Chardon Melonheads
"One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible." - Charles Fort, Wild Talents (1932). Credit: Weird Ohio . There was an unfortunate school shooting at the Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio, on February 27, 2012. My two overviews on this incident were previously posted here and here . See those for other details and decodes. Forget the distractions. It is a deeper analysis of the place in association with the local legend of the Melon Heads that brings our attention into focus. "Melon Heads" is the generic name given to legendary beings and urban legends in parts of Michigan, Ohio, and Connecticut, generally described as small humanoids with bulbous heads who occasionally emerge from hiding places to attack people. Different variations of the legend attribute different origins, but we need not get bogged down in those usual elaborate twisted origin myths. In many ways, melon head sightings mirror the Dover Demon accounts o...