https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/2026-10-05 https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/72-000-fans-watched-cleveland-lose-here-s-why/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/-i0y8V85P6Q.jpg72,000 fans watched Cleveland lose. Here's why.October 3, 1993: 72,390 people watched the Indians lose 4-0. It was goodbye to Cleveland Municipal Stadium.https://www.youtube.com/embed/-i0y8V85P6Q2026-10-03T13:00:13+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/abandoned-mines/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/es_QMlyY3bw.jpg677 square miles of Ohio sit over old mines. Map by ZIPAbout 677 square miles of Ohio (433,375 acres) sit over underground coal and mineral mines that were abandoned before 1977, as the Ohio Department of Natural Resources maps them: in 264 ZIP codes across 38 counties. In 23 ZIP codes, mines lie under half the ZIP or more, 16 of them in Belmont and Jefferson counties. Some outlines are only partly known, and not every old mine is on the map.https://www.youtube.com/embed/es_QMlyY3bw2026-10-02T16:00:19+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/alum-creek-lake/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/GOVvkBAb178.jpgThe valley under Alum Creek Lake: Africa, Ohio and the Underground RailroadBefore Alum Creek Dam (1970-74) flooded 3,387 acres of Delaware County, Ohio, the valley held farms, eight prehistoric mounds, the site of Fort Cheshire (War of 1812), and Africa, Ohio, an Underground Railroad community named in mockery by a pro-slavery neighbor. 1955 vs 1995 USGS maps, an 1866 county atlas, and 1966/1973 aerials. Did your family know the valley? Maps and aerials: USGS Galena topos 1955/1995 and aerials 1966/1973; Beers 1866 Atlas of Delaware County via Wikimedia Commons; OGRIP Ohio Statewide Imagery Program. Photos: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Yinan Chen via Wikimedia Commons; Africa Community marker by Sixflashphoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.https://www.youtube.com/embed/GOVvkBAb1782026-09-28T16:00:38+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/amlin/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/9AB60yNYKDo.jpgAmlin, Ohio: the railroad village Dublin grew aroundAmlin, on Rings Road in Washington Township, Franklin County, Ohio: from 1842 farm maps to the 1893 Toledo & Ohio Central, the 1894 depot that took the Amlin name, the 1917 school vote Amlin lost, nine National Register listings in 1979, and the post office that closed in April 2026. Did you grow up there? Maps: CML 1842/1856, Caldwell 1872, USGS Dublin 1901. Aerials: OGRIP/OSIP 2007 and today. Photos: Nyttend, Wikimedia Commons (public domain). Portrait: Columbus Metropolitan Library.https://www.youtube.com/embed/9AB60yNYKDo2026-09-28T18:31:39+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/big-muskie-the-biggest-machine-that-ever-walked-ohio-and-what/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/hUTtTG0bUIA.jpgBig Muskie: The Biggest Machine That Ever Walked Ohio (and What Killed It)In 1969, a high school marching band played a concert inside a bucket. That bucket belonged to Big Muskie, the Bucyrus-Erie 4250-W, the largest walking dragline ever built. It weighed 13,500 tons, stood 22 stories tall, and moved about twice as much earth as the Panama Canal while stripping coal in southeast Ohio. Thirty years later it was blown down and sold for scrap for $700,000.https://www.youtube.com/embed/hUTtTG0bUIA2026-10-03T20:40:30+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/broadband/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/fyT98d3s4ao.jpg200,135 Ohio homes and businesses can't get 100/20 internet. Map by ZIP200,135 homes and businesses in Ohio, 4.4% of 4,507,690 locations, had no internet service of 100/20 Mbps on offer in June 2024, by the FCC's broadband map. In 68 ZIP codes it was half or more of them. A year earlier the count was 261,457 (5.8%). This is what providers report they can offer by wire or fixed wireless, not what homes buy or the speed they get, and satellite is not counted.https://www.youtube.com/embed/fyT98d3s4ao2026-10-04T20:00:09+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/can-you-name-this-ohio-town-from-its-1889-map/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/hvHIrTjIw5M.jpgCan you name this Ohio town from its 1889 map?Name this Ohio town from its May 1889 fire-insurance map. Two hints: two railroads