Virginia may be for lovers, but Ohio is for the Loveland Frogmen. Journey to the midwest on this episode's latest installment of our state cryptid series, the land of the Frogman, the Mothman, the Ohio Grassman, and so much more. 

Sources:

• Cryptid Ohio
• Top 10 Cryptids Still Creeping Around Ohio- Exemplore
• The 11 Most Bizarre Mythical… Columbus Navigator
• The Werewolf of Defiance- Fox19
• The Mothman Museum- citybeat.com
• Cryptid Profile: The Crosswick Monster- Pine Barren Institute
• Meet the Monsters: The Crosswick Monster- monstersofohio.com
• The Peninsula Python: An Absolutely True Story- the Atlantic
• Monsters, Cryptids, and Mysterious Wild Beasts: West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, and Beyond, Jannette Quackenbush (2019)
• The Loveland Frogmen-WLWT
• Loveland Frogman Race
• The Gadsden Times, Oct. 18, 1985 (article on the Loveland frog)
• Binkowski, Brooke. “ ‘Loveland Frogman’ Spotted Again?” Aug. 5, 2016. Snopes. 
• Leggate, James. “Officer who shot ‘Loveland Frogman’ says story is a hoax” Aug. 5, 2016. 
• Mulvey, Ricky. “The Loveland Frog: Still a Legend; Now a Loveland Movie,” January 28, 2010. 
• Long, Changquan et al. “Neural signs of flexible categorization: Evidence fromt eh flexibility of inclusion of humans in animal/non-animal categorization,” Elsevier, April 2020.
• Bessie, the Lake Erie Monster
• Ohio Grassman, Green-Clawed Beast, Big Muddy Monster, episode of Monsters and Mysteries

Just popping in your feed to say we are moving from releasing our podcast weekly to biweekly. Life, uhhhh, gets in the way (and women inherit the earth; watch Jurassic Park). Stay tuned for our next full episode on Thursday, Sept. 29!

What's grey and feathered and bipedal and a starfish but also an alligator? The Australian bunyip, of course!

Holly and Chelsea reminisce about Chelsea's year as an exchange student in Australia as they unearth historical and contemporary cultural nuggets about the bunyip, a creature from multiple southern Aboriginal cultures' creation traditions. 

Sources:

• The Gloomy Bunyip
• Red Billabong- wiki
• Bunyip wiki
• Meet the Bunyip- all that’s interesting
• Bunyip cryptid wiki
• Steve Irwin Stamps
• Dot and the Kangaroo wiki
• Bunyip, The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd ed. Wilde, William H., Joy Hooton, and Barry Andrews. Oxford UP, 1994. 
• Holden, Robert; Nicholas Holden. (2001). Bunyips: Australia’s folklore of fear. 
• South Australian Institutes Journal, Jan. 18, 1901. 
• Geelong Advertiser, Wed. July 2, 1845.
• “Water spirit beings,” Clarke, Philip A. Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia: Perspectives of Early Colonists, 2018. 
• Clarke, Philip A. “Indigenous Spirit and Ghost Folklore of “Settled” Australia.” Folklore 118.2 (2007), 141-161. 

Music:

• Intro and outro: ​Underneath the Christmas Tree (Instrumental) by myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/q8fX3In7Qng