Ohio Mysteries
591 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 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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Ep. 174 - A Trio of Musical Mysteries
March 21, 2022 00:00 - 25 minutes1.When Twinsburg police finally were able to identify remains of a man found 40 years ago, they discovered he was an early member of the O'Jays. 2) The story behind the legend of "The Scream" on the Ohio Players' hit Love Rollercoaster. 3) The murder/suicide of Roger and Larry Troutman, founders of the Dayton funk group Zapp, still have people asking "Why?" www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteri...
10-Minute Mystery: The hazing of Herbert B. Knowles
March 17, 2022 00:00 - 16 minutesDid a brutal hazing in his freshman year at Akron High School shorten the life of a bright and promising young businessman? Herbert B. Knowles didn't live to see his company, Burt Manufacturing, grow and evolve over the next 130 years. He was dead at 23. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn more about your ad choic...
Ep. 173 - The Ray Gricar disappearance
March 14, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutesIn 2005, Ray Gricar, the sitting district attorney for Pennsylvania's Centre County, vanished. Gricar was born in Cleveland, earned his law degree at Case Western Reserve, and cut his teeth in the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office. Did he commit suicide like his older brother had in West Chester, Ohio? Was he killed by any of the enemies he'd made in his long career? Or did he walk away from his life? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitte...
10-Minute Mystery: Utopia
March 10, 2022 01:00 - 17 minutesIn the 1800s, three different experimental societies tried to establish a unique community in Clermont County, along the Ohio River. They failed. A road sign still marks where "Utopia" was meant to be, and where the specters of doomed and angry settlers are said to roam. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...
Ep. 172 - The truth about Annie Oakley
March 07, 2022 01:00 - 28 minutesIn the late 1800s, Annie Oakley - a young sharpshooter from Ohio's Darke County - arguably became the most famous woman in America, maybe even the world. She toured with the Buffalo Bill Wild West show and entertained royalty and heads of state. But decades later, her brother cried while watching a Broadway musical about her life because they got her story so wrong. Let's separate fact from fiction. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com...
Ohio Mysteries Presents- Announcement
March 05, 2022 04:29 - 4 minutesAnnouncing YouTube channel and change in "featured musical artist" segment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10-Minute Mystery: The Witch's Tower
March 03, 2022 01:00 - 10 minutesIn the 1940s, the scenic Hills and Dales MetroPark in Kettering, Ohio added an observation tower, built to look like the turret of a fortress. It became a lure for mischief makers who vandalized it and partied around it. But allegations that it's haunted come from the very real tragedy of a girl who was struck and killed by lightning after turning to the tower for shelter from a storm. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio...
Ep. 171 - Did Thomas Edison have Louis LePrince killed?
February 28, 2022 01:00 - 34 minutesIn 1890, Louis LePrince was reportedly on his way to America to demonstrate his invention of the moving picture camera. But on the train ride from his brother's home in France, he vanished. When Thomas Edison revealed his movie camera a few months later, LePrince's family became convinced Edison had their patriarch murdered. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Featured music: Countryside, b...
10-Minute Mystery: Cassie Cole
February 24, 2022 01:00 - 10 minutesIn 2002, 14-year-old Cassandra "Cassie" Cole disappeared from the family home in Tiffin - sometime after falling asleep, but before it was time to wake for school. Her body was found four months later along a river shoreline, but with no evidence of murder, her case is still called "a suspicious death." www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown ...
Ep. 170 - Dr. James Snook: Premeditation, or passion?
February 21, 2022 01:00 - 37 minutesIn 1929, an affair between married Ohio State University professor Dr. James Snook and medical student Theora Hix came to a crashing end when he beat her with a hammer and slashed her throat. He laid out an elaborate story, trying to convince the jury it was self defense. But two days after he was sent to the electric chair, the prison warden said Snook told him it had always been premeditated. (Warning: Some graphic sexual descriptions included.) www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries...
