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Lost Tapes

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Lost Tapes	label	Lost Tapes
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Lost Tapes	comment	Animal Planet's version of The Blair Witch Project, Lost Tapes is a Mockumentary series which asks "What If? there really are monsters like Bigfoot, the Chupacabra and other beasties out there?" Each episode starts with a disclaimer pointing out that it's merely "inspired by the possibility that hidden creatures exist". Normally the monsters aren't actually shown, save for glimpses of CG, Props or Costumes. To justify its airing on Animal Planet, the series laces its footage with factoids about real animals supposedly related to the featured monster. Sometimes this is in an attempt to lend an air of plausibility to the scenario, other times the factoids end up being scarier than the film.The series ran for three seasons from 2008-2010.
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Lost Tapes / int_120579ab	type	Sinister Deer Skull
Lost Tapes / int_120579ab	comment	Sinister Deer Skull: In its episode, the Wendigo is depicted as a human body donning torn bloody clothes and a deer skull for a head.
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Lost Tapes / int_126ac7b8	type	Skin Walker
Lost Tapes / int_126ac7b8	comment	Skin Walker: One episode devoted to the legend of this creature, with the one shown capable of the usual shapeshifting as well as also being able to flawlessly imitate the voices of its intended victims' loved ones so as to draw them towards it.
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Lost Tapes / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Lost Tapes / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Many times, a character makes mention of how things will go well for them, with several of them even stating the classic "I'll be right back" line...only for things to go horribly wrong for them in some fashion or whether when the creature the episode is focusing upon comes into the picture.
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Lost Tapes / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Lost Tapes / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: "The Monster of Monterrey" is inspired by the Kaz II mystery.
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Lost Tapes / int_1646dd01	type	What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?
Lost Tapes / int_1646dd01	comment	What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?: Skinwalker takes place in...Skinwalker Ranch.
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Lost Tapes / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Lost Tapes / int_1777688d	comment	About 80% of the victims literally fall under this category. Two of the most shameful are the ATF agents in "Devil Monkey". Not only do they ignore strange animal calls, blood, odd footprints, a clearly traumatized and terrified victim who warns them repeatedly that they should leave, and even mangled human bodies, they dismiss it when one of them is struck from behind by something, and continue to "investigate" despite all of this as if there is nothing unusual going on, and predictably end up killed by the titular creatures for it. The Sheriff has this to a lesser extent as, instead of blasting the damn thing with a shotgun, He turns around to tell the reporter to flee and then gets jumped. However he gains some sanity points, as he is Genre Savvy enough to not leave the local legend completely out of the equation and at least tries to hold the creature off.
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Lost Tapes / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Lost Tapes / int_17a45ff5	comment	The Megalania of Death Dragon is surprisingly well depicted if in the wrong habitat. It helps that Megalania has a close relative living today (referenced above).
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Lost Tapes / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Lost Tapes / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: The flimsy justification given for rapid shape shifting of the Werewolf, a cursory situation of amphibian/insect metamorphosis and the minor changes of the Mandrill. The Anaconda is an aquatic snake that can barely sustain its own weight outside of water, much less move and attack. The Megaconda episode takes the same route as the famous movies, making the giant anaconda into an arboreal creature, attacking from above and moving overland with incredible speed.
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Lost Tapes / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Lost Tapes / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: One usually plays when one of the monsters appears on screen, most often as a Drone of Dread, before a clearer reveal of it later, to let you know to look around for a glimpse of it.
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Lost Tapes / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Lost Tapes / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: of all the cryptids featured in the series, only the Thunderbird is never seen outside of the talking heads segments, only indicated to be anywhere near the characters by the sounds it makes and their reactions to it. Even the other little-seen monsters get motion-blurred or staticky shots, only one small part of them visible, or shadows being cast, but the Thunderbird only appears in pitch black nighttime.
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Lost Tapes / int_1c4e3202	type	The Spook
Lost Tapes / int_1c4e3202	comment	Pretty much everyone besides Nora in Hellhound, but Annabel deserves a special mention.
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Lost Tapes / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Lost Tapes / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Dennis Redding from Vampire defends his wife, himself, and his son from a rampaging vampire, even managing to successfully kill it via a makeshift Wooden Stake to the heart.
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Lost Tapes / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Lost Tapes / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Captain Bach, having an alien parasite inside her, having to go through so much pain before dying when it emerges.
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Lost Tapes / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Lost Tapes / int_1f6983f7	comment	Nora could potentially qualify as the main villain of the episode Hellhound due to her being shown at the very end to be interacting with the titular beast in a manner that implies the two at the very least being familiar, if not directly in league, with each other.
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Lost Tapes / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Lost Tapes / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Bobo the Monterey Bay Monster, a creature that's always been described in accounts of his sightings to have never harmed any people, is depicted as a people eating carnivore implied to be responsible for a sizable number of sailor disappearances in Monterey Bay. Quetzalcoatl, a god famously known to have a strong distaste for human sacrifices being made in his name, is depicted as a bloodthirsty monster who can explicitly be summoned via human sacrifice, although this might be more due to research failure or artistic license. The Dover Demon; in Real Life, sightings of it almost always ended with it running away from the human witness. In the show, it mauls all of the main characters in a messy and almost sadistic way.
