[Music] since its introduction in 1955 by the multi-talented Jim Henson the Muppet character Kermit the Frog has been a beloved character on television stage and in film Kerman is now well known all over the world but did you know that in the very same year that he was introduced to us a more interesting and freaky frog tale unfolded and the once busy railroad town of Loveland in Ohio only this wasn't a small bright green puppet no this was a giant humanoid Frog touted as an authentic Cryptid by those who encountered it there have been multiple
sightings of the Loveland Frog man throughout the decades most recently in 2016 and they are considered some of the most intriguing cryptozoological mysteries in America first let's discuss what these legendary Loveland frogmen are exactly who are also referred to as the Loveland lizards well cryptozoologists consider them as Cryptids which means that their existence is based on alleged sightings with varying degrees of supported evidence it's a situation where many people think that they're extinct but others believe that they still exist as in the case of the Loveland Frogman if the witnesses accounts are truly factual their
Origins can be traced back with their existence highlighted in myth and legends it's also possible that these Cryptids have evolved from previously existing creatures and mutated into a completely new one the Frog man is bipedaled so it uses only two legs for walking and when standing is said to be around four to five feet tall it has thick leathery skin webbed hands and feet and lipless wide mouths but its most distinguishing characteristic is having a frog-like face and hairless head covered with deep wrinkles with such an outlandish appearance it is no surprise that the businessman
policeman farmer and young man who had allegedly saw the creature in Loveland were in disbelief of what they encountered whether their stories are true or not is up for you to decide beloved frog men are known to live in Ohio's Clermont County part of which is the town of Loveland where the sightings have taken place it's considered part of the Greater Cincinnati area and borders Sims Miami and Hamilton townships and straddles the Little Miami River Matt River and the Loveland Bridge have figured prominently in the sightings of the Loveland frogmen and they become the setting
for this baffling mystery [Music] [Music] it was May 25th 1955 when the early stage of the legendary Tale the Loveland Frog man started to take shape foreign [Music] businessman was combing a lonely stretch of road that runs along the Little Miami River just on the outskirts of Loveland then he spotted three man-like trolls kneeling by the roadside he described the creatures as bipedal quasi-reptillium with gray skin frog like faces normal eyes but without eyebrows and long hair with Slender limbs as in most Legends passed on through generations this part of the story has other versions
one states that the Frog men were sitting on the bridge while another situates the creatures beneath the bridge just down by the riverbank nevertheless though The Narrative of all versions continues in the same direction so the businessmen's acute curiosity led him to do some sleuthing something I'd probably do if I encounter the same thing perhaps Robert's thoughts were running wild are they ghostly entities are they Highway robbers disguised as hideous reptiles or have aliens invaded Ohio summoning all his guts the man pulled his car to the curb we spent the next three minutes scrutinizing the
trio of creatures he noticed the Frogman stood between three to four feet tall giving him a clear picture of their physical appearance you also remember the area emitted the pungent smell of combined Alfalfa and almonds terrified of what he discovered Robert scrambled out of the area but before he could do so a seemingly magical stun unfolded much to his disbelief one of the frogmen held a dark object above his head something comparable to a magic wand an out spewed blue flashes all a glow from the tip of the stick like object [Music] without missing a
beat the stunned Robert left straight away exiting Branch Hill which was a community bordering the southern end of London [Music] almost unconsciously he drove straight to the Loveland police station and reported his encounter the chief of police John Fritz evidently the strange story was taken seriously as Fritz had one of his armed deputies keep a vigil at the bridge an FBI investigation ensued after that and thus the legend of the Loveland Frog man was now born [Music] for 17 years there was Silence about the stories of these alleged humanoid frogs the people of Loveland at
least those who believed in the story thought that the Frog man had probably disappeared or retreated and shied away from getting any more exposure but their silence was broken when three succeeding accounts of their sightings were recorded in 1972 and what a comeback for the Loveland Frogman as these sightings indeed became some of the most significant Encounters in the anals of cryptozoology thus the Legends surrounding their existence was suddenly Resurrected [Music] foreign the first one occurred on March 3rd 1972 which involved Loveland police officer Ray shanke he was patrolling around one o'clock in the morning
