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this episode, we're looking at the Ohio Octoman.
That's correct. The Ohio octal, man.
And it's a strange Cryptid. Sightings that happened back in
1959 in Ohio. But just before I get into that,
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of the way. Now, on, to what we're talking
about today, this is a weird when it falls into the Cryptid
category, the article we're looking at the first One comes
from Paranormal catalog dotnet and they have a artist rendering
of this thing and it basically looks like an octopus maybe
multiple hair on it, if you can believe that and standing up
just kind of walking or hovering across the ground, and that's
what they call Octoman. This thing is so strange.
People are really couldn't even put a name to it, but they could
describe this thing as an upright.
Walking octopus. That's where the closest you
could come to. It reminds me.
A little bit of. The sighting down.
There was a Charlie Parker can't us Kaluga Louisiana I believe or
Mississippi rather what they had that citing the two gentlemen
did while they were off on the fishing dock and those two
strange creatures came out of the UFO and abducted them.
Anyway, this is in the winter of 1959.
At least five eyewitnesses claimed to have seen a huge
bipedal creature resembling an octopus in the area around the
Ohio river in the winter of 1859 the Ohio river and it's
tributaries became the stage for a series of bizarre.
Sightings five, terrified Witnesses reported in countering
a large gray octopus-like creature which quickly gained
infamy. Does it Indescribable octo man?
What a mouthful. The author says a creature.
First made headlines on January 29th 1959.
What a local Cincinnati newspaper, run a captivating,
headline titled, what is it? Monster terms up the Ohio.
The article spot sparked, a whirlwind of speculation leading
to numerous sightings of the Octoman, many of which many of
which were reported to the local police.
The creature was first sighted in the town of New Richmond by
an anonymous man, who described the creature as indescribable.
His report was initially met with skepticism by the police
until a second caller. I truck driver found in with a
similar sighting. I think about this 1959, no,
cell phones. I mean, the guys got to probably
pull over to the side of the highway or something, or maybe
wait, it gets home, call the police, on the old rotary dial
phone, it really makes you think that this guy saw something to
do that, despite some officers dismissing, the reports as a
prank a number of dispatchers, including one Frank, be Heisler
stated that those Making the reports sounded legitimately
frightened and sober in a strange Twist of events as the
creature as the Creature Report. Spent began to flood in all the
street lights, along a specific Avenue from lunken airport to
Coney Island. Ohio were suddenly extinguished,
so they get their reports about this octo monster, and the next
thing you know, the lights are going off on the nearby Street
while sightings initially caused a flurry of Panic by Saturday,
the police announce have to Had ceased and that the creature had
seemingly disappeared. However, subsequent sightings of
a similar creature or reported near Covington Kentucky and
February suggesting the Octo man was still around.
Renowned expert on mythical creatures?
Loren Coleman stated that no new, sightings of the monster
were reported until nearly 20 years later.
And 1978, Dennis, pilch has an investigator for of UFOs and
Bigfoot, from Rome Ohio released a booklet called Bigfoot tales
of Explain creatures as a local pilcher's.
Might have had a chance to hear more details from Witnesses
which were not covered in the Press till just noted that a
woman from Covington and reported seeing the creature in
a bent-over position. She described it as a bizarre
gray being with an uneven chest, frightening, tentacles, and
layers of fat layer across a hairless head.
According to her, the creature with bulges of fat, on his bald
head was an enormous, Figure that moved in awkward manner.
It was such a shocking sight deeply affected.
Those who saw it. This state of fear, particularly
among the children in the area, was evidenced by report and in
Cincinnati Post and X star. It recounted a phone call from
an 11 year. Old boy asking of green men are
emerging from the river and groups of 12 as his teacher
claimed. So you can tell you said that
the community was talking about this saying to the point where
the little kids were being In which, you know, because it
becomes such a phenomena by the following Saturday.
Local police announced that they receive no more calls about the
monster implying that it had left town.
However, it may have been too early to make such a
declaration, and their 1982 book, The Bigfoot casebook
Janet, and column board mentioned a report from a driver
named George Wagner. He, claimed to have seen a large
two-legged creature. On a bridge, over the Ohio
river, near Covington Kentucky and February 1959.
We can assume In this happened, early in the month, following
Wagner's report. It seemed like the bizarre
hairless tentacle two-legged creature had disappeared from
our world or it might have just returned to the murky depths of
the Ohio River or one of its many tributaries awaiting a time
to re-emerge and cause chaos once more.
So this thing could have been some sort of shape-shifting
Cryptid, you know? First we're talking about an
octodome and, you know, referencing eight legs, just
think appearing like a like an upright.
