Hidden History of Tinkers Creek - Ancient Megalithic Builders in Ohio 

So, I grew up hiking Tinkers Creek. I personally witnessed people die there. I have witnessed many natural wonders. I have hiked the entire creek from Dunham road to the Bedford end just before the Rangers station. Twice I illegally did a midnight bike ride through the park. This video opened my eyes to a larger picture. I know of the tales oh Haunted Ohio. Yes both the Bedford reservation and the Cuyahoga National Valley Park systems make sure the entire truth not be told. One example is the Jaite Trailhead. The park has closed trails, history has been erased. Growing up and now I am old this video had my heart pumping with excitement. Thank you as this is yet anothe piece of the puzzle of where I grew up. Oh, the bike rides at midnight were very scary, the first went well, the second we, me and a brave friend had ti ditch it into the woods at top speed to avoid the Park Rangers.

Every time he mispronounced " Cuyahoga" I want to scream. But this is a awesome informative video that makes me want to go exploring.

Tinkers Creek, Serpent Mound, Circleville mounds, Fort Ancient...etc There was a lot going on in Ohio during the stone age.

I’ve read very old accounts of this area and the very large skeletons found buried in a few mounds. They had copper breast plates and were considered some of the same people groups found in a cave in New Mexico.

I own a house in Walton Hills 5 minutes from here. I will have to go check this out!!!!!

Tinker´s Creek was in my back yard! I grew up there in the 50s and 60s and had no idea of ANY of this. It´s shocking that most people´s idea of the first Americans were from the old Westerns and completely ignore the eastern cultures. So glad I´m still in time to learn of all this. Thank you for your hard work

Great research! There are a lot of secrets near me. I know a few mounds with fences, and town resident only parking with earthworks and mounds. I don't know why it took me this long to find your channel.... One major problem for me is you have to do a lot of research to find mounds and earth work locations. You go to fort Ancient and they don't talk about other places to visit. It feels like everyone doesn't want to connect the dots with every location in one spot.

My son dug up a Roman pillum in a creek bed in pepperpike also a ancient arrowhead history museum said it was 10,000 years old

Thank you so much for sharing I think that the native spirits are pleased with your respect for our state as am I peace ✌️ and love my friend and God bless us all

it's the whole country they lie about, not just Ohio. thanks for the vid

So my brother and I would frequent these park systems quite often when we lived nearby. It was off trail you would find the most amazing things and feel the true serenity of this place. Anyway off trail one day my brother found the coolest spot it was a circle of stone chairs, not little stones either, big heavy ones. Thier was one that had a triangle point as the seat back. It was like the chief chair we called it. When my brother showed me I was like who in thier right mind could have moved those heavy stones like that way off the trail? Now this has got me thinking and I wonder how long that circle of stone chairs has really sat down their🤔

I've lived in Northeast Ohio for most of my life. When I was around 15 years old I found a spear point which was 9 in Long and beautifully made. I found that in southern Cuyahoga county. I wasn't even looking for artifacts I just found it in a yard of a very old house. I wish I still had it. Unfortunately I dropped it out of cement floor and it shattered. That was 10 years after I had found it so I got to enjoy it for a little while.

Thanks and best wishes from Columbus Ohio USA 👍

great work with maps and videos, there's a lot of effort to hide past occupants of this and other areas in the world, to not break the history already told that is little by little falling to show a completely different map and timeline of the entire world!! thank you for your work and if you ever need help with it let me know, send me a message, be glad to be a part of this , I live in the Columbus area.

Tinkers creek ran through the woods behind my house in Bainbridge and I've walked it all the way to twinsburg. I've found many arrowheads and knives made of flint as well as some weird unidentified artifacts. There is a spring that makes a waterfall just north of the beaver dammed part in Bainbridge. Clay shards and drawings in caves in twinsburg date back to native Americans s far back as 500 years ago. It's a fascinating creek and I've explored it for miles on foot and never grown tired of it. Tanglewood forest is another area I've found artifacts.

I live in Dayton Ohio and have been to some of these places. It needs to be explored.

Wait, I am freaking out. Lol. I have a “secret spot” I go to there, and I have always thought about native Americans definitely being there and imagining myself as one there. Amazing place. You on a street with residential houses and cut through a big field. I can find the area for you if you want.

I recognized two photos that the authors would like you to believe might be “mounds” in the Tinkers Creek area but are only chipper piles left by the Metropark when they were taking down all the dead ash trees.

Hiding giant Skeleton bodies!

The sad thing is there were so many earth works in what is now known as Ohio there were motions set to preserve while it was still the Northwest Territory.

No ignored, suppressed🤨

They don't want us discovering the truth about the area

Miamisburg Mound has a big Mound... Everyone look it up. Very Interesting.

I live along the Allegheny river in New York. And I have seen an old map showing mound builder sites along the river. Where now is covered by the reservoir. Which they stole land from the Seneca chief cornplanters family in order to build the damn and create. Also there are giant Boulder cities on top of mountains here that were built and inhabited by natives long long ago. Such places as rim rock. So I know these cultures came pretty car north. As I am not far from the start of the Allegheny. Only about 1 1\2 south of buffalo.