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Lost Tapes / int_21304649	type	This Bear Was Framed
Lost Tapes / int_21304649	comment	This Bear Was Framed: a recurring result of episodes after Season 1, to preserve the series' conceit that no one but the in-universe witnesses knows what really happened. While technically everyone who dies in each episode was (usually) killed by an animal of some kind, the official story attributes them to mundane animals since others won't believe that a cryptid or mythical creature did it. Southern Sasquatch and Wendigo: American Cannibal both have the deaths officially attributed to bear attacks, and in spite of rather clear video evidence to the contrary with the latter. White River Monster has the authorities blame the attacks on alligators, which the show says only rarely appear in the area but that's good enough for them to ignore the survivor's pleas to dredge the river to try and find more proof. Inverted with Beast of Bray Road where the militia is convinced that it must be one or more federal agents killing their fighters, but it really is an animal; they even think that an agent with a government-issue combat knife could make the results look like an animal attack. It's then played straight in the epilogue where the government attributes all the deaths to ordinary wolves.
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Lost Tapes / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Lost Tapes / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Since all the episodes seem to take place in the same universe, this means that the world is infested with monstrous supernatural beings, a large majority of which eat people for lunch.
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Lost Tapes / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Lost Tapes / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Happens to the exterminator in the Vampire episode after he only just notices the Vampires hiding in the walls, giving the one that camouflaged itself inside an old sofa the right opportunity to pounce and attack the exterminator when he least expects it.
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Lost Tapes / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Lost Tapes / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Lots of these monsters seem to think humans are tasty. The Wendigo is a human who's got this idea.
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Lost Tapes / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
Lost Tapes / int_225d8ff9	comment	And Nora from Hellhound. Maybe.
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Lost Tapes / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Lost Tapes / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Annabel Lilith is a rare goth example who appears in Hellhound. Needless to say, she doesn't last very long...
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Lost Tapes / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Lost Tapes / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Ernest Tybee in Devil Monkey as he is Genre Savvy enough to not leave a local legend completely out of the equation and at least tries to hold the creature off (and would've succeeded if he hadn't turned round), instead of simply doing nothing, like the ATF agents. The lead diver in "Kraken" repeatedly tells the film crew in tense situations to stop filming and help save crewmen from the monster. Probably why he survived when everyone else didn't. Glenn in Dover Demon, unlike Chad, takes the possibility of the Dover Demon seriously and tries to warn the others about the risk they are taking, mentioning that he's heard rumors of it being hostile to outsiders, trying to investigate the strange claw marks and footprints he finds (whereas Chad just thinks it's just more good ambience for their prank), and even calls out Chad when he demands they split up to look for Royce. Even then, he takes out a pocketknife to defend himself, not that it does him much good apparently, but still...
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Lost Tapes / int_2c4bfb76	type	Psycho Electric Eel
Lost Tapes / int_2c4bfb76	comment	Psycho Electric Eel: The Mongolian Death Worm acts like a combination of this and piranha, but in sand.
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Lost Tapes / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Lost Tapes / int_2d4fa515	comment	The Southern Sasquatch was a violent creature that mauled three innocent and grown men to death. When the cryptozoologists say it's one of the most dangerous creatures featured on this show, you are dealing with one horrid monster. To top it off, the end of the episode has the last survivor finally getting back to the hunting blind shown earlier, where he'll be safe, only to find that the sasquatch has already torn down the rope ladder and all he can do is scream for help and vainly try to reach the remaining part of the ladder as it closes in to kill him.
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Lost Tapes / int_2ec87029	type	Sadly Mythtaken
Lost Tapes / int_2ec87029	comment	Sadly Mythtaken: Q is portrayed as demanding human sacrifices, when the Aztec god was one of the few that didn't. They do get points, though, for pointing out that the Aztec Calender is cyclical, which isn't surprising as the episode is obviously based on (if not totally ripped off of) the old monster movie of the same name. Although considering one of the first things he does after getting summoned is to kill the very cultists who'd summoned him in the first place, it's entirely possible he may very well have been just as averse to human sacrifices as he is in the original myths, and gotten angry enough at his apparent worshippers to punish them for their stupidity. A number of the cryptids in the series are also depicted in a manner inconsistent with the original legends: The Chupacabra is mentioned early in the episode as sometimes being described as resembling a gryphon. No such description has ever been applied to the creature prior to this show. That being said, the one that actually does get depicted does get accurately depicted as the North American/Mexican version of the creature is described to be (albeit, with a taste for humans instead of exclusively livestock). The Monster of Monterey is depicted as a plesiosaur-like creature that preys on humans. The "real" monster of Monterey Bay is very different: it's said to have saggy brown skin, large pink eyes and a vaguely human-like face. Also, it has never been recorded attacking people. Most sightings of the Thunderbird describe, well, birds (with eagles and condors being the birds that they're most popularly portrayed as resembling), not the pterosaurs that the series suggests. The "Alien" episode is fabricated whole-cloth for the series; while there have certainly been alleged sightings of insectoid aliens, none of them are said to be parasitic like the one in the show. The White River Monster is portrayed as a fish, despite one of its defining features in the original stories being that it has three-toed feet The Dover Demon is portrayed killing its human witnesses, despite all eyewitness reports claiming it fled from them. It also has grey skin, rather than the rosy skin it was reported to have. In fact, the creature as depicted her looks more like a typical Grey alien. The "Yeti" episode perpetrates the common misconception of the titular creature having white fur when the creature is reported to have reddish-brown fur. The talking heads segments even point this out when the creature in the actual plot of the episode explicitly doesn't have such fur. â€œHellhoundâ€� equates Garm from Norse Mythology with folktales of ghostly black dogs despite having nothing in common.
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Lost Tapes / int_3295cb16	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Lost Tapes / int_3295cb16	comment	Firefighter Trevor Andrews from Lizardman as well. Fights and kills the titular Lizardman armed with a small hatchet and the only light being the flashlight on his helmet.
