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A fifth-anniversary screening of Minerva Monster was scheduled to be held on March 21, 2020, at the Palace Theatre in Canton, Ohio, followed by a screening of another Small Town Monsters-produced film, The Flatwoods Monster: A Legacy of Fear (2018), and a premiere of On the Trail of UFOs; [11] [12] the event was canceled by March 17, 2020. [11] Home media [ edit ]

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Almost every small county town has some version of a crybaby bridge, and Helltown Ohio was no different. Rumors circulated that if you parked on the bridge at night you would hear babies crying in the forest. Sometimes tiny hand prints would be found on your car windows and on the hood. End Of The World Minerva Monster explores a series of alleged sightings of a purported Bigfoot-like cryptid around the town of Minerva, in Paris Township, Stark County, Ohio, in August 1978. [5] It features interviews with supposed witnesses of the creature, including members of the Cayton family (including claimed eyewitness Howe Cayton), former Akron Beacon Journal reporter Barbara Galloway, and Stark County Sherriff's deputy James Shannon. [5] [7] Production [ edit ]

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This year, just like all previous years, the health of the fish will hold a top priority. Wheatley has long been an advocate for the health and propagation of trophy catfish. That passion led him to naturally include catfish conservation as an important element of his tournament strategy. To this day, the Peninsula Python is celebrated and remembered each year on Peninsula Python Day. Dogman The creature returned to the family’s property so often that it was witnessed by several other friends and family members and even investigated by the sheriff. Find out where you can learn more about their stories, nab merch, and maybe even catch a glimpse of them using the U.S.A. cryptid map below. Here’s hoping you live to tell the tale.

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The Peninsula Python may not be a true cryptid, but it deserved an honorable mention on this list nonetheless. Ever since being addicted to the catfish scene I have heard about Aaron Wheatley’s Monsters on the Ohio catfish tournament. I almost made it in 2016, but a hurricane had other ideas about where I needed to be. A conflict in 2017 kept me away again. Finally, this year I have plans to make the 14-hour drive to Owensboro to see for myself why everyone talks so highly about this popular catfish tournament. Out of the water came a 7-foot tall, armless, humanoid. The boys noted that the creature had glowing green eyes and massive webbed feet. Big Fish in 2017 went to Chad Waugh and Don Elder Jr. They boated a 67.1-pound beast to claim the big fish prize. That Big Fish turned out to be Waugh’s new personal best. It was also the second biggest fish to ever be weighed in at the Monsters tournament.Big Fish for 2016 went to Jody and Tricia “Trish” Beavin. The B’n’M Poles team posted a 53.4-pound monster blue to earn big fish braggin’ rights.

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Some theorize that Bessie sightings could be attributed to the massive sturgeon that were once prevalent in Lake Erie, but locals insist that Bessie is real, and most definitely not a sturgeon. According to director Breedlove, production on Minerva Monster began in September 2014. [5] The film was shot and edited over the course of eight months. [5] Reported to be more than 11 feet tall, Orange Eyes lurks near Mansfield, Ohio, though he is said to have originated in Cleveland. Punderson Manor (11755 Kinsman Road, Newbury Township, OH): This colorful story begins with a millionaire who began construction on the mansion for his wife in 1925. Today, employees of the resort have told of unexplained happenings, including faucets turning off and on, doors closing and opening, and objects flying across the room. Whatever Orange Eyes was, it hasn’t been seen in over 20 years. Charles Mills Lake Monster via CryptopiaYou may have been hot on the trail of one of Ohio’s most legendary cryptids, the Grassman. Often referred to as the Eastern Bigfoot, the Grassman is reportedly a 7-foot tall, 300-pound hominid. The residents of Helltown would be shaken to their core as their town would be swept up in a national effort to preserve the environment. Our success came because we did not harass the fish we found before the tournament,” said Ransom. “I had been on those fish for about 10 days, but only dropped baits on them two times before the tourney.” As for the Ohio content, there are six entries in the index, but, remember, that’s for the place of origin of the newspaper an article comes from, not the pace where the monster featured in the article hails from.

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Following sea monsters, the next biggest category is what I would consider miscellaneous monsters, of which very few appear more than twice in the book. These 50 creatures include a pig-headed woman, a vampire, a mermaid, a couple of mer-men, a centaur, a banshee, man-eating plants, a giant turtle, a giant lizard, a giant spider, a giant frog, a frog man, mammoths and mastodons, several chimerical creatures like “a cross between a lion and a bull,” the Hodag and some monsters so strange that it would take too long to try to explain them in this space. This is similar to what natives would describe the Wendigo as. A cannibalistic forest creature. Helltown’s True Dark History

Balint, Ed (June 24, 2018). "Folklore Hides in Shadows". Akron Beacon Journal. Akron, Ohio – via Newspapers.com. If you’re anything like myself, you have to admit a bit of skepticism about some of these creatures, but maybe that’s only how you feel until you see one for yourself. The first tale is from an 1855 issue of the Carroll Free Press, “The Monster Snake Taken,” and it rather breathlessly chronicles the capture of a serpentine lake monster from an unnamed body of water that empties into the Genesee River. The creature was captured by one Daniel Smith, “an old whaleman,” with his harpoons, strong whaleline and his experience of hunting whales; the article claims the monster was taken alive, essentially leashed to the shore with a harpoon and wire, and was measured to be 59-feet, five-inches long. That’s pretty precise, given that it was still alive and thrashing when the measurements were taken!