TY - BOOK AU - Willis,James A AU - Henderson,Andrew AU - Coleman,Loren TI - Weird Ohio: your travel guide to Ohio's local legends and best kept secrets AV - F489.3 .W55 2005 U1 - 917.7 WIL PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Sterling Publishing KW - Ohio KW - Guidebooks N1 - Includes index; Local legends and lore -- Ancient mysteries -- Fabled people and places -- Unexplained phenomena -- Bizarre beasts -- Local heroes and villains -- Personalized properties -- Roadside distractions -- Roads less traveled -- Haunted places and ghostly tales -- Cemetery safari -- Abandoned in Ohio N2 - Ah, Ohio, so nice and normal. We have apple-pie heroes like Hopalong Cassidy, Neil Armstrong, Thomas Edison, and Doris Day. Our state bird is the jaunty and ever-popular cardinal, and our state flower is the carnation, found in the buttonholes of politicians and bridegrooms everywhere. We started America rolling by opening the country's first gas station, and we have a museum dedicated to America's music, rock and roll. But there's something else we have a whole lot of, and that's ...weirdness. Yes, the Buckeye State has lots and lots of strange people and unusual sites, and they burst forth from every page of this, the biggest, most bizarre collection of Ohio stories ever assembled: Weird Ohio. -- dust jacket ER -