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Lost Tapes / int_330ef176	type	Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious
Lost Tapes / int_330ef176	comment	Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious: With this show being ostensibly about found footage of people experiencing traumatic encounters with various cryptids and other supernatural creatures, it's only natural that a sizable number of cryptids, both famed and lesser known, are amongst the creatures encountered by the luckless victims the lost footage centers around.
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Lost Tapes / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Lost Tapes / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The Jersey Devil lacks a long neck here though it does still have a dog like appearance in its face.
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Lost Tapes / int_34d7d9b	type	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night
Lost Tapes / int_34d7d9b	comment	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: the vampires featured in the premier episode of Season 2 cross-over with this concept—they're portrayed more as humanoid animals with a resemblance to bats and lack any supernatural abilities or other "seemingly human" traits (in contrast to Season 3's strigoi, which is explicitly supernatural down to having shapeshifting abilities) and one of them creeps into a bedroom from out of the closet while their main nest is in the house's basement. If anything, they're more like supersized, very dangerous pest animals.
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Lost Tapes / int_35d4beb4	type	Horde of Alien Locusts
Lost Tapes / int_35d4beb4	comment	Horde of Alien Locusts: Alien is implied to be working to reproduce enough to create a large swarm of its kind at the end.
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Lost Tapes / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Lost Tapes / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Bigfoot. He's depicted as a docile creature (possibly Truth in Television; Bigfoot is rarely reported to get violent towards the people who encounter him) who seems to develop a fondness for the protagonist. Enough to save her from a poacher, no less.
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Lost Tapes / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Lost Tapes / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: the actual events of each episode are often interrupted by talking heads and other edutainment-type segments, which will sometimes give you a heads-up as to what's about to happen in the main plot. For example, Thunderbird is momentarily interrupted to provide some basic statistics for sports injuries; one of the three kids who make up the cast of the episode falls off his skateboard and breaks his leg shortly after this.
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Lost Tapes / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Lost Tapes / int_3ae6199a	comment	Tylor Shuman, in Oklahoma Octopus. He insists on playing pranks faking drowning that nobody thinks is funny, then when he gets called out on his crap he throws a fit and steals the canoe to leave his friends stranded out in the middle of the lake all night. It would almost be a Karmic Death when the titular monster drags him to his death... except it basically means he helps it eat Bruce Delroy and Ruthie Simple as well.
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Lost Tapes / int_3b4185fb	type	Stalker without a Crush
Lost Tapes / int_3b4185fb	comment	Stalker without a Crush: Bigfoot in the episode of the same name is a benign example toward the human woman he developed an attachment towards. The Owlman is a less benign example.
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Lost Tapes / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Lost Tapes / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: The Wendigo; it bends time, space and reality to its will so that no matter where you run it will always find you.
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Lost Tapes / int_3d1f2cae	type	Barrier-Busting Blow
Lost Tapes / int_3d1f2cae	comment	Barrier-Busting Blow: At one point in Vampire, the titular monster manages to twice bust a hole through a large wooden surface in its efforts at catching its prey, with the first time being when it bursts through a wall its hiding behind to grab onto the exterminator, and the second time being when it bursts a hole through the door to a bedroom that the family its been trying to hunt is trying to hole themselves up in side. This second time leads to its demise when the father grabs onto a sharpened piece of wood from the resulting wreckage and uses it as an Improvised Weapon to stab the monster to death.
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Lost Tapes / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Lost Tapes / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Lizardman. Lizardman kills the reporter and the cameraman, but one of the firefighters manages to kill it and he and his partner get out alive. Werewolf. The werewolf, Sophia Montero, kills the reporter Austin Pace, but the two detectives manage to kill her and end her killing spree. However, they are both traumatized by the case, and eventually resign from the force. Chupacabra. Ava Ramirez is returned to her relatives in Nogales after being rescued by Border Patrol agents, but she is heavily traumatized after witnessing the Chupicabra kill both of her parents and will probably have nightmares about it for the rest of her life. Jersey Devil. The Stark family escapes from the woods after being pursued by the Devil, but it kills Cooper, their dog. The season three episodes that feature Enigma Corporation agents Elise Mooney and Noel Connor, as usually they are the only ones to make it out of their missions alive.
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Lost Tapes / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Lost Tapes / int_44fc28e8	comment	The lead diver in "Kraken" repeatedly tells the film crew in tense situations to "Put the camera down" and help save crewmen from the monster. Of course, he insists on sending people down to retrieve the people already attacked. Twice. Honor Before Reason or Idiot Ball. You decide.
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Lost Tapes / int_466f304e	type	Fear-Induced Idiocy
Lost Tapes / int_466f304e	comment	Justified in Thunderbird; the cast of that episode was a group of terrified preteen boys, so of course they're going to make dumb decisions.
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Lost Tapes / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Lost Tapes / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: The frozen corpse of a yeti is thawed, and turns out to be not a corpse after all
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Lost Tapes / int_49b3ebe5	type	Special Effect Failure
Lost Tapes / int_49b3ebe5	comment	Special Effect Failure: being a low-budget series, this is practically a given, but sometimes it works to the show's benefit, if not in the way the people making it might have intended. A good example of this is in "Devil Dragon" when Tim is suffering badly from the megalania-inflicted blood poisoning and almost hopelessly lost; it's rather obvious that the actor is just walking in a narrow circle to make it look like he's moving further through the forest than he actually is. The Dover Demon costume used by the hoaxers in the episode of the same name is an in-universe example, looking absolutely nothing like the Demon either in the episode itself or in the actual reports of the creatures.
