So far I have learned so much about the past people who have died in Eau Claire. I never would have thought that there would be so many odd stories that dealt with deaths especially in that time period. Finding things I will admit wasn’t the easiest. I had a rough start. Not really getting into the exact information I wanted. I worked on it more and did my research and the archives really were what helped me the most. This surprised me I honestly thought I could find a lot online. My question was interesting to begin with. I wanted to know about different bizarre stories and deaths in the past to see the differences from the present day stories. Truth be told I found a lot of things. They have odd stories and I feel like I figured out why. When reading about stories of people dying from the sight of blood or even their dog dying it just didn’t seem like that was completely the case. All of the truly bizarre stories ended with people having heart disease. Maybe if there was better technology they would have been able to find out the truth to all of this. Today doctors can really dig deep and discover exactly what happened. I don’t think that was case back then. To further my answer I would want to figure out what type of education was needed back then compared to today’s education.  I would want to see if what I am concluding is right. I will also find more odd stories if I continue on the path I was on but if I change directions and figure out a different approach as to why they were more unusual back then it would completely answer what I’m wondering.

For this source I went did a little investigating in the library. I found myself in the archives again. This time was for a source that seemed a little more what I was looking for. Eerie Eau Claire is what it was called. It’s a small book put together by Chad Lewis. This book talks about the strange stories in Wisconsin’s past. I chose this because it fit my time frame I was looking at and it gets into those odd stories I was wanting to learn about in the beginning. I believe that this source builds up a good ethos by telling where it come its stories from and when they happened. Majority of the stories come from Eau Claire Leader. The karios hinders this source because they believe he published this around 2002. This isn’t near the time when any of these events happened.  Nonetheless finding this source in the archives made me feel like it was reliable because they wouldn’t put unreliable sources in there.

Opening up this source I had no idea what I would find. I was just hoping it was worth the time. I opened it up and it had a table of context explaining what it discusses. There were so many weird things within this book. I went straight to the bizarre deaths. There weren’t many stories so I thought I would discuss all that were written. The first one is about how a husband and wife died on the same day randomly. Mr. Hathaway died at 2 o’ clock a.m., and his wife passed away at 11:30 a.m. Mrs. William Jenner died after yawning without interruption for three days. Physicians decided that the woman was suffering from obscure lesion of the brain producing laryngeal spasms. She died of lack of strength. Miss Carrie Deavenport was found dead in her bathtub. She was in the habit of taking cold baths in the morning. One more the shock of the cold caused heart failure. Nellie Youngs died of heart disease when she saw her favorite poodle under the wheels of a fast passenger train. Mrs. C. T. Robinson died supposedly of the sight of blood. Schuyler Hall was thrown through the plate glass window of Robinson’s millinery story. Robinson’s saw the blood and dropped dead from heart disease. Weyenberg brothers died similar and the story is extraordinary. Both men lived to be the same age; both dropped dead from heart failure, neither having had a day’s illness for years prior to their death, and both died a short time after discussion the death of another. The last story they had was about a girl who was buried for a day then her neighbors claimed she was still alive so they unburied her and had to rebury her that day. All of these stories seemed a little far-fetched but can all be truthful.

I thought that this source was helpful with the topic and what I wanted to learn about. I think that if you wanted to hear some really interesting stories that this is a good source. I feel like some of the stories could be elaborated a little bit for the fun factor. I learned that Eau Claire had some weird things happen. This source really helped me in my research.