Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
Ohio has its own version of a legend that runs across the old Midwest: the Melon Heads, said to be small, large-headed figures haunting the back roads of the Chagrin Valley east of Cleveland, blamed in the usual way on a vanished orphanage or asylum. There is no evidence of any such thing, and the real value here is the deep, genuinely eerie old-growth woods and ravines the story clings to. Told as the modern folklore it is.
The Chagrin Valley, near Kirtland (Lake County, Ohio). Source: Modern back-road folklore of the northern Ohio woods. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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