Legendary Articuno 'Appears' In Ohio , Catch By KaitCovey

Legendaries are supposed to be the rarest, most unique monsters available inPokémon Go; the sorts of creatures you would expect to only show up during special events announced by Niantic. And yet, a couple has unbelievably claimed that Articuno has spawned in Ohio, of all places.

Seriously. Ohio. Not Antartica, or some other traditionally icy, out-of-the-way location, like in the games, but somewhere in the middle of the US.

There’s video proof, which was shared last night to a Dayton Area Pokémon Go!

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“#Niantic gifted me with him,” said Kaitlyn Covey, who is one of the supposed Articuno owners, on a Facebook comment. “It is simply the truth!”

Yeah, right. So what’s going on here? Well, there are two big possibilities. The first is that the Coveys may be using a hack that changes the appearance of monsters in Pokémon Go on the client side. That “Articuno” may just be a Butterfree for all we know, it’s just been altered to look cooler.

The other, potentially messier possibility is that it is a glitch. On Reddit, there are many reports of users capturing one monster, only to have it turn into an entirely different Pokémon once in the Pokéball