Ohio Mysteries
591 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsEach week Paula and Stephen explore unsolved murders, lost shipwrecks, local legends and more! https://www.ohiomysteries.com. https://www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries https://www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries https://www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio
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Rewind -10-Minute Mystery: Symmes' Hollow Earth Theory
December 25, 2023 04:40 - 18 minutes10-Minute Mystery: Symmes' Hollow Earth Theory John Cleves Symmes Jr., who died in Hamilton, Ohio in 1829, spent his later years lecturing about his theory that the planet had a large habitable hole running the length of it. His efforts to mount an expedition to the Arctic to find the entrance may have even inspired the backstory of Santa living at the North Pole. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohio...
OM Backroads Ep:15. The Men in Black visit Ohio
December 21, 2023 01:00 - 13 minutesWe are all familiar with the Men in Black film franchise starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, but did you know that the Men in Black were a very real phenomenon often associated with Flying Saucers, especially in the 1960s and 1970s? Join Dan and Mike as they discuss the bizarre Men in Black case that was reported in Dayton, Ohio, in 1967. This case is officially the second-ever recorded incident of Men in Black in the United States. So, cue up the Twilight Zone theme music, slip on your ...
Ep. 255 - The Christmas Twinkler
December 18, 2023 01:00 - 17 minutesIn the 1950s, John Garver, a teacher at Boardman High School in Mahoning County, designed a Christmas ornament that could spin using the heat from the tree's electric Christmas lights. But despite selling millions of them, the era of the Christmas Twinkler came to an end rather quickly. What doomed the popular ornament? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Ep 18: The Christmas Treemusic hap...
Ep. 256 - The Christmas Twinkler
December 18, 2023 01:00 - 17 minutesIn the 1950s, John Garver, a teacher at Boardman High School in Mahoning County, designed a Christmas ornament that could spin using the heat from the tree's electric Christmas lights. But despite selling millions of them, the era of the Christmas Twinkler came to an end rather quickly. What doomed the popular ornament? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Ep 18: The Christmas Treemusic hap...
OM Backroads Ep:14. Mission Lost: The Incredible Tale of The Lady Be Good
December 14, 2023 03:30 - 20 minutesHello, in today's episode we examine a war story about the tragic first mission of the plane and crew of the "Lady Be Good", a WW2 bomber B-24D. It was considered lost until a fateful day 15 years later when the discovery would tell a heroic tale of endurance and tragedy that is difficult to believe with a fateful twist at the end. Please check other podcast episodes like this at: https://www.ohiomysteries.com/ Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people a...
Ep. 254 - Street names with remarkable origins. Pt 1
December 11, 2023 01:00 - 25 minutesMost streets are named for people or places. Sometimes they're connected to the street itself, sometimes not. But once in a while, a street name is a clue to a remarkable piece of history. This new series seeks out incidents so memorable that communities sought to preserve them in their street names. Tonight we travel to three of them: The colorful history behind Gipsy Drive and Stanley Avenue in Dayton; the heartwarming story of "Africa Road" in Delaware County; and the Akron tragedy forever...
OM Backroads Ep:13. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Hamilton, Hulse, and Grapewin
December 07, 2023 01:00 - 21 minutesDid you know that there were three actors from Ohio who starred in the 1939 classic film, “The Wizard of Oz”? Join Dan and Mike as they travel the backroads of Ohio to tell the stories of these three amazing Ohio actors! The journey starts with Cleveland native Margaret Hamilton, then heads to Darbyville, the boyhood town of James Hulse, and ends in Xenia, the hometown of Charley Grapewin. So, slip on your ruby slippers, click the heels together three times, and let’s magically transport down...
Ep. 253 - John Bingham, a founding father for a new America
December 04, 2023 01:00 - 19 minutesThe United States changed dramatically after the Civil War, and new laws were needed in order to make reconstruction work. Enter John Bingham, a congressman from Ohio, who framed the 14th Amendment. His "Equal Protection Clause" has become the most cited constitutional amendment in history, and represented the very first time the constitution promised to serve all Americans. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.f...
