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Bessie The Lake Erie Monster

HURON / SANDUSKY / LAKE ERIE ISLANDS REGION • OHIO

Lake Erie Monster Bessie—also called South Bay Bessie, the Lake Erie Monster and sometimes Lemmy—is the modern name attached to more than a century of Lake Erie sea-serpent stories. The legend is real and unusually...

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Kirtland Melon Heads

KIRTLAND / CHARDON TOWNSHIP • OHIO

The Kirtland Melon Heads are one of northeast Ohio's best-known urban legends: strange, large-headed figures said to inhabit the woods around Wisner Road near Kirtland and neighboring Chardon Township. The familiar story involves children with...

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Loveland Frog

LOVELAND • OHIO

The Loveland Frog is Ohio's best-known humanoid cryptid: a supposedly frog- or lizard-like creature associated with Loveland and the Little Miami River. Its modern reputation rests chiefly on two 1972 police encounters, but the story...

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Michigan Dogman

TRAVERSE CITY • MICHIGAN

The Michigan Dogman is described in modern folklore as a large canine-like creature capable of standing or walking upright, usually associated with the forests of northern Michigan. Its familiar history includes an alleged 1887 encounter...

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