Melonheads - Creepy characters of Urban legends of Ohio

Among the characters of urban legends of the state of Ohio (USA) there are creatures called "melonheads" or "Melonheads" (Melonheads).

Stories about meetings with them began in the late 1960s and are still relevant today. They describe these creatures as people with huge, swollen heads. Melonheads are found in remote rural areas, mainly in Ohio, but sometimes they are seen in other states.

They meet them in an area where, according to numerous horror films, there are also feral degenerates, cannibals, degenerate cannibals, maniacs with chainsaws, and so on. Melonheads are often seen near the small towns of Kirtland and Chardon.

Melonheads look quite human, not resembling gray aliens or other famous monsters. However, their skulls are excessively inflated, as in patients with hydrocephalus. Also sometimes mentioned are very sharp triangular shark-like teeth of melonheads. Meet with melonheads mainly forest tourists or occasional lonely travelers.

According to one version, the melonheads were the result of a grim medical experiment. Allegedly, once a certain Dr. Crowe came to these places, who had access to orphaned children. The doctor began to conduct his crazy experiments on children, as a result of which the children grew heads due to artificially induced hydrocephalus. Because of this hydrocephalus, the children allegedly began to go crazy one by one and ran away into the woods. According to another version, Dr. Crowe's wife sympathized with the children and helped them escape and hide in the woods. During one of these escapes, Crowe's wife was killed in a fire, as the children accidentally knocked over a kerosene paw.

According to this version, the melonheads found today are either the descendants of those children who inherited huge skulls and madness, or the ghosts of those children who are doomed to wander forever in the local forests.

Another legend about the origin of the melonheads also connects them with medicine, but this time with a secret government experiment. Because of these experiments, people's skulls were enlarged not because of the presence of water in them, as in hydrocephalus, but because of a sharp increase in the volume of the brain.

As in the first hypothesis, the patients once ran away from the laboratory, because they really wanted to get into the world of ordinary people. But there they were mistaken for monsters, after which the melonheads returned to these forests and roam here to this day. The government, in order to conceal the secret experiment, allegedly deliberately released a lot of eccentric stories about meetings with melonheads, in order to turn the real story of exhausted people into another conspiracy theory, whose adherents are considered cranks.

Anyway, somewhere in the forests of Ohio, a certain number of these melonheads allegedly walk, finding food in the form of local animals. It is said that from time to time animal remains are found in these forests, and the traces of the attack do not indicate the usual local predators. Melonheads are quite aggressive creatures and at night they go out to hunt not only animals, but also people. They even seem to be able to attack each other with hunger.

The very first case of meeting with dynegolov dates back to 1964. A group of teenagers were driving somewhere in a car and saw a man with a huge head on the side of the road, who was looking at them. When the teenagers decided to approach him, the creature rushed into the bushes.

The teenagers followed him into the woods and came out into a clearing with an old house. An elderly man and woman were sitting on the porch, and several melonheads were walking around them. It looked so surreal that the teenagers asked the old man what was going on here, and the old man told them that these creatures were their children, who were born like this because of exposure to radiation. He once worked as a nuclear engineer in a government program.

The old man said that the government paid them to keep quiet and go to a remote place where no one would see their children. The old man asked the teenagers not to tell anything about them, but the teenagers could not resist and told their friends about what they saw. And when they all decided to go to the house again, on a deserted dirt road, they were suddenly stopped by a large police patrol, which in this place looked like a foreign body.

The guys told them where they were going, but the police began to assure them that all this was fiction and urban legends. But the guys did not want to leave and then they were arrested and brought to the police station. They were released only when their parents came for the teenagers and no charges were brought. It is not known whether they then tried to go back to that house, or whether they were so badly intimidated that they forgot the way there.

Another story about meeting the melonheads is described in the book "Strange US: Your Guide to local secrets and legends of America ("Weird US: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets"), published in 2001.

An eyewitness named Tony claimed that he was driving in the vicinity of the city of Chardon (Ohio) and one of these creatures tried to run after his car. He described him as a normal-sized man with thin arms and legs, but a huge head.

The creature briefly ran after the car, but then disappeared into the woods.

"He was about the same height as me, which is about 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm). He was wearing brown trousers, very dirty and torn, and a white shirt covered with dark red spots, possibly blood. The head was a light brownish color and there were no auricles, only small holes on the sides. The head was all swollen and the eyes also seemed large."

Another meeting with melonhead was told by a woman named Kelly and it happened during her visit to the uninhabited Felt Mansion in Alleghan County, Michigan. Kelly was exploring an abandoned homestead with her friends when the group suddenly encountered someone else in the building, whose head looked exorbitantly large.

"We didn't know who this person was, but my friend called out to him,' Hi! he waved a friendly hand. The strange man responded with an incomprehensible grunt and came at us at a brisk pace. Suddenly, we were overcome by a wave of horror and as quickly as possible we jumped out of the building and rushed to our car. We only slowed down when we were a few miles from the mansion."

Another case occurred in 2009 and was published on the Creepy Cleveland website. An eyewitness named J. B. lived all his childhood in an area near Wisner Road (Ohio), passing through the forest. It was here that he once saw a melonhead that attacked his dog.

"It happened in early autumn around 10 o'clock in the evening. I heard my dog barking at someone and ran out of the house to see who was there. I found a dog with a wound that was bleeding, and then I looked in the direction of the forest and saw the figure of a man with a very large head quickly moving away in that direction. The next morning I went there, seeing his tracks, but I lost them at the stream."

Wisner Road is the place where the melonheads have been seen repeatedly. They probably live somewhere nearby. Another such road is Velvet Street, which runs through the towns of Trumbull and Monroe in Connecticut.

The encounter with the melonhead on this road was described in the book "Weird New England"by Joseph Citro. This incident occurred in the 1980s with a group of girls Megan, Sue, Kim, Deb, Jen and Karen. The girls rested together on Friday evening and decided to go to this road for fun and look for adventures. In fact, they did not think that they would actually meet the melonhead, and then they greatly regretted this trip.

The girls drove farther into the woods and then drove slowly down the road, giggling and telling each other all the scary stories they knew. Suddenly, the headlights of their car picked out a small man in ragged clothes and with a huge head at the curb near a tree. And his eyes glowed with an orange light.

When the terrified girls drove past the creature at speed, wanting to get out of there as quickly as possible, the creature giggled loudly maniacally.