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?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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