Podcast Episodes

10-Minute Mystery: Ohio Farmers Insurance - The great robbery

Season 1

When Ohio Farmers Insurance (the predecessor to Westfield Insurance Companies) was robbed of $60,000 in 1865, the famed detective Alan Pinkerton thought he had it all figured out. Then the man in jai…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

Special: Update Edition

Season 1

We looked for recent news on previous episodes, and also received mail from people associated with podcasts we've done. This special edition will offer updates and new insights on: Ep 12 The Corpse …

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

Holiday rerun - The First Christmas Tree

Season 1

Episode Notes:

For more than 50 years, the country accepted without question that Wooster, Ohio immigrant August Imgard was the first to decorate a Christmas tree in America. His charming story was t…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

Who killed the Hoods?

Season 1 Episode 65

In 1991, Margaret and Howard Hood returned home late at night from a card party at their daughter's home. An hour later, a killer entered their New Franklin home and slit their throats. A man living …

Published on 6 years ago

10-Minute Mystery: James Brown, vampire sailor

Season 1

In 1892, newspapers around the country printed the stunning account of a Portuguese sailor serving time in the Ohio Penitentiary for killing and drinking the blood of his shipmates. Modern researcher…

Published on 6 years ago

Agnes Moorehead and The Conqueror

Season 1 Episode 64

Actress Agnes Moorehead was a two-time Oscar nominee perhaps best known for playing Endora on the television series Bewitched. When she died in 1974, she became one of 46 cast and crew who died of ca…

Published on 6 years ago

Mysterious gravesites (The Merchant family, Joc-O-Sot, Gloria Pressman, H.R. Penney, Philip Cody)

Season 1 Episode 63

Five mysteries in Ohio that involve the gravesite of notable Ohioans. We explore the strange habits of the granite ball over the Charles Merchant Family plot, why Chief Joc-O-Sot might be haunting th…

Published on 6 years ago

10-Minute Mystery: Paula Payne

Season 1

The morning of Aug. 9, 1977, Paula Payne left her Dayton home and started her walk to where she worked, teaching nature classes to children at the local natural history museum. She didn't make it. w…

Published on 6 years ago

Gus Sapharas

Season 1 Episode 62

Gus Sapharas, an Akron native with a long history of attacks against women and a "not guilty" verdict for killing one, is awaiting trial in the deaths of two more - Karen Bentz of Summit County and L…

Published on 6 years ago

10-Minute Mystery: The Crosswick Monster

Season 1

The people who lived in the hamlet of Crosswick in southwest Ohio didn't want to question the strange tracks that crossed the dirt road through town, figuring if they didn't bother the unidentified c…

Published on 6 years ago