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...they were supposedly mental patients that had undergone experimental treatment at a psycho ward that caused their brains to swell...
I remember a story about a street you drive down and on the other side of the fence lining the street is a bunch of retarded kids with extremely large heads peering at you between the fence, and if you're lucky you can catch a glimpse of them. It was supposed to be scary. I never knew where the street was, and at that age (it was before high-school) it would have been hard to convince your parents to drive you around looking for melonheads...
This Version ends up being the creepiest
for me because I heard it after visiting the cemetery and I noticed during
my visit that there were quite a few very young babies buried there.
During the 1800s a doctor secretly performed abortions and killed deformed
babies in this building. After being thrown into the basement, the babies
were then buried in a knoll outside the house. Many people claim to feel
eerie chills when passing the knoll and to hear cries of babies coming
from the basement.Taken from Real
Haunts.com
These three versions come from Creepy Cleveland and talk about the Melon Heads being located further east, in Chardon. The road they talk of is rather long so if you know a more pinpoint location send it to me.
My mother, Mary Woollams, grew up in Chardon and
that is were the legend of the Melonheads festered and grew. On Chardon-Windsor
Road on a section that was described as wooded, teenagers would stop on
the road and if the moon was full, out of the forest would come small
men with extremely large craniums who would amble toward their cars with
a teeter-totter gait. Of course the teenagers would peel away frightened
and tell their schoolmates about the men with the big heads. The rumor
was that the men had come from a nearby insane asylum which had long since
been burnt down. When I became of ghost story and legend age, I heard my
own version of the Melonheads but with a more gruesome twist. Same road
same scenario except as told to me they
were now flesh-eating,preferring the brains of
ghost story age preteens.
At Wickliffe High School in
the mid-60's, we heard a different version of the Melon Heads story. Some
kids were driving around one day and saw a melon head watching them from
the side of a country road. They stopped and the melon head ran into
the woods. They followed deep into the woods and came to an old farm house.
On the porch sat a middle-aged
couple and several melon heads. The kids asked what was going on and the
man explained that he had been a nuclear scientist during World War II.
After the war he married but the exposure to radiation caused all of his
children to be born as melon heads. The government gave him a lot of money
to keep quiet and bought this secluded farm house where they could live
out their lives away from prying eyes. He asked the kids to tell no one
what they'd seen and never to return.
Someone told this story at
a party in the Summer of 1964. Someone else thought they knew where the
melon heads lived, so we all crammed into cars and headed out to find them.
We got stopped by the police in Waite Hill. When they found out where we
were going, they gave us a stern lecture that there were no such things
as the melon heads and that we should tell all our friends that there were
no melon heads. We were taken to the police station, where we had to
call our parents to come and get us.
We all agreed that the police
were so intense in trying to convince us that there were no melon heads
that there had to be melon heads. If not, why were the police so upset
that we were looking for them?
The story as I have heard it is that Dr. Crow
(possibly spelled Crowe, I have seen it both ways) was a doctor whom practiced
medicine out of his house in the early to mid 1800's. Anyway
he had either been given these kids with mental problems or he had
kidnapped some kids (again I have heard it both ways). He
then ran experiments on these kids; injecting
their brains with water. This caused the kids to become even more
nuts and their heads to swell up like melons. Any way he kept them
locked away in cages in a green barn next to his house. Now at this point
the story gets a little fuzzy...either the barn burnt down in an accident
and a few of the melon heads escaped, or the barn is still there (I have
yet to visit the old crow house, so I don't know if the barn is still standing
or not. I am more inclined to believe it burned down) anyway,
these melon heads still roam the area out near the Holden Arboredum ( Windsor
Road from what I have been told).It should
be noted that there is no Windsor Rd near Holden Arbertum - there is a
Wisner Rd there or this could be Chardon Windsor Rd in Chardon.
Supposedly they come out only at night and if it is a full moon they are
extremely viscous and will attack any humans they see. However they
have a hard time seeing. If you wear dark clothes blacks, reds, dark
greens/blues You will be safe....but if you have on any bright colors or
white, you are a prime target. Usually they just attack deer and other
forest animals for their food, but on those rare full moon occasions they
will attack and rip a human limb from limb if they find one. This is the
story I have heard from numerous sources. I have gathered many stories
from people who have been out there - and from just people who know the
myth.
Email me if you have other
versions or more info on this legend