VALLEY CITY, Ohio -- With an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people attending and 740 frogs taking a leap or three across the ring, the 62nd annual Valley City Frog Jump Festival was another success, ...

If you're viewing this on the ABC10 App, tap here for multimedia. "He's good enough for one thing, I should judge -- he can out-jump any frog in Calaveras County." - Mark Twain, 1865 - The Celebrated ...

CALAVERAS COUNTY (CBS13) — Mark Twain wrote "The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County," and more than a century-and-a-half later, the competition is hotter than ever. The jubilee just crowned ...

In 2019, Landon Holzhausen, 7, caught his winning frog on the banks of the Looking Glass River. It was right before the DeWitt Ox Roast's frog jumping contest. His mother, Nicole Holzhausen, said the ...

OSCEOLA, Ind. (WNDU) - The highly anticipated frog jumping contest took center stage on Sunday at the Osceola Music Festival. This fan favorite event has been going on for nearly 40 years and consists ...

It was a quiet night on a farm in the small zoned community of Valley City in Medina County, save for the sounds of crickets and the croak of bullfrogs. "They’re taunting us, you can hear them," said ...

WOODLAND — Competing in the 52nd annual Frog Jump at Woodland Planters Days is serious business. It takes some preparation: What’s the wind speed? How’s the terrain? But mostly, it comes down to the ...

In the town of Springfield lies the competition of the Governor’s Frog Jump. Ever since the 1960s, people have been traveling to compete with aspirations of winning. Those aspirations have been ...

SPRINGFIELD – My earliest memory, at age 3 or 4, of the annual Governor’s Frog Jump and Egg Strike in Springfield was being ecstatic to the point of jumping up and down myself at my late Grandma ...

ANGELS CAMP, Calif. — For the 75th straight spring, the golden foothills of the Mother Lode are awhirl with Calaveras County’s celebrated jumping frog jubilee, an annual rite of Americana inspired by ...

Dozens of slimy frogs in a storage container made to be a makeshift bog jumped around awaiting little hands. They were placed on a felt lily pad on an astroturf soccer field where they competed for ...

From 1944 to 1978, contestants dressed like Tom Sawyer for Hartford’s annual frog-jumping contest that re-created the legendary competition in Mark Twain’s classic tale “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of ...