The Unexplained Attacks In The Ohio River

In the 1950s, strange reports of attacks coming from within the Ohio river began to surface. The most famous case is that of Naomi Johnson, who was pulled under by something with a powerful, deliberate grip and clawed hands in 1955. After her escape, she discovered a bizarre, bright green, non-human handprint on her leg that lasted for two weeks. Days later, a man claiming to be an Air Force Colonel appeared at her door, knew details about the mark no one else did, and classified the incident as a matter of national security, warning her never to speak of it.

An investigator later uncovered at least a dozen similar attacks in the region, with three different victims reporting the same inexplicable green palm print. This modern-day mystery is mirrored by an older one: the 1891 sightings of the "Vevay Mud Mermaids." Multiple witnesses, including a former Confederate officer who sketched them, described five-foot-long, yellowish, semi-human creatures with webbed, clawed hands feeding on mussels near the river's snags. Both accounts point to a persistent, unknown aquatic creature lurking beneath the surface of the Ohio River.