FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: Flashlight Frogs

Some months ago Alan Friswell, the bloke who made the CFZ Feegee Mermaid and also the guy responsible for some of the most elegantly macabre bloggo postings, wrote me an email. He had an idea for a new series for the bloggo. Quite simply, he has an enormous collection of macabre, fortean, odd and disturbing magazine and newspaper articles, and he proposed to post them up on the bloggo.


FREAKY FOREST FROGS FLUMMOX FLASHLIGHT PHOTOGRAPHERS!!

Along with building dinosaurs and monsters as a kid, I also had a fascination for animals and wildlife. In retrospect, I suppose that in many respects, the two were somewhat connected. I had a large, disused aquarium in my parent's garden, in which I kept various amphibians; and at one time, a grass snake. I had quite a collection of frogs and toads, and I remember one gigantic toad that I had to hold with both hands, because it was so enormous, and it was pretty grotesque watching it eat live insects-- although I have to confess that it was sort of interesting as well.

Regular blog readers might recall my post concerning the expedition that I read about in the Sunday papers in the 1970s, that had travelled to some unexplored jungle region--it might have been South America--and killed a monstrous spider. The explorers also experienced a huge frog that could roll down hill to escape predators. There's nothing about it in this article, but does anyone out there possess knowledge or information about such a creature?