cross town just south of Market Street, and in 1897 a man here built a cider mill and sold apple butter door to door from a horse-drawn wagon. The answer is at the end of the video.https://www.youtube.com/embed/hvHIrTjIw5M2026-10-03T16:00:00+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/cbus-1887/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/OnVbRq0lvCA.jpgDowntown Columbus in 1887, one building at a timeDowntown Columbus in 1887, from the Sanborn fire insurance maps at the Library of Congress. The Sanborn company drew every building for insurers: pink for brick, yellow for wood, blue for stone. Swipe to today and the grid is the same, the Statehouse square is the same, and most of those buildings are gone. All 29 sheets of the 1887 Columbus set are on our map, lined up with the ground.https://www.youtube.com/embed/OnVbRq0lvCA2026-09-26T02:42:19+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/cbus-delphi-casino/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/LqXR-WVppXE.jpgThe Columbus casino that used to be a GM plantColumbus's West Side from the air in 1995, 2009, 2011 and today. The long saw-tooth roof is the auto-parts plant General Motors opened here in 1946, off Georgesville Road near West Broad Street. It made parts like door latches and seat springs, employed thousands of people at its peak, and was run by Delphi by the time it closed in 2007. It came down in 2010, and Hollywood Casino Columbus opened on the site in October 2012.https://www.youtube.com/embed/LqXR-WVppXE2026-10-03T20:00:20+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/cbus-easton/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/w6J4nppmrpM.jpgEaston in 1995 was farm fieldsEaston from the air in 1995, 2000 and today. In 1995 this corner of northeast Columbus, inside I-270 along Morse Road, was mostly farm fields. Les Wexner had started buying the land in 1986, and by 1996 he had assembled about 1,200 acres. Easton Town Center opened on June 30, 1999, and it has kept growing ever since.https://www.youtube.com/embed/w6J4nppmrpM2026-10-02T23:00:01+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/cbus-northland/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/uIYeoZbV_Nw.jpgNorthland Mall, Columbus: 1995, 2004 and todayNorthland Mall from the air in 1995, 2004 and today. It opened on August 13, 1964 at Morse and Karl roads as an open-air center with Lazarus and Sears, and was enclosed in the mid-1970s. Newer malls pulled shoppers away, it closed on October 31, 2002, and it was knocked down in February 2004. Today the ground is Northland Village: a Menards where Sears stood, a Kroger (2016) on the old concourse, the Franklin County dog shelter, and the old Lazarus building, now offices for the Ohio Department of Taxation.https://www.youtube.com/embed/uIYeoZbV_Nw2026-09-26T16:30:15+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/cin-blue-ash-airport/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/afDKBftO3qQ.jpgBlue Ash Airport, Ohio: 1956 to todayBlue Ash Airport from the air in 1956, 1977 and 2018. People flew from fields here from 1921. The City of Cincinnati bought the airfields in 1946 and 1955, and Blue Ash incorporated, as a village in 1955 and a city in 1961, partly to keep the airport from growing. Cincinnati paved the grass runways in 1977. The airport closed on August 29, 2012, after 91 years. Blue Ash opened Summit Park on its share of the land in 2014; the runway land was sold in 2017 for a new neighborhood, and in the 2018 photo it is bare ground. Hamilton County's CAGIS flew the old photos, and every one of them is on our map.https://www.youtube.com/embed/afDKBftO3qQ2026-10-04T16:00:05+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/cin-tri-county-mall/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/bTeLGJQbMnk.jpgTri-County Mall, Springdale Ohio: farm fields to a mallTri-County Mall from the air in 1938, 1968 and 2018. In 1938 this corner of Springdale was farm fields. The mall opened on July 21, 1960 as an open-air center with 51 stores; Sears came in 1967 and the rest was enclosed in 1968, the year of the middle photo. A 1990-92 expansion added a second level. It closed in May 2022, 62 years after it opened. Hamilton County's CAGIS flew the old photos, and every one of them is on our map.https://www.youtube.com/embed/bTeLGJQbMnk2026-10-02T20:00:11+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/drilling-rights-under-ohio-s-only-national-forest-the-map-the/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/YolcVnppo-Q.jpgDrilling