Benedict’s decision to use time as the organizing principle for his book, rather than geography or type of creature, means one can see how much some things change over the decades, and how little other things change.

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The first tells briefly of a giant snake travelling through the air on a cloud in India (no mention of wings, just that “he kept continually rolling over and darting out his head in a genuine snake fashion”), while the second of a whole school of bizarre sea monsters sighted by a sea captain twenty miles off Cape Hatteras near North Carolina. Monsters of Ohio is a comprehensive chronicling of the creatures of cryptozoology, folklore and urban legend that make their home in the state and the stories told about them, from infamous ones like The Lake Erie Monster, The Loveland Frogs and The Grassman to lesser-known local legends like The Crosswick Monster, The Peninsula Python and The Defiance Wolfman. According to Weird Ohio, there once was an orphanage along this road in Vermilion, Ohio in the late 1800s. Along the Miami River near Loveland, weird Ohio history has it that there lurks a man who looks a lot like a lizard — or a lizard who looks a lot like a man, depending on how you look at it, of course.The 1000-pound hominid was spotted last in 1991, when it appeared to two fishermen in Mill Creek, before retreating into the nearby woods. Stories of Satanists performing rituals and animal mutilations in the church was one of the most popular stories in the area. 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. Helltown was situated right on a war trail that stretched from Sandusky all the way through the Cuyahoga River Valley. Although the monster hasn’t been spotted in nearly 200 years, the legend of the Crosswick Monster is still told in the area.

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As the months passed by, the snake evaded the people of Peninsula, and when August approached, they assumed that the upcoming winter would cause the snake to die. One of the letter recipient's husbands was murdered, which was believed to be connected to the letters, and the letters continued even after a suspect was placed in prison. In an effort to stop the bloodshed the Treaty Of Easton was drafted, but unfortunately this meant a lot of natives had to leave their homelands and move further west. Initially, she was said to be between 30-40 feet in length, but as time has gone on Bessie’s length has grown.This seemingly normal small town was actually deemed "the most haunted village in Ohio" by author Chris Woodyard of the popular "Haunted Ohio" books. The article ends with “they are of the impression that he is no relative of the famous wild man of Rockaway.