It runs a 165 miles from Portage to Green Bay, and for over 300 years, it has never stopped collecting the dead.

War. Fire. Disease. Explosions. Murder. And beneath all of it — the stories that won't die:

A king once ordered a genocide to control it. A mill worker ran into a fire he couldn't survive to save it. A drowned chief who still wanders a cemetery in full dress. A boat that killed 9 people still missing in the mud a century and a half later. And of a corridor of water that has learned exactly how to keep its secrets, and only give up what it wants.

This episode, we follow the Fox River mile by mile. Through war, through fire, through true crime cases that never got a real ending, and the ghosts people swear are still walking its banks because of it.

The Fox River gave this valley its life. Scott and Mickey discuss some of what it took as well.

Hear the stories you likely have never been told about a beloved Wisconsin waterway, on Episode 65 of Badger Bizarre, "The Fox River: Corridor of Death."

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Opening Trailer:

Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI

Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition" - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media

Attribution for Music:

Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/

Intro: https://pixabay.com/

Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha https://www.pond5.com/

Attribution for logo design:

Red Claw Scratch Photo

Sources:

Appleton Post-Crescent - Archives

Edmunds, R David - "The Fox Wars; The Meskwaki Challenge to New France"

Green Bay Press Gazatte - Archives

Heritage Hill State Park

Neville Public Museum

Oshkosh Northwestern - Archives

Portage Daily Register - Archives

Ripon Commonwealth Press - Archives

Winnebago Historical Society

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