I dont know avgreat deal about Black River Falls so I cant say much more other than to add that there were a number of areas across the northern part of Wisconsin that reported some pretty strange events back then. The effects are evident even today.
Belgians were the primary settlers in the immediate atea near where I live today. To this day some farms have a shrine like a mini church at what would be the front left corner of the property to a person standing on the front porch.
Of course, if you’re snowed in or something you could pop in there to appologize for not making it to mass or to do some late night praying for a sick one without waking the family but thats not why they were originally built.
The short version is that about this time there was a proud man that was expecting a huge sum of money but it was given to a very pious local priest instead. The proud man cursed the priest but God deflected the curse and it bounced back. For the rest of the proud mans life he was followed by human faced pig demons that tormented him. To interact with or cross the path of the proud man could occasionally cause one of the pig demons to follow one home. Without the shrine designating your property as belonging to one of The Lord, yhe demons could infect your home and call allies to torment your family too.
Just a ridiculous local legend about a local priest I suppose...but if it was, why did the human faced pig demons subsequently appear in Tennessee?
Orf on Sienfeld?
[[Belgians were the primary settlers in the immediate atea near where I live today.]]
All the strangeness began when the Belgians introduced their famed majic mushroom soup appetizers