Comments on: Restaurant

By: Lynette

Lynette — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:30:26 +0000

The William Sowiak family lived in a small clapboard house in Plover from 1957 to 1982 and although they did experience some odd things during their residency, according to their son Mike, they were very reluctant to talk about it. It wasn’t until the family moved out that the ghostly activity became public knowledge…and much more frightening.
In 1982, Tim and Louise Mulderink bought the 125-year old house and decided to turn it into a restaurant. They called it the Old Sherman House after one of Plover’s early and influential residents, Eugene Sherman. Initially, the young couple was too busy with their extensive renovations to notice that anything odd was going on but once the bar opened for business, they realized they were not alone in the house.
Glass windows had a habit of shattering, glasses and plates would fly off bars and counters and explode in front of customers. Doors opened and closed by themselves and lights in the offices and the restaurant refused to behave normally. At one point, employees even complained that invisible forms brushed past them in some of the rooms.

Tim and Louise realized that they had a ghost. They decided to do some research into the history of the place and try to figure out why. They gathered information about the place and discovered that, although the only person to die in the house was an infant, they believed they had found the identity of the ghost. Most of the families who had lived in the house had been strict Methodists and very against the “evils” of alcohol. This was especially true of the Pierce family, who had lived in the house from 1903 to 1945. James Pierce had been a church deacon and an influential member of the local church. The Mulderink’s believed that they may have offended James Pierce with the idea that they had turned his former home into a restaurant… and unwittingly turned his former bedroom into a bar!The strange phenomena in the house continued and finally drove the Mulderink’s out of the house…. they closed the restaurant after only a few years in business. Later on, the restaurant opened again, this time with the name “The Cottage House Restaurant”. At this time, the status of the haunting is unknown.
The Cottage has been for sale for at least 10 years now. It is now at a reduced price. Any one who has owned The Cottage, ends up selling it very quickly, only saying “it’s haunted” and “do not go upstairs”. Reports of employees turning off all the lights, and then going out to the parking lot to get into their cars, and seeing all the lights come back on.

By: Lynette

Lynette — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:26:04 +0000

I believe I know what restaurant is being mentioned and in the 20 years I lived in that area, I too, had heard the ghost stories. I never went into the restaurant, but I had heard that dishes were thrown at customers and owners were forced to shut down. Most of the time I lived there, the restaurant was for sale. I never heard anything about a baby, tho.

By: Megan again

Megan again — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:28:12 +0000

Ok so maybe there was an infant who died, but that part wasn’t important – here is a link to the article’s story:

http://centralwisconsinghostsblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/cottage.html

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:24:14 +0000

I grew up in the adjacent Stevens Point, WI and we talked about the Cottage in my 7th grade English class. There was an article in the newspaper about it in the late 1990s-early 2000s we read, and the story they told there was completely different. No dead baby, but rather angry abolitionists who haunt the place because the bar of the restaurant is in their former master bedroom. The stories of the light in the office upstairs coming on and flying/exploding glasses are consistent with the story I heard though, and having been past that area many, many times in my youth, the feeling is always ominous.

By: Spooky Hotels

Spooky Hotels — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:17:41 +0000

Houses made into restaurants are creepy no matter what! lol

By: ruthy Mcclure

ruthy Mcclure — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:28:22 +0000

I believe that if nothing happened it would be a good spirit, if it was an evil spirit it won’t mess around it will do things like you won’t believe. You don’t mess around with spirits and it is nothing to joke about, and what some of them said, I disagree. If you don’t know what’s going on keep quiet, if you haven’t experienced it.Spirits can do anything.

By: mommabear

mommabear — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:41:33 +0000

all this sounds really fishy. I like spooks and haunts, but it is hard to believe unless you experience it yourself. I saw the haunting episode with the Dartford cemetery in Green Lake Wisconsin, and sat on that very same moseleum they aired, and nothing ever happened. I did capture some pictures of some orbs though, and that was cool. most of you in here sound like children or young adults, so Lazer guy, what are you a F$%^&ing pedifile? Keep your dirty comments to yourself or stay out of these sight!!! Thanks guys for your comments.

By: TyerSmith

TyerSmith — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:50:20 +0000

The cottage is a freaky place… All I know is that a baby didn’t die there. Lol but they said that they would leave at night and put the chairs up and in the morning they are down.

By: mackanator

mackanator — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:55:16 +0000

hi, i am wondering if i could please come and investigate yer resturant i would b pleased to find out if yer resturant is haunted or not and hopefully i could give you some answers about the stuff thats been happening at your resturant if you want me to come to search you resturant just comment and let me know i would be more than glad to help

By: Slim

Slim — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:01:33 +0000

I worked at the cottage for a year during school at UWSP. I personally had one lady freak out at the table closest to the kitchen claiming to have seen something and left. That was the only person I know of who claimed to have seen something first hand. Upstairs however, there was something going on. There was a large area converted for use as a banquet area, and then another section of the upstairs that was closed off, unfinished and in general disarray. I did walk through there one night and was totally creeped out but never saw anything.