of beasts and monsters. There once was a very mysterious man, known only by the name of Dr. Crow,

and he lived in an isolated house on a secluded

rural road in the town of Curtland, Ohio, in the state of Cleveland. Locals believed he may

or may not have been a real doctor. There were rumours he'd had his licence to practice revoked,

or that he was never qualified at all.

The same confusion surrounded the number of children who were said to live under his roof.

Some locals said he and his wife had been unable to have children,

while others said they had one child who suffered a form of disfigurement,

in that the child's head was enlarged due to a condition

known as hydrocephalus, or more commonly, called water on the brain. Locally, there was the

belief that more than one child lived there. People wondered, did he run an orphanage, as many

children have been frequently spotted in the grounds of the house or in the

woods there, the rumours were, this doctor, a real or not doctor, carried out some rather

sinister experiments on these children. Experiments which were surely not allowed, for he had no

hospital there, that was certain. The experiments he carried out, which was said to be

barbarous and torturous, were done on the children's heads, the locals said, in the perhaps

mistaken belief that he could cure his own son of the misshapen and swollen head he suffered with.

But these experiments only served to produce more children, with terribly misshapen heads and other disfigurements too, which gave them the most hideous appearances.

He was probably doing more to them than that too, for when these monstrous children were sighted, they were unusually placid and docile, withdrawn and silent, which gave them an even more haunting air. People called

them the melon heads. For years this was said to have gone on until the children could take no more,

and they formed together to carry out their vengeance upon the master, who had so hideously rendered

them as monsters. The children launched their assault on the doctor

...