Latest Ohiomystery Podcast Episodes
Ep 276 - Who put Heather Walker in a trash bin?
Ohio Mysteries - June 24, 2024 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsThe coroner doesn't know how 18-year-old Heather Walker was killed, or even when she died during the two-and-a-half months she went missing in the winter of 2008. The mere fact that she was stuffed in a trash can on the east side of Dayton, however, was enough for a ruling of homicide, since she ...
OM Backroads Ep:38. Ohio’s Historical Milestones!
Ohio Mysteries - June 20, 2024 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsSince Ohio became a state, it has excelled in creating, discovering, and inventing! The buckeye state has created pop culture icons, set sports records that may never be broken, and has invented items that we use every day and in every walk of life! Ohio can lay claim to milestones in business, m...
Ep 275 - The Cal Poly plane crash
Ohio Mysteries - June 17, 2024 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 1960, Cal Poly flew its Mustangs football team to Toledo to play Bowling Green State University. After the game, they took off from Toledo for their trip back home. The plane lasted just 30 seconds in the air before crashing and tumbling in a fiery explosion, killing 22 of 48 aboard. This is t...
OM Backroads Ep:37 Glenn Curtiss's historic flight to Cedar Point in 1910
Ohio Mysteries - June 13, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In this episode we travel back in time to 1910 and explore a record breaking flight by pioneer aviator Glenn Curtiss. He flew from Euclid Beach to Cedar Point beach, 60 miles away. Curtiss would break the world's record in the pro...
Ep 274 - Stanley Meyer: Inventor or fraud?
Ohio Mysteries - June 10, 2024 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsEp 274 - Stanley Meyer: Inventor or fraud? In 1998, Stan Meyer - who had made headlines claiming he found a way to power cars using water instead of gasoline - was having dinner with Belgian investors when he drank his juice, grabbed his throat, and proclaimed he had just been poisoned. He died ...
OM Backroads Ep:36 Ohio's Historical Firsts!
Ohio Mysteries - June 06, 2024 00:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and Welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. The state of Ohio has a long list of historic firsts that have helped shape and influence not only the rest of the country, but also the entire world! Ohio got the ball rolling with firsts in pop culture, sports, politics, educati...
Ep 273 - The Battle of Fallen Timbers
Ohio Mysteries - June 03, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsOn Aug. 20, 1794, General "Mad" Anthony Wayne launched a new professional army formed by Pres. George Washington against a confederation of Native Americans who did not want to be forced out of Ohio. Knowing the army was planning an attack, Chief Blue Jacket chose to make his stand among a landsc...
OM Backroads Ep:35 Did you hear about the Monkey that escaped from Cedar Point? Urban Legends in Ohio
Ohio Mysteries - May 30, 2024 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In this episode we explore some wild urban legends in Ohio. Some maybe you've heard of, some maybe you haven't. Helltown, the Oxford Light, the Kirkland Melonheads, Abbott's Tomb in Milan and the monkey that escaped Cedar Point ar...
Unresolved Ep 18: Alex Wells
Ohio Mysteries - May 23, 2024 12:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 2005, Alex Wells, an Akron drug dealer and father of 10, was ambushed in his West Akron driveway and shot 10 times by two assailants. His killers have never been identified. In this collaborative print-and-podcast project, Ohio Mysteries and the Akron Beacon Journal interview Akron police dete...
OM Backroads Ep: 34. The Bootlegger Pirates of Lake Erie
Ohio Mysteries - May 23, 2024 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and welcome to the latest episode of Ohio Mysteries; backroads. The bootlegging era provided America with a new breed of criminal; the mobster. Organized crime took hold in Northern Ohio in a big way with men like John Zetzer, Al Ramsey and Wayne Wheeler began importing illegal liquor into ...
Ep 272 - America's first train robbery
Ohio Mysteries - May 19, 2024 12:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn May of 1865, something happened that had never happened before. Twenty bandits derailed a train for the purpose of robbing its passengers and stealing bonds from its safe. The event, which happened in the Hamilton County village of North Bend, marked an evolution of the old highwaymen who used...
OM Backroads Ep: 33. Hey Bill! Your legs on fire again!: The Bill Veeck Story
Ohio Mysteries - May 16, 2024 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and welcome to another edition of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In today's episode, we discuss the trailblazing, firebrand owner of the Cleveland Indians Baseball team. This charismatic owner saw many changes to the game of baseball making it a fan friendly game for the first time. Bill Veeck ...
Ep 271 - The murder of Barbara Anne Barnes
Ohio Mysteries - May 13, 2024 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 1995,13-year-old Barbie Barnes disappeared on her walk to school in Steubenville. Her remains weren't found for another three months. In the months that followed, three different persons of interest rose to the top of the list in this unsolved homicide. Could one of them be guilty, or is her k...
OM Backroads Ep: 32. Ohio's Famous Animals
Ohio Mysteries - May 09, 2024 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. This week’s episode brings us the incredible stories of four famous animals with strong Ohio ties. All four of these beloved animals were nationally recognized for their achievements, accomplishments and heroics. Join us we discus...
Rewind: Ep. 128 - The incomparable Shep Tinker, horse thief extraordinaire
Ohio Mysteries - May 06, 2024 00:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsThroughout the mid-1800s, Southeast Ohio newspapers followed the criminal exploits of their incorrigible and infamous horse thief and counterfeiter, Shep Tinker. The site of his grave is a mystery, but his colorful career, Robinhood reputation and undeniable charm is still the stuff of legend, an...
