Unnatural Ohio: A History of Buckeye Cryptids, Ghosts, Legends & Other Mysteries

Name: Unnatural Ohio: A History of Buckeye Cryptids, Ghosts, Legends & Other Mysteries
Start: 2025-09-30T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-30T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Avon Lake Public Library

Schedule

Tue Sep 30 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Avon Lake Public Library | Avon Lake, OH

Welcome to an evening covering some of Ohio's ghosts, cryptids, and UFO legends. Inspired by the Unnatural Ohio exhibit from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums/Spiegel Grove collection, members of their staff will be talking about the exhibit, several legends from the curious collection, and book influenced by the peculiar mysteries.
Strange things are afoot in the Buckeye State/Across city and country, Ohio echoes with tales of creatures, ghosts, and other unexplained phenomena. A monster that appeared to be half man and half dog and wielding a 2-by-4 terrorized a small Northwest Ohio town during the summer of 1972. Over the years, visitors to a quiet Cincinnati suburb claim to have been accosted by a human-size, leathery frogman lurking near the riverbank. For generations, hikers and hunters have reported seeing Bigfoot throughout forests across Ohio, and some of the most notorious and well-documented UFO encounters on record have taken place here.
Authors M. Kristina Smith and Kevin Moore parse urban legends from history as they explore the unnatural side of Ohio’s heritage.
Copies of Unnatural Ohio will be available for purchase. Copies of the book are $25 and the authors will be available for questions as well as book signing. Unnatural Ohio - Ghosts, Cryptids, & UFO Legends.
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