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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ohio Mysteries grounds historical crime in Ohio places while letting disputed evidence and unanswered questions remain visible.
Ohio Mysteries keeps the map close. Lake Erie shorelines, rural Coshocton County roads, and a Mercer County jail become material parts of stories about rum running, murder, disappearance, and mob violence.
A missing underwater camera in a government report is exactly the loose thread you'll want to pull.
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A Bell Fountain meeting reveals Sam Lima treating the Society of the Banana like a corporation.
Ohio Mysteries turns a cold night in Bell Fountain in 1908 into a tight study of a criminal society trying to behave like a business. Sicilian men arrive by different trains from different directions, Pate checks names against a list, and Oldfield works with inspectors watching…
A close, room-by-room revisit to the Beverly Hills fire and the arson question that still lingers.
Ohio Mysteries returns to the 1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire with the question that still shadows it: accident or arson. The episode works best in the building-level detail, as busboy Walter Bailey warns the cabaret audience, smoke pushes in from the Zebra Room, the power…
Don Hilton traces Lorain County history through the courthouse files and death records that kept it alive.
Lorain County researcher and author Don Hilton makes local history feel less like a fixed story than a record of what happened to survive. He talks through the work behind his books on county judges, the courthouse and jail, the court bicentennial, and the county's earliest…
A wartime sabotage story that moves from covert landings to lethal consequences at sea.
Ohio Mysteries traces Operation Pastorius from German submarines off the East Coast to saboteurs landing in Florida and on Long Island with explosives and a plan to reach Cincinnati.
Roy Rogers rises from Ohio roots to Decca and Republic Pictures in a tidy classic-Hollywood origin story.
Ohio Mysteries sketches Roy Rogers as more than a familiar Western figure, tracing the Ohio-born performer from singing and acting into rodeo work and television hosting.
A grim Ohio lynching case, told with steady chronology and a disputed deathbed confession.
Ohio Mysteries treats this Ohio lynching case as a study in mob behavior and the way violence can dress itself up as justice. It follows the jail break, the wagon ride, and the long march to the intended hanging site with a local-history eye, so the story stays tied to place and…
A plainspoken tornado story where regional history and human devastation land together.
This episode keeps its focus on the 1924 tornado as a regional catastrophe, and the scale is stark: 85 deaths in Sandusky and Lorraine, 88 across Ohio.
A prison-break story where Ohio banks bankroll the Dillinger escape plan.
Harry "Pete" Pierpont's time in Indiana State Prison sits at the center of the Dillinger story, and the episode treats that thread with a clear eye.
Outdoor mysteries, mapped with human common sense.
Georgia politics from inside the room.
True crime measured by the evidence.
Mysteries, lore, and nervous laughter.
This episode recounts the devastating 1924 Lorain/Sandusky tornado, an F4 storm that killed 88 people in Ohio.
This episode explores the life of Roy Rogers, born Leonard Sly in Ohio, detailing his rise from humble beginnings to becoming the 'King of Cowboys' through films, music, and merchandising.
This episode of Ohio Mysteries tells the story of Barry Bremen, a Michigan insurance agent who became known as 'the great imposter' for sneaking into major sporting events from 1979 to 1986.
This episode explores the 1872 murder of 13-year-old Belle Secor in Mercer County, Ohio, and the subsequent mob lynching of two suspects, Alexander McLeod and Absalom Kimmel.
This episode explores rum running on Lake Erie during Prohibition, featuring an interview with author R.C.
This episode of Ohio Mysteries Backroads features two nautical mysteries: the unsolved 1930 Toledo speedboat disaster where eight prominent men vanished on Lake Erie, and the history of the USS Sackham, a ghost ship on the Ohio River with a storied past from luxury yacht to wartime service.
This episode investigates the 1954 disappearance of Mary Grimes Wallace in Xenia, Ohio, whose body was found on railroad tracks but later doubted to be hers.
This episode explores three Ohio roadside attractions: the Leatherlips Monument, detailing the execution of a Native American leader; the Castalia Blue Hole, a mysterious spring with unique geological features; and Strickers Grove, a private amusement park open only a few days a year.
This episode explores Operation Pastorius, a failed Nazi plot in 1942 to send saboteurs to America to disrupt industrial support for the Allies.
This episode delves into the life of Harry 'Pete' Pierpont, a Prohibition-era gangster whose criminal career was sparked by a traumatic accident.
This episode explores the 1985 disappearance of Mel Wiley, the police chief of Hinkley Township, Ohio, who vanished after planning a swim in Lake Erie.
This episode explores the story of Cletus Reese, a serial killer in 1950s Ohio who murdered at least three men on his remote farm.
Host Dan interviews Marcy, a photographer investigating the 1958 disappearance of her uncle William Scales, a missile tracker for RCA in the Bahamas during the Cold War.
Host Dan interviews David Kamen, Candy Frankowski, and Ken Miller about the creation and growth of the Downtown Sandusky Cedar Point Historical Museum.
A Bell Fountain, Ohio fruit-shop murder on April 18, 1908 leaves Salvatore Serra dead, 18-year-old Charles DeMar implicated, and two Italian letters in Serra's pockets.
This episode explores a frightening memory from an amusement park visit, part of Ohio's local legends and unsolved mysteries.
This episode explores the infamous Ten Cent Beer Night at Cleveland Municipal Stadium as a case study in mob mentality.
A scheduling update for Ohio Mysteries, a true crime podcast exploring unsolved murders, lost shipwrecks, and local legends in Ohio.
Ohio Mysteries revisits the 1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky, where 165 people died and more than half of the victims were from Ohio.
["Ohio Mysteries Backroads talks with Don Hilton about his Lorain County book, which took 10 years to research and includes about 150 short murder cases.", "Hilton says the project began with a 1920s murder near his childhood home in northwest Pennsylvania and grew into a deliberate search for more cases.", "He says he stopped at 1956 because it is his birth year and because he does not want to write about living people.", "The interview also covers family members discovering murder cases in their own trees, the 'unwritten law' defense, old coroner and probate records, and the Lorain tornado's death totals."]
Ohio Mysteries Backroads examines the 1993 disappearance of 20-year-old pilot Jim Hysong Jr.
Ohio Mysteries Backroads hosts Dan and Doug interview Ohio author Neil Sater about Atrocity, a supernatural novel inspired by the 1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre in Tuscarawas County.
Hosts Mike and Dan introduce a special episode featuring guests from the Murder Road podcast, discussing unsolved mysteries in Ohio.
This episode explores the case of Billy Milligan, the first person to successfully use a multiple personality defense in court.
This episode investigates the unsolved 1974 murder of Fred Hale, a wealthy deputy in Akron, Ohio.
This episode explores the Coons Spirit Room in Athens County, Ohio, a historical supernatural hotspot where seances were conducted in the mid-1800s.