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