Cryptozoology.

[Alex]

I was discussing cryptids earlier and just out of curiosity, does anyone have a favourite cryptid or one that is supposed to dwell locally?

Near us, we of course have Loch Ness and its infamous inhabitant.

What have you got?

Also, would Florida Man count as a cryptid that has been proven to exist?

[ER]

The Loveland Frogman.
https://charlestonterrors.com/the-loveland-frogman-ohios-most-famous-cryptid/

[RCMerchant]

Panthers in Michigan. Not really a cryptid, I guess...
Oh! We had a Bigfoot scare when Moe Moytka dressed in a fur coat and a gorilla mask and went drunk scaring the s**t outta folks at Sister Lakes!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Lake_Monster

[chainsaw midget]

Frogman, Mothman, Big Foot, Nessie, Maryland Goatman, Ozark Howler, Beast of Bray Road, I love 'em all!

[Alex]

Frogman, Mothman, Big Foot, Nessie, Maryland Goatman, Ozark Howler, Beast of Bray Road, I love 'em all!

Feel free to tell us more about them. 

[Alex]

Panthers in Michigan. Not really a cryptid, I guess...
Oh! We had a Bigfoot scare when Moe Moytka dressed in a fur coat and a gorilla mask and went drunk scaring the s**t outta folks at Sister Lakes!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Lake_Monster

I think big cats kinda count, especially if they are in an area they aren't native too. We frequently have sightings of big cats roaming the wilder areas of the UK, and over several decades a couple have even been shot (a lynx and a panther I think. I suspect they escaped from illegal private collections rather than being part of an established species).

[Alex]

The Loveland Frogman.
https://charlestonterrors.com/the-loveland-frogman-ohios-most-famous-cryptid/

I believe I did look into that one after you'd mentioned it to me recently.

[ER]

The Loveland Frogman.
https://charlestonterrors.com/the-loveland-frogman-ohios-most-famous-cryptid/

I believe I did look into that one after you'd mentioned it to me recently.

Yeah, but it's all we have to brag about.... 

[zombie no.one]

can't forget the Chupacabra

immortalized in song by (rather appropriately) the Super Furry Animals

http://youtu.be/ItCLXqaq_Rw

Have you heard about the bat?
Eats your goat and then your cat
Soon enough you will not smile
When it comes you'll run a mile

From Mexico it came to me
I saw it down in Miami
It vamps in and out of style
When it comes you'll go loco


then there's the film CHUPACABRA, featuring Treach from Naughty By Nature in the most misguided casting of an evil scientist in movie history (possibly)

If I ever encounter a chupacabra I'll be sure to capture it in out of focus shakey-cam in complete darkness, and I'll post the results here

[Trevor]

The South African government who have their tentacles in every corrupt scam going.

[Ticonderoga 64]

The Mothman

[Newt]

Panthers in Michigan. Not really a cryptid, I guess...

Same here.  In Niagara.  Yearly sightings that cause a great deal of heated discussion.

Also a Bigfoot-type known as the "hairy man" in indigenous tales.

[ER]

Wait! Charles Manson used to live here. He's "sort of" a cryptid, right? Sort of? I mean he did used to jump off a two-story bar balcony for beer money and lived. Kinda cryptidy. Or something.

[WingedSerpent]

Supposedly, Lake Erie has Bessie the Lake Monster. But its also home to sturgeon, which famously grow large and look prehistoric so there's that.

There's the Ohio Grass Man; a bigfoot type cryptid that lives near Akron.

Somebody already mentioned the Loveland Frog.