Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 4 min readIn central Ohio stand the largest earthen enclosures on Earth — a circle, an octagon and a square built two thousand years ago to track the Moon’s 18.6-year cycle. For a century, part of it was a golf course.
About 3 min readIt is 1,348 feet long, the largest serpent effigy in the world, and it has watched over an Ohio creek for a thousand years or more. Archaeologists still argue about who built it — and when.
About 4 min readBuilt as a reformatory for young offenders, the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield held men for 94 years, closed in 1990, and was saved from demolition by The Shawshank Redemption. Today it is a museum — and, by reputation, the most haunted building in Ohio.
About 4 min readIn 1955, and again in 1972, people in Loveland, Ohio, reported a three-foot creature with leathery skin, a frog-like face and webbed hands — standing upright by the Little Miami River. Decades later, a police sergeant said it was an iguana.