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Ohio Has a State Bird and Flower, Now It Wants a State Cryptid Too

Ohio, you trendsetters.

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The official state bird of Ohio is the Cardinal. The official flower is the red carnation. The official tree is the buckeye. Now, if a new bill makes it through the state legislature, Ohio may also adopt something a little less biologically verifiable: an official state cryptid.

Authored by Representatives Tristan Rader and Jean Schmidt, should House Bill 821 pass, it will declare that the Loveland Frogman is the first official cryptid of the state of Ohio, and it would be the first official state cryptid in the United States.

Admittedly, I had never heard of the Loveland Frogman before this. To give myself a quick crash course in his lore, I gave him a quick Wikipedia read and perused the Google image gallery. From the images,........

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