Comments on: THE LEGEND OF THE LOVELAND FROGMEN – Premiere Info http://www.cryptomundo.com/movie-monsters/loveland-frogmen/ for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and More Sun, 26 May 2013 04:09:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: BukitTimahMonkeyMan http://www.cryptomundo.com/movie-monsters/loveland-frogmen/comment-page-1/#comment-83371 BukitTimahMonkeyMan Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:51:00 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=29955#comment-83371 I have two explanations for the frogman.

1. It is the missing link between humans and amphibians.

2. They are aliens that came to Earth, similar to reptilians.Then again there is always the possibility it is just a hoax though I doubt it.

]]> By: platonicideal http://www.cryptomundo.com/movie-monsters/loveland-frogmen/comment-page-1/#comment-63745 platonicideal Tue, 25 May 2010 18:14:04 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=29955#comment-63745 I have posted this to other crypto websites as well but seeing how this is in the news again –
As a writer and a resident of Loveland, I am well acquainted with the story. So I did some digging. And by digging, I mean I interviewed the two police officers involved in the sightings, interviewed people to whom the officers reported, dug through the local newspaper morgue, talked to zoologists at the Cincinnati Zoo and University of Cincinnati who were familiar with the “case” and the illustration and finally spoke with someone who knew quite a bit about the “frog.”
For purposes of protecting identities, I will respect the interviewees wishes for not identifying them by name. Anyone could track them down from the descriptions, with very little work. One of the officers quit, moved to the police department of a different city, still in the area. He is reticent, if not actively hostile, to the idea of speaking about the event. He was mercilessly teased at the time, and still remains the object of occasional ridicule.
The other officer was given to incidents of flaring temper before the sightings and afterwards was fired because of an altercation at a bar where he had not appreciated gibes about the frog.
Some brief history beyond the sightings is necessary. Loveland was and is a small city. North of Cincinnati, it was mostly rural at the time, but has been turned into a yuppie nightmare since. Being a small city, where everyone knew everyone else, there existed a different kind of politics, not the impersonal DC infighting where one does not have to worry about insulting a neighbor. All to say we had a mayor with an ornery streak and a sense of humor. He worked, with my father, for the Cincinnati Milacron, in the division that worked on plastic extrusion machines.
The mayor, and the police officers did not get along. The mayor owned land next to the Little Miami river, with a road that ran between the river and the land: the location of the sightings. The mayor had access to plastic sheets, pulleys, lines, etc. It was a dark and rainy night, so to speak. Driving down a dark road, seeing a shape one’s not expecting to see, one thing led to another.
Compounding the proliferation of the story were John Keel–a UFO “specialist”–and the immediate perpetuating of it by the guilty party to further humiliate those he did not like. The story became so popular there was a frog float in a local parade. And it would have dropped there, no one believed it. But Keel wouldn’t let it go. He convinced one officer his sighting was tied to an earlier UFO sighting, at another point along the river where aliens supposedly hid under a bridge, he published the very bad illustration in a book, it proliferated and now the story lives on the Web.
A bad joke. Verified by the perpetrator. Who has no reason to lie about this. And whom still has the plastic sheeting, or did, when I interviewed him 10 years ago. The Loveland Frog. Explained.

]]> By: scosmo451 http://www.cryptomundo.com/movie-monsters/loveland-frogmen/comment-page-1/#comment-63670 scosmo451 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:56:04 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=29955#comment-63670 Found an interview with one of the filmmakers at http://davidgmiller.typepad.com/lovelandmagazine/entertainment/index.html – go down toward bottom of the page. He states that they will post it on YouTube after it runs on local access.

]]> By: scosmo451 http://www.cryptomundo.com/movie-monsters/loveland-frogmen/comment-page-1/#comment-63667 scosmo451 Fri, 21 May 2010 13:49:35 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=29955#comment-63667 Well, now, I don’t know about the frogmen, but it’s good to see some kids making a movie about them. I hope they eventually post it somewhere for all to see.

]]> By: springheeledjack http://www.cryptomundo.com/movie-monsters/loveland-frogmen/comment-page-1/#comment-63659 springheeledjack Fri, 21 May 2010 00:51:52 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=29955#comment-63659 Interesting. If it ever comes out on DVD I’ll definitely give it a watch!

THe frogmen is definitely one of those odd crypto/fortean things that has intrigued me over the years. It’s just really strange and I’ve never been able to get my head around it. Like you said, up there somewhere, humanoids just don’t fit unless it’s BF related…there just isn’t any fossil record of bipedal anything other than dinosaurs and primates…well birds, but let’s not open that can of worms:)

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