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“Ohio River”

Stories6

The White Bigfoot of Mason and Fleming Counties, Kentucky

October 1980 · Slip Up near Mays Lick (Mason County), Ewing (Fleming County) and U.S. 68 near Maysville, Kentucky

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources

29Thinly documented

Robert Gardiner's Bigfoot hunt in Wayne National Forest and Larry Cottrill's shooting, McArthur, Ohio, 1980

August 24, 1980 · Wayne National Forest, west of McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

22Thinly documented

Adams County deputies' sighting at West Union, Ohio

October 17, 1973 · West Union, Adams County, Ohio

UAP · Unknown · 16 sources

18Thinly documented

The Ohio River Monster, later called Octo-Man (Cincinnati area, 1959)

January 29, 1959 · Ohio River near Cincinnati: New Richmond and Kellogg Avenue, Ohio; Licking River bridge and Fort Thomas, Kentucky

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

17Thinly documented

The Green Clawed Beast of the Ohio River, Dogtown, Indiana

August 14, 1955 · Ohio River off Dogtown (Cypress), west of Evansville, Indiana

Cryptid · Creature · 33 sources

27Thinly documented

"An Aerial Mystery": The Winged Man over Coney Island

c. 1880 · Coney Island, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

12Thinly documented

Names11

Ohio River Place · 4 stories
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
Albert Rosales Person · 29 stories
A cataloguer of humanoid encounters.
HUMCAT Programme · 18 stories
HUMCAT was a catalogue of humanoid encounters.
little green men Term · 7 stories
A stock phrase of the field, and often a joke.
Isabel Davis Person · 6 stories
An investigator with Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Isabel Davis went to Kentucky in 1956.
Rob Morphy Person · 6 stories
A cryptid writer and artist, Rob Morphy kept old cases alive on Cryptopia.
Charles Hickson Person · 5 stories
A shipyard foreman from Gautier, Mississippi.
Branch Hill Place · 4 stories
A small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
Kelly-Hopkinsville Event · 4 stories
Kentucky, 1955.
Battelle Memorial Institute Organisation · 3 stories
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
Evansville Place · 3 stories
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.

Documents44 · see all

Blue Book file, Rivera and Heaphy (CUFOS) Document

NICAP / CUFOS· 28 pages· 6 pages mention it
- p. 3 …Rogue River, Oregon SPECIAL INQUIRY TO: Commanding General Air Material Command Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio ATTN: MCIAXS…
- p. 4 …5D 24-21U DATE 27 June 1949 TITLE PROJECT GRUDGE Incident – Rogue River, Oregon 24 May 1949 REPORT MADE BY…
Blue Book file, Rogue River (Brad Sparks) Document

NICAP· 21 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 6 …BROOKS TITLE UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT (PROJECT SIGN) Sighted at Rogue River, Oregon, on 24 May 1949 REPORT MADE AT DO #19…
- p. 13 …DAYTON. OHIO IN REPLY REFER TO: 5D 24-210 9 August 1949 SUBJECT: PROJECT GRUDGE, Incident, Rogue River, Oregon SPECIAL…
MAXW-PBB2-244 Document

Project Blue Book (hosted by NICAP)· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …Black River Falls, Wisconsin Elmendorf AFB, Alaska Seattle, Washington Cumberland, Maryland (CASE MISSING) Cengtu, China (CASE MISSING) Jackson, Ohio Eelena…
Blue Book cases, June to December 1947 Document

NICAP· 3 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 2 …Black River Falls, Wisconsin Elmendorf AFB, Alaska Seattle, Washington Cumberland, Maryland(CASE MISSING) Cengtu, China (CASE MISSING) Jackson, Ohio Helena…
Collapse of U.S. 35 Highway Bridge, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, December 15, 1967 (HAR-71/01) Document

National Transportation Safety Board· 1970-12-16· 202 pages· 5 pages mention it
- p. 16 …Twenty-four vehicles fell into the Ohio River and seven fell on the Ohio shore. There were no pedestrians on…
- p. 137 …G.; "The Dynamic Response of the Eyebar Chain Suspension Bridge Over the Ohio River at St. Marys, West Virginia," Staff…
U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 101-172 Report

U.S. Department of War· 210 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 94 …Army Air Forces Wright Field Dayton, Ohio Refer - MCIAXO-3 Dear Sir: - In reply to your letter of June 15th…

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Videos7

The Green-Clawed Beast: The Story of the Ohio River's Forgotten Monster

From The Green Clawed Beast of the Ohio River, Dogtown, Indiana

Green Clawed Beast of the Ohio River

From The Green Clawed Beast of the Ohio River, Dogtown, Indiana

Leaping into the legend of the Loveland, Ohio Frogman

From The Loveland Frog: two police officers meet a frog-faced creature by the Little Miami River

The Loveland Frogmen Sightings in Ohio

From The Loveland Frog: two police officers meet a frog-faced creature by the Little Miami River

Ohios Most Bizarre Mystery

From The Loveland Frog: two police officers meet a frog-faced creature by the Little Miami River

Loveland Frogman could become Ohio's official state cryptid as legend surges in popularity

From The Loveland Frog: two police officers meet a frog-faced creature by the Little Miami River

#38: Indescribable Octo-Man

From The Ohio River Monster, later called Octo-Man (Cincinnati area, 1959)