OM Backroads Ep: 31. I'm going to have to ask you to leave: Rattlesnake Island, Lake Erie
Ohio Mysteries - May 02, 2024 21:40 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. Today we wade out into Lake Erie and explore a little known hideaway with a dark history. Just below the popular Lake Erie island, Put-In-Bay lies another smaller island named Rattlesnake Island. Today this is a very exclusive sec...
Ep 270 - The Symmes Park graves
Ohio Mysteries - April 29, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsThis year, 2024, a high school Eagle scout candidate named Zach Kramer began a search for the final resting place of an American Revolutionary War private and his wife - both of whom Zach suspected were buried beneath the soil of Symmes Park in his hometown of Hamilton. Here's what he found... ww...
OM Backroads Ep: 30. Part 2. Outlaws, Scoundrels and Bootleggers. Hell's Half Acre in East Liverpool, Ohio
Ohio Mysteries - April 25, 2024 00:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello an welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In Part 2 of today's episode we travel down to the sleepy little river town of East Liverpool, Ohio and learn about what some people called the most dangerous place in America, Hell's Half Acre. This assortment of bars, brothels, o...
Ep 269 - Akron porch murders
Ohio Mysteries - April 22, 2024 00:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 2009, an Akron woman was shot dead by a man who stood on her porch and knocked on her door. The next year, a second woman was killed when she answered the door. And in 2015, Akron police found a third Akron woman dead on her friends back porch. There is no reason to think these murders are con...
OM Backroads Ep: 30. Part 1. Outlaws, Scoundrels and Bootleggers. Hell's Half Acre in East Liverpool, Ohio
Ohio Mysteries - April 18, 2024 00:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello an welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In Part 1 of today's episode we travel down to the sleepy little river town of East Liverpool, Ohio and learn about what some people called the most dangerous place in America, Hell's Half Acre. This assortment of bars, brothels, o...
Ep 268 - The Great Locomotive Chase Pt 3
Ohio Mysteries - April 15, 2024 00:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 1862, 23 Ohio soldiers, led by a Kentucky union spy, stole deep into the south with the intent of stealing a train and using it to destroy telegraph lines, railroad tracks and bridges and cripple the south. They ultimately got caught and nearly half of them hanged, but the survivors were given...
Ep 268 - The Great Locomotive Chase Pt 2
Ohio Mysteries - April 11, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 1862, 23 Ohio soldiers, led by a Kentucky union spy, stole deep into the south with the intent of stealing a train and using it to destroy telegraph lines, railroad tracks and bridges and cripple the south. They ultimately got caught and nearly half of them hanged, but the survivors were given...
Ep 268 - The Great Locomotive Chase Pt 1
Ohio Mysteries - April 08, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 1862, 23 Ohio soldiers, led by a Kentucky union spy, stole deep into the south with the intent of stealing a train and using it to destroy telegraph lines, railroad tracks and bridges and cripple the south. They ultimately got caught and nearly half of them hanged, but the survivors were given...
OM Backroads Ep: 29. The 50th Anniversary of the Xenia Tornado
Ohio Mysteries - April 04, 2024 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsExactly 50 years ago today, the worst tornado in Ohio’s history slammed into Xenia, Ohio, killing 35 people, injuring 1,300, and causing $100 million dollars in damage. Join us as we talk about what happened a half century ago, as well as our recent trip to the city of Xenia, and also stopping by...
Ep. 267: The curious death of Dawn Pasela - An interview with Seeking Justice
Ohio Mysteries - April 01, 2024 00:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsThe team of Seeking Justice has made Parma resident Dawn Pasela their latest project. Dawn was a government whistleblower with enemies in high places, so when she was found dead of an alcohol overdose just hours before she was to testify, many wondered if she had been killed and the crime scene s...
OM Backroads Ep: 28. Wow, look at all those planes! One man's passion to create Ohio's largest private airplane collection
Ohio Mysteries - March 28, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and Welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries; Backroads. In today's episode we explore one of the most unique airplane collections ever assembled. This collection grew out of one man's drive and passion and would come to attract worldwide attention and even cause pilots to change their ...
Ep. 266 - Who killed Peter Becci?
Ohio Mysteries - March 25, 2024 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 1987, 35-year-old biochemist Peter Becci - who relocated from New York to the Lima, Ohio suburb of Shawnee Township with his family - was murdered in the basement of his home. Police said after failing to get interviews with his estranged wife who quickly moved to Florida, they gave up, saying...
OM Backroads Ep 27: The 1966 Portage County UFO Chase
Ohio Mysteries - March 21, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsNote: This episode previously aired, we return to new episodes next week. In 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 ...
Ep. 265 - The remarkable origins of Ohio city names
Ohio Mysteries - March 18, 2024 00:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIs Dayton named for a traitor? Why did Cleveland shave a letter off the name of its founder? What made the Roman dictator Cincinnatus worthy of an American city? We look at the origins of the names of Ohio's eight big cities, including Columbus, Toledo, Parma, Canton and Akron. Lots of history an...
OM Backroads Ep: 26. Be serious for a second! Meet 2 Ohioans who dominated the checkers and yo-yo worlds!
Ohio Mysteries - March 14, 2024 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsWell spring is in the air this week and as we all know, this is the time of year when young men and women's thoughts turned to, you guessed it, yo-yo'ing and the board game checkers. In this gripping episode we check out 2 Ohioians who rose to prominence with the yo-yo and checkers. Learn about ...
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