Rewind: Sojourner Truth (10-Minute Mystery)
February 17, 2022 01:00 - 24 minutesIn 1851, at the second National Woman's Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, a runaway slave named Sojourner Truth used her compelling life as an argument in favor of gender equality. Her speech electrified the crowd and her catch phrase "Ain't I a woman?" became a battle cry for feminists. But did Truth really say the words for which she is most famous? 20th-century historians launched an effort to find out. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www...
Rewind: 10-Minute Mystery: Sojourner Truth
February 17, 2022 01:00 - 24 minutesIn 1851, at the second National Woman's Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, a runaway slave named Sojourner Truth used her compelling life as an argument in favor of gender equality. Her speech electrified the crowd and her catch phrase "Ain't I a woman?" became a battle cry for feminists. But did Truth really say the words for which she is most famous? 20th-century historians launched an effort to find out. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries ...
Ep. 169 - What happened to Shaylene Farrell?
February 14, 2022 01:00 - 21 minutesIn 1994, 18-year-old Shaylene Farrell told her sister she was running to a corner store near their Piqua, Ohio home. When her family went looking for her later, they found her car, but Shaylene was gone. In never-before published details, we reveal what detectives on the case think might have happened. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
10-Minute Mystery: The Mythical Silver Mines of the Shawnee
February 10, 2022 01:00 - 13 minutesIn the late 1700s, men who had been held captive by the Shawnee told of how they were blindfolded, taken to a mysterious wood, then made to transport heavy ore. Later, pioneers found excavations that are believed to have been former silver mines. We explore the evidence of such mines in Greene County, Ohio and the historic Shawnee capital of Old Chillicothe. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomy...
Ep. 168 - The last Ohioans of the USS Oklahoma
February 07, 2022 01:00 - 23 minutesIn 1941, the USS Oklahoma sunk during the battle of Pearl Harbor, and the lost crew was buried together in Hawaii. This past decade, the military used DNA to return a majority of the remains to their families. We share the story of one Ohioan who is coming home for burial, and another who is still missing. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher-...
Rewind: 10-Minute Mystery: The WOW Signal
February 01, 2022 19:53 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBA strong Narrowband radio signal detected on August 15th 1977 at Ohio State.
Ep. 167 - Is George Remus "The Great Gatsby?"
January 31, 2022 01:00 - 25 minutesWhen Chicago lawyer George Remus moved to Cincinnati in 1920, he was already famous for pioneering the temporary insanity defense. But he had another career in mind when he came to Ohio - building a criminal empire. Later, some would say F. Scott Fitzgerald modeled his legendary character Jay Gatsby after the multimillionaire who was so brilliant, he got away with shooting his wife in front of dozens of witnesses. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries ...
UNRESOLVED Ep. 8: Jeffrey Sauber
January 26, 2022 11:00 - 21 minutesIn 1980, 18-year-old Jeff Sauber, on leave after finishing Marine boot camp, went to the Summit Drive-In with his friend to watch a movie called The Exterminator. During the evening, a stranger fatally stabbed Jeff while calling himself the exterminator. For the first time, Summit County Sheriff detectives reveal a racially-charged motive, and the fact that they have long had a suspect. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.comAkron Beacon Journal: http://www.beaconjournal.com Learn more...
Ep. 165 - Mob Mentality: Marion
January 24, 2022 01:00 - 21 minutes - 29.4 MBIn 1919, Marion became an all-white community overnight when a mob intimidated more than 200 black families into fleeing the city. The unrest began with the murder of a white woman and police insistence that the killer must have been black. Though the case went unsolved, Marion became one of six communities in Ohio known as "sundown" towns for efforts to stop black families from locating there. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twit...
Ep. 166 - Mob Mentality: Marion
January 24, 2022 01:00 - 23 minutesIn 1919, Marion became an all-white community overnight when a mob intimidated more than 200 black families into fleeing the city. The unrest began with the murder of a white woman and police insistence that the killer must have been black. Though the case went unsolved, Marion became one of six communities in Ohio known as "sundown" towns for efforts to stop black families from locating there. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/myst...
10-Minute Mystery: Nadine Madger
January 20, 2022 01:00 - 12 minutesIn 1980, 25-year-old Nadine Madger was stabbed to death in the kitchen of her Willougby home while her infant slept in a crib nearby. The murder was never solved, though one detective attempted to tie it to father/son serial killers he'd put in jail for the stabbing murders of Philip and Dorothy Porter of Shaker Heights, and Karen LaSpina of Eastlake. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomy...
