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
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History, Myths and Legends
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
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History, Myths and Legends
The year was 1982 and an epic war was about to take place across the nation; not between any of the States, nor will it be between any two sovereign Nations. The battle will not play out on the battlefields, or the sports arena, or in the courtrooms (at least, not for a little while
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History
In 1884, there were riots in the streets of Cincinnati unlike anything they had ever seen before. Sure, there had been riots in the past, but nothing like this. People had been upset before – Cincinnati was changing (and expanding) and not everyone liked the direction it was heading. But now, people were starting to
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History, True Crime
Augustus West was born into slavery in Madison County, Virginia on March 20, 1814, but moved as either an escaped or freed slave (history isn’t entirely certain to which one it is) to Ohio in 1837. Before long, he built himself a mansion and began to create a settlement for people like himself, which prospered
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History, Ohioans You Should Know, People
If you ever found yourself driving east on New Vienna Road from the town of New Vienna, you would soon come across a road named Gist Settlement Road. It doesn’t look like much – just another country road with a few houses off in the distance, but the unusual name of the road might catch
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Ghost Towns and Lost Places, History, Places
When I was reading the story of Thomas D. Carr, what struck me the most was the idea that if these events were to have played out today, as opposed to 1869, things would have been played out very differently. Then again, that can be said about a lot of nineteenth century events. Louisa Fox
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History, True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
Doctor Sam Sheppard of Cleveland, Ohio, was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Marilyn Sheppard, in 1954. Before long, however, his conviction was overturned by the US Supreme Court. He was tired again, but this time he was acquitted. Then David Janssen played (a fictional version of) him on television, and later Harrison Ford did
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History, True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved