There was a small square window in the attic that faced the street.
Janesville mn doll in attic.
In 1976 the man took a porcelain doll and placed it in the window.
His blank stare hides behind his porcelain face as he overlooks the street below.
The owner of the house ward wendt died in 2012 at the age of 84.
They called it the janesville doll and some say it was possessed by the tortured spirit of a little.
Janesville mystery doll janesville mn says.
For years the quiet town janesville minnesota was haunted by an eerie figure in an attic window.
Ward was born in the house he lived in all his life and the doll sat up in the attic for several decades.
His presence is felt by all who pass by and an uneasiness sits in the air like a heavy fog.
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.
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.
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.
Since 1976 a mysterious doll has been sitting in the attic of a home in janesville minnesota.
March 5 2014 at 10 48 am.
Ward s house was the home to the famous janesville doll in the window for decades.
The doll became so famous that it became a legend in janesville and even has its own website loaded with stories of the doll.
I first read about the janesville mystery doll or mystery boy a long while ago in a book about minnesota roadside oddities.