For decades, there have been stories identifying Wright Patterson Air Force Base - and specifically, Hangar 18 - as the location where the government stores and tests alien debris, alien technology, and even alien corpses. Among those who have named it are high ranking military officers who say they witnessed it first hand. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: You Don't Need to Know Me, ...
Apr 29, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 35
On April 15, 1995, Ronald and Elaine Wright are supposed to be enjoying their weekend off at their home in Mansfield. But come Monday, their employers will be asking police to find out why they haven't shown up for work. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries the great unknown audionautix New Horizon- Aderin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 24, 2019•11 min
Episode Notes: In March of 1920, 11-year-old Frances South is sent off to the village drug store in Adena, Ohio to get medicine for her sick mother. She'll never return home. Hours later, a search party will find her bound, gagged, raped and kicked to death, and citizens will become convinced that a flawed investigation let her killer get away. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Misund...
Apr 22, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Episode Notes: For many months, we've just been a pair of voices whispering in your earbuds. Here's your chance to learn a little more about your Ohio Mysteries hosts, Steve Yoder and Paula Schleis. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix-The great Unknown New Horizon- Aderin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 18, 2019•12 min
Episode Notes: In 1997, everything was coming together for Renee Wise. The Portage County woman was newly engaged and pursuing an exciting new career change. The one shadow in her life was her apartment, where things started moving and disappearing. By the time Renee realized she'd been having a visitor, it was too late. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Bedridden, by The Midwestern. ...
Apr 15, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Episode Notes: One of Planet Earth's biggest mysteries is the question of whether we are alone in the universe. The closest we have ever come to scientifically answering that question happened in Ohio in 1977. .www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries The Great Unknown Audionautix New Horizon Aderin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 10, 2019•14 min
Episode Notes: In February of 1921, three students on their way to Parma Central school happened across a gruesome sight - two women bludgeoned beyond recognition, lying dead in the icy mud off a dirt road. The students raced to school to inform their teachers of the discovery, only to find the school building was still locked. That's because their teacher and principal - the two women who normally had the one-room schoolhouse opened and warmed up by now - hadn't arrived yet. www.ohiomysteries.c...
Apr 08, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Episode Notes: In 1824, Sylvia Beach - left deaf and mute from scarlet fever - strolled away from the family's pioneer home in Medina County. Hundreds of area settlers would answer the call, spending weeks scouring field and forest in search of her. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries The Great Unknown Audionautix New Horizon Aderin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...
Apr 03, 2019•11 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Episode Notes: Over several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, someone in the small town of Circleville, Ohio was paying more than casual attention to what all the neighbors were up to.More than 1,000 letters would be mailed, composed of strange block-lettered handwriting that accused townsfolk of everything from capital crimes to naughty behavior. But one woman would bear the brunt of the phantom writer's obsession. Was the letter writer responsible for the death of her husband and the at...
Apr 01, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Episode Notes: In July of 1996, Herb Baumeister drove to a park outside Toronto, wrote a suicide note, then killed himself. In his final communication, the millionaire Indianapolis businessman penned pages about his failed thrift store chain and angst over his marriage. But he didn't say a thing about what authorities really wanted to know: Why were there skeletal remains of 11 men in his backyard, and what did he know about six men whose bodies were dumped in western Ohio. www.ohiomysteries.com...
Mar 25, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 30
In 2002, a man co-workers and acquaintances had always known as Joseph Newton Chandler III killed himself in the bathroom of his Eastlake apartment. But a probate court's search for next of kin would find Chandler had been living under a stolen identity for 30 years. Their investigation would eventually reveal the mysterious suicide victim had been born Robert Ivan Nichols, a father of three sons from Indiana who abandoned his family in the 1960s with the cryptic message: "In due time, you'll kn...
Mar 18, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Episode Notes: In 1989, 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic was in her home in the comfortable Cleveland suburb of Bay Village when the phone rang. A man introduced himself as her mother's co-worker, and asked for her help in picking out a gift to celebrate her mother's promotion. Amy agreed. Friends who walked her to the shopping center on the appointed day were the last to see her alive as she calmly walked away with the stranger. Her body would be found three months later. Special guest: Investigative...
Mar 10, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Episode Notes: In 1991, Rachael Johnson left a nightclub with a friend and headed home. She would never make it. After the friend's car got a flat tire and the interior filled with the smell of burning rubber, she insisted on finding her own way home. She got out of her friend's car - and was picked up by a killer. Her body was found the next day, raped, beaten, stabbed and set afire in the middle of an Akron street. Special guest: Katelin Puzakulics, who was two years old when her mother was mu...
Mar 04, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Episode Notes: The tragic end of Charles CollinsCharles Collins, a renowned railroad builder from Cleveland and the man for whom the city's Collinwood neighborhood was named, was found dead in his home in 1877. For a century, people believed he'd killed himself, profoundly disturbed by a train accident that took the lives of nearly 100 people. But in 1975, a man in Geauga County discovered records that showed a second secret autopsy revealed that was not the case at all.The story of an experimen...
Feb 25, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 26
The Berlin Reservoir murders Over a 12-month period in the early 1990s, a half-mile portion of the Berlin Reservoir became the killing grounds for at least two murderers, possibly three, with a crazy connection to even a fourth. Nearly three decades later, authorities have yet to solve the seemingly unconnected homicides of Andy Hussey and Lisa Watters, Kathryn Menendez and Sarah Rae Boehm. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesoh...