rights under Ohio's only national forest: the map, the money, both sidesDrilling rights under Ohio's only national forest just went for $11 million, and 3,657 people formally protested. Here's what happened, on one map.https://www.youtube.com/embed/YolcVnppo-Q2026-10-02T17:57:36+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/forest-park/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/Zkw8uCy0zdk.jpgWatch Forest Park, Ohio get built: 1950 to todayForest Park from the air in 1950, 1962, 1977 and today. In 1950 this was farmland, part of the greenbelt the federal government set aside in 1935 around Greenhills. Developers Marvin Warner and Joseph Kanter bought 3,400 acres in 1954, the first homes went on sale in March 1956, and Forest Park became a city in 1968. It had 4,800 people in 1960, 15,139 in 1970 and 20,189 in 2020.https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zkw8uCy0zdk2026-09-28T20:00:36+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/gahanna-1922/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/b1QGfG8XmuQ.jpgGahanna, Ohio in 1922 vs todayOlde Gahanna in 1922, from the Sanborn fire insurance map at the Library of Congress, laid over the same streets today. Mill Street and Granville Street are right where they were, and so is Big Walnut Creek. Sanborn drew every building for insurers: yellow for wood, pink for brick.https://www.youtube.com/embed/b1QGfG8XmuQ2026-09-27T23:00:08+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/howto-oldmaps/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/-WWELZtskr0.jpgSee your street on every old map, free (Ohio)How to see your own street on every old map we have, back to 1899 here in Columbus. Type your ZIP code, tap Layers, then Old maps. Zoom in on your block and tap back through the years: aerial photos, USGS topo maps and old city maps, one after another. It's free and you don't need an account.https://www.youtube.com/embed/-WWELZtskr02026-10-03T23:00:10+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/in-1920-the-census-counted-ohio-s-siamese-it-found-none/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/OUvnzic-uL4.jpgIn 1920 the Census Counted Ohio's "Siamese." It Found None.In 1920 the census had a race called "Siamese". Ohio's count: none. Today almost six thousand Ohioans say they are Thai, one thread in the story of 424,000 Asian Ohioans.https://www.youtube.com/embed/OUvnzic-uL42026-10-03T21:26:15+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/kahiki/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/AIB-GOaQdvk.jpgThe Kahiki: Columbus's lost tiki palace (1961-2000)The Kahiki Supper Club at 3583 E. Broad St., Columbus, Ohio: a $1 million, 20,000 sq ft Polynesian palace with a war-canoe roof, flaming moai and a moat, opened February 1961, listed on the National Register in 1997, closed August 2000 and torn down that year for a Walgreens. Did you ever order the Mystery Drink?https://www.youtube.com/embed/AIB-GOaQdvk2026-09-28T03:00:14+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/new-burlington/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/HinQO-DY0Ps.jpgNew Burlington: the Ohio village the government bought and tore downNew Burlington, Clinton County, Ohio (settled 1799, laid out 1833; local tradition makes it an Underground Railroad stop) was bought whole by the federal government for Caesar Creek Lake. The 1974 impact statement counts 215 family homesites, two churches and eight businesses, including the entire town. The deadline to leave was Feb. 29, 1972; by late 1973 only sidewalks and foundations were left. The dam was dedicated July 29, 1978, and its spillway is now a fossil-hunting site. Read John Baskin's "New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village" (1976). Did your family know it? Photos: USGS aerial 1967; Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress; Nyttend 2016 via Wikimedia Commons. Maps: USGS New Burlington 1955, Oregonia 1955/1996; USGS The National Map; OGRIP Ohio Statewide Imagery Program.https://www.youtube.com/embed/HinQO-DY0Ps2026-09-28T19:30:21+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/october-3-in-ohio-history-the-first-nfl-game-and-goodbye-to-the/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/mI4MR1BnEKk.jpgOctober 3 in Ohio History: The First NFL Game and Goodbye to the Old Stadium | On This Day in