Latest Ohiomystery Podcast Episodes
Ep. 264 - The White Hurricane
Ohio Mysteries - March 12, 2024 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsGreat Lakes sailors often talk about the "Witch of November," autumn gales typical for that month that make the final trips of the season dangerous for freighters and other vessels. In November of 1913, the witch did her worst - the most deadly storm in the history of the Great Lakes, pulling 12 ...
OM Backroads Ep: 25. All These Actresses From Ohio! Who knew!?
Ohio Mysteries - March 07, 2024 01:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsFor well over a century Ohio has supplied the entertainment industry with hundreds of talented and beautiful actresses! This week the Backroads team focuses in on the dozens of Ohio-born actresses who were cast in popular and well-known television series throughout the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, ...
Ep. 263 - The Great Flood of 1913
Ohio Mysteries - March 02, 2024 01:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsOn Easter Sunday, a storm estimated to be a 1,000-year event floods the state. Not a single river in Ohio is contained within its banks as hundreds lose their lives, tens of thousands of people are made homeless and thousands of bridges and railway trestles are washed away. www.ohiomysteries.com...
OM Backroads Ep: 24. "You're good, you don't need a prescription for those": The Wild Life and Times of Drug Lord, Dr. Leonard Faymore
Ohio Mysteries - February 29, 2024 01:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn this episode we discuss the wild life and times of Dr. Leonard Faymore. He was a doctor in Elyria, Ohio who assisted in starting a drug rehab clinic but it quickly went wrong. Faymore quickly developed a reputation as a drug dealer rather than a rehab clinic. Addicts would line up at 4am to ge...
Ep. 262 - Mary Jane VanGilder: Solved!
Ohio Mysteries - February 26, 2024 01:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsDuring World War II, West Virginia mother of five - Mary Jane VanGilder - left her children and abusive husband and took a job at an army depot in Shelby, Ohio. She stayed in touch with her family for a year or so, then vanished from their lives. For more than 80 years, her children - and then he...
OM Backroads Ep:23. Ohio's Greatest Hits! World Famous Songs With Ohio Ties!
Ohio Mysteries - February 22, 2024 01:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsThere is no doubt you know these songs! They are among the most popular in the world! They have stood the test of time by still being relevant today, even though they are decades old. You might still sing along to them when you hear them on your playlists, the radio, the TV, or perhaps at a popul...
REWIND: The Mystery Airships of 1896-1897
Ohio Mysteries - February 19, 2024 01:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn November of 1896, California residents reported seeing ships in the air sailing over the homes - a sight all the more puzzling since airships hadn't been invented yet, and the Wright Brothers wouldn't fly their first plane for another seven years. Those mysterious airships moved east, and arri...
OM Backroads Ep:22. Elliot Ness's Raid on the Notorious Cleveland Gambling Den: The Harvard Club
Ohio Mysteries - February 15, 2024 01:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsCleveland's seedy underbelly in the early part of the 20th century could rival most any major city in the US. Crime, greed, graft and corruption became routine part of daily life in Cleveland. Mayor Burton brought famed lawman, Elliot Ness to Cleveland to root out crime from within the ranks of t...
Ep. 261 - Bodysnatchers of the Homeopathic Hospital College
Ohio Mysteries - February 12, 2024 01:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 1878, graverobbers stole the body of Edwin French from Willoughby Cemetery, but all they ended up doing was pulling a loose thread that unraveled a scheme to provide corpses to the Homeopathic Hospital College in Cleveland. The search for French's body uncovered three more loved ones - two Por...
OM Backroads Ep:21. Part 2. Who's that up in the sky? The story of Blanche Noyes, the legendary aviatrix from Cleveland, Ohio
Ohio Mysteries - February 08, 2024 01:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsOM Backroads Ep:21. Part 2. Blanche Noyes was a pioneering American aviator from Cleveland, OH. She was a daring pilot who set many records and later was the leader of the government's new Air Marking Program. Blanche started life as an actress until a chance meeting at a speech by Charles Lindbe...
Ep. 260 - The Battle of Lake Erie
Ohio Mysteries - February 05, 2024 01:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsWhen the War of 1812 began, the British quickly and easily seized control of Lake Erie - a prized possession since it was the northern border of Ohio, some of the coveted land being fought over. The Americans responded by setting up a shipyard in Erie, Pennsylvania, intending to build a Navy flee...
OM Backroads Ep:21. Part 1. Who's that up in the sky? The story of Blanche Noyes, the legendary aviatrix from Cleveland, Ohio
Ohio Mysteries - February 01, 2024 01:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsOM Backroads Ep:21. Part 1. Blanche Noyes was a pioneering American aviator from Cleveland, OH. She was a daring pilot who set many records and later was the leader of the government's new Air Marking Program. Blanche started life as an actress until a chance meeting at a speech by Charles Lindbe...