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Lost Tapes / int_4c4bebf4	type	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology
Lost Tapes / int_4c4bebf4	comment	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology: The Megalania of Death Dragon is surprisingly well depicted if in the wrong habitat. It helps that Megalania has a close relative living today (referenced above). During Thunderbird, mention is made of pterosaurs, "giant birds of prey that lived 115 million years ago". Pterosaurs are not birds. More of a missed opportunity, but why reference pterosaurs at all, when Argentavis magnificens (aka the Giant Teratorn) was an actual bird, with a wingspan of about seven meters, that lived just 6 million years ago? Also from Thunderbird, the titular creature is shown behaving like a shrike (impaling its prey on branches). It is also presented as a living specimen of an azhdarchid, the pterosaur equivalent of storks. The Monster of Monterey Bay is portrayed as an snake-necked elasmosaurid with a taste for humans. Real-life elasmosaurids are believed to have had very rigid necks with limited mobility, and if alive today even the largest elasmosaurids probably wouldn't be interested in humans due to being poorly built for such prey and instead preferring small fish and invertebrates.
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Lost Tapes / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Lost Tapes / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Many of the episodes feature this. Death Worm. Both of the men, Greg and Benton are killed by the Worm. Death Crawler Karen and Jonah are both killed by the giant centepedes. Monster of Monterey Sharon is attacked and more than likely eaten by a plesiosaur that knocked her overboard by ramming her boat.
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Lost Tapes / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Lost Tapes / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Two from "Death Raptor"; first from Su Ann... ...and second from Hazel: This line from the epilogue of "Hellhound", which throws everything about the episode's protagonist into question... From Wendigo:
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Lost Tapes / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Lost Tapes / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: "Werewolf" had a particularly shocking example; the suspected Serial Killer is suddenly attacked and the girl he was planning to kill starts snarling like an animal and barking—she was the real werewolf. The suspect was her intended victim. At the end of "Hellhound", we have Nora petting the titular monster.
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Lost Tapes / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
Lost Tapes / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: Hellhound, Skinwalker, and Jersey Devil. Each one has its own unrelated explanation, few of which are natural (if one is given at all). The Dover Demon, despite its name, is just not explained. Given how Weird it is, that makes perfect sense. A Strigoi is featured as well, and, unlike the first Vampire, it doesn't have a logical explanation, it's apparently supernatural.
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Lost Tapes / int_5261369c	type	Sand Worm
Lost Tapes / int_5261369c	comment	Sand Worm: Not epic in size, but the Mongolian Death Worm more than makes up for its relatively small size (about as thick as human large intestines) with Acidic Spit and Electrical currents like the electric eel.
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Lost Tapes / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
Lost Tapes / int_53aab01d	comment	Prehistoric Monster: Monster of Monterey (elasmosaur), Bear lake Monster (mosasaur-like animal), Devil Dragon (Varanus priscus aka Megalania), Thunderbird (pterosaur) and White River Monster (Xiphactinus). Death Crawler has giant centipedes compared to ancient ones that grew to massive sizes as well (6-feet to the 3-feet monsters featured).
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Lost Tapes / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Lost Tapes / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: They won't be killed, but they sure as hell are getting traumatized by the experience. The vampire at least tried to avert this by going for the child first, even if it ultimately failed.
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Lost Tapes / int_55cd4012	type	"Everybody Dies" Ending
Lost Tapes / int_55cd4012	comment	"Everybody Dies" Ending: Despite the series' name, this is actually Subverted...most of the time. Many episodes end with at least one survivor, and at least one has all the viewpoint characters survive, and in one case, the Cryptid saved the point-of-view character. Season 3 seems to be doing more of this, as so far, only four survivors so far the entire season, and two of those were sole survivors, the other two were Connor and Mooney...three times.
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Lost Tapes / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Lost Tapes / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The two ATF agents from Devil Monkeys are so stupid and oblivious to the more and more blatant signs of the presence of the Devil Monkeys to the point they seem borderline suicidal. Subverted by the local sheriff who accompanies them, who, while also ignoring the signs, is Genre Savvy enough never to take a local legend out of the equation.
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Lost Tapes / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Lost Tapes / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Combined excellently with Karmic Death in Megaconda; Ken Tobar, the episode's Greater-Scope Villain, discovers the camera the activists left behind and takes a moment to do some Evil Gloating now that he can get rid of the footage and ensure that his crimes will never be discovered. Then the Megaconda itself starts slithering up to him...
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Lost Tapes / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Lost Tapes / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Occurs often. The series purposefully leaves many things ambiguous to the viewer regarding the creatures. Where did the Dover Demon come from? No one knows and no one ever finds out. And if we were able to find out, would we want to? Furthermore, many of the monsters—especially in Season 1—are barely shown, relying more on Nothing Is Scarier and only giving brief, blurry glimpses at best or showing it too close to the camera so that you know something is there but can't see it clearly.
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Lost Tapes / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Lost Tapes / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: Strongly implied by the Mothman episode, as a witness is questioned by governmental The Men in Black. Some of the cryptid encounters are, in the epilogue, revealed to have been covered up by the government of the nation involved. Alien is the most clear as all records of the event where taken by the government. Zombie may feature one: after the two survivors escape, the city destroys the building and never files a report on the event. The epilogue of Yeti reveals that the ship carrying it is redirected to Plum Island, which hosts a government facility that studies biological specimens and is itself already the subject of conspiracy theories. Reptilian, which is practically a love letter to the conspiracy theories of David Icke, complete with the government confiscating all the footage and then closing down the task force at the end of the episode. Not just Americans, either—after Q: The Serpent God, the Mexican government posthumously convicted the cult leader of all the murders and considered the case closed. No mention of what happened to the monster appears in any reports, and they had the abandoned train depot where the events took place burned to ground for good measure. The militia group featured in the Beast of Bray Road episode think this is at work, that the government is coming to get them and covertly killing their fighters in the woods, but it's really just the titular monster. The leader of the group believes up to the very end that it's federal agents doing all this and holds one of the protagonists at gunpoint to demand that they leave, and then the Beast attacks him, too. It's only after this, in the epilogue, that the government raids the woods to find out what happened.
