here a few things i pulled together off the net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_85s8-7dyU
Its said that deep in the Michigan woods strange mutants live, and are a result of an evil scientist (Dr Crowe) Frankinstine like tests. Its said that he was employed after WW2 to study hydrocephalia, a condition that is usually found in children, where huge amounts of fluid can build up in the brain causing the head to become hideously enlarged.
It was said Dr Crowe started creating these mutants purposefully for his own evil means and sick idea of creating some other species of human, and was also using radiation to breed monstrous creatures that hardly resembled human beings at all, soon after they became like animals as they had been treated appallingly and with no human communication or contact other than from the evil Dr Crowe, and soon rebelled and attacked him ripping him apart and eating him, and because of the struggle a fire started that burnt down Dr Crowe’s lab and his remains into ashes.
All of the what are now called "melon heads" escaped into the surrounding woods and now live like inbred mutants in the Michigan woods. Its said they have such a hate for humans that they will kill and eat any they come across. Police records show that many people go missing in and around the many woods of Michigan, some blame UFO's, some devil worshipers, and some the melon heads.
Some think that The Melon heads where killed in the fire along with Dr Crowe, and its there ghosts that can be seen wandering around the Michigan woods.
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ocedures at the hands of the cunning and reprehensible Dr. Crow, the Melonheads of Michigan were suffering equally trying (but institutionally sanctioned) abuses in mental hospitals and orphanages. The vast majority of Melonhead stories revolve around these kinds of societally approved repositories for the displaced, maladjusted and insane; the structures upon which the legends focus – old asylums and repurposed orphanages – are nationally abundant, and creak beneath the weight of two centuries’ worth of human rights debates and ethical dilemmas.
Of all the varied legends of Melonheads fleeing loony bin grounds or turning arsonist against a fascist orphan house, it’s one of the Michigan tales that proves the most revealing as a subtle, inadvertent indictment of 20th century mental healthcare in America. The story is simple: a mental hospital in Michigan had an entire ward devoted to malformed, mentally unstable children, many of whom suffered from grotesque and untreatable genetic conditions. The children languished in neglectful, abusive conditions, enduring starvation, beatings and a cornucopia of other atrocities, until the asylum was closed and the inmates were set free into the surrounding woods. In this case, the hook of the story – the ill treatment and foul conditions – is far less interesting than its ending – the inexplicable release of the violent, malcontent patients.
In 1963, the federal government passed the Community Mental Health Act, which was intended to allow for federal regulation of the quality and availability of long-term, inpatient mental healthcare. Unfortunately, as the scope of the country’s mental healthcare needs revealed themselves via growing fiscal expenses and expanding budget deficits, the government began closing and consolidating inpatient facilities, inadvertently leaving many of the inmates homeless and unmedicated.
As public knowledge of the gradual deinstitutionalization of America spread, so did related urban legends, creating of a swarm of grizzled, angry crazies formed from the black-and-white static of media crosstalk and bureaucratic white noise. These hearsay specters were imagined swarming out of hospitals and into towns, neighborhoods and surrounding forests. Questions of whether the system had failed its patients, anxiety at their release and fear of their actions and capacity for blame turned terror into pity and pity into terror. The Michigan Melonheads embody this mental dissonance and the unfortunate monsters it compels people to create.
