An old municipal cemetery in the North Woods village of Fifield, Price County, where the oldest graves date to the logging era and local tradition — documented in a published regional guide — attributes apparitions and unexplained phenomena to the headstones.
Krucky Road off Old 70 Road, Fifield, WI 54524
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Est. 1890 · Primary burial ground for Town of Fifield, Price County · Successor to original Fifield cemetery that was prone to flooding · Graves span the Price County logging era to present · Featured in published book: 'The Wisconsin Road Guide to Haunted Locations' by Chad Lewis and Terry Fisk (2004)
Fifield, Wisconsin is a small community in Price County in the Northern Highlands, established as a settlement during the late-nineteenth-century timber boom that stripped much of northern Wisconsin's white pine. The first cemetery was located on a hill at the north edge of the original village, near the present gravel pit. That site proved flood-prone, and most interments were eventually relocated to Forest Home Cemetery on Krucky Road off Old 70.
The cemetery is managed and maintained by the Town of Fifield. Its grave markers span a wide period, with some older stones predating the establishment of this cemetery at their current location — an artifact of the relocation process. The surrounding North Woods forest gives Forest Home Cemetery a distinctly remote atmosphere, consistent with the isolated character of Price County's small communities.
The Price County Genealogical Society has compiled a full alphabetical burial list for the cemetery, and it appears on Find a Grave with established burial records. It is a designated public cemetery under Town of Fifield municipal authority.
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The haunting tradition at Forest Home Cemetery in Fifield is documented in the published regional paranormal guide 'The Wisconsin Road Guide to Haunted Locations' by Chad Lewis and Terry Fisk (Unexplained Research LLC, 2004), lending it more standing than a purely Shadowlands-only claim.
According to that source and regional lore, visitors to the cemetery after dark have reported seeing misty formations around the older headstones — formations not attributed to weather conditions. Orbs of light have appeared in photographs taken at the site that were not visible to photographers at the time of exposure. Shadow figures have been reported moving quickly through the graveyard. Visitors have also reported hearing disembodied voices and, in some accounts, the sound of children crying with no visible source. The Shadowlands index adds that strange shadows can be seen by the naked eye, consistent with the shadow figure reports.
No named entities or specific historical incidents are attached to the Fifield cemetery tradition; the phenomena are of the residual, atmospheric type common to rural North Woods cemeteries. All paranormal claims are presented as folklore and visitor reports, not verified events.
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Self-guided walk through the historic municipal cemetery, whose oldest stones date to Price County's lumber era. Some graves were relocated from the earlier Old Fifield Cemetery when that site flooded.
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