Feb 18, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Georgia Rudolph was just 5 years old when she started dreaming about the life of another girl. Then dreams became waking visions that led her to an Ohio river town she never knew existed, but one whose streets she was able to navigate with ease. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Something to Lose, by Harold Stewart and the Blues Hounds. Find their music at http://www.theblueshounds.co...
Feb 11, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Episode Notes: Bank Heist: The Ted Conrad story Ted Conrad was obsessed with the movie, The Thomas Crown Affair, when it was released in 1968. It inspired the 20-year-old bank teller to pull off his own bank heist. But where did he go with his fortune? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Trouble, by Lisa Biales. Find her music at www.lisabiales.com Audionautix The Great Unknown Learn mo...
Feb 04, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 23
The Nebraska town named him Matthew - "gift from God" - when they found his frozen body in a snow-filled ditch. But as authorities spent the next two years trying to find the identity of the little dead boy in the blue pajamas, many simply began referring to him as Little Boy Blue. When they finally learned the child in that Nebraska grave was 9-year-old Danny Stutzman, their search would take them to an Ohio Amish community, where a whole new mystery awaited. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohio...
Jan 28, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Episode Notes The 1963 disappearance of Ruth Guthrie, Tommy Sumerix and Joe Kulesza Over a period of 10 days in June of 1963, three Summit County children disappeared. For months, three communities held their collective breath as investigators and families searched, then ultimately waited. The next year, one by one, their fates would be revealed. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Scar...
Jan 21, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Episode 20: The disappearance of Mel Wiley In 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...
Jan 14, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Imagine reading a Mother's Day story in your local newspaper, and finding clues that suggest you may have been sold as a baby out the back door of a small clinic in the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia. Now imagine dozens of Northeast Ohio residents waking that day to the same revelation. The amazing story of the black-market "Hicks babies" and the 20-year effort of one baby to understand the doctor who sold him, the saga of how he ended up in Akron, and how technology helped him find his biolog...
Jan 07, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Episode Notes: For more than 50 years, the country accepted without question that Wooster, Ohio immigrant August Imgard was the first to decorate a Christmas tree in America. His charming story was told and retold by newspapers from coast to coast every December. But was Imgard really the first? Ninety-nine years after he spruced up a fir and enchanted his neighbors, a Wooster professor would go looking for the answer. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysterie...
Dec 24, 2018•21 min•Season 1Ep. 18
On March 15, 1971, sheep rancher Clifford Badger is returning from a morning business trip when he stops to pick up the mail outside his farmhouse in West Salem. He finds a box of homemade chocolates, and a simple handwritten message that reads "To Our Good Neighbor." A few minutes later, Clifford would be lying dead on his kitchen floor. His wife, who had sampled the candy as well, had time to call for help before falling unconscious. Who poisoned the couple? And why? www.ohiomysteries.com feed...
Dec 17, 2018•41 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In 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 feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: On My Own, by Master TC & the Visitors. Find their videos at https://www.youtube...
Dec 10, 2018•51 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Two days after Christmas in 1928, 4-year-old Melvin Horst is playing in a vacant lot with a friend when he realizes its dinner time. "Goodbye, Bobbie. I got to go home now," he says. An hour later, all his parents find is a little red wagon abandoned in the front yard. For the next year, local bootleggers and mobsters would use Melvin's disappearance to try and put each other out of business. Eight of them would see the inside of a jail before all of their tales were proved to be lies. So what, ...
Dec 03, 2018•52 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Episode Notes On May 4, 1937, Ruth Baumgardner said goodnight to her sorority sisters, then went to her dorm room at Ohio Wesleyan to study for a test. But Ruth didn't make it to that class, or any other class, the next day. A national manhunt was launched. Two years later, her parents would privately ask police to close the case, with no public explanation of what they had learned or if Ruth had been discovered. Could it have had something to do with a human trafficking ring operating in the ar...
Nov 26, 2018•47 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In 1953, Ron Tammen Jr. was a 19-year-old Maple Heights man nearing the end of his sophomore year at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. On April 19, a typical evening, Ron walked into his dorm room to study - and was never seen again. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Shorts Season, by Tunnel Songs. For more, visit http://www.tunnelsongs.com The Great Unknown- Audionautix Learn more ab...
Nov 19, 2018•45 min
Episode Notes In 1977, a Barberton man made a remarkable claim: He was the legal owner of the corpse of John Wilkes Booth. How could an Ohio optometrist come to own the embalmed remains of arguably America's most infamous assassin? Follow the twists and turns of this bizarre mystery before you scoff. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Cello, by Mr. Carnivore. For more, visit http://www...
Nov 12, 2018•34 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Beard and Leonard: Waiting for Justice, Part 2 In Part 1, 17-year-old Mary Leonard and 19-year-old Ricky Beard of Akron vanish after a date night to a drive-in movie theater. Their whereabouts are unknown for nearly six years, their families helpless but to follow every lead and tip, alternating between despair and hope. In this episode, learn about the discovery in 1985 that ended one mystery while launching another. Special guests: Mary's brother, Jerry Leonard, and Ricky's sister, Luanne Bear...
Nov 05, 2018•45 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Episode Notes: In 1979, 17-year-old Mary Leonard and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Ricky Beard, disappeared after a date night to a drive-in movie theater. Years passed, both families clinging to hope that their loved ones were alive, especially after private investigators and police detectives suggested they may have run off together. In Part 1 of this 2-part story, we talk to Ricky's sister, Luanne Beard Eddy, and Mary's brother, Jerry Leonard, about the roller coaster of pain, despair and hope t...
Nov 05, 2018•39 min•Season 1Ep. 11
