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Just heard some people talking about this as a Halloween costume. Was there an X-Files about this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland_frog
In Ohio folklore, the Loveland frog (also known as the Loveland lizard) is a legendary humanoid frog described as standing roughly 4 feet (1.2 m) tall, allegedly spotted in Loveland, Ohio.[1] According to legend, a local man reported seeing three frog-like men with leathery skin, webbed hands and feet at the side of the road in 1955.[2][3][4] In 1972, the Loveland frog legend gained renewed attention when Loveland police officers sighted and killed an animal they later identified as a large iguana that was missing its tail.[5]
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Any where you've got a swamp and moonshine and/or weed you will have swamp creature sightings. I live near a large marsh nature preserve. Lots of creature lore.
Now that the local residents have switched to heroin and meth, they tend to BE the creatures.
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There was an X-Files titled
Detour.
It made reference to the WV legend of
Mothman.
Which is also tied to the actual
Silver Bridge collapse in Point Pleasant, WV.
Point Pleasant has various legends tied to its old, abandoned TNT Factory.
No lack of folklore around the swamps or in the mountains of America!
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I would not characterize it as Ohio folklore. Native Ohioan here (northeast), and never heard of it.
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....Mothman....similar.....they even made a movie about the lore......
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Acer wrote:
I would not characterize it as Ohio folklore. Native Ohioan here (northeast), and never heard of it.
but NE Ohio has
Melon Heads 
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Acer wrote:
I would not characterize it as Ohio folklore. Native Ohioan here (northeast), and never heard of it.
I'm in SW Ohio, about an hour away from Loveland and never heard of it. Not native but been here for more than a quarter century.
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Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
It has been a borderline breakthrough story for several years. More recent attention might be due to it's inclusion on an "urban legends" map (about half of which are either incorrect locations or wrong animal/character).
#35
Who compiled that list?!? I can think of several MUCH scarier urban legends from Alabama than a haunted children's playground. Heck, that's not even remotely scary... if anything, it's kind of sweet and quaint.
cbelt3 wrote:
Any where you've got a swamp and moonshine and/or weed you will have swamp creature sightings. I live near a large marsh nature preserve. Lots of creature lore.
Moonshine and/or weed aren't
absolutely necessary; It's all fun & games and creepy fireside stories until you hear a cry in the woods at night that you've never heard before or something big takes off through the underbrush at your approach when you're not expecting it.
cbelt3 wrote:
Now that the local residents have switched to heroin and meth, they tend to BE the creatures.
Well, yeah, there is that.
