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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Margaret Hamilton was born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 9, 1902, the last of four children born to Walter and Mary Jane Hamilton. The family lived in the more affluent part of town, mostly due to the father’s profession, attorney. From a young age, Margaret knew that she wanted to be an actress. Her father,
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Ohioans You Should Know, People
Heather Walker was only eighteen years old when she disappeared on February 9, 2008 from the Dayton area. Earlier in the day, she had attended her brother’s birthday party, a small affair for family and close friends. Everyone was glad to see her there because a couple weeks prior, she had undergone a surgical procedure
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
On April 1, 2006, 27-year-old Brian Shaffer was ready for Spring Break. Life for a medical student is never easy and most students will tell you that finals weeks can be particularly brutal with students cramming for important exams and pulling all-night study sessions. Brian wasn’t one to complain, but when he met his father,
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
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
The year is 1863. The place is not Ohio, but Hamburg, Germany. This is where we first meet Professor Otto Lidenbrock and discover that he’s just found an ancient manuscript written in some kind of Runic Script by some nearly forgotten alchemist, Ana Saknussemm. Once translated, it tells of a vast subterranean world. Before long,
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Ohioans You Should Know, People
John Cleves Symmes was born in Riverhead in the Province of New York to Timothy Symmes and Mary Cleves and lived what most would consider a rather normal childhood, growing up in Colonial America. Little did he know at that time that one day his name would be spoken by school children (probably mostly in
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Ohioans You Should Know, People