OM Backroads Ep:12 What's that smell? Body Snatching in the 1800's
November 30, 2023 01:00 - 22 minutesIn this episode we explore the gruesome ritual of body snatching. In the 1800's when medical colleges needed cadavers to dissect, they would frequently turn to clandestine groups of men and women, frequently called restrictionists, who would provide them with fresh bodies. Usually operating under the cover of darkness. they would often dig up graves to secure the bodies. Join us as we welcome our special guest, Doug Hullet, a local historian, to learn more about this frequently used practice....
UNRESOLVED Ep 17: Greg Peters
November 24, 2023 13:00 - 17 minutesA collaboration with the Akron Beacon Journal: In 2003, Greg Peters was working his dream job - the clerk of an Akron, Ohio head shop where the self-proclaimed hippie greeted like-minded people who stopped by to chat and buy smoking papers and black-light posters. But the day before Thanksgiving, a man swept into The Odd Corner, gunned Peters down, then fled. Twenty years later, police still don't know who ended the life of a man who spent a life preaching peace and love. www.ohiomysteries.c...
OM Backroads Ep:11 Who Coined the Term "Rock and Roll"?
November 23, 2023 01:00 - 11 minutesJoin Dan and Mike as they rock and roll their way down Ohio’s Backroads to Cleveland to determine if Alan Freed really coined the term “Rock and Roll” while he was a popular disc jockey on Cleveland radio in the 1950s. The city is known as the “Rock and Roll Capital of the World” and the Rock and Roll Museum is located on its Lake Erie shore, but did Alan Freed really coin the term that eventually bestowed these honors upon Ohio’s north coast city? Let’s find out! Please check other podcast e...
Ep. 252 - Revelations from a Preble County Jane Doe
November 20, 2023 01:00 - 26 minutesIn 1968, children in Eaton discovered partial remains in a flooded ditch, determined by pathologists to belong to a middle-aged woman. In 2019, Det Adam Turner in Shelby is searching for a missing person when he asks to exhume the old Eaton skeleton to test it for DNA. In 2023, investigators learn the Preble County Jane Doe is actually a man - Albert Allen Frost of Hamilton, Ohio - and Turner has quite a story to tell about who he is. Click here for episode on Det Adam Turner's search for Ma...
OM Backroads Ep:10 Football's First Forward Pass
November 16, 2023 01:00 - 10 minutesFootball season is heating up, so Dan and Mike are “going long” and hitting Ohio’s backroads to bring us some little-known and fascinating history on the development, execution, and success of football’s first forward pass and its huge connection to three Ohio men. Join us as run a “post pattern” to Cleveland to talk about that city’s connection to the first forward pass in pro football, and then we complete “a slant” to Bellevue, Ohio, to discuss its connection to the first forward pass in c...
Ep. 251 - The fortune teller killer
November 13, 2023 01:00 - 27 minutesIn 1847, a fortune teller from Morgan County traveled to Williams County and offered his self-proclaimed clairvoyant skills to the local farmers and settlers. There, he enlisted a mentally-challenged teenager to help him kill a boy so he could make money from the youth's parents by offering to find their missing child. It was something, he said, that had worked before. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.faceboo...
OM Backroads Ep:9 The Millfield Mine Disaster of 1930
November 09, 2023 01:00 - 39 minutesIn this episode we explore the Millfield Mine Disaster of 1930. On November 5, 1930 the town of Millfield, Ohio was devastated by an explosion in the Sunday Creek coal mine which resulted in the deaths of 82 men. Joining us today is our special guest, Ron Luce, who has written a book to be published in January 2024 called "The Millfield Mine Disaster". We discuss the causes, the rescues, the tragedy and the survivors. Ron Luce's upcoming book can be ordered at: https://www.amazon.com/Millfiel...
