Below are descriptions of three malicious medical practitioners. Two of them are merely the fictional creations of popular artists; one is a sinister GP who has actually been reported. Can you Find the Fiend?

A) Accused of performing horrific medical experiments on a group of orphans, this mad doctor was eventually murdered by the hideously deformed children.

B) After his wife died, this crazed clinician allegedly began cutting the hearts out of his patients and futilely attempting to transplant the organs into his spouse’s corpse.

C) This deranged surgeon supposedly has the ability to detach individual parts of his body and send them out on sinister missions.

Answer after the cut.

The correct answer is A.

Loyal Weird Things readers will remember that the maniacal Dr. Crowe is the storied creator of Ohio’s mischievous Melon Heads, a tribe of deformed, murderous orphans whose noggins were medically enlarged through a combination of radiological experimentation and fluid injections. Dr. Crowe himself is a fixture of Cleveland-area urban legend, specifically in the suburb of Kirtland, where Crowe supposedly owned significant real estate holdings, including the dread estate (now, apparently, the summer home of a popular Cleveland radio personality) in which the hideous melon heads were created. The land that supposedly belonged to Crowe is now the Holden Arboretum, home of Bigfoot rumors and a morass of other assorted paranormal ado. I blame the woods. Clevelanders naturally fear any environment that doesn’t offer pay day loans.

Statement b.) described Dr. Rendell from the gory cult slasher film “Dr. Giggles.” Dr. Rendell is the father of the titular character, who goes insane while assisting his homicidal daddy. The film follows Evan Rendell, Jr. as he escapes from an asylum and goes on a slash-and-hack rampage using his pop’s old medical instruments. Oh, and he’s called Dr. Giggles because he giggles a lot. He also speaks in terrible medical puns that sound like they were written by Schumacher’s Mr. Freeze. Just to be clear: I unabashedly recommend this film.

Statement c.) described Dr. Ronald Meltzer from “Angel” episode 1×04 “I Fall to Pieces.” During its first season, when the Buffy spin-off was still trying to find its voice, a one-off episode about a doctor who uses Eastern mysticism to deconstruct his body so that he can send the pieces out to stalk women probably seemed like a guaranteed winner. Definitely better than the season 1 episode of Buffy where Willow scans an evil book and then the Internet gets possessed.

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