Walking octopus. But this guy here says, well, I
seen this thing on the bridge and I had two legs, you know,
the fact that it's right near the water like this.
Maybe this the environment that this thing is used to as water.
If this is from some other dimension, perhaps it really
doesn't know the difference between dry land and water.
Just, it's almost like the scripted is come from somewhere
else and it's clearly out of place.
It says the Octoman with this unusual hybrid features became
the subject of many. There is some speculated, it was
a new amphibious species unknown to science.
There's suggested it was a lost alien and unlikely human animal
plant hybrid or even related to the local Critters like the
Loveland Frogman or the green Cleveland or the green clogged
beast. And then midst of the chaos
sparked by claims of a monster, citing, a dispatcher from
Claremont County. Heisler suggested, the witnesses
may have mistaken. A tree bobbing in the water for
a creature local down, worker. William Sprague agreed with.
Hi. Ages Theory, I've been on duties
since midnight. I've been keeping a close eye on
the river and I haven't seen anything unusual such Prague.
There were strong winds all night causing waves up to 8 feet
high. This one that seems like it's
really high for a river. 8 feet, this could easily trick someone
the winds also caused a lot of Driftwood to break Lee's loose.
When you're out on the river at night, these floating trees can
look quite Eerie. Under the dim light here we have
I think an excellent case of normalcy bias.
This person Say, they didn't see it.
And so, they're imagining things, that might have occurred
naturally that would appear, like, this alien creature to
other observers other experiences.
Now, the one fellow says seen the saying walking along and
Bridge other people report seeing it on or near the river.
If it's near the river, it's not in the river.
Secondly, this guy claims that there are 8 foot high waves on
the river. That seems hard to believe.
You me. I'm spent a lot of time on
various Rivers. And boy eight foot is a is a big
wave and he says sprigs drift with three doesn't account for
certain details reported by the witness.
He doesn't explain how something resembling a tree or wave could
have feet or resemble, an octopus.
It also fails to address the claim of a witness who said they
saw the creature jump onto the bridge.
So apparently the same came up out of the water and jumped up
onto the bridge that's wild. And then they, of course Have
you seen anything out the argument and higher?
Tell us about your experiences? Yeah, it's a fascinating case.
Now, I want to look at this next article regarding this.
Ohio octo man. So here's another article, I
think it's kind of an interesting read.
It comes from fandom.com. I don't see a author listed on
it, but like I said, I'll put the link up at the buy me coffee
website. It says, the Ohio river and its
many tributaries are a hotbed of odd and occasionally dangerous.
Cryptozoological activity, but one of the weirdest creatures
ever to have emerged from the murky depths has got to be this
hulking grayskin quasi cephalopod which at least five
terrified Witnesses claimed to have seen in and during the
winter of 1959. The World At Large first learned
about this moist monstrosity on January 29th, 1959 in an article
published and the Cincinnati Post and times.
Start analyzing Lee titled. What is it?
Monster churns up. You hiyo beneath it beneath it
that equally intriguing. Subheading read anyone missing
an Indescribable monster that swims, that's begins a
fascinating and All Too Short Saga of the Insidious little
yet, little-known Indescribable Octoman, often an explicit and
in explicitly lumped in with hairy hominid accounts from the
same region and era. This ostensibly.
And Fabius Beast was first reported to a hios Clermont
County and New Richmond, police by an unnamed man who Ooh claim
that something came out of the river approximately four miles
from New Richmond. According to the spooked
eyewitness alien life-form, he saw was utterly Indescribable
needless to say, police took this Anonymous Report with a
proverbial grain of salt, but they changed their tune.
When a second concern caller, this time, a truck driver in
route to Indianapolis phone from a gas station, located on
Kellogg Avenue near a bridge on the Little Miami River.
The trucker claim that is he drove from Mount Washington
towards Cincinnati. He had Unclassified entity like
anything he had ever seen. I think about it, the guys
driving his truck. He's busy.
He's working. No cell phone back in them days,
pulls over to a gas station, it has to use her.
Use her telephone, the call the police and report.
Seeing this thing doesn't seem like something.
Somebody would fake. And the first of two stories
published by the Cincinnati, Post and x 2 are regarding this
inscrutable creature. A dispatcher from station, X the
code for one sergeant. And A radio operator house at
Central Station at City Hall Hall, Cincinnati confirmed that
the voices of both Witnesses were distinct and he even went
on to state, of course, just because local police were
pursuing, the case doesn't mean that they took us.
Seriously. In fact, another officer
sarcastically speculated that this thing might be, might be
from Alien. And when he was quoted as
saying, it really, was a riot here.