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Lost Tapes / int_5b057eae	type	Animalistic Abomination
Lost Tapes / int_5b057eae	comment	Animalistic Abomination: The Hellhound and the Owlman (if one doesn't consider it a Humanoid Abomination).
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Lost Tapes / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Lost Tapes / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Several, though the early ones were documentarians. They usually don't make it through with their story or lives intact.
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Lost Tapes / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Lost Tapes / int_6411dac8	comment	The Jersey Devil is clearly a solitary creature, with the abandoned house being the center of its territory. It tried to chase the humans out, but they ran right into its house. After it tried entering the house to smoke them out, it was driven away by the pregnant mom, only increasing its rage. Additionally, it can fly. If it really wanted to kill them, it would have flown after their car. Instead it just watches them leave, implying that they've passed the border of its territory and it no longer sees them as a problem. Given the Back Story of the Jersey Devil, pregnant women may be its Berserk Button.
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Lost Tapes / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Lost Tapes / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Death Raptor climaxes with the elderly Hazel calmly walking out and letting herself be killed instead of the Owlman's original target, a little girl. She also believed the thing followed her there from England, so she felt responsible for it. In Alien a doctor tells the nurse to run while he tries to hold off the creature with acid...too bad she doesn't listen well enough. Ernest Tybee in Devil Monkey tells the female reporter to run, whilst he holds off the creatures... too bad it doesn't work
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Lost Tapes / int_661a66d8	type	Animal Wrongs Group
Lost Tapes / int_661a66d8	comment	Ken Tobar from Megaconda is an unscrupulous man who privately runs a black market poaching ring from within what he passes off as a textile shop. And it is the efforts by an Animal Wrongs Group to find evidence to expose his criminal activity that lead to the titular snake escaping from activity and wrecking havoc.
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Lost Tapes / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Lost Tapes / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: A murderous variant of a poltergeist appears in season 3. No natural explanation is provided.
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Lost Tapes / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
Lost Tapes / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: The Death Raptor (Owlman), Mothman (proposed to be one-and-the-same), the "Cave Demons" (Giant Bats, implicit Vampires), Thunderbird (Implicit Pterosaur) and Jersey Devil. Quetzalcoatl is also able to fly.
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Lost Tapes / int_6820e212	type	Giant Squid
Lost Tapes / int_6820e212	comment	Giant Squid or...Octopus, really, in Oklahoma Octopus. Kraken has a proper Giant Squid—albiet, one bigger than previously encountered—with eye lenses the size of softballs.
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Lost Tapes / int_69a54df1	type	Chest Burster
Lost Tapes / int_69a54df1	comment	Chest Burster: How the alien emerges in its episode.
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Lost Tapes / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
Lost Tapes / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: The show was already terrifying and dark, but when these creatures show up things get INTENSE. The Owlman is one the most darkest examples of this trope, not only can it think, it spends the entirety of its episode psychologically torturing, and attempting to kill and DEVOUR a little girl. The Southern Sasquatch was a violent creature that mauled three innocent and grown men to death. When the cryptozoologists say it's one of the most dangerous creatures featured on this show, you are dealing with one horrid monster. To top it off, the end of the episode has the last survivor finally getting back to the hunting blind shown earlier, where he'll be safe, only to find that the sasquatch has already torn down the rope ladder and all he can do is scream for help and vainly try to reach the remaining part of the ladder as it closes in to kill him. The Dover Demon is a more subtle example, but it is the first creature to kill ALL the humans involved with its episode, that and the fact we know nothing about it, and it kills the characters in the most sadistic way possible. The Wendigo takes the cake, it's episode was voted the darkest and scariest episode in the entire series due to its practical effects, great acting, and its portrayal of an absolutely terrifying and realistic monster.
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Lost Tapes / int_6a887e97	type	Chupacabra
Lost Tapes / int_6a887e97	comment	The Chupacabra is mentioned early in the episode as sometimes being described as resembling a gryphon. No such description has ever been applied to the creature prior to this show. That being said, the one that actually does get depicted does get accurately depicted as the North American/Mexican version of the creature is described to be (albeit, with a taste for humans instead of exclusively livestock).
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Lost Tapes / int_6acb89db	type	Evil Poacher
Lost Tapes / int_6acb89db	comment	A Poacher/Stalker is stuffed into one of his own traps courtesy of Bigfoot.
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Lost Tapes / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Lost Tapes / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The werewolf is the girl the suspected killer brought home. She was hunting him.
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Lost Tapes / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Lost Tapes / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Mooney is one letter off from Looney, and has the same meaning of someone crazy. It used to denote someone that saw things that weren't real. Doubles as a Stealth Pun given her profession.
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Lost Tapes / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Lost Tapes / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: The season 3 recurring "Enigma Corporation" are an organization of military operatives tasked with investigating and dealing with the cryptids and supernatural monsters causing trouble for humanity.
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Lost Tapes / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Lost Tapes / int_7286e96d	comment	Episodes 3 and 6 (Monster of Monterey and Devil Dragon) are particularly bad, the former because the protagonist actually avoids any and all Idiot Ball behaviour (letting the proper authorities handle the problem, instead of trying to solve it herself) and only dies because the monster knocks her out of her boat, the latter because of how sympathetic a character he was and the fact it turns out he gets brought down and eaten a mere quarter-mile away from the village he had been desperately trying to reach.
