It’s been ten years since Cindy Barber and Mark Leddy converted Collinwood’s historic Croation Liberty Home into the Beachland Ballroom, a blue ribbon, non-corporate concert club to showcase the area’s most courageous, and diverse talent. Since its Y2K opening, the Beachland has been the venue of many debuts and early booking gigs of celebrated [...]
Independent Exclusive: Zanotti Gambled with J. Kevin Kelley By James Renner Contrary to his public denials, The Independent has learned that Issue 6 architect, former Mayor of Parma Heights, and county-transition executive committee member Martin Zanotti took trips north to gamble with county corruption figure J. Kevin Kelley and several other local politicians. [...]
The Vindicator, Youngstown’s daily newspaper, reports on the rash of triangular-UFO sighings occurring across the Ohio Valley. These sightings are escalating in frequency and share common characteristics: triangular craft, flying in formation, making no noise. My money is on military craft as yet unknown; these reports remind me a lot of early sightings of [...]
The Paranormal Borderline revisits one of Ohio’s most credible UFO tales–the 1949 Norwood sightings. Several witnesses reported a strange stationary object hovering over their town at night. Several credible residents were able to gather evidence: On October 23, 1949 Norwood Police sergeant Leo Davidson took photographs of the unknown objects and Reverend Gregory Miller [...]
My guess is military flares or perhaps small meteorites. Whatever. It makes for a cool YouTube video.
Reports of a strange gilled lizard creature in the Big Easy sound very similar to our local legend of the Loveland Frog. Check out the full story at the Gralien Report. Whatever that is.
Oh man oh man oh man. I have to see what this is all about. Last year’s convention was “punked” by a New Zealand mockumentarian. This year’s Bigfoot Expo promises to be even crazier. Think about. Pissed off Bigfoot hunters in a small hotel. The nerd community hasn’t experienced this level of animosity since [...]
What a way to start the week! Reno Oradini just got busted for drunk driving, according to the Plain Dealer. This could not have happened to a better person. Who is Reno Oradini? Reno Oradini is a childhood chum of Billy Mason. He’s an assistant county prosecutor. But more important, he’s the stooge who’s responsible [...]
The Ohio Grassman is rumored to be a subspecies of Sasquatch that build weird huts out of bluegrass around the Ohio Valley region. According to BackWoodsHorror, a group of local independent filmmakers have made a new low-budg slasher movie featuring the monster. The preview for the upcoming film, which can be found on their [...]
That was fast! After watching his beloved restaurant burn to the ground in December, George Dixon has re-opened The Lancer in a temporary space. 7804 Carnegie, across the street from the original site. Dixon invited Ohio Secretary of State and US Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner for the grand re-opening, drawing the typical Lancer crowd – [...]