We kept waiting for someone to say, take me to your leader.
So obviously, the Laughing about it.
Having a good time regardless of how amuse some officers were by
the rampant monster Reports. Most of the dispatchers who
responded to the witnesses calls, including one Frank, be
Heisler agreed that those making the reports sounded legitimately
shaken and sober as if this situation, were not already
strange enough right after the creatures reports started
filtering in all of the street lights street lights, along,
Kellogg Avenue from looking airport to Coney Island.
Went out simultaneously, the newspaper reported while many of
the officers were disdainful of the entire Affair of some of
their more diligent cohorts were in the field.
Legitimately concerned that what folks were reporting was not a
monster, but a victim of an automobile accident, according
to the Thursday newspaper account.
Well, that's what something that person might think.
So the guy's driving along, you have two reports of the same
climbing out of the river. Now they said it look like a
octopus octopus. Almost like walking out of the
river but As the police might be, you know, prone to think
they said, hey, this could possible be somebody who drove
into the river and is, you know, escaping a car crash or
something. It says the following day on
January 30th 1959, the Cincinnati Post, and x 2 are
once again fed the creature hungry, public more details
about the rubbing monstrosity. This article is titled driver
swears it happened. River monster takes a stroll on
bridge, the piece one on to report that.
At high winds had caused a power outage.
Despite the fact that the police had already revealed that the
lights were on two different circuits.
They also stated that additional reports of the monster came in
early on Friday. So, you have a parallel
narratives starting already the people that are seeing this
happen in real time, her hearing about these reports of this
strange, Octoman monster emerging from the river, for
three different horses down and then the light of the street
lights near their go out, they think.
Well, maybe there's some kind of connection From art, from from
people who study UFOs, we would automatically assume that there
could be a connection because we see this happen.
So frequently with these UFO sightings were there seems to be
a loss of power, whether it's in a car or lights or whatever.
Please don't ever try to cover this up and say, well this was
due to a high wind somewhere when we find out later that that
couldn't be the case because they run on a separate circuit
from wherever the power came from.
So we already see people trying to make excuses for what for why
these late lights went out. And then we see that this false
information given this disinformation is instantly
repudiated. It says the same that's a
morning or perhaps a night before.
The accounts are exasperatingly sketchy about correlating
specific times in sightings young, woman claimed to have
seen the thing in a creek near Fort, Thomas pumping station
near the Ohio. River in Kentucky, she was the
first witness to compare the creature to an octopus.
In other words, I think this thing was so weird looking.
So out of the normal so strange that people couldn't just Define
it with a couple of words, you really needed to talk to them
and have them explain to you what it looked like and a lot of
us have seen UFOs up close. Can have a similar experience
where you can't just say, well, it was a flying saucer or sister
that you have to really take your time to explain.
This is what this is what I saw look like.
This is what it looked like. I kind of think that happens
because to me, these things are some sort of AI driven, not all
of them. In some cases, these things are
some sort of AI driven operation.
And so, they're often times, I believe collecting information
from the scene and processing that information.
When they create an image of themselves maybe almost like a
3D image. I'm not even sure it's solid.
So this thing whatever this entity was worth whatever this
thing was that we can't see appeared inter-dimensionally are
extraterrestrial or whatever near this body of water to this
River. To me it makes sense that it
began to gather information. Maybe it since the creatures
around it in that water, things associated with water and It
came up with this image, it's almost like, if you pumped, if
you pump, the deaf pumped, a description and one of these
artificial Image Creators and they come up with some crazy
looking pictures sometimes. And that's what happened here.
I believe it began to draw on the environment things that saw
things that sensed and it just kind of put those things into an
image that you created the came out looking like an octopus.
That would explain maybe it perceived some kind of, you
know, Aquatic Life in that. River system.
And with all the knowledge that had with all the knowledge, I've
been fed into it before it ever got here, that's how it came up
with this image that is produced and that's why it was so
strange. That was why it would be so
Indescribable, as people said, now it goes on and says,
considering the lack of specific details reported in the local
papers. It is difficult to determine
just what this witness saw that compelled her to compare it to
an octopus. Did the Beast have tentacles?
A bulbous, lock deployed head or both?
Chanel attributes, unless I witness comes forward, will
likely never know, for sure an unidentified woman who may or
may not have been entirely serious.
Allegedly shouted at the Cincinnati Post.
Times reported, we saw that thing this morning now, you're
going to put my name in the paper and call me a crackpot
question. Mark the same day less than 5
miles away and Covington, Kentucky, another woman, who
clearly saw the creature gave, what is by far the most thorough
description of the creature? In question?