on the IEC East Kemper Road near the totes boots Factory which winds along the Little Miami River when he drove past the river officer Shockey saw what he thought at first was a dog sitting on the roadside on that clear cold night he slowed down to check on it but it quickly became apparent that his impression wasn't correct but he initially perceived as a dog turned out to be something totally different from its crouching position it stood up on its two limbs its eyes were illuminated by the police car's headlights naturally it shocked the officer
especially when the creature suddenly darted in front of his police vehicle for a few minutes it was like a staring match between officer Shockey and what became clear to him as a frog-like creature [Music] the Frog man then quickly crossed the road jumped over the guard rail and became invisible in the darkness of the Little Miami River the bewildered law man immediately drugged the police headquarters and filed a report of his astonishing sighting he was convinced it was something monstrous he calculated that it weighed about 50 to 75 pounds stood around four feet tall and
had leathery skin and looked like a cross between a frog and a lizard [Music] officer Shockey this time accompanied by fellow police officer Mark Matthews headed back to the site to look for more evidence of the frogmen [Music] what they saw were car marks on the guard rail and down the embankment but no other physical evidence of the frogman foreign [Music] two weeks later then police officer Matthews had his own Taste of the Loveland Frogman encounter the third sighting of the legendary Cryptid his experience was quite parallel with that of Officer shockies but with a
strange twist on March 17 1972 officer Matthews was driving outside of Loveland he saw an animal lying in the middle of the road and thought it was dead or at least injured he decided to move the animal as it was an obstruction in the already icy covered pavement when he climbed out of his Cruiser the Frog man suddenly got up into a crouching position [Music] startled by the creature's physical features and behavior officer Matthews pulled out his gun and shot it [Applause] the Frog man limped its way to the roadside and stepped over the guard
rail while still keeping an eye on the officer his depiction of the Frogman matched officer Shockey's description up to the Last Detail with the exception of the tail once skeptical of his fellow officer's story of seeing the humanoid frog officer Matthews was now convinced that the Loveland Frog man did in fact exist the alleged fourth sighting happened later that March and was reported by an anonymous farmer he was inspecting his fields located adjacent to the Little Miami River when he saw four bizarre creatures presumably the Loveland Frog man we recounted that these creatures had large
circular eyes with pale greenish gray skin and wide mouths filled with sharp teeth it was a brief encounter as the strange figures ran and disappeared into the river when they spotted the farmer staring at them [Music] [Music] now I have to say that Ohio is a hotbed of stories involving Cryptid encounters and the Loveland Frogman sightings are one of them on March 28 1959 a terrifying sighting of a huge monster-like creature happened in Charles Mills Lake located in central Ohio specifically in both Richland and Ashland counties about 100 miles away from Loveland the lake is
a quiet place where people can have a relaxing time fishing boating hunting or hiking but that all changed after an incident happened which was only documented once [Music] three teenage buddies Denny Patterson Wayne Armstrong and Michael Lane were frolicking in the shores of the lake when they came face to face with a monstrous creature that emerged from the seaweed strewned Waters we were petrified as the Beast towered over them a seven foot tall armless humanoid with luminous green eyes and large webbed feet needless to say the friends wasted no time running away and then they
reported their unusual encounter [Music] foreign more than a century earlier the account of the crosswick monster gripped Ohio it's an unincorporated community in central Wayne Township in Warren County around 20 miles north of Loveland [Music] in May of 1882 13 and 11 year old brothers Ed and Joe Lynch were out fishing and Santa threats run a stream that passes through crosswick [Music] oh it then heard a loud unknown sound coming from The Tall Grass behind them and approached the area to find out what it was and suddenly there a gigantic four-legged lizard sprung from the
small trees and shrubs and ran after the scared boys alas the creature caught Ed in its mouth and pulled him down to the ground as Joe screamed like crazy for help [Music] but helpless Joe saw his brother being dragged by the giant reptile along the stream towards a large hollowed-out sycamore tree which was apparently the creature's Den when three men arrived at the scene Ed was still in the monster's mouth and almost completely pulled into the tree but the men retrieved Ed after being dropped by the creature before it climbed further up into its hollowed-out
