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Best Place to Spot a Ghost

Are you interested in having your socks scared off while enjoying a filet mignon? Locals say the No. 1 place to spot a real-life (or should that be real-undead?) ghost is the James Sheeley House Restaurant & Saloon (236 W. River St., Chippewa Falls), which has a long history of workers and patrons seeing the normally unseeable. Second place is Banbury Place (800 Wisconsin St., Eau Claire), the vast former tire factory, which features plenty of long hallways and vacant corners perfect for specters. If you’d prefer to do your ghost hunting in the great outdoors, Caryville Road outside Eau Claire carries legends of phantom animals, a haunted cemetery, and more. Be sure to bring extra flashlight batteries! –Tom Giffey