Loveland frog

Not to be confused with Nor Pepe the Frog.
The Loveland frog (aka the Loveland lizard) is an alleged frog-like cryptid that has the body of a human and the head and face of a frog with green, leathery skin and webbed feet. It is alleged to stand at around 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall and walks upright.Unknown creatures It's named after its alleged location in Loveland, Ohio.Cryptid Zoo
==The totally true first sighting==
The first sighting of the Loveland Frog(s) involves a salesman (or businessman) who spotted some of them near a bridge in 1955. 
Of course, “the salesman’s name has been forgotten”The Strange Case of the Loveland Frog, Ohio's Amphibian Cryptid, The Portalist, Natalie Dalea, July 29, 2020 and “this first account does not give an exact location or road”. Classic Cryptid: The Legend of Ohio’s Loveland Frogmen, Week in Weird, July 24, 2012 Perhaps there was also the peculiar smell of marijuana in the air...
==Next sightings==
One March night in 1972, a police officer named Ray Shockey reported he saw a weird creature at Riverside Drive/Kemper Road near a boot factory. That same month, Officer Mark Matthews witnessed the same creature. Figuring that no one would believe he witnessed a weird creature, Mathews decided to take blurry photos shoot and kill the creature, which he took and showed to Shockey. Shockey confirmed it was the same creature he had seen earlier: a large iguana that had lost its tail (which was why it looked weird). 
Matthews claims he told this encounter, including the part where the creature was discovered to be an iguana, to a writer about urban legends. However, for some mysterious reason that will likely never be solved, the writer omitted the part where the creature was killed and discovered to be a regular animal. This caused Matthews to outright call the story of the Loveland Frog a hoax. Officer who Shot Loveland Frogman in 1972 says Story is a Hoax, WCPO, James Leggate, August 5, 2016
Matthews stated, “There is absolutely nothing to the incident that relates to monsters or the paranormal. This entire thing has been habitually blown out of proportion… It was and is no 'monster'. It was not leathery or had wet matted fur. It was not 3-5 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, escaped by accident or they simply got tired of it. It was less than 3 feet in length, ran across the road and was probably blinded by my headlights. It presented no aggressive action.” The Loveland Frog, X Project Magazine, Davy Russell, March 1, 2001 The Loveland Frog, Skeptoid, Ryan Haupt, June 30, 2015
==Recent sightings==
After having been nonexistent in hiding for decades, the Loveland Frog was apparently sighted by some people playing Pokémon Go,Local legend: Does the Loveland Frogman live on?, Fox 19 Now, Jason Scott, August 4, 2016The legend of the Loveland Frogman, WLWT5, October 5, 2021‘Loveland Frogman’ Spotted Again?, Snopes, Brooke Binkowski, August 5, 2016 who took video evidence of their sighting, which depicts an unmoving frog shaped creature with shining and unblinking eyes.
It’s possible that the Frogman in the video simply depicts a Wilson and Fisher Solar Frog, an unmoving frog shaped ornament with shining and unblinking eyes.Create Your Very Own Loveland Frog Hoax for Under $20.00, Strange and Spooky World, James A. Willis, August 9, 2016 (Or perhaps the aforementioned 
No word yet on if it can defeat Bulbasaur.
==References==
Category:Cryptozoology
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