Why is Mount Horeb the ‘troll capital of the world’?

Published: Jan. 13, 2023, 11 a.m.

Trolls are everywhere you look in the Dane County Village of Mount Horeb: troll cartoons on the street signs, troll footprints on the sidewalk, sculptures of trolls lining Main Street. The sheer number of trolls in the community prompted a WHYsconsin listener to ask, “What’s the deal with all the trolls?” WPR’s Tim Peterson went in search of some answers.