William Miller was born on February 15, 1782, and spent most of his early life in a place called Low Hampshire, which they put in the State of New York for some reason. He was mostly what we would call “homeschooled” today, and there is no evidence that he ever attended any colleges or received […]

As I sit down to write this, Halloween is approaching and that means one thing. Aunt Irma is going to be complaining that everything has suddenly gone “Pumpkin Spice’ because she is still bitter that all the companies rejected her idea for Pumpkin Spice Denture Cream. Okay, it also means that you can’t turn around

It should go unsaid that most things in cemeteries and graveyards shouldn’t move. Obviously, people may need to roam about, and it’s probably impossible to keep small animals from going about – but I’m sure we can all agree that some things, such as headstones and monuments really ought not to be in motion. There

In the previous post I noted that there had only been a single trial for witchcraft in Ohio. There had also only been one individual who was put to death after being accused of being a witch. Surprisingly, there wasn’t really any witchcraft going on in either case. The witch was deemed innocent because she

When we think of the history of witches, or witchcraft, we tend to think about certain periods of history. For example, The Early Modern Witchcraft Trials a couple thousand years ago throughout Europe, or perhaps the various crusades and inquisitions a thousand years after that. America had The Salem Witch Trials of 1962 in slightly

Have you heard the seemingly persistent rumor that Ohio was once home to a race of giants? They say that giant skeletons were uncovered in various archeological sites throughout the state of Ohio, including some discovered at the Great Serpent Mound. They say that most of the native tribes that once lived in what would

It’s the evening August 15, 1977, and an Astronomer named Jerry R. Ehman is scanning the skies looking for signs of intelligent life because … what else is an astronomer going to do on a Monday night when he’s located in the outskirts of Delaware, Ohio. He’s accomplishing this (or, trying to anyway) by using this

The year is 1948 and America has a bit of a UFO problem. As in, people were seeing flying saucers all over the place. It was thrilling when people saw them at the local movie theater, which people seemed to want to do at the time. The problem was that some of the people who

In 1966, a Portage County Ohio Sheriff would become the talk of the nation when he (and his partner) would be sent to investigate an abandoned vehicle. Once they had arrived at the scene, the two men spotted lights coming off some kind of aircraft or spaceship that was unlike anything they had ever seen

Do you believe in UFOs? Or I guess I’m supposed to call them UAPs now – Unidentified Ariel Phenomena according to some, unidentified anomalous phenomena to others. But, they’re all the same thing. The reason I asked that question is because it recently surprised me just how much of a connection the State of Ohio