March 5 2014 at 10 48 am. Ward s house was the home to the famous janesville doll in the window for decades.

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. 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. 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. For years the quiet town janesville minnesota was haunted by an eerie figure in an attic window. Ward s house was still is home to the famous janesville doll in the window. In 1976 the man took a porcelain doll and placed it in the window.

The owner of the house ward wendt died in 2012 at the age of 84. Since 1976 a mysterious doll has been sitting in the attic of a home in janesville minnesota.