Ep. 259 - Cheryl Fossyl: A different kind of justice
Ohio Mysteries - January 29, 2024 01:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 1977, boys in Georgetown found a decapitated head while fishing. It belonged to Cheryl Fossyl, a local high school junior. No one was ever convicted of her murder, but 30 years into the cold case, her family would fight and win a sort of justice against two men they believed responsible, and a...
OM Backroads Ep:20. Notable Ohioians that passed away in 2023.
Ohio Mysteries - January 25, 2024 01:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsJoin us for our 2023 Year In Review Discussion of the notable and famous Ohioians who passed away last year. We will pay tribute to the dozens of native Ohioans who were actors, sports athletes, musicians an even fast food industrialists. Check other podcast episodes like this at: https://www.ohi...
Ep. 258 - Street Names #2
Ohio Mysteries - January 22, 2024 01:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsEp. 258 - SIn the second of this occasional series on the remarkable origin of street names in Ohio, we recall the history behind Refugee Road in Franklin, Fairfield and Licking counties; the humorous beginning of Johnnycake Ridge Road in Lake County's Concord Township; and the bittersweet person...
OM Backroads Ep:19. Famous People Buried in Ohio.
Ohio Mysteries - January 18, 2024 01:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In today's episode we discuss the "Big Four" cemeteries in Ohio: Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Woodland Cemetery in Dayton, Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, and Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. These four cemeteries contain...
Ep. 257 - The murder of Christie Mullins
Ohio Mysteries - January 15, 2024 01:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 2015, Columbus police offered the family of 14-year-old Christie Mullins a formal apologizing, saying the investigation done into her 1975 murder was botched. At the same time, they closed her case, saying they are confident her killer was someone many people openly suspected for years – Henry...
OM Backroads Ep:18. Interviews with Liz and Katie from the podcast, Murder Road about the unsolved murders at Berlin Lake, Ohio
Ohio Mysteries - January 11, 2024 01:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn this special episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads, We are honored to be joined by the podcast team of Murder Road. Murder Road discusses the unsolved murder cases around Berlin Lake, Ohio. Join us as we dive into these cases and examine the victims, suspects and up to the minute developments. ...
Introducing: Slaycation
Ohio Mysteries - January 10, 2024 14:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsCheck out the first episode of Slaycation, a new show from Atomic Entertainment. This captivating, engaging, and at times darkly humorous podcast is hosted by Kim, a true crime fanatic, her comedy writer husband, and his TV producing partner and looks to shed new light on the dangers that lurk wh...
Ep. 255 - The Great Raymond
Ohio Mysteries - January 08, 2024 01:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsEp. 255 - The Great Raymond In the late 1800 and through World War II, The Great Raymond was a household name. Maurice Saunders, who started learning magic tricks at the age of 9 while growing up in Akron, traveled the globe more than half a dozen times, doing everything from hypnotism to escape...
Ep. 256 - The Great Raymond
Ohio Mysteries - January 08, 2024 01:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn the late 1800 and through World War II, The Great Raymond was a household name. Maurice Saunders, who started learning magic tricks at the age of 9 while growing up in Akron, traveled the globe more than half a dozen times, doing everything from hypnotism to escape acts for sell-out crowds. Th...
OM Backroads Ep:17. The Unsolved Murders at Berlin Lake
Ohio Mysteries - January 04, 2024 01:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratings1994 would prove to be an awful year for the community of people surrounding Berlin Lake, Ohio. In the span of a year, the bodies of 4 people would be discovered in the woods off of Berlin Lake on a lonely, isolated Fewtown Road. The murders remain unsolved to this day. Lisa Watters, Andy Hussey,...
OM Backroads Ep:16. The Last Run of Pretty Boy Floyd
Ohio Mysteries - December 28, 2023 01:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsJoin us as we discuss the notorious outlaw Pretty Boy Floyd and his exploits in Ohio. Considered "Public Enemy Number One", Floyd would live a life of crime including when Floyd was 25 and using the alias Frank Mitchell, he was sentenced to life in prison in December 1930, convicted of robbing a ...
Rewind -10-Minute Mystery: Symmes' Hollow Earth Theory
Ohio Mysteries - December 25, 2023 04:40 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratings10-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 ma...
OM Backroads Ep:15. The Men in Black visit Ohio
Ohio Mysteries - December 21, 2023 01:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsWe 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 ...
Ep. 255 - The Christmas Twinkler
Ohio Mysteries - December 18, 2023 01:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 doom...
Ep. 256 - The Christmas Twinkler
Ohio Mysteries - December 18, 2023 01:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 doom...
OM Backroads Ep:14. Mission Lost: The Incredible Tale of The Lady Be Good
Ohio Mysteries - December 14, 2023 03:30 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello, 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 beli...
Ep. 254 - Street names with remarkable origins. Pt 1
Ohio Mysteries - December 11, 2023 01:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsMost 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 na...
OM Backroads Ep:13. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Hamilton, Hulse, and Grapewin
Ohio Mysteries - December 07, 2023 01:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsDid 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 Da...
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