THE HIDEOUS MELONHEADS

Tale from Paul I.

"At Wickliffe High School in the mid-'60s, 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 he ran into the woods. They followed deep into the woods and came to an old farmhouse.

On the porch sar 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 was 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 farmhouse where they could live away from prying eyes. He asked the kids to tell no one what they'd seen and never return.

Someone told this stor at a party in the summer of 1964, 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 and that 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 Meloon Heads that there had to be. If not, why were the police so upset that we were looking for them?" -Justin V.

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