Ep. 250 - Ohio's prehistoric race of giants?
November 06, 2023 01:00 - 33 minutesEp. 250 - Ohio's prehistoric race of giants? Between 1800 and 1904, there were dozens of reports in Ohio of people finding huge skeletons, mostly while excavating prehistoric Indian mounds. Descriptions typically suggested heights of 7 to 8 feet, rows of double teeth, and jaws that could encase the head of a modern man. What was going on? We review some of the more interesting accounts. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteri...
OM Backroads Ep 8: Im hearing voices. Ohio's connection to 4 great Hollywood voice actors
November 02, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutesIn this episode, we explore the Buckeye state's connection to Smokey the Bear, the TV shows Gunsmoke and the Adventures of Superman, the cartoon character "Mr. Magoo", Yogi Bear, Disneyland and even the UFO crash at Roswell. All of these have connections to these four great voices: Jim Backus, Dawes Butler, Bill Kennedy and George Walsh. Please check other podcast episodes like this at: https://www.ohiomysteries.com/ Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores peo...
Ep. 249 - A haunted gun in McConnelsville
October 30, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutesIn 1905, McConnelsville town constable Horace Porter was shot to death by a local man with no history of violence. Four years later, the same gun found its way into the hands of Morgan County prosecutor Frank Parsons, who used it to kill himself. Investigators found Parsons had been drawing the revolver on paper while working up the nerve to act. Bonus: A look at the ghosts of the Twin City Opera House, where the spirit of Horace Porter may still be in residence. www.ohiomysteries.com feedb...
OM Backroads Ep 7: Wes Craven, Freddy Krueger, and Kirtland, Ohio
October 26, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutesIn this special Halloween episode, Dan and Mike travel down Ohio’s backroads to explore the Buckeye State’s connection to horror film director-writer and Cleveland native Wes Craven, who created one of the most iconic screen villains in cinematic history, Freddy Krueger, from the “Nightmare on Elm Street” film franchise. We’ll discuss Craven’s connections to Cleveland, the small town of Kirtland, Ohio, and a real-life scary event that occurred during Craven’s childhood that triggered his imag...
Ep. 248 - Ohio's connection to Nazi art theft
October 23, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutesIn September of 2023, authorities seized a painting from Oberlin College, saying it had been stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish concentration camp victim. We tell the story of the colorful and talented Franz "Fritz" Grunbaum and how a piece of art he owned ended up in Ohio. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional music: New Horizon - Aderin; Audionautix- The Great Unknown; The Great ...
OM Backroads Ep 6: The dark secrets of Schneider Park
October 19, 2023 03:56 - 27 minutesIn this episode we explore the dark mysteries about Schneider Park. A city park in a residential neighborhood in suburb Akron, Ohio, Schneider Park holds secrets to this day for it was on this site that the Summit County Infirmary once stood including the graveyard. A developer came in and purchased land but seemed to ignore the graveyard and progressed with building the houses in the area. Without any true grave markers, the land became a city park and to this day few people know that bodies...
Ep. 247 - The Moody Massacre
October 16, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutesIn 2005, Logan County investigators say 18-year-old Scott Moody shot and killed his mom, grandparents and two friends before turning the gun on himself. One problem with this theory is that Scott's sister Stacy was also shot that day, but she survived and insisted the shooter wasn't her brother, but a gray-haired man she had never seen before. That and a host of other problems have many folks in Bellefontaine believing this isn't really a closed case after all. www.ohiomysteries.com feedbac...
OM Backroads Ep 5: The legends, stories, rumors and truths about Gore Orphanage
October 12, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode we explore the legends, stories, rumors and the truth about Gore Orphanage. For a century, this long rumored haunted location has drawn curiosity seekers to test their bravery and explore Gore Orphanage at night. Are the rumors about "Old Man Gore" really true? Who actually set the fire that burned down the mansion? Is Gore Orphanage really haunted? We explore the Swift, Wilbur, and Sprunger families and discuss what really happened. Please check other episodes like this at: h...
