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Milwaukee Public Museum ’s former director Stephan Francis de Borhegyi, an archaeologist from Hungary, was key to developing the “Milwaukee style” of immersive dioramas. His life was tragically cut short after a car accident on his way to the museum in 1969, but some say his spirit lingers on, haunting the museum’s third floor .

Up there, staff have claimed to experience a classic haunting: an apparition wearing a cape (Borhegyi preferred an opera cape to a coat), strange cold spots, motion detectors triggered, empty elevators arriving and opening by themselves.

But now that the museum is moving to a new building, what will become of the ghost?

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