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Melon Heads
Velvet Street, location of the Trumbull and Monroe Melon Head story
Country
USA
Region
Michigan, Ohio, Connecticut
Details
Urban legend, hydrocephaly
In the American folklore of Ohio, Michigan and Connecticut, melon heads are beings generally described as small humanoids with bulbous heads who occasionally emerge from hiding places to attack people. Different variations of the legend attribute different origins to the entities.
of Ohio, Michigan and Connecticut, melonheads are beings generally described as small humanoids with bulbous heads who occasionally emerge from hiding...
Blind Melon is an American rock band formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of guitarists Rogers Stevens and Christopher Thorn,...
name) died in an airplane accident. Melonheads are beings generally described as small humanoids with bulbous heads who occasionally emerge from hiding...
Melon Day is an annual national holiday in Turkmenistan devoted to festivities to celebrate the country's melon, in particular a recent[as of?] crossbreed...
Globicephalinae; its closest living relatives are Risso's dolphin, the melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra), the pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata)...
name, collectively known as blackfish: the orca, or killer whale, the melon-headed whale, the pygmy killer whale, the false killer whale, and the two species...
Star Sunday article from January 2015, in which Professor Craig Jackson, head of psychology at Birmingham City University, concluded that "It (was) extremely...
of Ohio, Michigan, and Connecticut, an urban legend exists about the melonheads, the inbred descendants of families of people born with hydrocephaly...
thought of as whales, collectively known as blackfish: the orca, the melon-headed whale, the pygmy killer whale, the false killer whale, and the two species...
the western Atlantic observations have been made of emaciated beached melon-headed whales with dozens to hundreds of recent and healing cookiecutter shark...
a distinctive protuberance at the front of its head which houses an echolocation organ called the melon, which in this species is large and deformable...
have curved dorsal fins, clear 'beaks' at the front of their heads, and forehead melons, although exceptions to all of these rules are found. They have...
Their flippers and tail flukes are large and broad. They have a large melonhead used for echolocation, because they cannot see well. Their eyes are usually...
weighing 55% more than females. Like other toothed whales, they have a melon, an organ that is used for bio sonar. The dorsal fin, although short in...
waters include Atlantic humpback dolphins and common bottlenose dolphins. Melon-headed whales are accidentally caught in Ghana waters. Specimens have been landed...
dolphins especially where the frontal head shape of the animals encountered remains unseen. Unlike the melon-headed whale, pygmy killer whales do not normally...
Road, Connecticut: these Connecticut roads are connected to legends of MelonHeads, Saw Mill and Velvet are commonly referred to by residents as "Dracula...
This is a list of melon dishes and foods that use melon as a primary ingredient. A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with edible...
melon as a head buckle. This is filled with air sacs and fat that aid in buoyancy and biosonar. The sperm whale has a particularly pronounced melon;...