Ep. 246 - The Satanic Panic and a Toledo mystery
October 09, 2023 00:00 - 57 minutesIn 1985, authorities in Lucas County announced they were bringing in bulldozers, fully expecting to find up to 75 bodies of people who had been ritually sacrificed by a local cult. They found none. We interview Jack Legg, whose new book "Digging up Devils" takes a look at that case and the national "Satanic Panic" scare that fueled thousands of witchhunts. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomys...
OM Backroads Ep 4: The 1966 Portage County UFO Chase
October 05, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutesIn this episode we explore the UFO chase in Portage County, Ohio in 1966. At 5 a.m. April 17, 1966, two Portage County, Ohio, sheriff deputies on routine patrol stop to investigate an abandoned vehicle down a dark road and are blinded by known craft rising into the sky behind the car. Deputy Dale Spaur decides to go check it out while his partner stayed behind. They heard a noise sounding like "an overloaded transformer" and illuminated the entire area in brilliant light. Th craft would lead ...
Ep. 245 - JFK bodyguard shatters "magic bullet" theory
October 02, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutesIn 1963, Ohio native Paul Landis was a Secret Service agent assigned to protect First Lady Jackie Kennedy, a role that put him on the running board of the car tailing President Kennedy at the moment Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. In October of 2023, Landis is releasing a memoir of his experience, and for the first time, he reveals a decision he made at the crime scene that could change theories about what happened that day. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com...
OM Backroads Ep 3: The Mad Miller of Milan
September 28, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutesIn this episode we journey to Milan, Ohio and discuss the Mad Miller of Milan. The Mad Miller of Milan was named Sam Winchester. He owned a mill in Milan, Ohio and decided to fly in a balloon. When he set aloft in 1855, this fateful flight would lead to mysteries that are still talked about today. Here is a YouTube video filmed at the actual launch spots!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfWWUmG8zzE&t=7s Thanks for the gracious people at the Milan Historical society: https://milanhistory.org...
Ep. 244 - The ax murder of Rosa Colvin
September 25, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutesIn 1866, the body of Rosa Colvin was discovered in the woods near the shanty she shared with her husband, Bill, in Cuyahoga County's Olmsted Township. Cause of death: An ax to the head. Though Bill was initially arrested for murder, authorities began to believe the real killer may have been a boarder the couple had taken in. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional music: New Ho...
OM Backroads Ep 2: The Mysterious Death of Actor George Reeves
September 21, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutesJoin us on our Backroads journey to Cincinnati, Ohio, as we explore the Queen City's connections to actor George Reeves, who is best remembered for his role as Superman In the 1950s. Reeves died under mysterious circumstances in 1959. In this episode we'll discuss why Reeves' body was sent to a Cincinnati hospital after his death, and why his body spent several months in storage at a Cincinnati cemetery. We'll also discuss Reeve's multiple family connections to Cincinnati. Mike hosts a Facebo...
Ep. 243 - The legends of Holcomb Woods, the Elmore Rider, and the Dogman of Defiance
September 18, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutesA new book - “Unnatural Ohio: A History of Buckeye Cryptids, Legends and Other Mysteries” - has been released by Kevin Moore and Kristina Smith, who both work at the Hayes Presidential Library and Museum. They share with us three of their stories: the legend of Holcomb Woods (Wood County), the Elmore Rider (Ottawa County) and the Defiance Dogman (Defiance County.) www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com...
OM Backroads Ep 1: The skydiving tragedy of Huron
September 14, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutesHello and Welcome to the first episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In this episode we discuss the skydiving tragedy of Huron, Ohio. On Sunday, August 28th, 1967, 18 skydivers accidentally parachuted into Lake Erie in an attempt at a high altitude (20,000') jump and 16 people were killed. A series of errors led to this tragedy including a deadly mistake by the FAA, a pilot who drifted off course and sky divers eager for the experience. This disaster was the deadliest accident in the history ...
