Ep. 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 personal tale of the man for whom Gulow Street in Cincinnati is named. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysterie...
Jan 22, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 258
Hello 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 the final resting places of some of the most famous people in the world. Join us as we walk through, around and sometimes under history. Please check the Ohio Mysteries podcast on this subject at: https...
Jan 18, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 19
In 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 Newell, the man who made news for "discovering" Christie's body and identifying her killer as a mentally disabled man. But Newell will never be brought to justice: he died in 2013. www.ohiomysteries.com...
Jan 15, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 257
In 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. Check out Dan's video where he visits Fewtown Road...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPX35JduPUA Please check the Ohio Mysteries podcast on this subject at: https://www.ohiomysteries.com/ohio%20mysteries...
Jan 11, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 18
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Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 22 min
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 acts for sell-out crowds. The timing of new telegraph and transportation innovations made him the first magician to ever able to circle the planet while bringing along four tons of equipment, acrobats, musicians and vaudeville perf...
Jan 08, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 255
1994 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, Kathryn Menendez and Sarah Boehm would all wind up here, their bodies discovered within a short distance from each other. While police had many leads, no suspects were charged despite the best efforts o...
Jan 04, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Join 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 bank in Akron, Ohio. He was being transported to the Ohio penitentiary when he dove through a train window and escaped. Learn about his daring escapes and the final gun battle that would end his life. Pl...
Dec 28, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 16
10-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 may have even inspired the backstory of Santa living at the North Pole. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomyst...
Dec 25, 2023•19 min
We 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 case that was reported in Dayton, Ohio, in 1967. This case is officially the second-ever recorded incident of Men in Black in the United States. So, cue up the Twilight Zone theme music, slip on your bla...
Dec 21, 2023•14 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In 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 doomed the popular ornament? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Ep 18: The Christmas Treemusic happy C...
Dec 18, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 256
Hello, 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 believe with a fateful twist at the end. Please check other podcast episodes like this at: https://www.ohiomysteries.com/ Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people and t...
Dec 14, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Most 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 names. Tonight we travel to three of them: The colorful history behind Gipsy Drive and Stanley Avenue in Dayton; the heartwarming story of "Africa Road" in Delaware County; and the Akron tragedy forever re...
Dec 11, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 253
Did 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 Darbyville, the boyhood town of James Hulse, and ends in Xenia, the hometown of Charley Grapewin. So, slip on your ruby slippers, click the heels together three times, and let’s magically transport down Oh...
Dec 07, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 13
The 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 represented the very first time the constitution promised to serve all Americans. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook....
Dec 04, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 253
In 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 the cover of darkness. they would often dig up graves to secure the bodies. Join us as we welcome our special guest, Doug Hullet, a local historian, to learn more about this frequently used practice. Al...
Nov 30, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 12
A 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, a man swept into The Odd Corner, gunned Peters down, then fled. Twenty years later, police still don't know who ended the life of a man who spent a life preaching peace and love. www.ohiomysteries.com w...
Nov 24, 2023•18 min
Join 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 Roll Museum is located on its Lake Erie shore, but did Alan Freed really coin the term that eventually bestowed these honors upon Ohio’s north coast city? Let’s find out! Please check other podcast epis...
Nov 23, 2023•12 min
In 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 learn the Preble County Jane Doe is actually a man - Albert Allen Frost of Hamilton, Ohio - and Turner has quite a story to tell about who he is. Click here for episode on Det Adam Turner's search for Mary J...
Nov 20, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 252
Football 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” to Cleveland to talk about that city’s connection to the first forward pass in pro football, and then we complete “a slant” to Bellevue, Ohio, to discuss its connection to the first forward pass in coll...
Nov 16, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In 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 find their missing child. It was something, he said, that had worked before. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/oh...
Nov 13, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 251
In 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 published in January 2024 called "The Millfield Mine Disaster". We discuss the causes, the rescues, the tragedy and the survivors. Ron Luce's upcoming book can be ordered at: https://www.amazon.com/Millfield-M...
Nov 09, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Ep. 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 the head of a modern man. What was going on? We review some of the more interesting accounts. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio w...
Nov 06, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 250
In 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, Dawes Butler, Bill Kennedy and George Walsh. Please check other podcast episodes like this at: https://www.ohiomysteries.com/ Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people...
Nov 02, 2023•14 min
In 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 revolver on paper while working up the nerve to act. Bonus: A look at the ghosts of the Twin City Opera House, where the spirit of Horace Porter may still be in residence. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@o...
Oct 30, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 249
In 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 Elm Street” film franchise. We’ll discuss Craven’s connections to Cleveland, the small town of Kirtland, Ohio, and a real-life scary event that occurred during Craven’s childhood that triggered his imagina...
Oct 26, 2023•12 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In 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 feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional music: New Horizon - Aderin; Audionautix- The Great Unknown; The Great Phos...
Oct 23, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 248
In 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 purchased land but seemed to ignore the graveyard and progressed with building the houses in the area. Without any true grave markers, the land became a city park and to this day few people know that bodies ar...
Oct 19, 2023•29 min
In 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, but a gray-haired man she had never seen before. That and a host of other problems have many folks in Bellefontaine believing this isn't really a closed case after all. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohi...
Oct 16, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 247
In 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 the fire that burned down the mansion? Is Gore Orphanage really haunted? We explore the Swift, Wilbur, and Sprunger families and discuss what really happened. Please check other episodes like this at: http...
Oct 12, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 5
