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Crosslakewitch (talk) 01:37, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Cross Lake Witch -- Trevor, Wisconsin The Cross Lake Witch is often associated with the Devil. In 1894, a known Satan follower and partaker in witchcraft, in Trevor, Wisconsin, whose name is as of yet unknown/unreleased, used to lure little boys into the woods and gouge their eyes out with an unknown device. The townsfolk all knew what was happening, but as in these times evidence was scarce and witches were believed to be real/dangerous, no one dared confront her. The children she chose were often between the ages of ten and fifteen, and after taking out their eyes, she would carve into their skull the sign of a square within a triangle. While only the bodies were discovered in 1894 (all 54 of them), buried under a shack in the middle of the Cross Lake woods, the murders happened at various times before then. The suspected murderer, after being widowed five years before the bodies were found (around the time the first child went missing), died of "unknown causes" in her sleep. They found her lying in her bed, bare naked, with the very same sign of a square within a triangle, imbedded across her stomach. The contents of her bedroom had been thrown violently all around, and there were signs of a great struggle, but from what the police could gather, the wounds were self-inflicted. The murders stopped for a while after she died, but in 1952, a boy, age 12, named Joseph Jackson, was found lying in the woods with nothing in his eye sockets and the very same square-within-a-triangle sign carved onto his head. In 1983, another boy, Charles Greene, was found next to his brother, Zachary, with the same markings. Then, more recently, on May 25th, 2006, a boy named Rick Carlyle, was discovered with the same marks. Police, baffled by the sign of no fingerprints/evidence, dropped the case three years ago. Since then, it has never been sighted, and in all its time has had just one woman victim, and that was the only person police have ever suspected. And so, the legend lives on of the "Cross Lake Witch."