Loveland Frog — Ohio Police Officers Report Bipedal Frog-Like Creature Twice in Two Years

The Loveland Frogman is a bipedal, frog-like cryptid reportedly sighted multiple times in the vicinity of the Little Miami River near Loveland, Ohio. The most credible sightings involved two separate police officers, making it one of the few cryptid encounters to involve law enforcement witnesses. On March 3, 1972, Loveland police officer Ray Shockey was driving along Riverside Road at approximately 1 AM when his headlights illuminated a creature crouched in the road. It stood upright to a height of approximately three to four feet, was covered in rough, leathery skin, and had a distinctly frog-like face. After a few seconds it leapt over the guardrail and down the embankment toward the river. Two weeks later, another Loveland police officer named Mark Matthews observed a similar creature lying in the road. When Matthews stopped his patrol car, the creature stood upright and moved toward the guardrail. Matthews shot at the creature with his handgun. He later retrieved what he believed was the wounded animal and identified it as a large iguana that had lost its tail — though this identification was disputed by other investigators. Earlier accounts from 1955 describe a local farmer encountering three bipedal frog-like beings crouching beside the road, one of which held a device that emitted sparks. Subsequent sightings around the Little Miami River area have continued into the 21st century.