Latest Ohiomystery Podcast Episodes
Ep. 253 - John Bingham, a founding father for a new America
Ohio Mysteries - December 04, 2023 01:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsThe 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 r...
OM Backroads Ep:12 What's that smell? Body Snatching in the 1800's
Ohio Mysteries - November 30, 2023 01:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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...
UNRESOLVED Ep 17: Greg Peters
Ohio Mysteries - November 24, 2023 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsA 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,...
OM Backroads Ep:11 Who Coined the Term "Rock and Roll"?
Ohio Mysteries - November 23, 2023 01:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsJoin 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...
Ep. 252 - Revelations from a Preble County Jane Doe
Ohio Mysteries - November 20, 2023 01:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 lear...
OM Backroads Ep:10 Football's First Forward Pass
Ohio Mysteries - November 16, 2023 01:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsFootball 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”...
Ep. 251 - The fortune teller killer
Ohio Mysteries - November 13, 2023 01:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 fi...
OM Backroads Ep:9 The Millfield Mine Disaster of 1930
Ohio Mysteries - November 09, 2023 01:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 publis...
Ep. 250 - Ohio's prehistoric race of giants?
Ohio Mysteries - November 06, 2023 01:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsEp. 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 ...
OM Backroads Ep 8: Im hearing voices. Ohio's connection to 4 great Hollywood voice actors
Ohio Mysteries - November 02, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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, Da...
Ep. 249 - A haunted gun in McConnelsville
Ohio Mysteries - October 30, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 r...
OM Backroads Ep 7: Wes Craven, Freddy Krueger, and Kirtland, Ohio
Ohio Mysteries - October 26, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 El...
Ep. 248 - Ohio's connection to Nazi art theft
Ohio Mysteries - October 23, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 ...
OM Backroads Ep 6: The dark secrets of Schneider Park
Ohio Mysteries - October 19, 2023 03:56 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 purcha...
Ep. 247 - The Moody Massacre
Ohio Mysteries - October 16, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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, ...
OM Backroads Ep 5: The legends, stories, rumors and truths about Gore Orphanage
Ohio Mysteries - October 12, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 th...
Ep. 246 - The Satanic Panic and a Toledo mystery
Ohio Mysteries - October 09, 2023 00:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 nation...
OM Backroads Ep 4: The 1966 Portage County UFO Chase
Ohio Mysteries - October 05, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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...
Ep. 245 - JFK bodyguard shatters "magic bullet" theory
Ohio Mysteries - October 02, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 experi...
OM Backroads Ep 3: The Mad Miller of Milan
Ohio Mysteries - September 28, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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...
Ep. 244 - The ax murder of Rosa Colvin
Ohio Mysteries - September 25, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 boa...
OM Backroads Ep 2: The Mysterious Death of Actor George Reeves
Ohio Mysteries - September 21, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsJoin 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 C...
Ep. 243 - The legends of Holcomb Woods, the Elmore Rider, and the Dogman of Defiance
Ohio Mysteries - September 18, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsA 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 El...
OM Backroads Ep 1: The skydiving tragedy of Huron
Ohio Mysteries - September 14, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello 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 seri...
Ep. 242 - Where are Jesse Owens' gold medals?
Ohio Mysteries - September 11, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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...
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Ohio Mysteries - September 07, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep. 241 - Interview with Justin Glanville of new "Mary & Bill" podcast
Ohio Mysteries - September 04, 2023 00:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 an...
UNRESOLVED Ep 16: Javan and Markus Rogers
Ohio Mysteries - August 31, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsAn 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...
Ep. 239 - The Marietta ax murder
Ohio Mysteries - August 28, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsEp. 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...
Ep. 240 - The Marietta ax murder
Ohio Mysteries - August 28, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsIn 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 repe...
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