Other / Unknown · Loveland Park, Ohio · 2016
OH-2016ID case-af515440dfFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Aug 3, 2016to the day
- Where
- Loveland Park, Ohioto approximate level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
[name] and his girlfriend recorded photos and video of a giant frog that stood up and walked on its hind legs.
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Loveland Park, Landen, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 3, 2016
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-af515440df
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- The Loveland Frogman: A compendium of sightings from 1955 to 2016
Reddit · 2020-04-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Ohio's Strange Menagerie of Reptilian and Amphibian Monsters - The Loveland Frog, the Crosswick Monster and the Red-Eyed Reptile of Bellbrook
Reddit · 2024-12-11 - Ohio's Strange Menagerie of Reptilian and Amphibian Monsters
Reddit · 2024-12-11
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.