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Lost Tapes / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Lost Tapes / int_7301ae04	comment	"Werewolf" had a particularly shocking example; the suspected Serial Killer is suddenly attacked and the girl he was planning to kill starts snarling like an animal and barking—she was the real werewolf. The suspect was her intended victim.
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Lost Tapes / int_738f4473	type	Documentary Episode
Lost Tapes / int_738f4473	comment	Documentary Episode: The Mothman episode used a different format, as government agents question a witness about the Mothman in 1966.
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Lost Tapes / int_7b7f0141	type	Tentacled Terror
Lost Tapes / int_7b7f0141	comment	Tentacled Terror: The Oklahoma Octopus and Kraken are both menacing underwater predators that use their tentacles to terrifying effect as they hunt their prey.
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Lost Tapes / int_7cca3964	type	Matchlight Danger Revelation
Lost Tapes / int_7cca3964	comment	Matchlight Danger Revelation: In "Wendigo", one of the rescue team sees a figure in the dark growling and crawling toward her in the cave. It isn't until she lights a flare does she realizes how close the Wendigo is and runs off screaming. In "Dover Demon", one victim showed off the night vision on his camera to his friends, which illuminates the background, revealing that the Dover Demon is watching them from the trees behind them.
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Lost Tapes / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
Lost Tapes / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: Frequent. Especially in "Hellhound", when it is revealed in the last few minutes that Nora may or may not be human, and may or may not have been in league with the titular beast.
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Lost Tapes / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Lost Tapes / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: in Alien the surviving medical staff woman panics and breaks quarantine, allowing an extremely venomous, softball sized parasitoid wasp-like alien to escape into the wild after it killed 3 people. The ending implies that the wasps are capable of asexual reproduction to boot.
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Lost Tapes / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Lost Tapes / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: ...if you're lucky. Skinwalker is the most optimistic ending. No one hurt, cute baby lamb saved, son goes to college, and changes major to study Native American mythology.
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Lost Tapes / int_83444b89	type	MST
Lost Tapes / int_83444b89	comment	MST: Kobuddy Decided that this show deserved to be MST'd. Seems to be a continuing series.
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Lost Tapes / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Lost Tapes / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: With ape-men being the exception, almost any human-like cryptid is like this in some way, shape or form. The Owlman and Mothman are the most notable examples. And Nora from Hellhound. Maybe. Special mention goes to the Wendigo, which starts out as one of the campers seen at the beginning but turns into the monster.
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Lost Tapes / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
Lost Tapes / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: The Skinwalker in the titular episode. She kills a farmer's sheep, and steals its lamb. Since Skinwalkers are created by murdering a family member, it is by definition evil, but in the episode, never actually threatens the protagonists. At the end of "Hellhound", Nora is seen petting the titular animal, hinting that they may have been working together, or are at least very familiar.
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Lost Tapes / int_86d4f985	type	Doing In the Wizard
Lost Tapes / int_86d4f985	comment	Doing In the Wizard: Most of the monsters have naturalistic explanations that work up to a point. Except when noted below.
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Lost Tapes / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Lost Tapes / int_875615dd	comment	Being Genre Savvy doesn't help the reporter in Monster of Monterey— she wisely tethers herself to her boat while on deck (as real solo sailors do), attempts to call for help on the radio, refuses to investigate an abandoned boat with blood on the deck alone, and decides Screw This, I'm Outta Here, attempting to sail to shore while her boyfriend calls the Coast Guard. Unfortunately, before the Coast Guard can arrive the monster collides with the boat again, and her tether isn't short enough to keep her from being knocked into the water and eaten.
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Lost Tapes / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Lost Tapes / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Given the general format of the series, you'd be forgiven for assuming that the title creature of "Bigfoot" is the episode's antagonist, especially given that the other Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti episodes from across the series all use their cryptid as genuine monsters. Nope! The villain of the episode is a poacher who's been stalking and threatening the park ranger protagonist, and in fact Bigfoot is watching over her in return for her protecting the local wildlife and kills the poacher when he tries to attack her at the end of the episode. "White River Monster" opens with a family in the woods as the daughter points out a duck floating by on the nearby White River. Her parents ask where her little brother is and she says she doesn't know as the music builds ominously, obviously suggesting that he's about to be eaten by the titular monster. Then he jumps out and startles them. As the parents are scolding him, we hear a splash of water and the daughter says that something in the river just ate the duck. "Beast of Bray Road" uses one of these for a commercial transition: after establishing that the titular monster is roaming around and has already killed most of the other characters, the cameraman protagonist tries to make a break for it, screaming for help, until he comes across a car. He gets in and tries to find the keys, then the glass of the driver's side window is shattered, then the series' Eye Catch appears. One commercial break later, we learn that it wasn't the Beast, but the leader of the militia group featured in the episode who smashed the window, now royally pissed at the cameraman for trying to run away.
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Lost Tapes / int_887e47ef	type	Eye Catch
Lost Tapes / int_887e47ef	comment	"Beast of Bray Road" uses one of these for a commercial transition: after establishing that the titular monster is roaming around and has already killed most of the other characters, the cameraman protagonist tries to make a break for it, screaming for help, until he comes across a car. He gets in and tries to find the keys, then the glass of the driver's side window is shattered, then the series' Eye Catch appears. One commercial break later, we learn that it wasn't the Beast, but the leader of the militia group featured in the episode who smashed the window, now royally pissed at the cameraman for trying to run away.
