Local Frog Makes Good

In the annals of movies (and merchandise) about Mythical Beasts—Mothmen, Chupacabras, Big Foot (is the plural Big Feet?), Loch Ness Monsters (though I think there’s only one), even the occasional Elvis sighting—we can now add a found-footage film, titled Frogman, about this very large…Frog monster, which supposedly lurks in the scenery around Loveland, Ohio. Loveland, OH, incidentally, is a real place; and the Loveland Frog Legend is, qua legend, also ‘real,’ its few, dubious sightings going back to 1955. The Frog is now the town’s mascot, its avatar appearing at local festivals and events. It’s also been in a documentary, a novel, even a stage musical—Hot Damn! It’s The Loveland Frog! And now it’s entered the found-footage genre. Hot damn, indeed. You just can’t keep a good frog down. Sighted in Ohio one froggy evening… That’s a lot of coverage for a rather minor and none-too-interesting cryptid. Per Loveland’s Wikipedia profile, in 1886 a real mastodon skeleton was dug up in the…