3News investigates the 'melon heads' of Kirtland

Strange creatures with abnormally large heads are said to roam the woods of Northeast Ohio, especially around Halloween. Rachel Polansky reports.

[JonDeth]

*3 friends that did not know each other have all told me about seeing the same tiny sort of man living in a house on the same road, one of which had a cousin living there and another her best friend.* My friend said he looked sort of like a kid, but was obviously a bit off mentally and sort of like an adult too. The girl's story is unrelated and Colonel
My friend was very honest and also said that this "tiny man" was still obviously a kid in age just the same. This was 30 years ago and the 3rd friend I would have to literally track down to remember his story, but he lived in Thompson.

*I've seen a guy a half dozen times over the last 15 years drive through town down on the lake in an 80s Volvo in great condition who looks literally like Tobey McGuire, but he has a gigantic head from the forehead up. He looks healthy and fully functional but is absolutely impossible to miss on the rare occasion he ventures out.*
I've never heard of someone with Hydrocephalus living to function normally or subnormally as an adult, but maybe the rare occasion due to genetics and it happens?
Could be some idiot trying to be funny too but....

*Ultimately, I will close with a minor digression. 24 years ago, I spent a couple months in Los Angeles and I met a young man through the partier neighbors and we were talking happily and then he turned his head....I am not exaggerating when I say his head turned sideways was as thick as a book!! Like maybe a 4 inch thick MAXIMUM and shaped like a tiny rectangle encyclopedia with rounded corners looking from the front and back, but the backside of his head was like a flat pile of golf balls!* He wasn't short either at least 5'11 so it wasn't a fluke of stature and ethnicity. He was a white guy.
Now I know what I saw with the melonhead dude and this young man I met at least 3 or 4 times.
*The guy in Los Angeles where EVERYONE is fucking weird is still in a league of his own!!*
I have researched conditions for 24 years since, found nothing and sometimes genuinely suspect he wasn't quite human, but another branch from a common ancestor that can sort of blend in as human beings.
*I have never heard of or seen someone who had head trauma that would have left that shape and appearance, no scarring and a fully functional person of at the very least, average intelligence.*

[zombie_snax]

Nope, after that train wreck and chemical fire. They'll be there again soon.

[SupernaturalCrossroads]

I love this story, i want to use this for my paranormal news show

[problensolver]

Yall do not know about the bus in the backfields of kirtland being the batting cage

[nmulae]

That's odd. I actually was investigating Wisner Road a couple months ago back in August and saw that part of the road was blocked off. I don't remember any paths off of Wisner Road that led into the woods.

[wisam]

You guys could’ve set a few trail cams and picked them up during the day. With the help of the local sherif. Also what exactly makes them bad besides being ugly?

[brianmorris]

Not just wisner, also spotted along Baldwin Rd. Occasionally near rt 6 as well.

[RememberWhatHeDid_]

Nah my dad randomly told me a story about how him and his buddies went into the woods to find watermelon people that didn’t like being seen so they only came out at night. He said that they would attack people on sight. I was confused and decided to look up stuff on google and went down a rabbit hole. I asked my dad if he actually saw them like he said and if he actually believed in them. Turns out the whole melon head bs was just teens making up stuff to go in the woods and just smoke and drink lol. My dad did at first say he saw them but he later told he probably imagined it and was just paranoid after smoking that wacky tobbacky lol