home [Music] three men summoned 60 villagers to destroy the beast but after Chasing it for over a mile over fences through streams up hills and around trees their efforts proved futile the description of this creature would surely create an image of a monster in your mind 30 to 40 feet long and could stand up to 12 to 14 feet it was 16 inches in diameter with four foot long legs and a 16 inch wide head is covered with black and white scales with large yellow spots like lizards and had a long forked tongue the inner
mouth was in deep red the crosswick monster was never seen again but it's remembered as one of the most believed cryptic experiences in all of Ohio there's more than 60 men claimed to have witnessed it foreign [Music] frogmen their sightings have been witnessed by four people in 1955 and then again in 1972 in 2001 now retired Loveland police officer Mark Matthews surfaced after nearly three decades since he witnessed the alleged humanoid frogs in an email interview we want to set the record straight about that incident back in March of 72. he stated there's absolutely nothing
to the incident that relates to monsters or the Paranormal this entire thing has been habitually blown out of proportion obviously he retracted his original claims Matthews further clarified it was and is no monster it was not leathery or had wet matted fur it was not three to five feet tall it did not stand erect the animal I saw was obviously some type of lizard that someone had as a pet that either got too large for its aquarium Escape by accident or they simply got tired of it it was less than three feet in length ran
across the road and was probably blinded by my headlights it presented no aggressive action foreign why did he shoot the creature [Music] memory can be a funny thing as well as being afraid to be ridiculed by your community Matthews had apparently attempted to fire a bullet at the reptile in order to support the account of then officer Shockey's prior sighting but it didn't kill the lizard and they escaped most likely died from its injury or from the bitter freezing cold Matthew's retraction gave rise to speculations that he did it due to the ridicule he and
shanky suffered or it could have been a cover-up for a larger mystery Matthew's statement should have settled the Loveland Frogman mystery but a 2016 report of another sighting supposedly pertaining to it but the spotlight once again on the humanoid frogs [Music] in July of 2016 a newly released augmented reality mobile game called Pokemon go sent the smartphone bearing population into a frenzy the game uses the mobile devices GPS to locate capture battle and train virtual creatures called Pokemon which appears if they are in the player's real world location so on August 3rd 2016 Sam Jacobs
and his girlfriend were playing the game between Loveland Madera Road and Lake Isabella when their night of fun turned into Terror no the virtual creature Pokemon didn't come alive and turn to a monster or anything but Sam and his lady saw a strange frog-like creature in the water of a nearby River Sam detailed the incident and said we saw a huge frog near the water not in the game this was an actual giant frog then the thing stood up and walked on its hind legs I realized this sounds crazy but I swear on my grandmother's
grave this is the truth not sure if it was a frog man or just a giant frog either way though I've never seen anything like it they actually managed to take a video clip of what they witnessed something standing waist deep in the water with large bulbased glowing eyes over the grainy and dark footage made it difficult to decipher what it really was but the couple were still on bending and it was a Loveland Frogman in the bay had probably seen [Music] foreign to this story retired police officer Matthews resurfaced and added more details to
his retraction in 2001. he contacted WCPO news in Cincinnati and revealed that the creature he and fellow officer Shockey encountered in 1972 was simply a large iguana [Music] suddenly he was appearing to have answers he said he actually shot it as proof of his encounter and showed it to Shockey who identified it as the one he had seen as well it was actually an iguana about three or three and a half feet long with a missing tail which was why he didn't immediately recognize it Matthews believed that the Iguana might have been a pet that
had escaped or released into the Wilderness after it had grown too big to be kept as a pet as to why the cold blooded reptile was spotted twice along the roadside Matthews assumed it took Refuge near the warm pipes of a cooling facility at a local boots Factory in order to stay warm the cold March weather the ex-police officer told his discovery of the alleged Loveland Frog men to a local author who had written a book about the urban legends in Ohio [Music] unfortunately for everybody the writer had concluded the story after Matthew shot the
mysterious creature and omitted his Revelation that it wasn't actually a frog man but an iguana Matthews ended his statements with certainty it's a big hoax there's a logical explanation for everything with that said people in Ohio can perhaps lay the six-decade Loveland Frogman Legend arrest in peace hopefully [Music] remember to subscribe to our Channel and hit those notifications so you never miss out on what's coming up next thank you guys so much for watching today and please do tune in next week for another episode filled with scary strange and mysterious stories because who knows maybe
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