Sorry, but giving a computer-generated voice an accent doesn't make it any less irritating to listen to.

Very Interesting!

The same thing happens here in Arkansas as well. Whenever the forestry of federal park people build roads through ancient campgrounds they cover the road with blue chert in order to hide flakes and other artifacts so they don't have to do archaeological surveys and risk not being able to open a new road or make a pay to camp campsite. They have also in recent years sold massive tracts of timber from these sites and the skidders and other equipment tear the sites to shreds. They need that money to hire people to sit around or start fires that kill bats so they can get more funding to "protect" the bats.

I live very close to Bedford metroparks. Seen some of those areas. Some facts wrong though, one trail closed sign is there because original horse trail washed out. Also how did they not see the Indian trail tree off trail , very close to sign????

I used to live near Hopewell, New Jersey. There were tons of ‘hills’ in the area. Washington State Park, where Washington supposedly crossed the Delaware River during the Revolutionary War, has a lot of mounds and gorges. On the Pennsylvania side, the park features Bowman’s Tower. No one exactly knows it’s true history. It looks more like an observatory then a defensive fortification. I’ve always felt the area was different in some way. I would love to see a LiDAR image of the area.

Great video. Thanks for sharing

Giants-Sasquatch-Aliens-Nephilim is why there is a cover up

Well now that's a hole lot of interesting things, and a lot more in the comments. NPS I've heard that before? Oh yeah, I used to work there!

I know of an unexplored mound in Ashland Co, owners absolutely will not let anyone even walk on it. I now live in Wayne Co, lots of known sites here and in Holmes Co next door.

That was a huge axe head. Could it be giants?

We found arrow heads all day down by the creek just west of Columbus

Giants /sons of fallen angels used to rule the world until humans killed them off

Its the place where the eygptian resided

OMG I AM AT THE PART WHERE I REALIZE INDIAN POINT IS THE EXACT PLACE I HAVE BEEN GOING.

Alexis de tocqueville mentions in democracy in America about the Mounds in Mount Washington near Cincinnati where I'm from they're just as you mentioned an ancient sophisticated Society

I am on the same bluff as these sites, if you need any more information let me know. I overlook Tinkers Creek, Mounds and artifacts on the residential side also that is not known since the park didnt buy the land in time.

Another guy has a video that said the Tinkers creek stone site was a dam made by a guy who had a woolen factory there

It’s pronounced Ki-a-hoga.

Ohio's thoroughly researched mounds have made it on the preservation list and are up for a UNESCO consideration. For those who are not interested enough to read my following post-mounds were built on river plains not in well-forested areas with deep cut gorges and waterfalls. Maybe a rogue or displaced group tried it, it's possible. It's certainly not worth destroying the legacy we do have to find out.

I wonder myself why the earthworks are not public knowledge. Any road that crosses a creek in ky or Ohio has a hill or earthwork within a 1/8 of a mile from the creek. Alot have houses on them. Some have churches and cemtaries. They completely designed everything we see. Hills and valleys. Arrowheads were made for cutting through roots in the woods and planting crops. This would require lots of flint rock. The towns by a big creek or river have old concrete steps built into a bank leading up to the historical houses. Its all mounds and earthworks.

If you want to read the journals of these people, read the Book of Mormon. It is a 1000-year record of the indians of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

It's "ky-ah-hoe-ga" (Cuyahoga).

Also ancient brits from Ireland Wales Scotland and England have mounds

All sites are hidden in plain site past Wooster ohio ....if this is above ground ...what is under...ohios plate has never moved...interesting place in Medina ohio ...

I can't be sure but the proximity to the large population of Cuyahoga county , And the prevalence of both graffiti and vandalism across the area are probably the reason for the darth of information about the sites and their locations .

Where's the metal foundries that Joseph Smith mentioned in the BoM ??

There are identical stones walls and ruins on a Sacred mountain, now inhabited by "odd" people on Crow Mountain near Russellville ARKANSAS. There is so many caves there, writings, but no one knows because the locals don't say much.

I think the pic at 1:39 is just remains from the Erie Canal. We do have sites, but so many of them were destroyed &/ or forgotten over the years. Many other rumored places are faked. A few may have existed & were never historically noted or reported. In my research, there were about three village sites in various places around Cleveland (presumably from around 1600, when whatever people were living there began getting sick & decided their village must be cursed, so they had to move it.), three more village sites in Ashtabula County, a looted & destroyed indian burial ground in Parkman, another burial ground along the Cuyahoga River that has been noted & excavated by archaeologists, a burial mound in Kent, another in North Benton which no longer exists, a petroglyph site in Lake or Ashtabula Counties (I forget where), presumably another nearly gone petroglyph site in Geauga County near Middlefield which I passed once & can now no longer find the location or or any evidence it ever existed, & third petroglyph site right on the Ohio River in East Liverpool, which is now inaccessible due to the building of a dam & the water pressure may have likely scrubbed it clean, by now, and an odd structure at the head of the Grand River that was clearly man-made, but no one was ever able to make sense of it & a few surviving path marking trees, like Akron's semi-famous Signal Tree. From after 1700, there is another village under Cleveland, a village under Conneaut, a village under Andover, one in the Cuyahoga National Forest & Youngstown's Council Rock, where the Shawnee & Lenape would gather for political & celebratory occasions, though it's been moved from its original location.