Sadly, her story would not be published for nearly 20 years so
you have your very best. I This and their descriptions
not published for 20 years, according to the respective,
cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, all Public Accounts of this
monster dried up until nearly two decades later.
When ufo-ologists and Bigfoot investigator.
Dentist belches published a book entitled Bigfoot Tales of
unexplained creatures. In 1978 pitches and Native Roma
hiyo who may have had access to local Witnesses, added some
essential details regarding the creature, which were not covered
in the newspaper accounts of the sightings people.
Just wrote that the woman from Covington solve a thing bent
over and that she went on to describe it.
As with a cellulite lobes running up its bear skull.
This slimy shuffling colossal Mass Over ganic Matter must have
been traumatized. Must have been a traumatizing
sight to Behold a testament to show how frightening this brief
flap was, especially to the children.
That region was published in the Cincinnati Post and X star in
it. They stated that an
eleven-year-old boy phoned in to ask.
If the Green Man Ray Are climbing out of the river.
And groups of 12 is his teacher said, they wore by Saturday.
Police said, the phone calls had ceased and at the monster had
left town, but that declaration might have been a little
premature in 1982 is a Bigfoot case book.
Authors Janet and: board reported that a motorist by the
name, of George Wagner. Claimed to have seen a huge
two-legged creature walking on their bridge over the Ohio.
River sometime in February of nineteen fifty-nine near
Covington, Kentucky. Lung I can only assume that this
was early in February. So we have this thing cited in
January and February now by multiple Witnesses what that
final report that malformed hairless tendril, bearing
bipedal every human seem to have vanished off the face of the
Earth or perhaps it just slipped back into the muddy depths of
the Ohio River for one of its seemingly.
Innumerable tributaries, just waiting for a time.
When it can rise again to wreak havoc and the thick of the
monster Panic, the Clermont County dispatcher Heisler
speculated that eyewitnesses might have seen a tree bobbing
up and down in the water. The tree Bob III was shared by
local damn luck Williams frog. Yeah, we talked about that.
He talks about the eight foot waves and the the Driftwood
drifting in the ocean. Excuse me, the river, the Ohio
River there. I don't really see that.
As a possibility of myself, it says, descriptions of this us
instantly hybrid Beast or not entirely.
Unlike those of the hairy upright diminutive cephalopod
Critter lovingly, dubbed octo Squatch.
By are your friends here at American monsters which was
allegedly seen by a pair of eyewitnesses and Spain less than
Two years after the Octoman encounters that having been said
the fact that this Shaggy big-eyed varmint was said to be
just over three feet tall and some and smothered with a thick
coat of rust colored hair. Pretty much the gates if for
their comparisons. Well, what they're saying is we
have a similar comparison and Spain but the only difference
is, it has a hairy body, not a bald place, she slimy body, it's
the same kind of thing. I think, what these things are
just taking in information from the environment.
Some are correlating this information into an image and
then show expressing themselves as that image is says, there's
also an intriguing possibility of this lumbering aberration of
nature, might be a combination of animal and plant tissue.
This is considered to be a biological impossibility, but
but there are rare cases, such as the Florida Moss.
Man is seem to indicate the very real possibility to human animal
plant hybrids looking into vast Uncharted swamps and remote
waterlogged regions of the world.
Yeah, we get that a lot. And this is kind of like, the
know, ocean that Bigfoot is some sort of ancient ape species that
has survived in order for that to happen, you would have to
have whole family groups to these things living and breeding
and surviving over Millennia, doesn't seem possible to me.
And, you know, it's also quite odd that we've never found any
remains of these things far more far more likely in my opinion
that these things are interdimensional Coming from
someplace completely us. That explains why they show up.
They appear, they disappear. It seems as though they're here
for a while, then there are gone.
Maybe they're here the whole time, we just can't see him.
I see them, maybe, even there's some sort of outcasts, from
wherever they come from. It's almost like I said, and,
you know, before that maybe it is somehow there, this is some
sort of prison planet for them, or they're just dumping things
these things off at that could. Because so often when these
Cryptids show up, they seem confused, they seem Tortured or
lost or separated from where they should be, they definitely
don't belong here. So I definitely don't see any of
these things is having lived here or as Earth being their
natural environment. They certainly seem to be some
kind of interloper and I think that the, that the strange
shapes that these things assume, even if even these, large
bigfoot-type creatures are whatever type of Cryptid they
are, it's as if they are gathering information.
I said it from around them or from some place on Earth and
they're just trying to appear to be something and this clumsy
attempt to fit in. Now, it goes on and says the
fact that this creature was seen by so many witnesses in such a
brief window of time as also LED some to speculate that.