Ep. 165 - Who was Johnny Appleseed?
January 17, 2022 01:00 - 33 minutesIn 1801, a man from New England - barefoot and with a cooking pot on his head - arrived in Ohio, planting apple trees to give sustenance to settlers who were coming to this wild frontier. John Chapman became known as the legendary Johnny Appleseed, but what do we really know about him? [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Paradise, by Damn the Witch Siren. Find more at https://www.da...
10-Minute Mystery: Glenna White
January 13, 2022 01:00 - 14 minutesIn December of 2021, Portage County Sheriff's and US Marshals arrested Robert Moore of Alliance for the murder of Glenna Jean White, a 17-year-old girl that has been missing since 2009. They also announced a reward for information that will lead to her body. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn mor...
Ep. 164 - What sank the Sultana?
January 10, 2022 01:00 - 31 minutesIn April of 1865, more than 2100 Union soldiers were finally on their way home, having been released from southern prison camps at the conclusion of the Civil War. But as the grossly overloaded Sultana steamship chugged up the Mississippi, it exploded, killing most of those on board. The dead included nearly 800 soldiers from Ohio. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: How I'm Gonna Di...
10-Minute Mystery: Andrea Flenoury and Donna Pittinger
January 06, 2022 01:00 - 12 minutesIn 2005, Andea Flenoury, an exotic dancer, and Donna Pittinger, a sex worker, were taken from Akron streets, killed and dumped in bodies of water. Their murders were never solved, and questions remain as to whether a serial killer was at work.www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn more ab...
Ep. 163 - John Lambert and America's first car
January 03, 2022 01:00 - 29 minutesIn the 1920s, the Smithsonian Institute was faced with the question of who to credit with making America's first gasoline-powered car. And while two other auto pioneers insisted they were the first, the venerable museum cast its vote for John William Lambert and the creation he took for a spin in the Van Wert County village of Ohio City back in 1891. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Musi...
REWIND: America's First Christmas Tree
December 23, 2021 01:00 - 19 minutes(This is our annual repeat of a seasonal favorite.) For more than 50 years, the country accepted without question that Wooster, Ohioimmigrant August Imgard was the first to decorate a Christmas tree in America. His charming story from 1847 was told and retold by newspapers from coast to coast every December. Then, a Wooster professor vowed to learn if he really was the first.www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebo...
Rewind: The First Christmas Tree (Ep 18)
December 23, 2021 01:00 - 19 minutes(This is our annual repeat of a seasonal favorite.) For more than 50 years, the country accepted without question that Wooster, Ohioimmigrant August Imgard was the first to decorate a Christmas tree in America. His charming story from 1847 was told and retold by newspapers from coast to coast every December. Then, a Wooster professor vowed to learn if he really was the first.www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebo...
Ep. 162 - Jesse James' mysterious visit to Ohio
December 20, 2021 01:00 - 30 minutesIn 1880, citizens of Lexington in Richland County thought they saw the notorious outlaw Jesse James and his gang visiting a local horse thief and toiling around some hidden caves. For decades, treasure hunters tried following their footsteps. Modern day researchers say there's good reason to think the story is more than legend. [email protected] www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Mother's Acting Strange, by Casey Redmond. Find mo...
UNRESOLVED Ep. 7: The Patel Family
December 16, 2021 01:00 - 35 minutesAn Ohio Mysteries/Akron Beacon Journal crossover In 1991, Manher and Jyoti Patel and their 6-year-old daughter Alka were executed in their home in Green. The Patels owned the notorious pay-by-the-hour Steve's Motel. Summit County detectives have come to believe it was a professional hit over a business deal - and for the first time name their suspected triggermen. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.com Akron Beacon Journal: http://www.beaconjournal.com Ross Bugdon Music https://www.you...
