Strange Things: Big Amphibian. One summer as kids my sister and I saw a giant toad crawling across our yard in rural Washington State. It's body was about 3 feet. I guess about ¾ the length of our golden retriever which was barking at it furiously but not getting too close. And our chickens were cackling in alarm.
Our grandmother heard us yelling for her. She came out of the house and blasted it with a garden hose gun to move it along out of our yard.
When I related this experience to a friend years later, she told me of seeing something strange on the side of a country road about 15 miles away from the same area. She stopped her car and backed up near it and got out the car. It was a giant toad about 3 foot across. It wasn't moving. She decided not to check if it was dead or alive.
Imagine having that in your terrarium half covered with damp rotting leaves with its bulging eyes poking out. Competition for the Munsters and their dragon Spot as for best spooky household pet.