Category: Just Plain Weird

(More) Odds and Ends

While digging through old newspapers looking for material for this site, I occasionally happen across an article that isn’t substantial enough to warrant its own separate entry here. I call these articles my “odd and ends,” and I even included a chapter with that title in Haunted Marion, Ohio. What follows are a couple of […]

UFOs in Marion, Part II

Anyone reading a newspaper in the days following the 4th of July, 1947, would probably have noticed something odd: There were suddenly a lot of stories from all over the nation about sightings of “flying saucers” or “flying disks.” The Marion Star carried these stories, most of them coming in from the major news agencies, […]