I Know What I Saw by Linda S Godfrey

Author:Linda S Godfrey
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

Unfortunately for that business owner, this type of legend is seldom totally forgotten. I’ve spoken at Muskego’s public library several times and always had a good crowd with high interest in the Haunchyville legend. I wrote about it in several of my books, and the entry in Weird Wisconsin (2005) includes brief accounts from contributors who more or less echo the experiences of Bruce Foltz. Here are a few partial quotes from those accounts, selected for variety and for further exposition of the legend:

“I’m from Bay View, and the legend of the Haunchies has been around since I was a kid. Supposedly, the Haunchies live in the woods around the lakefront in Grant Park, and Sheridan Park around Bay View, Cudahy, St. Francis, and South Milwaukee. They wait for the big people (that’s us) to park their cars and make out. Then they attack, wielding little knives. . . .”—Zatty3

“I first heard the story growing up in Greendale about thirty years ago. We were told that the area was once home to a group of midgets who had worked in the circus. Years later, after the area had been abandoned, a teenage couple parked their car in the cornfields to make out, and they were attacked by the ‘little creatures’ that left scratch marks on the roof of the car. The teenagers were found dead, mutilated in the car.”—Rich

“The whole Haunchyville thing is completely outta control—there is nothing there . . . this myth got out of control in the eighties . . . it’s just a made-up rumor. Now about some of the stories I’ve heard. There’s one about there being a large, large man guarding the entrance to Haunchyville, who’s the only ‘normal-sized’ person there. I’ve also heard that there has been a massive killing back there.”—Jess13

I included these stories and comments because they incorporate so many of the earmarks of modern legendry. There’s location migration, as we learn the Haunchies have also been seen in other parts of the greater Milwaukee area such as Bay View, Cudahy, St. Francis, Grant Park (which is already allegedly haunted by other things), and even Oak Creek, where a werewolf-like creature chased four people on a longtime haunted lovers’ lane, East Fitzsimmons Road. It’s easy to see how these stories can perpetuate themselves.

An alternate view posits that such sightings areas are linked through some unknown, anomalous energy source. When I consulted a map, I couldn’t help but notice that the sites lie inside a narrow band that stretches due east from Big Muskego Lake to the shore of Lake Michigan, about ten miles end to end. For extra weirdness, I could add another upright canine sighting made at an uncomfortably close range by a middle-aged woman in Rainbow Park near the Root River Parkway in 2007. And heading due west of Big Muskego Lake it’s only about twenty miles to the Kettle Moraine State Forest, home to Bigfoot and dogmen. The idea that this concentration of oddness should center on a lost colony of ninja warrior little people almost begins to make sense.

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