Sun 10/28 @ noon-4PM
If there’s one scary story that’s uniquely Cleveland, it’s the torso murders, which took place in the 1930s as a dismembered bodies of mostly indigents turned up, mostly in the desolate Kingsbury Run where many hobo camps were located. Since, as with Jack the Ripper, the killer was never caught, amateur sleuths have made a cottage industry of fingering his identity.
So Kingsbury Run, with its ghost, real or imagined, it just the place for a Halloween season bike ride, sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Sewer District, The ride will take off from the Ohio City Bike Co-op at noon with light refreshments starting 11am, and follow the course of the buried stream, locating the sites where the bodies were found. There will be short talks along the way for those who aren’t up on the history. Riders are invited to wear costumes — get creative and dress up as who YOU think the killer was!
There’s also a shorter ride taking off from the Burton Bell Carr Development Corp, office at 1pm, where a light lunch will be served.
If you don’t have a bike with the wide tires suggested for this rough terrain, they’ll have loaner bikes available if you let them know ahead of time. $10 cash donations are appreciated but not required.
ohiocitycycles.org/2018/10/15/sunday-10-28-kingsbury-run/
Cleveland, OH 44113