Loveland Frog
The first of this month’s cryptids is the Loveland Frogs from Ohio. Specifically, they are found in Clermont County. They are bipedal frogs that stand at around one meter. It lives in forests and can survive cold winters without having to hibernate. They have been said to carry sticks, which they use as tools or possibly control electricity. To date, there have only been 4 sightings.
Originally, they were seen on the side of a road in 1955. A businessman was heading home and saw three ‘frog-like creatures’ standing around. He described them as being 3-4 feet tall with wide, wrinkly heads and one used a spark-spewing wand. All of them had gray skin and webbed extremities, which is where the frog part comes in. He left as soon as the sparks began flying, so there is no other information on what they were doing.
The second and third sightings were the bigger ones, which happened in 1972. This time, the Loveland Frogs were messing with police. Officer #1 was driving in the early morning with ice on the road and thought he saw a dog. It rushed in front of his car, which forced him to stop short. In the headlights, he saw a frog-like, bipedal creature climbing over the guard rail. He described it the same as the ones in 1955, but the only ‘trace’ of it existing were scratch marks on the guard rail.
Officer #2 ran into a Loveland Frog two weeks later when he mistook it for an injured animal on the side of the road. Unlike the previous encounters, this guy got out of the car to move it. The creature got up and the officer shot at it because who wouldn’t get freaked out by a bipedal frogman. It clambered over the guard rail and disappeared while still watching the guy. Same description as before, but this one had a tail. He would later change parts of his story to it being an escaped pet lizard and that people blew the incident out of proportion.
A final encounter is minimal at best with a couple seeing the Loveland Frog in 2016 while they played Pokemon Go. No real extra information on this one.
Well, that’s the Loveland Frog. Kind of goes with most cryptids. There are sightings, information that can vary a little, and the possibility of a hoax. Part of what makes these creatures so much fun.
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I was going to ask if this frog story gave birth to the creature from The Creature from the Black Lagoon or the swamp thing creature. But The Creature from the Black Lagoon came out the year before that first sighting. I have no idea of the origin of either creature.
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I think water creatures like this have always turned up in myth. Kind of like mermaids.
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This is a rather imposing cryptid – but not too scary! Wonder what the first person to see it was smoking?
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Had to be something potent.
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🙂
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I enjoyed this one. Having lived in Ohio once I can tell you this may well be a hoax. Those Buckeyes love practical jokes.
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Or is the hoax people saying it’s a hoax? 😁
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Good one. 😁
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I love it. Seems pretty benign, no real danger or anything.
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Just a big frog. Totally harmless.
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Intriguing! If it’s a hoax, I wonder how you would do it? They are only 1 meter tall, so maybe dress a kid in a costume.
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Maybe. That or the initial witnesses made it up for attention. Then others did the same.
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I would love it if these kind of creatures were real; unexplained things that we humans, who think we know everything about life on our planet don’t know about.
Just as long as they are peaceful and harmless, of course.
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Think we’d have to take the good with the bad. So I’d think them existing wouldn’t always mean peaceful and harmless. I mean, the animals we have now aren’t all like that. Wasps are definitely not on the peaceful and harmless list at least. Maybe we can trade those for something like pixies.
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Wasps aren’t useless. They are valuable pollinators. They only become a nuisance late in the year when flowers are fewer and then they come and try to eat our picnic food.
But if pixies could do the pollination , then they could take over that job.
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Pixies would do it too. Wasps here are aggressive as hell. They go after you if you unwittingly get near their nest, which they put near doors and windows. Some have a problem with them burrowing into walls and creating nests that empty into the building.
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