Photos: Courtesy of Van Buren County (Michigan) Sheriff’s Office
(1) September 1, 2012 – 3 ft long – Window well at a home, Mattawan, Michigan – Captured, placed in captivity – Origins unknown. Source.

(2) August 29, 2012 – 3 ft long – Near Lake Texoma, Platter, Oklahoma – Captured, relocated – Origins natural/unknown. Source.

Photos: Scott Engle / Montgomery County Police Reporter.
(3) August 27, 2012 – 4 ft long – Buddy Riley Boulevard, Magnolia*, Texas – Captured (by *Magnolia towing), released into remote area. – Origin probably natural. Source.

Photos: Robert Mills, Sun.
(4) August 25, 2012 – 2 ft long – Merrimack Canal, Lowell, Massachusetts – Captured, placed in captivity – Origins unknown. Source.

Photo: Ellen Butchart.
(5) Before August 24, 2012 – Two, Small – Rock River, Beloit, Wisconsin – Sighting, photographed – Origins unknown. Source.

(6) August 17, 2012 – 5-6 ft long – Sunbury Reservoir, Upper Augusta Township, Pennsylvania – State troopers shot and killed it – Origins unknown. Source, source.

(7) August 8, 2012 – ? ft long - West Street pond, Sharon, Massachusetts – Sighted – Origins unknown. Source.

(8) August 1, 2012 – 2.5 ft long – Shamrock Lake, Clare County, Michigan – Sighted – Origins unknown. Source.

(9) Early August 2012 – 3 ft + long – Monticello Pond, Bowser, Arkansas (*Magnolia media area) – Captured, relocated – Origins natural/unknown. Source.

(10) Early August 2012 – Large – Tillar, Arkansas – Captured, relocated to wilder area – Origins natural. Source.

(11) July 28, 2012 – 3 ft long – creek, Kingwood, New Jersey – Captured – Origins unknown. Source, source.

(12) July 23, 2012 – Turned out to be plastic – Meeting House Pond, Cohasset, Ohio – Found, debunked – Origins unknown. Source.

(13) June 16, 2012 – 2 ft long – Steven’s Pond, Manchester, New Hampshire – Captured – Origins unknown. Source.

(14) June 2012 – Large – Dermott, Arkansas – Captured, relocated to wilder area – Origins natural. Source.

(15) May 2012 – ? ft long – Steven’s Pond, Manchester, New Hampshire – Captured – Origins unknown. Source.

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Magnolia

*Interesting that the name “Magnolia” would be involved in two of these cases. Under Charles Fort, Wikipedia has this intriguing passage: “P.T. Anderson‘s popular movie Magnolia (1999) has an underlying theme of unexplained events, taken from the 1920s and ’30s works of Charles Fort. Fortean author Loren Coleman has written a chapter about this motion picture, entitled ‘The Teleporting Animals and Magnolia.’ in one of his recent books [Mysterious America]. The film has many hidden Fortean themes, notably ‘falling frogs.’ In one scene, one of Fort’s books is visible on a table in a library and there is an end credit thanking him by name.”