It might just be a lost alien. That's kind of where I think I
fall in at they surmise that the creatures craft may have crashed
into a larger body of water. And at the stranded thing, not
unlike poor. ET was just looking for a way to
contact home, the dearth of local UFO.
Sightings that night combined with the lack of any reported
air crashes in the area. Seems you pretty well wrap that
theory up? No, that's not correct.
Once again, this author is looking at.
This thing is though this is a purely material explanation and
I'm looking at this thing from it, interdimensional
explanation. So we don't need a crash more
terrestrial. Might have folks, including a
handful of crypto authors, like John Green writers, Sasquatch,
the Apes Among Us and after aforementioned calling Janet
board have lumped you sightings and With the more traditional
Bigfoot reports are based on that witness descriptions of
lopsided hairless octopus like beasts, it would seem that this
dedication is at best counterintuitive.
Also, not correct. Not if you think of these
Bigfoot creatures is also some sort of interdimensional entity.
That's what you have to look at. That's the commonality here
among all these things at their interdimensional, another
perhaps more plausible hypothesis is that this huge
creature might be linked to tells a terrifying yet.
Skittish Loveland Frogman. The first sighting of these
creatures occurred in 1955 when an unnamed businessman claimed
to have witnessed three bipedal semi and fibia screechers
assembled by the side of a road that travels along the Little
Miami River. I'd be in Ohio to these strange
beings to between 3 & 4 foot. Tall were covered with leathery
skin and had webbed hands and feet their most distinguishing
characteristic, however, was her distinctively frog-like heads,
which the man claimed were deep wrinkles the report of deep
wrinkles in the forehead of the Loveland Frogman, invite
inevitable comparisons to the horizontal.
Rules of fair described by the Octo man witnessed during the
Covington encounter, another Frogman Observer claim that the
critters had pull had pale greenish flesh, which also
corresponds roughly to the description given by one of the
Covington witnesses there. Again, that would make sense
that these are just like this Aquaman.
These Frogman can be another interdimensional creature,
somehow, trying to camouflage itself, somehow trying to blend
in as it finds itself here on Earth, arguably the most
dangerous Ohio kept it. On record is a notorious green
called beast on August 21st 1955.
Damn, we Johnson while enjoying a leisurely swim with her
friend, had terrifying encounter with what she believed.
Was a hideous creature beneath, the surface of the Ohio river
near Evansville on Indiana Johnson and the other Witnesses
at the scene swore that she was suddenly clutched around her
knee and drag beneath the Waves by a large claw-like hand.
Which left an imprint that lasted for days.
Unfortunately, Johnson, never got a good look at the creature
as it remains submerged and then working.
River water for the duration of the attack needless to say.
She never swim in the Ohio River again.
Well, that would be, certainly a scary interaction there while
there is no hard evidence or even circumstantial evidence to
link the Octo man with the Unseen creatures, that grab the
recreational swimmer and asking 55, it's difficult not to at
least entertain the possibility that this tentacle Terror, seen
both in. And out of the Ohio, Little
Miami and looking Rivers, just four years later may have been
responsible for The Aquatic. Assault.
Well, you do seem to have this time range here where this
creature, although this summer in some ways similar to others,
appears over and over again, in this, you know, limited
geographic area on a more fanciful note, as I develop
deeper says, into this intriguing case, I begin to
wonder if reports of the gargantuan gray varmint might
have inspired one of the coolest cinematic mutations ever to look
across the drive-in movie, screens of the Halcyon Days of
schlock and splits can known as the 1970s.
I am, of course, research. Referring to the 1970 was not so
classic, maybe monster man. Octoman, look these things all
have one thing in common. They're inexplicable.
These creatures. Don't look like anything that we
recognize as humans color. They're coming from some other
place. I just can't imagine that these
things are just living among us on a day-to-day basis.
I don't see them as organic creatures at all.
They fall way more into the category of ghosts and
werewolves and is sort of This sort of Otherworldly things,
that's what makes sense. The fact, it's almost as if
they're intersecting our Dimensions somehow and from time
to time, they make appearances in our Dimension and somehow,
for whatever reason they seem to want to be seen and these
different shapes, they assume. Like I said, it seems to me to
be some clumsy attempt to blending in.
But until next time, this is UFO warning over and out.
This sort of Otherworldly things, that's what makes sense.
The fact, it's almost as if they're intersecting our
Dimensions somehow and from time to time, they make appearances
in our Dimension and somehow, for whatever reason they seem to
want to be seen and these different shapes, they assume.
Like I said, it seems to me to be some clumsy attempt to
blending in. But until next time, this is UFO
warning over and out.