OhioOctober 3rd in Ohio: the 1920 Dayton Triangles vs. Columbus Panhandles game, the first between two teams of the league that became the NFL; Ohio's first night college football game; the 1818 Delaware (Lenape) treaty at St. Mary's; Harry Wright, founder of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings; the first Ohio State Highway Patrol cadet school; Lorain County Community College; and the last Indians game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.https://www.youtube.com/embed/mI4MR1BnEKk2026-10-03T13:00:27+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/october-4-in-ohio-history-orville-wright-s-33-minutes-over/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/yScLHDDxRyY.jpgOctober 4 in Ohio History: Orville Wright's 33 Minutes Over Huffman Prairie | On This Day in OhioOctober 4, 1905: Orville Wright circled a cow pasture near Dayton for 33 minutes, the Wright brothers' longest flight yet. It could have gone longer. So why did he come down?https://www.youtube.com/embed/yScLHDDxRyY2026-10-04T13:00:13+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/ohio-governor-attack-ads-fact-checked-both-sides/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/dVobBCmFW3s.jpgOhio Governor Attack Ads, Fact-Checked (Both Sides)4 attack ads, 2 from each side, checked against the record. Every clip is shown with its air date. Sources: crackedbuckeye.com. Voiceover is AI-generated.https://www.youtube.com/embed/dVobBCmFW3s2026-10-03T18:30:24+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/ohio-s-old-man-s-cave-is-named-for-a-man-nobody-can-prove-lived/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/c6WtOcdyWFI.jpgOhio's Old Man's Cave is named for a man nobody can prove lived thereOld Man's Cave in the Hocking Hills is named for Richard Rowe. One story says he came from Tennessee around 1796, lived under the ledge with two dogs and is buried beneath it. A 1975 state guidebook says he was a fugitive who showed up after the Civil War. No deed, census record or grave settles it.https://www.youtube.com/embed/c6WtOcdyWFI2026-10-02T15:25:49+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/ohio-senate-attack-ads-fact-checked-part-1-husted-vs-brown/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/G6Tl3upK4Is.jpgOhio Senate Attack Ads, Fact-Checked: Part 1 (Husted vs. Brown)4 attack ads, 2 from each side, checked against the record. Every clip is shown with its air date. Sources: crackedbuckeye.com. Voiceover is AI-generated.https://www.youtube.com/embed/G6Tl3upK4Is2026-10-03T18:45:35+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/ohio-senate-attack-ads-fact-checked-part-2-husted-vs-brown/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/w7pBhXvcdrw.jpgOhio Senate Attack Ads, Fact-Checked: Part 2 (Husted vs. Brown)4 attack ads, 2 from each side, checked against the record. Every clip is shown with its air date. Sources: crackedbuckeye.com. Voiceover is AI-generated.https://www.youtube.com/embed/w7pBhXvcdrw2026-10-03T19:00:02+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/ohio-then-and-now/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/8cFJO8c-xGc.jpgOhio, then and now: 14 places from the air, 1887 to todayOld aerial photos and fire-insurance maps of 14 Ohio places, swiped to the same ground today: a prison that became an arena district, a village that was bought out and erased, a downtown mall that became a park, and farm fields that became suburbs. Every picture is a real one, credited below, and every old map and aerial photo of your own town is free to look at on Cracked Buckeye.https://www.youtube.com/embed/8cFJO8c-xGc2026-09-26T01:10:29+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/old-man-s-cave-345-million-years-of-ohio-s-favorite-hike-and/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/wre2tNaGEMw.jpgOld Man's Cave: 345 million years of Ohio's favorite hike, and the Wayne National Forest leasesThe full story of Old Man's Cave in Hocking Hills State Park, Hocking County, Ohio: Black Hand sandstone laid down 345 million years ago, Ice Age hemlocks, 7,000 years of people sheltering under the ledges, the "road to hell, 1782" beech, the Richard Rowe legend (the sources disagree), the Rock House Hotel and its pawpaw riddle, Cedar Falls and Conkle's Hollow, the state's first 146 acres in 1924, the 1931 crowds, the CCC's Company 505 and Company 526, Grandma Gatewood's winter hike, and the Sept. 15, 2026 Wayne National Forest