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Campfire Stories: Encounters with Strangers
Season 1 Episode 152
Reading four news reports about mysterious encounters with strangers. 1) Logan County's mischievous gnome, 1880. 2) Highland County's vanishing visitor, 1873. 3) Meigs County's Men in Black, 1967. 4)…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: William Miscannon
Season 1
In 1970, Toledo Police Ofc. William Miscannon was sitting in a patrol wagon with another officer when a stranger walked up to the window side of the car and shot Miscannon in the head. Police laid si…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Mob Mentality: The New Bremen Speedway Riot
Season 1 Episode 151
In 1931. a crowd at the New Bremen Speedway became so enraged over a disputed prize, they tore down the grandstands, judge's platform and ticket booths and burned them. Our Mob Mentality series is a …
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: John Robek
Season 1
In 1974, John Robek - an undercover narcotics agent for the Youngstown Police Department - went hunting with his partner and childhood friend. The friend came home; John did not, and he was never see…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Ohio's own Phantom of the Opera
Season 1 Episode 150
In 1846, two men fighting over a beautiful ballet dancer ended in a backstage murder during a performance at a Cincinnati theater - and the killer slipped from the hands of hunters, never to be seen …
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: Tammy Osborne and Sean Kearney
Season 1
In 1981, clerk Tammy Osborne was abducted from her Mansfield Lawsons store and killed. A couple of days later, a Mansfield man named Sean Kearney was found dead in his apartment, a bullet wound …
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Mob Mentality: The dynamiting of Akron City Hall
Season 1 Episode 149
Akron started the new century off with a bang when, in 1900, a mob intent on lynching a black man accused of rape went to city hall, exchanged gunfire with police, set the block on fire, and leveled …
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
UNRESOLVED Ep. 5: Jeannette Bartee and Roy Addison
Season 1
An Ohio Mysteries/Akron Beacon Journal crossover In 2002, Akron police had a busy day when investigative teams were called to two different homicide scenes - an unidentified man shot dead on a West A…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
What caused the Cleveland Clinic x-ray fire?
Season 1 Episode 148
In a ghastly 1929 tragedy, a storage room full of x-rays at the Cleveland Clinic's first facility in Cleveland caught fire and exploded, sending deadly fumes up through ducts and killing 123 people -…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: The legend of Jack Trice
Season 1
In 1923, Jack Trice, a talented black football player from Hiram, Ohio who was recruited to play for Iowa State University, died of injuries in his first major college game. Historians have since deb…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago