This is Andrew typing. I'm not sure what happened, but it looks like I might have accidently cut off the intro to this short "article" sent to me by Jeff. Basically, the email I received from Jeff concerned a few stories originating from Kirtland, Ohio, detailing the Urban Legend of Dr. Crowe.

Now I have heard many different versions of this story. The most common tale is that a Dr. Crowe who lived in the vicinity of Wisner Road kidnapped children and did various experiments on there brains causing there heads to become larger in proportion to the rest of there bodies. It is said that they roam the woods at night looking for humans, they eat their flesh. The most notable description of a Melon Head is about 4 feet tall with a large head, glowing eyes, and sometimes said to have razor teeth.

There is rumor of a nut house ran by the Dr. I guess the story is that he may have done experiments that were cruel in nature. One day they patients killed the Dr. as well as his staff. They crazies still roam the area on a killing spree.

Another story is that Dr. Crowe worked for the government as a scientist and either through radiation exposure or other chemicals his children were born mutated with large heads and such. So the government in order to keep a lid on this gave the Dr. land in Kirtland.

It has also been said that the Dr. did abortions and buried the fetuses in the mounds that are in the yard where he once lived.

There are other stories and tales but these are the most common. It is said that Dr. Crowe was a real person residing off Wisner Road as for the rest not much is known as for how long ago this supposedly took place. The last two are very well possible but unlikely, it is also not sure where or when the Melon Head tales first popped up. There is also stories of Melon Heads in Michigan, it seems as though this legend was probably carried with someone from this area. I don't think you could have grown up in this area without being frightened of the Melon Heads. I also know for a fact a lot of the history of this area is unpublished for reason I can't figure out I do know that in the early 1800's the Mormons lived here and were eventually run out of town because of fraud, as they were run out of every town they lived in until they reached Utah, maybe things happened that the non-Mormons wanted to be kept secrete, also this were cult killings of a family of 5 here in the early 1990's, its just a creepy town.

Jeff K