Episode 133: The Loveland FrogMan

Bulging, glowing eyes in the dark. A leathery green face. A silhouette standing four feet tall wielding a wand. What sounds like the stuff of fairytales is real life for several citizens of southwestern Ohio. Did they really find themselves face to face with an amphibious monster, or was this nothing more than frog-wash? This week’s episode is The Loveland Frogman.

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SOURCES

Author James Renner offers tour of Ohio’s weird and wonderful at Mentor Library - https://www.mentorpl.org/james-renner-it-came-from-ohio/ 

Newspapers.com Articles

  • Lee, Marika, Loveland Frog gets own musical, Loveland Herald, May 28, 2014

  • Dixon, Roy W., Monsters in your own back yard, Dayton Daily News, June 11, 1972

  • Schensul, Jill, Stranger Than Myth, The Herald-News (Passaic, New Jersey) · Sun, January 12, 2014

  • Associated Press, Don't count out Loveland Frog, News-Press (Fort Myers, Florida), Sat. October 19, 1985

  • Knippenberg, Jim, Legends Live, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sun. Nov. 15, 1992

  • Compton, Natalie B., Hunting for the Haunted, Longview News Journal, Sunday, October 27, 2019

Wikipedia Article on The Loveland Frog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland_frog

Cryptidz Wiki on The Loveland Frogman: https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Loveland_Frogmen 

The Loveland Frogman on Weird U.S.: http://www.weirdus.com/states/ohio/bizarre_beasts/loveland_frogman/index.php

Loveland Frogman Spotted Again, Snopes.com: https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/08/05/loveland-frogman-spotted-again/

Are the legends true? Man claims he spotted fabled Loveland Frogman, WLWT Channel 5 News: https://www.wlwt.com/article/are-the-legends-true-man-claims-he-spotted-fabled-loveland-frogman-1/3568310

Officer who shot 'Loveland Frogman' in 1972 says story is a hoax, WCPO ABC News: https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/loveland-community/officer-who-shot-loveland-frogman-in-1972-says-story-is-a-hoax

Hot Damn! It’s the Loveland Frog Musical page: https://hugowesttheatricals.wixsite.com/home/blank-2

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