Ohio Mysteries

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OM Backroads Ep:13. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Hamilton, Hulse, and Grapewin Dec 07, 2023

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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 Ohio’s Yellow Brick Road to discover the Buckeye State’s movie star connections to the Wizard of Oz!

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Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people and their stories with Ohio ties that have passed away: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469825446606552/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=3474200626169014

Dan hosts a Youtube Channel called: Ohio History and Haunts where he explores historical and dark places around Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5x1eJjHhfyV8fomkaVzsA

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Ep. 253 - John Bingham, a founding father for a new America Dec 04, 2023

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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.

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OM Backroads Ep:12 What's that smell? Body Snatching in the 1800's Nov 30, 2023

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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. Also joining us is local historian Maria Dade.

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Dan hosts a Youtube Channel called: Ohio History and Haunts where he explores historical and dark places around Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5x1eJjHhfyV8fomkaVzsA

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UNRESOLVED Ep 17: Greg Peters Nov 24, 2023

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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.

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OM Backroads Ep:11 Who Coined the Term "Rock and Roll"? Nov 23, 2023

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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!

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Ep. 252 - Revelations from a Preble County Jane Doe Nov 20, 2023

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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 Jane Vangilder

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OM Backroads Ep:10 Football's First Forward Pass Nov 16, 2023

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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 college football history! This episode is the bomb!

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Ep. 251 - The fortune teller killer Nov 13, 2023

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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.

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OM Backroads Ep:9 The Millfield Mine Disaster of 1930 Nov 09, 2023

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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.

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Ron Luce can be contacted at: luce_r@live.com

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Ep. 250 - Ohio's prehistoric race of giants? Nov 06, 2023

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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.

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