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Lost Tapes / int_8a88d726	type	Reptilian Conspiracy
Lost Tapes / int_8a88d726	comment	Reptilian Conspiracy: The last episode, "Reptilians," is based around the titular creatures arranging raves where teenagers disappear, and higher-ups in the police confiscate and destroy all the footage at episode's end.
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Lost Tapes / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Lost Tapes / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Alien posits that an extraterrestrial is most likely to be a primitive parasite, not an intelligent being.
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Lost Tapes / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Lost Tapes / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: A combination of types. Created by Voodoo toxins (Type V), Flesh eaters (Type F) with a slow gait and NASTY lunge, they are also Type P (implied to be the Parasite subtype) that acts pretty quickly for an infection. The episode gains bonus points for having the writer of World War Z on as a guest commentator. But it loses points for shamelessly conflating traditional vodun zombi beliefs with Romero-style shambling cadavers, in a way that implies the former also portray them as contagious flesh-eaters. Artistic License â€“ Religion or Rule of Scary or Both?
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Lost Tapes / int_8bb8d21f	type	Big Budget Beef-Up
Lost Tapes / int_8bb8d21f	comment	Big Budget Beef-Up: The Second series appears to be this, with a greater reliance on practical effects and more visible 'hidden' creatures. Sometimes, the monsters have a full 2 minutes of screen time, over the 10-seconds of the previous season.
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Lost Tapes / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Lost Tapes / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The Evil Poacher in Bigfoot, Ken Tobar in Megaconda, Tyler in Oklahoma Octopus, and Annabel Lilith in Hell Hound. You won't feel sorry for any of them, this is a fact.
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Lost Tapes / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Lost Tapes / int_90c018ac	comment	Southern Sasquatch. Though, he's justified in doing so when you really think about it: at first, he just seemed curious about the hunters, and watched them from a distance. Then someone shot at him (or just flat-out shot him), and he viewed them as a threat that he needed to chase out of his territory. Later,he was forced (in his eyes) to kill them, since they simply just wouldn't leave.
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Lost Tapes / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Lost Tapes / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Bigfoot features an Evil Poacher getting brutally attacked and killed by the creature while trying to attack and kill a ranger that the bigfoot had come to appreciate and respect. Similarly, Oklahoma Octopus has the very first victim be a Jerkass who plays mean spirited fake drowning pranks on his friends and chooses to spitefully try to abandon them in the center of the creature's home lake when they call him out for his jerkassery.
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Lost Tapes / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Lost Tapes / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Q does this to his would-be cult. Once he has the needed sacrifices, he kills them all.
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Lost Tapes / int_93decddf	type	Ominous Owl
Lost Tapes / int_93decddf	comment	Ominous Owl: The Owlman, naturally. Not only is he speculated to be a demon, the viewpoint characters actually retrieve a pellet (regurgitated undigested foodstuff) from the creature containing a human jawbone.
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Lost Tapes / int_95ff52c7	type	Guns Do Not Work That Way
Lost Tapes / int_95ff52c7	comment	Guns Do Not Work That Way: For some odd reason, the MP5 that Elise often uses acts like a shotgun rather than a submachine gun: it fires once, and there is even the sound of a slide being racked between each shot.
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Lost Tapes / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Lost Tapes / int_970c790a	comment	Bigfoot features a nameless poacher as the Big Bad, hunting down black bears and both threatening and sexually harassing the park ranger when she tries to stop him. Bigfoot, who is fond of the ranger, doesn't like that...
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Lost Tapes / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Lost Tapes / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Mexican Survey team in Death Crawler, in this case, get bitten to death by 3ft centipedes. Subverted in Alien but...see below.
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Lost Tapes / int_99156d7e	type	Head Desk
Lost Tapes / int_99156d7e	comment	The 3 cops in Zombies apparently are unfamiliar with the titular creatures, despite having witnessed their feral-like behavior, inability to die from long falls, bullets or even be affected by tasering, etc. And this is all after discovering a voodoo shrine.
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Lost Tapes / int_9a3c3d17	type	The Omniscient
Lost Tapes / int_9a3c3d17	comment	The Omniscient: The Owlman somehow figures out that the researchers were looking for it, and Su Ann implies that it knew all along...
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Lost Tapes / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
Lost Tapes / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: In "Wendigo", by the 13th day Lane's two friends Vincent and April have disappeared and were eaten by the Wendigo and Matthew's transformation into the Wendigo is completed. In "Jersey Devil", the myth talks about the Jersey Devil being born a deformed 13th child.
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Lost Tapes / int_9a7d4472	type	Stock Ness Monster
Lost Tapes / int_9a7d4472	comment	Stock Ness Monster in Monster of Monterrey, as a people-eating plesiosaur. Bear Lake Monster is more like a Semi-Aquatic Mosasaur.
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Lost Tapes / int_9a99d3df	type	Stealth Mentor
Lost Tapes / int_9a99d3df	comment	Stealth Mentor: The series is a way Animal Planet gets to get in Strange Animal Facts, as a framing story. You'll learn about, for example, pleiosaurs and living fossils in Monterey Monster and coyote behavior in Skin-Walker.
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Lost Tapes / int_9b045a08	type	Wendigo
Lost Tapes / int_9b045a08	comment	Wendigo: This monster serves as the focus of one of the episodes. As per the original legends, it Was Once a Man before the act of engaging in cannibalism caused it to be transformed into a quite literally inhuman monster.
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Lost Tapes / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Lost Tapes / int_9b06e314	comment	Ken Tobar, the Greater-Scope Villain of Megaconda, combines this with Corrupt Corporate Executive and is trafficking animals and products made from them illegally. He meets his end when one of said animals both escapes and gets hungry.
