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Subject: Loveland Frogs From: Adam777 posted Thu, Dec 23 2004, 4:57pm  Theres an article on the net about a creature called the Loveland Frog, sorry I dont have the link, anyways just wondering if these have been sighted with any regularity or recently. Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: herm posted Thu, Dec 23 2004, 6:48pm  The Loveland Frog was a singular, highly suspect case. After the initial, highly improbable report, it was never seen again. Almost certainly a hoax or media over-exuberence. Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: busterggi posted Fri, Dec 24 2004, 7:10am  Afraid so. I've done business with a couple of folks from Loveland & they said they'd never heard of the Frog. It looks as though only cryptozoologists & folklorists remember the incidence. Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: Ammonite Herps posted Fri, Dec 24 2004, 9:01pm  Actually, there are 2 or 3 reported cases. Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: pinkscientist posted Sat, Dec 25 2004, 5:35pm  I would like to know more about these reported cases. Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: Mr. Myotis posted Sun, Dec 26 2004, 1:32am  Mightn sombody please give me a general idea of what the loveland frogs are, were, or supposedly are. I dont beleive I have heard of them before. Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: mean_drunk posted Sat, Dec 25 2004, 11:47pm  is this the frog/toad found in/under a tree stump that was allegedly huge? Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: Cinco posted Sun, Dec 26 2004, 1:35am  no the loveland frog is a human/frog thingy with big eyes or sumthing Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: Adam777 posted Sun, Dec 26 2004, 3:20pm  they were seen by Cops on a bridge I believe standing on hind legs froglike creatures, they ran under the bridge and then later the officer found the marks where they slid into the water, there's more but I forget it all now Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: Shagreen posted Sun, Dec 26 2004, 4:41pm  "In May 1955, a man reported an unbelievably strange sight while driving home at 3:30 a.m. in Loveland, Ohio, northeast of Cincinnati. He claimed to have spotted three bipedal reptilian creatures standing by the side of the road, and pulled over to watch them from his car for about three minutes. One of the froglike beings carried some type of bar or wand above its head, and sparks were shooting out of the device. The driver notified Loveland police of what he had seen, although no evidence of the creatures was later found. Almost twenty years later, in March 1972, an unnamed Loveland police officer was driving on Riverside Road at about 1:00 a.m., traveling slowly because of ice on the road. Up ahead he saw an animal standing at the side of the road, which he first thought was a dog. As the cruiser's headlights fell on the animal, it rose upright from a crouching position, showing itself to be three or four feet tall with leathery skin and a head like that of a lizard or frog. The beast looked at the officer momentarily before jumping over the guard rail and heading for the Little Miami River down below. The officer returned to the scene with another policeman a few hours later, and they found scrape marks on the embankment where something had apparently slid down to the river. Two weeks later, another unnamed Loveland policeman reported a very similar encounter. Driving on the same road, he saw an animal lying in the middle of the pavement, which he thought was either dead or dying after being hit by a car. He got out of his car to clear the animal to the roadside, when suddenly the animal jumped up and the officer saw that it was a strange froglike creature. It began to flee, limping as if it were injured, and headed over the guard rail towards the river. The officer shot at the monster as it went down the embankment, but apparently did not hit it. Neither of the officers filed an official report of the creature, but word of their sightings leaked to the press, and the modern legend of the Loveland Frog was soon spread far and wide. A farmer in Loveland also claimed to see a froglike creature in March 1972. Investigators began to speculate on a connection with the 1955 sighting of reptilian creatures, and the possibility of a secret race of lizard men inhabiting Ohio's rivers. Some have suggested that the officers may have actually seen a Nile monitor lizard or a large iguana, which can be over six feet in length. But if so, these reptiles would have to be escaped from a zoo or otherwise transplanted to the area, since they are not native to the region. Abnormally large reptiles and reptile men have also been reported in other parts of the country, including the "Lizardman" of Wayne, New Jersey, and the "Giant Lizard" of Milton, Kentucky. The most celebrated successor to the Loveland Frog in recent years was the Lizard Man craze that swept Bishopville, South Carolina, in 1988. A man reported that a 7-foot reptilian beast with red eyes and three-fingered appendages chased his car along a country road at over 40 miles per hour. A large number of other sightings followed, and police officers discovered three-toed tracks. But ultimately, the only hard evidence the Lizard Man left behind was the fattened bank accounts of local bumper sticker and T-shirt vendors." Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: Shagreen posted Sun, Dec 26 2004, 4:43pm  I consider the "spark-emitting wand" to be an interesting touch to the initial report. Subject: loveland .......lizard From: Darkshark posted Thu, Dec 30 2004, 8:02pm  Here is a little rain for the parade. loveland lizard? Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: CyranoDB posted Tue, Jan 18 2005, 2:23pm  I posted this before. Here it is again. As a writer and a resident of Loveland, I am well acquainted with the story. So I did some digging. And by digging, I mean I interviewed the two police officers involved in the sightings, interviewed people to whom the officers reported, dug through the local newspaper morgue, talked to zoologists at the Cincinnati Zoo and University of Cincinnati who were familiar with the "case" and the illustration and finally spoke with someone who knew quite a bit about the "frog." For purposes of protecting identities, I will respect the interviewees wishes for not identifying them by name. Anyone could track them down from the descriptions, with very little work. One of the officers quit, moved to the police department of a different city, still in the area. He is reticent, if not actively hostile, to the idea of speaking about the event. He was mercilessly teased at the time, and still remains the object of occasional ridicule. The other officer was given to incidents of flaring temper before the sightings and afterwards was fired because of an altercation at a bar where he had not appreciated gibes about the frog. Some brief history beyond the sightings is necessary. Loveland was and is a small city. North of Cincinnati, it was mostly rural at the time, but has been turned into a yuppie nightmare since. Being a small city, where everyone knew everyone else, there existed a different kind of politics, not the impersonal DC infighting where one does not have to worry about insulting a neighbor. All to say we had a mayor with an ornery streak and a sense of humor. He worked, with my father, for the Cincinnati Milacron, in the division that worked on plastic extrusion machines. The mayor, and the police officers did not get along. The mayor owned land next to the Little Miami river, with a road that ran between the river and the land: the location of the sightings. The mayor had access to plastic sheets, pulleys, lines, etc. It was a dark and rainy night, so to speak. Driving down a dark road, seeing a shape one's not expecting to see, one thing led to another. . . Compounding the proliferation of the story were John Keel--a UFO "specialist"--and the immediate perpetuating of it by the guilty party to further humiliate those he did not like. The story became so popular there was a frog float in a local parade. And it would have dropped there, no one believed it. But Keel wouldn't let it go. He convinced one officer his sighting was tied to an earlier UFO sighting, at another point along the river where aliens supposedly hid under a bridge, he published the very bad illustration in a book, it proliferated and now the story lives on the Web. The frog is/was practical joke. Verified by the perpetrator. Who has no reason to lie about this. And whom still has the plastic sheeting, or did, when I interviewed him 10 years ago. The Loveland Frog. Explained. Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: Darkshark posted Tue, Jan 25 2005, 1:04pm  Thanks for the insight. Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: non_sequitur posted Tue, Apr 29 2008, 8:50am  That's a very interesting explanation of the 1970s-era sightings, though it does not resemble the 'escaped pet lizard' explanation provided by one of the policemen involved, available at the X-Project: http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/cryptozoology/lovelandfro g.html It'simportant to note that neither of these explanations apply to the original May 1955 sighting. Subject: Re: Loveland Frogs From: almond_jack posted Fri, Oct 9 2009, 3:37pm  apperantly the love land frog/lizard was originally sighted by a business man on his way home under a bridge and lilac and almonds were the scent left behind when it had run but i believe that the love land frog is the lost cryptid the sewer man it is also supposed to be an aligator/lizard type man standing about 4-5 feet tall and the police man who reported it said that it must have been some kind of pet but also the evidence that surrounds the stories of the love land frog/lizard also seem to show the same characteristics of the comodo dragon at a length of 3-4 feet long with a tail no lips just a big mouth and tounge just no webbed feet it also has the leathery scaly skin that the love land lizard/frog is said to have so people can confuse the two very easily. but as for it being able to leap the rail guard that is still unexplained and open on a disscusion on how it could have done that easily even though it was laying down flat on its stomach. also i have a eledged picture of the love land frog/lizard here it is.

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