lease sale: how close it is, what was leased, and what supporters and opponents say. Every photo shows on an inset map where it was taken and which way the camera faced.https://www.youtube.com/embed/wre2tNaGEMw2026-10-04T16:00:15+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/one-west-salem-corner-four-fire-maps-1884-1904/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/PdKD9n_XA8w.jpgOne West Salem corner, four fire maps, 1884-1904One corner of West Salem, Wayne County, on four Sanborn fire-insurance maps at the Library of Congress: 1884, 1893, 1899 and 1904. The September 1884 map marks the corner of Main and Buckeye "Burned April 1884", and the lot across Main at Congress "Ruins of fire". By 1893 the burned corner is rebuilt in brick; the lot is still ruins. On the 1899 map Sanborn drew a City Hall there "from plans". It was finished that year: fire station, jail and council chambers downstairs, an opera house upstairs, where the 1904 map writes "stage & scenery". It is a Wayne County historical landmark.https://www.youtube.com/embed/PdKD9n_XA8w2026-10-04T23:00:30+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/orville-wright-flew-33-minutes-then-he-landed-why/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/c9kzBDhIdnQ.jpgOrville Wright flew 33 minutes. Then he landed. Why?October 4, 1905, Huffman Prairie near Dayton: the Wright brothers' longest flight yet, and the five-word note that explains why it ended.https://www.youtube.com/embed/c9kzBDhIdnQ2026-10-04T13:00:30+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/perry-nuclear/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/DBWYjQltuko.jpgThe Perry nuclear plant site in 1937The Lake Erie shore at Perry from the air in 1937, 1973 and today. In 1937 it was farms and woods; in 1973 it was still farmland. Construction of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant began in 1974, and it went into commercial operation in 1987. It was designed for two reactors, but the second was never finished and was formally canceled in 1994, so only one of its two 516-foot cooling towers is in use.https://www.youtube.com/embed/DBWYjQltuko2026-09-26T02:46:42+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/radon/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/oO9x6jTffCM.jpgAbout 1 in 3 Ohio radon tests come back high. Map by ZIPAbout 1 in 3 radon tests in Ohio homes since 2010 came back above 4 picocuries per liter, the level at which the U.S. EPA recommends fixing a home: 34.7% of 505,420 tests. In 147 ZIP codes, at least half of the tests did. These are homes somebody chose to test, before any fix, not a random sample, so the only way to know your own home is to test it.https://www.youtube.com/embed/oO9x6jTffCM2026-09-26T02:52:22+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/randall-park/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/D9ogOwYkpAM.jpgThe world's largest mall became an Amazon warehouse (Randall Park, Ohio)North Randall from above: a USGS map from 1963, an aerial photo from 1993 and one from today. In 1963 the village had two horse tracks side by side. Randall Park, which opened in 1908, ran its last races in 1968. On its ground the Randall Park Mall opened on August 11, 1976, billed as the world's largest shopping center at 2.2 million square feet. It closed on March 12, 2009, and came down in 2015 and 2017. Amazon opened an 855,000-square-foot warehouse on the site in 2018. Thistledown, the other track, is still racing next door.https://www.youtube.com/embed/D9ogOwYkpAM2026-09-26T02:36:28+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/salt-fork-lake/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/2nwuj3vB0-Y.jpgThe lost valley under Salt Fork Lake: covered bridges, Clio and a stone house #shortsBefore Salt Fork Dam closed in 1967, the valley north of Cambridge, Ohio held farms, the crossroads of Clio with its store, post office and 1849 Armstrong Mill covered bridge (moved to Cambridge City Park in 1966, still standing), and the Gunn covered bridge, left in place as the water rose; its frame stood in the lake until the early 1980s. Plus the Kennedy Stone House, 1837, now the park museum. 