What do you think about this?
In the small town of Loveland, Ohio, there is a creature that two police officers swear they saw with their own eyes. The legend starts in 1955, when a man driving a quiet road by the Little Miami River late at night claimed he saw three figures crouched by the roadside. Around four feet tall, leathery skin, frog-like faces, and one of them, he said, was holding a wand that threw off sparks.
It would have stayed a tall tale, except for what happened seventeen years later. On a cold February night in 1972, Loveland police officer Ray Shockey was driving along Riverside Drive when his headlights caught something on the road. It rose up on two legs, three to four feet tall, with a frog-like face and mottled skin. It stared at him, then bolted over the guardrail and vanished down the riverbank.
Two weeks later, another Loveland officer, Mark Matthews, saw it too. He fired his service weapon. Years later he tried to put the legend to rest, saying it was only a large iguana that had lost its tail. But the man who first reported it stood by what he saw.
Could it be that a trained officer, alone on patrol, mistook a runaway pet for a standing, staring creature he had never seen before?
A misidentified lizard, a hoax that took on a life of its own, or something the Little Miami still hides? What do you think those officers met on that road?