Where can I get the list of locations? And info about the locations? I’m always down there

Was it late Paleo?

I note (at 3.29 in transcript) that an evaluation test pit could not be dug at a site as there was a bogus claim that there was a 19th century graveyard there. But it seems it would have been fine to dig the mound belonging to the indigenous population and that there might have been monetary value to the artefacts they would hope to find. How disgusting is that?

I live in Ohio, check out the Cincinnati tablets those are interesting ancient writing or alphabet on stone tablets

Why doesn't the government want us to know the truth

WHO/How would SomeOne Contact a Knowledgeable Person to Identify Artifacts that I've Found on My Property in the Cuyahoga Valley?

Look up the news paper articles from the early 1800s about Giants

interesting

English accent on an Ohio documentary. God damn Limeys

At this point the health of the park, maintaining old growth trees/threatened species and resource recovery is far more important than digging up graves for undetermined archaeological or monetary value. And I have to believe the pre-Columbus? (think that one's been debunked) peoples would understand that far better than we can even wrap our selfish short-sighted little minds around. I have never heard anyone deny the Cuyahoga Valley or Metroparks are rich with indigenous history; indeed all you need to do is read the names of 3/4 of the areas from Cleveland on down to well, the whole river... There are plenty of petroglyphs along the creeks in the Metroparks that are visible to anyone. There are constant explorer programs for adults and children that talk history and search artifacts. In the realm of park management sometimes there are sites that have yet to be studied, are waiting on grant approval or require much specialized time and research and don't get trails built straight to them so thousands of people, even the most respectful of hikers, can tread them down. I have never been deterred in my wanderings in any of the parks, except by dangerous area signs. In fact, in doing so I have met some amazing people doing the work that will keep our current and future loved ones alive. Also, Reclamation Signs are no BS-a couple of fungus spores, errant seeds or a leaf with insect eggs stuck to the bottom of your boots and you alone can ruin a recovering prairie or struggling wetland. I think if you do some additional research you'll find that jagged, hilly environments with great gorges and grand abundant trees were not where our ancestor friends tended to build mound formations. No one's hiding a Cahokia here. In CVNP and the Metroparks we have a old forested areas that someday may become the closest thing America has to an ancient forest. Do you know how many people, moreso children, have never seen a tree so big they couldn't wrap their arms around it? I think the richest legacy we have from our area's native population is the trees (and with them biodiversity) they managed to protect. There may be a little hush and secrecy around trying to reclaim, contain, and detoxify the river and Helltown-but that's about your biggest mystery here. Just that and farmers with land disputes. I think you'll find people of the area have just proven far more interested in river fires, i.e. Burning Water, and the Canal Way/Towpath trail eras of history. It's monuments are so clearly visible, easily explainable and linked to the present. It's an interesting story and no one has to think about the battles raged for the land. A lot of indigenous history was probably destroyed for the sake of the Towpath, but by no one alive today. If you want an in depth history of the Valley's ancestral communities start at Cuyahoga Falls and work out from there. Or you can start at Lake Erie and take it into the MetroParks. If there are bones we can leave them buried for another 100 years, rather than destroy the beauty we have and nature we need to risk digging up a the few usual artifacts, ancient trash mounds and privies, or nothing at all. If you want to recognize and respect the original people of NE Ohio go take a walk in the woods and take all your senses, the elders will speak directly to you.

Some of this is ridiculous. I’ve spent a lot of time down in that gorge and see a lot of modern man’s mark in it. The stone wall is not ancient, nor are the stone fire pits along the bridal trail. With that said, I have seen old marking trees along some of the trails. To think there wasn’t any ancient peoples walking this area is also ridiculous.

I belive not everything is of native origin. Could the ancient brits etc have lived there since they used copper alot.

If you are really still looking into this hit me up now.

Giants hurried in Serpent Mount.

Maybe we should go in with armed groups. What are they hiding.

Is there any DNA with regards to who these people were?

Kai uh hoga. Thats how you pronounce cuyahoga.

kī àh HOG ah !

Another example of whitewashing of Native history...implications always seem to point out that pre-historic people could not have built megalithic sites. Archeology had done this too with megalithic sites in Africa...basically, people of color could not have built such things. I've been to the cemetery mostly out of 'spooky' legend curiosity...meh, nothing of note other than obvious remains of people up there drinking, etc. As some of the old-school archeologists die out maybe the next generation will be more open-minded.

Yep,,

i feel dumber after watching this.

bit dramatic.

Can't handle the computer voice. It destroys any credibility on the side in my opinion

They were the so-called", Giants " ,that were hear long before the " Indians".these people were in Harmony with mother/ father earth , beyond our tiny understandings of reality