1962 vs today maps and aerials, an April 1960 survey photo, and the bare valley behind the dam in December 1967. Did your family know the valley? Maps and aerials: USGS topos 1961-62/1993-94 and aerial April 1960 (public domain); OGRIP Ohio Statewide Imagery Program. Photos: Columbus Metropolitan Library; bettyshinn.com (Marilyn McCormick Murphy, Nancy Ankrum); lostbridges.org (Todd Clark Collection; Henry Davidson, Richard E. Roy Collection, NSPCB Archives); TrekOhio; The Daily Jeffersonian via Guernsey County Historical Society; Bwsmith84 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. Narration: AI voice.https://www.youtube.com/embed/2nwuj3vB0-Y2026-09-30T22:55:00-04:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/siamese-none-the-story-of-asian-ohio/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/sGdUlaAWFiM.jpgSiamese: None. The Story of Asian OhioIn 1920 the United States census had a race called "Siamese". Census takers went house to house across Ohio and counted every Siamese person in the state. There were none. Today almost six thousand Ohioans say they are Thai, and they are one thread in a bigger story: from one Chinese resident in 1870 to more than 424,000 Asian Ohioans today.https://www.youtube.com/embed/sGdUlaAWFiM2026-10-03T20:14:05+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/water-sources/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/CKr4iQaq8j8.jpgWhere Ohio's tap water comes from, ZIP by ZIPWhere Ohio's tap water comes from, ZIP by ZIP. About 3.36 million people drink water pumped from wells into aquifers, 3.35 million drink from rivers and reservoirs, 2.73 million from Lake Erie and 1.02 million from the Ohio River. The gray ZIPs are places no public water system reports serving, mostly homes on their own wells.https://www.youtube.com/embed/CKr4iQaq8j82026-09-26T23:00:25+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/westlake-crocker/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/Klz9-uZLTuU.jpgCrocker Park in 1993 was fields and woodsWestlake from the air in 1993, 2002 and today. In 1993 this ground along Crocker Road was fields and woods. By 2002 it had been cleared, and the first phase of Crocker Park opened here on October 29, 2004. Cuyahoga County flew both of the old photos, and every one of them is on our map.https://www.youtube.com/embed/Klz9-uZLTuU2026-09-28T16:00:15+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/what-did-ohio-actually-get-bayer-s-2-2-billion-promise/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/pDqrYLmhRoc.jpgWhat Did Ohio Actually Get? Bayer's $2.2 Billion PromiseOn Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, Bayer promised Ohio a $2.2 billion drug plant in New Albany and about 600 jobs. On Saturday, the President said his tariffs made it happen. Bayer says it has been planning this for years. So we went looking for the factory in the public record.https://www.youtube.com/embed/pDqrYLmhRoc2026-10-04T20:47:49+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/whats-coming-to-frazeysburg/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/dZIcPKQNMBI.jpgWhat's Coming to Frazeysburg? 4 Million Square Feet for a "Confidential End User"On Sept. 14, 2026, Ohio EPA granted a wetland permit for five buildings — almost 4 million square feet — on farmland outside Frazeysburg in Muskingum County, for "a highly specialized, confidential end user." A week later, the developer (The New Albany Company) and the county port authority told reporters there were "no development plans to announce."https://www.youtube.com/embed/dZIcPKQNMBI2026-10-03T17:45:07+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/where-ohio-comes-from-every-migration-that-made-the-state/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/dDrs388PgE4.jpgWhere Ohio Comes From: Every Migration That Made the StateIn 2020, for the first time on record, more Ohioans died than were born. So who are Ohioans, where did they come from, and who comes next?https://www.youtube.com/embed/dDrs388PgE42026-10-04T11:00:01+00:00yes https://crackedbuckeye.com/videos/wildlife/2026-10-05https://crackedbuckeye.com/img/videos/-JU0pX_X0p0.jpgWhat Ohio lost, and what came back: 200 years of wildlifeIn 1788, Ohio was 95% forest. By 1940 it was 12%, and deer, turkey, bears, bobcats, beaver and elk were gone. The woods grew back, and the animals followed: 168 deer in 1943 and 261,260 in 2009; 1 bobcat sighting in 1971 and 777 in 2024; 4 eagle pairs in 1979 and 964 nests in 2025. Some didn't come back: bobwhite is down 99%, 90% of the wetlands are gone, and emerald ash borer reached every county. Seen a bobcat or a bear near you? Tell us in the comments.https://www.youtube.com/embed/-JU0pX_X0p02026-09-28T20:15:08+00:00yes