Once upon a time, there lived a man named Jackson. He work as a grain operator in Lidtke Mill, located on the Upper Iowa River. His duties included, weighing the grain, then grading the grain to see how wet it was, finally he would dump the grain, and another worker would turn it into flour. He had to be careful because there were a lot of pulleys, conveyors, and augers. His job was very dangerous. He worked long scary hours. One day when he was auguring the grain from the pit (where the farmers had dumped it) to the place in the mill where the flour gets made, one of his coworkers, whose name was Ben, was leaning against the auger, he did not realize to his dismay that it was running. Ben got caught in the auger, and screamed for help. Finally, Jackson heard the screams so he ran to see what was going on. That's when he saw that Ben was caught in the auger. He shut off the auger as quickly as he could, and went to get help. The coworkers all came to help pry Ben from the auger but were unsuccessful. Finally the local doctor arrived, sadly they had to amputate Ben’s arm because they couldn’t release it from the auger, they even tried to reverse the way the auger spun but that just got his arm more stuck. It was wedged to tight. …show more content…
Some people swear that it was Ben's arm making those noises. The people that know the mill believe it was haunted. They say the noises and screams came from the exact spot where Ben’s accident had occurred. The mill workers had been very frightened by those noises so they did not go to work for a week and when they returned they made sure that they left work by 4:55 pm so that they didn’t have to endure the scariness of the hauntings at Lidtke