Ep. 242 - Where are Jesse Owens' gold medals?
September 11, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutesIn 1936, Jesse Owens single-handedly shattered Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy by winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games. But he returned home to a deeply segregated country that challenged him to the very end. We share the highlights of his life and career, and follow the trail of what happened to his iconic gold medals. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional music: ...
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Ep. 241 - Interview with Justin Glanville of new "Mary & Bill" podcast
September 04, 2023 00:00 - 49 minutesIn 1970, university students Mary Petry and Bill Sproat were murdered in Bill's Columbus apartment in such a brutal way, people wondered if Charles Manson copycats were at work. In a new 7-part podcast "Mary & Bill: An Ohio Cold Case," investigative reporter Justin Glanville revisits the crime and offers fresh interviews, new facts and hope for a conclusion. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiom...
UNRESOLVED Ep 16: Javan and Markus Rogers
August 31, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutesAn Ohio Mysteries/Akron Beacon Journal crossoverIn 2002, Javan and Markus Rogers - brothers and rap record producers in Akron - were shot and killed three months apart. Akron police thought they could prove who pulled the trigger in one of the murders, but an evidence mixup in Youngstown resulted in the case being thrown out. More than 20 years later, police still don't even have a motive in the murders, though suspect drugs or debt were involved. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.com ...
Ep. 240 - The Marietta ax murder
August 28, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutesIn Marietta, legend has it that in the late 1800s, a son beheaded his adulterous father in front of his mistress at a riverfront hotel. The former La Belle Hotel where it is said to have happened is now nearly 200 years old, and modern-day tenants believe all three of their spirits are still repeating the crime. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional music: New Horizon - Aderin; Aud...
Ep. 239 - The Marietta ax murder
August 28, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutesEp. 239 - The Marietta ax murderIn Marietta, legend has it that in the late 1800s, a son beheaded his adulterous father in front of his mistress at a riverfront hotel. The former La Belle Hotel where it is said to have happened is now nearly 200 years old, and modern-day tenants believe all three of their spirits are still repeating the crime. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional ...
Rewind! Episode 20: The disappearance of Mel Wiley
August 24, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutesIn 1985, Mel Wiley, the police chief in Medina County's Hinckley Township, tells his girlfriend he's meeting an old friend for a dip in Lake Erie. Three days later, park rangers find his abandoned car at Edgewater Park with his clothes, money and police ID inside - but no chief. While townsfolk wonder if he met with foul play, was lost in a drowning accident or committed suicide, the lead investigator settles on a completely different theory: That Wiley, who loved writing mystery novels in hi...
Ep. 239 - The journey of The Success
August 21, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutesIn 1840, a merchant ship was built in Burma for trading throughout India. But over the next century, it would be reinvented many times - as an immigrant ship from Britain to Australia, as a jail for convicts in Melbourne, as a tourist attraction throughout the western world. Her last chapter was written in Ohio, where someone lit it on fire on the Fourth of July in 1946. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.c...
Rewind: Mysterious Gravesites (Ep 63)
August 17, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutesFive mysteries in Ohio that involve the gravesite of notable Ohioans. We explore the strange habits of the granite ball over the Charles Merchant Family plot, why Chief Joc-O-Sot might be haunting the Joining us is Michael Bonano, administrator of the Facebook page "Too Late For Autographs, Ohio," who has visited each of the featured sites. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: O...
Ep. 238 - The Cincinnati Strangler
August 14, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutesCincinnati arrested and convicted Posteal Laskey Jr. for running over and stabbing to death a woman he picked up in a stolen cab. But was Laskey also responsible for the rape and choking deaths of six other women in 1966? Officials believe he was the "Cincinnati Strangler," though he was never convicted in those deaths. The story was made more complicated because Laskey was black, during a height of racial tensions in the country, and his conviction led to volatile unrest in the Queen City. ...
