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Over twenty years ago, by digging into the back issues of the Louisville,
Kentucky, COURIER-JOURNAL, I discovered one of those gems that has
kept me pondering its meaning for two decades. The interesting little
item was in the October 24th1878 issue. A 'WIld Man of the Woods'
was captured, supposedly, in Tennessee, and then placed on exhibit
in Louisville. The creature was described as being six feet, five
inches tall, and having eyes twice the normal size. His body was
'COVERED WITH SCALES.' This article now makes some sense.
And then almost a hundred years later, again near Louisville, there
are more stories of REPTILIAN ENTITIES. In October 1975, near Milton,
Kentucky, Clarence Cable reported a 'giant lizard' was roaming the
forests near his junkyard. Author Peter Guttilla described the creature
Cable surprised as 'about fifteen feet long, had a foot-long forked
tongue, and big eyes that bulged something like a frog's. It was
dull-white with black-and-white stripes across its body with quarter-size
speckles over it.'
On-site field investigations by Mark A. Hall, however, indicated
this 'giant lizard' RAN BIPEDALLY, according to OTHER Trimble County,
Kentucky witnesses. The Ohio River is Louisville's, Milton's, and
Trimble county's northern boundary.
On August 21st 1955, near Evansville, Indiana, Mrs. Darwin Johnson
was almost pulled forever into the depths of the Ohio River. In
what seems to be a very close meeting with one of those creatures,
Mrs. Johnson, of Godtown, Indiana, was swimming with her friend
Mrs. Chris Lamble about fifteen feet from the shore when SUDDENLY
SOMETHING GRABBED HER FROM UNDER THE SURFACE. It felt like the 'hand'
had huge claws and 'furry' (or scaly?) palms. It came up from behind,
grabbed her left leg, grabbed her knee, and pulled her under. She
kicked and fought herself free. It pulled her under again.
Although both women could not see the thing, they were screaming
and yelling to scare it away. Finally, Mrs. Johnson lunged for Mrs.
Lamble's inner tube, and the loud 'thump' apparently scared 'it'
away, and 'it' released its grip. Back on shore, Mrs. Johnson received
treatment for her scratches and marks on her leg.
Fortean investigator Terry Colvin passed on the information that
Mrs. Johnson had a palm-print-shaped green stain below her knee
that could not be removed, and it remained for several days. Interestingly,
Colvin learned the Johnsons were visited by an individual who identified
himself as an Air Force colonel who took voluminous notes and warned
them not to talk further about the incident. Of course, this sounds
so similar to the 'Man-In- Black' encounter that is goes almost
without saying. For anyone who has seen CREATURE FROM THE BLACK
LAGOON, the Ohio River encounter of Mrs. Darwin Johnson is already
familiar, for her attack was foreshadowed in that movie.
In March of 1972, on two separate occasions, two Ohio policemen
saw what has become known as the Loveland
Frogman. Investigated by Ron Schaffner and Richard Mackey, these
researchers interviewed the officers involved but have not published
their names, instead using the fictitious names 'Williams' and 'Johnson.'
The first incident took place at 1:00 A.M. on March 3rd 1972, on
a clear, cold night. Officer Williams was on route to Loveland,
via Riverside Road, when he thought he saw a dog beside the road.
But when the 'thing' stood up, its eyes illuminated by the car lights,
looked at him for an instant, turned, and leapt over the guardrail.
Williams saw it go down an embankment into the Little Miami River,
a mere fifteen or so miles from the Ohio River. He described the
thing as weighing about sixty pounds, about three to four feet tall,
having a textured leathery skin, AND A FACE LIKE A FROG OR LIZARD.
Williams went on to the police station and returned with Officer
Johnson to look for evidence of the creature. They turned up scrape-marks
leading down the side of the small hill near the river.
On approximately March 17th 1972, Officer Johnson was driving outside
of Loveland when he had a similar experience. Seeing an animal lying
in the middle of the road, he stopped to remove what he thought
was a dead critter. Instead, when the officer opened his squeaky
car door, the animal got up into a crouched position like a football
player. The creature hobbled to the guardrail and lifted its leg
over, while constantly looking at Johnson. Perhaps it was the funny
smirk on its face, but Johnson decided to shoot at it. He missed,
he figured, since the thing didn't slow down. Johnson later told
how he felt it was more upright than the way Williams described
it. One area farmer told investigators he saw a large, FROG-LIKE
OR LIZARD-LIKE CREATURE during the same month of the officers' sightings.
Stephensport, KY 1966, a young man comes face-to-face with a lizardman!
Rerurn to: http://www.kentuckybigfoot.com/cryptids.htm
Source: Above article from transconscious.com.