2 - Gary's Boyhood Home

925 Dodge Street, Lake Geneva, WI 53147

Gary Gygax's maternal grandparents' (Burdick) home. Gary grew up in this home during the summers until his family permanently relocated here from Chicago when he was just 7 years old. He would live here with his parents, Ernest and Posey. Gary experienced several supernatural events here, including unexplained, loud noises, a giant ghostly hand pressing him into the upper bunk where he slept, and a door inexplicably swinging open, scaring Gary and his cat, Cue Ball, out of their wits. After his father's death in 1957, Gary would move away to enlist in the US Marine Corps. Next door, 921 Dodge Street, was his grandparents's home while building their new home at 925 Dodge Street. Gary's family spent time at 921 during the summers and lived here during his childhood.