Rewind: The Toledo Clubber (Ep 16)
August 10, 2023 00:00 - 45 minutesIn 1925-26, a man with a face painted red and a maniacal laugh stalked the west end of Toledo, randomly selecting women and clubbing them - many, to the death. A serial killer still unidentified to this date had this city on the edge of hysteria, and with good reason. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep. 237 - Albert Sabin and the polio vaccine
August 07, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutesWhen Albert Sabin graduated from medical school in New York, his mentor encouraged him to focus his career on a killer that had terrorized a generation: Polio. So when Sabin accepted a job as a medical researcher at the University of Cincinnati, he did just that. After solving the mysteries of the virus, he made Cincinnati the first American city immune to the illness. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.faceboo...
Rewind: More mysterious graves (10-Minute Mystery)
August 03, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutesWhy does the Painesville, Ohio tombstone of Joseph Linhart proclaim him to be "Not Guilty." Why did thousands of people visit the McMorran family plot in a small St. Paris, Ohio cemetery in 1975? Why does Jessica Lyn Keen have markers in two different cemeteries in West Jefferson, Ohio? [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birc...
Ep. 236 - A WWII story: Two enemy pilots and a German orphan
July 31, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutesIn 1945, Jim Heckman of Akron, Ohio was knocked out of the sky over Germany by an enemy pilot. More than 40 years later, a German man who had been made an orphan by American bombers works to bring the two pilots together in a unique friendship. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional music: New Horizon - Aderin; Audionautix- The Great Unknown; The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch L...
Rewind: How old is Ohio? (10-Minute Mystery)
July 27, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes10-Minute Mystery: How old is Ohio? Ohio has been treated like a state since 1803, when Congress extended federal laws to the land. But in 1953, researchers preparing for Ohio's 150th birthday learned something stunning: Congress had never actually declared Ohio a state. So how old is Ohio, and what does it mean for the eight presidents Ohio gave the country in its first 150 years? [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www...
Ep. 235 - Confidence without conviction: The murder of Barbara Ann Butler
July 24, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutesIn 1968, Barbara Ann Butler, a 23-year-old schoolteacher, went to a store in Kettering in the middle of the afternoon. The next day, she was discovered dead on the floor of her car. Four years later, police named their top suspect as Jimmy Wayne Howard and closed her case, saying they were unable to pursue a conviction but were confident of his guilt. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysterie...
Ep. 234 - Larry Abshier's desertion to North Korea
July 17, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutesIn the early 1960s, four American soldiers patrolling the DMZ between South Korea and North Korea separately made an incomprehensible decision - to seek asylum in the communist country. Larry Abshier, a private from Garfield Heights, Ohio, was one of the four, and never seen by anyone in the free world again. His life was a complete mystery until 2004, when one of the defectors was able to leave North Korea and finally share their story. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www...
Rewind: The missing crew of Ghost Blimp (Ep 110)
July 13, 2023 02:02 - 20 minutesIn the 1942, in an Akron-built Goodyear blimp delivered to the Navy after the start of WWII, a two-man crew set out over the Pacific from San Francisco for a short four-hour patrol in search of Japanese subs. The blimp returned. The crew did not. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Get That Tree Up On The Roof, by Lisa Gain & the Rusty Silos. Find more at: https://www.facebook.com/ru...
Ep. 233 - The Independence Day mutant storm of 1969
July 10, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutesIn a weather event Ohio had never before experienced, a powerful "derecho" thunderstorm formed as Fourth of July revelers gathered along the Lake Erie shoreline for a fireworks show. The storm capsized 200 boats before making its way south to Wayne County and its neighbors, where flash floods devastated communities. In the end, 41 people were killed and an estimated 21,000 homes and businesses damaged or destroyed. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteri...