About The Show

WiscoWeird Host

Nate Liedl is as Wisconsin as cheese curds and Friday night fish fries — born and raised in Chippewa Falls, he's spent a lifetime surrounded by history, hometown legends, and the kind of unexplained oddities that most folks overlook. 

A graduate of a paralegal program with a sharp mind for detail, Nate balances the rigor of legal structure with a deep appreciation for the offbeat, obscure, and unexplained. Whether he's unearthing forgotten folklore, digging into local lore with a legal researcher’s lens, or exploring why that one bar in town swears it's haunted — Nate brings equal parts insight and humor to the mix.

When he’s not hosting WiscoWeird or working on one of his many entrepreneurial ventures, you’ll find him brainstorming business ideas or tracking down the best dive bars in Wisconsin (purely for research, of course).

He believes that every small town has a strange story worth telling — and he’s just the guy to tell it.

WiscoWeird Research Assistant 

Content researcher, occasional ghostwriter, and full-time skeptic (until proven wrong).

Ryan Ellis grew up on the outskirts of Eau Claire, raised on a healthy diet of supper club fish fries, 90s X-Files reruns, and the occasional unexplainable light in the woods behind his uncle’s hunting cabin. He graduated from UW–Stout with a degree in Media Studies and Folklore — a strange combo, but one that makes him perfect for the WiscoWeird team.

These days, Ryan helps dig into strange archives, forgotten legends, small-town oddities, and Midwest lore that didn’t make the tourism brochures. He’s the kind of guy who triple-checks sources, obsesses over getting the spelling of “Hodag” right, and never forgets to pack a flashlight — just in case.

When he's not chasing weird stories, Ryan's probably tinkering with old tech, drinking too much gas station coffee, or arguing with his cat about whether ghosts are real.