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. March 5 2014 at 10 48 am. 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. There was a small square window in the attic that faced the street. His presence is felt by all who pass by and an uneasiness sits in the air like a heavy fog.

Ward s house was still is home to the famous janesville doll in the window. Janesville mystery doll janesville mn says. The doll became so famous that it became a legend in janesville and even has its own website loaded with stories of the doll. Ward was born in the house he lived in all his life and the doll sat up in the attic for several decades.

Why is the doll. Children noticed the doll in the attic window and became weary of it claiming its expression would change. The owner of the house ward wendt died in 2012 at the age of 84. His blank stare hides behind his porcelain face as he overlooks the street below.

Ward was born in the house he lived in all his life and the doll sat up in the attic for several decades. For years the quiet town janesville minnesota was haunted by an eerie figure in an attic window. I first read about the janesville mystery doll or mystery boy a long while ago in a book about minnesota roadside oddities. 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.

Ward s house was the home to the famous janesville doll in the window for decades. During the 1970s a man lived by himself in janesville minnesota.