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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There aren’t many places with the name “Cincinnati” so I have to ask, where did the name come from and what does it mean?
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Rogue’s Hollow is, depending upon who you ask, one of the more haunted places in the state. There is no shortage of tales that include words like “murder” or “ghost” or “curse” or “moonshine” or, I kid you not, “headless horse” (not headless horseman, sorry Ichabod Crane fans). Even though the town no longer exists
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Let’s face a harsh reality – prison life is supposed to be tough. Trust me, if it were easy, then all the celebrities would be doing it, like Martha Stewart, Tim Allen, Mark Wahlburg, Felicity Huffman, Robert Downey Jr., Lori Loughlin, Wesley Snipes, Sean Penn, Christian Slater, that kid who played Crabbe in the Harry
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There is (or was) a place in Ohio that was so demonstratively evil that the locals stopped referring to it by its name, Boston Mills, and began calling it … “Hell Town” It was the site of a Native American massacre in the early days of the country and now filled with the lost souls
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When it was first settled in the mid-1880s, many people had thought or hoped the village would soon prosper. And, for a short time, it did. The town’s first settlers, Simon and Elizabeth Clouser moved in and set up a mill, which was in demand at the time for there weren’t any other mills in
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I know, I know … talking about Cryptids usually causes people to roll their eyes and start thinking about more pleasant topics, like the best ways to watch paint dry. We’ve all had to sit through one too many stories about someone seeing “Bigfoot” but by the time they grabbed their cellphone to take a
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Sometimes, when you look at a map, you can kind of tell how a village, town, or city got its name. Columbus was obviously named after Christopher Columbus. Hamilton was named after Alexander Hamilton. Jackson was named after Andrew Jackson and you get the point. Sometimes, the answers are more geographical, like Hillsboro being named
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If you have ever done any traveling, you’re sure to have run across a place with an unusual name. Some of the more famous examples might include places like Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (guess they really loved that game show) … or Nowhere, Colorado which shouldn’t be confused with Nothing, Arizona. Maryland has a
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Imagine yourself at some fancy party, perhaps something like the famed Met Gala but somewhere in Ohio … and someone comes up to you and asks, “Hey, complete stranger I’ve never met before, have you ever driven from Moscow to Russia?” What are you going to think? Chances are, if you’re anything like me, your
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