Ep. 161 - The Cumminsville murders
December 13, 2021 01:00 - 27 minutesIn 1904, the Cumminsville neighborhood of Cincinnati was rocked with the brutal murders of three women. Six years later, there were two more gruesome attacks within that one-mile radius. More than a century later, all five homicides - and whether they were the work of one or more villains - remains a mystery. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Back Real Soon, by Fuzz Aldrin. Find mo...
10-Minute Mystery: Edward Roye
December 09, 2021 01:00 - 14 minutesIn 1846 Edward Roye, native son of Newark, Ohio, set sail for Liberia, a new independent country that was attracting thousands of black Americans who wanted to escape racial prejudice. He became the country's richest man, and then its fifth president. But he vanished during a political coup, and was never seen again.www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected]/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknow...
Ep. 160 - The real story of drummer boy Johnny Clem
December 06, 2021 01:00 - 26 minutesIn 1861, 9-year-old Johnny Clem ran away from his home in Newark, Ohio to join Union soldiers leaving for the Civil War. His exploits were so legendary, movies have been made about him. We sort the fact from the fiction. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Kisses for Christmas Day, by Diana Tyler. Find more at https://www.dianatyler.com Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phosph...
10-Minute Mystery: Columbia Pictures' Torch Lady
December 02, 2021 01:00 - 14 minutesIn 1936, Columbia Pictures unveiled its new logo, and for the next 40 years, the image of a toga-draped woman holding a bright torch would open every feature film. But who was that woman? Four have claimed to be the famous "torch lady," including two actresses from Ohio. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch ...
Ep. 159 - The revelation of Carla Dellerba's death
November 29, 2021 01:00 - 26 minutesIn 1974, Stark County Coroner Gus Shaheen ruled Carla Dellerba, a 45-year-old Canton woman, had committed suicide by stabbing herself in the chest three times. Sixteen years later, a mob hitman admitted he'd murdered her, a revelation that launched an investigation into whether others got away with murder during Shaheen's long career. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Ghost Hymn, b...
10-Minute Mystery: Amy Hooper
November 24, 2021 17:00 - 11 minutesIn 1992, 19-year-old Amy Hooper was found stabbed and beaten in her new apartment in western Franklin County, the killer posing her body with a medallion wrapped around her hands. Investigators have yet to find a killer, or motive, or the reason for the medallion. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown Learn more about your ad choices. ...
Ep. 158 - What started the Collinwood school fire?
November 22, 2021 01:00 - 33 minutesIn 1908, the worst school fire in American history killed 172 children, two teachers and a rescuer at Lake View Elementary in the Cleveland suburb of Collinwood. But what - or who - was to blame? [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Boy in a Churchyard, by Mark Zonakis. Find more at https://markzonakis.com/music Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn mo...
UNRESOLVED Ep 6: Phyllis Mosley
November 18, 2021 01:00 - 34 minutesIn 1971, Phyllis Mosley, wife of a background singer with Ruby and the Romantics, was killed in her Akron home. Her four children talk about how her murder - which was never solved - caused their lives to spiral out of control. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.com Akron Beacon Journal: http://www.beaconjournal.com Song: 'Scott Buckley - Filaments' is under a creative commons license https://youtube.com/user/musicbyscottb Song: 'Juan Sánchez - Luz de Luna' is under a Free for YouTube ...
Ep. 157 - Who killed Clyde Dierkes?
November 15, 2021 01:00 - 27 minutesIn 1970, 65-year-old bachelor Clyde Dierkes disappeared from his home in Clarington, Ohio. A couple of days later, a suspect led them to his body in an abandoned well. But after a nephew and uncle offered different stories about what happened that day, the jury couldn't decide beyond a reasonable doubt who was responsible. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Un...
10-Minute Mystery: Mary Ann Lodatto and Wilma Simpson
November 11, 2021 01:00 - 11 minutesTwo unsolved homicides that still frustrate Jackson County officials: Mary Ann Lodatto - a wife, mother and secretary shot to death in her kitchen in 1991. And Wilma Simpson - a homegrown girl and wife of a local radio personality, abducted from her home and strangled in 1981.www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesMusic:Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn mor...
Ep. 156 - The disturbing world of Ceely Rose
November 08, 2021 01:00 - 29 minutesIn 1896, three members of the Rose family - who operated a mill outside Mansfield - fell sick and died. Police suspected the only surviving member of the family - 24-year-old Ceely Rose - must have poisoned them. What they learned about Ceely led to her finishing her life in an asylum, and - some say - haunting her old farmhouse beside the ghosts of her parents and brother. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebo...
10-Minute Mystery: Finding "Luther"
November 04, 2021 00:00 - 11 minutesIn 1989, Marion County officials found the remains of a man they could never identify. Until this year. More than three decades later, they know the real name of the man they always called "Luther," but it will be much harder to find out who killed him. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
Ep. 155 - The remarkable life of Phoebe Wise
November 01, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutesLiving just outside Mansfield, Phoebe Wise became an unwitting celebrity. A series of violent acts against her put her in the news at the turn of the last century, and the town marveled at how she handled them all. Today, people wonder if the beloved regal lady who never married is the ghost that haunts a local road, and question whether she ever had the fortune that caused her to be such a target. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/...
10-Minute Mystery: Anna Hochwalt, Buried Alive
October 28, 2021 00:00 - 14 minutesIn 1884 in Dayton. 18-year-old Anna Hochwalt was preparing for her brother's wedding ceremony when her mother discovered her unresponsive. After a doctor declared her dead, she was quickly buried. But when friends kept expressing concern that she looked very much alive in the coffin, she was exhumed for another look www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Gre...
Ep. 154 - Campfire Stories: Haunted Roads and Bridges
October 25, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutesOhio has numerous haunted roads and bridges. Tonight, we share the stories behind six of them: 1) Ghormley Road in Fayette County. 2) The Faceless Hitchhiker of Deadman's Curve in Clermont County. 3) Schader Road Tunnel in Ross County. 4) Gibbs Bridge in Lucas County. 5) Egypt Road's Crybaby Bridge in Columbiana County. 6) Buckley Road in Butler County. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries...
10-Minute Mystery: The Biedenbach murders
October 21, 2021 00:00 - 12 minutesIn 1880 in Monroe County's Seneca Township, neighbors responding to a late-night alarm found a house filled with death. Two dead babies, two dead women, and a bludgeoned but breathing serving girl. She told authorities that her employer, Frank Biedenbach, had arrived home drunk and took an axe to everyone in the house. But Biedenbach killed himself before he told anyone why.www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio ...
Ep. 153 - Campfire Stories: Encounters with Beasts
October 18, 2021 00:00 - 28 minutesTwo news reports and two legends about encounters with mysterious beasts. 1) Champaign County's Cedar Bog Monster. 2) Logan and Union counties' visit from Bigfoot in 1980. 3 & 4) Richland and Ashland counties' Orange Eyes and the Charles Mill Lake Monster. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Ridin' the Blinds, by Harold Stewart and the Blues Hounds. Find more at http://theblueshoun...
10-Minute Mystery: The buried gold of Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne
October 17, 2021 15:14 - 18 minutesAfter Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne masterminded the 1795 treaty that moved Ohio's Indian tribes to the northwest, a roving band of angry warriors stole the gold meant to pay his military. Thus began the legend of buried treasure in Henry County, and the ghost that guards it. Bonus story on the ghost of Girty's Island! www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Un...
Ep. 152 - Campfire Stories: Encounters with Strangers
October 11, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutesReading four news reports about mysterious encounters with strangers. 1) Logan County's mischievous gnome, 1880. 2) Highland County's vanishing visitor, 1873. 3) Meigs County's Men in Black, 1967. 4) Washington County's alien liaison, 1966. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Guiedeline, by Zach Friedhof. Find more at https://zachmusic.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...
10-Minute Mystery: William Miscannon
October 06, 2021 21:20 - 14 minutesIn 1970, Toledo Police Ofc. William Miscannon was sitting in a patrol wagon with another officer when a stranger walked up to the window side of the car and shot Miscannon in the head. Police laid siege to the local Black Panthers headquarters, believing they may be connected. But a jury deadlocked twice in the trial of the man they named as their top suspect. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.co...