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Lost Tapes / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Lost Tapes / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: The Poacher in Bigfoot dies when he falls into his own trap. Ken Tobar in Megaconda is eaten by one of the animals he plotted to make a quick buck off of. Tyler in Oklahoma Octopus impersonated a sea monster to pick on one of the girls, then gets eaten by a sea monster. Annabel Lilith in Hellhound mocks Nora for believing in monsters, only for a monster to indirectly cause her demise. A non-villainous one, but the cast of Dover Demon had wanted to film a hoaxed documentary for the titular monster. Then the REAL Dover Demon shows up... Lucas Marzo in Q: The Serpent God was killed by the very god he summoned
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Lost Tapes / int_9c23f3a0	type	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
Lost Tapes / int_9c23f3a0	comment	Rather fittingly, there's another in the requisite Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti episode of the previous season, "Southern Sasquatch": after Levi and Corbin are killed by the Fouke Monster, Matthew finally finds his way back to the hunting blind they'd been at earlier in the episode where he'll be safe. However, he finds that the monster has already ripped down half the rope ladder leading up to it, which he was barely able to climb even when it was intact and so can only scream for help and then vainly try to reach what's left of it as the monster closes in to kill him, too.
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Lost Tapes / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Lost Tapes / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: In the first season, large, vampiric/semi-predatory bats implied to be the basis for the olitiau cryptid are featured with some ties to vampirism. In the second season, a true vampire is seen—as a savage, nocturnal ape-like predator with a vaguely bat-like face that sleeps in an old house, killed the way normally depicted, stabbed through the heart (with a Wooden Stake for good measure). A second species of Vampire introduced in the third season, the Strigoi, is far more human in appearance...unless its shapeshifting into an animal form (it prefers a black dog) and is far more supernatural. The epilogue implied that after he jumps Mooney, she proceeds to kick his ass through the truck windshield. But what do you expect when a vampire jumps an Action Girl these days?
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Lost Tapes / int_a04eb363	type	Lizard Folk
Lost Tapes / int_a04eb363	comment	Lizard Folk: Lizardmen and the Swamp Monster are reptilian (even if the later is covered in hair).
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Lost Tapes / int_a46881f2	type	Believer Fakes Evidence
Lost Tapes / int_a46881f2	comment	Believer Fakes Evidence: the episode covering the Dover Demon has a set of hoaxers attempting to create a hoax based around the cryptid in question to celebrate an anniversary of its sighting; this being Lost Tapes, the actual Dover Demons shows up.
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Lost Tapes / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Lost Tapes / int_a8559a9f	comment	The Dover Demon; in Real Life, sightings of it almost always ended with it running away from the human witness. In the show, it mauls all of the main characters in a messy and almost sadistic way.
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Lost Tapes / int_abc60c5d	type	Harmful to Minors
Lost Tapes / int_abc60c5d	comment	Harmful to Minors: It's strongly implied that the little girl in Chupacabra witnessed her parents being killed by the titular monster.
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Lost Tapes / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Lost Tapes / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Don't get too attached to any Enigma Corporation agent who isn't Noel Connor or Elise Mooney.
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Lost Tapes / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Lost Tapes / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log :The formula for the series, but actually only applies to about half the episodes.
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Lost Tapes / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
Lost Tapes / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: Southern Sasquatch. Though, he's justified in doing so when you really think about it: at first, he just seemed curious about the hunters, and watched them from a distance. Then someone shot at him (or just flat-out shot him), and he viewed them as a threat that he needed to chase out of his territory. Later,he was forced (in his eyes) to kill them, since they simply just wouldn't leave. Justified in Devil Dragon since that is how Komodo Dragons hunt. Also justified in Kraken as it knew there were more tasty treats on the boat and it was big enough to eat multiple people and still be hungry for more. Justified with the Wendigo as well, as its mentioned a Wendigo never gets full and must eat nonstop. The Owlman is specifically stated to be sentient, possibly a demon, and is attacking the characters so that they can't prove its existence. In Oklahoma Octopus, it's implied that there may be more than one creature, meaning that one human wasn't going to feed all those hungry beaks. The Jersey Devil is clearly a solitary creature, with the abandoned house being the center of its territory. It tried to chase the humans out, but they ran right into its house. After it tried entering the house to smoke them out, it was driven away by the pregnant mom, only increasing its rage. Additionally, it can fly. If it really wanted to kill them, it would have flown after their car. Instead it just watches them leave, implying that they've passed the border of its territory and it no longer sees them as a problem. Given the Back Story of the Jersey Devil, pregnant women may be its Berserk Button. Justified with the zombies as well, since that's how they both hunt and spread the disease.
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Lost Tapes / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Lost Tapes / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Narrator: "Do They Live Among Us?"
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Lost Tapes / int_b1033d4a	type	Maniac Monkeys
Lost Tapes / int_b1033d4a	comment	Maniac Monkeys: In Devil Monkey, the titular cryptid is a monkey-like monster with a savage bloodthirsty streak a mile wide that viciously attacks all who enter its territory.
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Lost Tapes / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Lost Tapes / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Wendigo. Matthew, after resorting to cannibalism to survive, is cursed as a Wendigo forever. Roaming the woods and eating anything and everyone he comes across.
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Lost Tapes / int_b153c87d	type	People in Rubber Suits
Lost Tapes / int_b153c87d	comment	People in Rubber Suits: The Vampire, Lizardman, Bigfoot, Skunk Ape, Swamp Monster, and Dover Demon are all clearly portrayed by actors in costumes (with several other smaller vaguely humanoid cryptids being portrayed via CGI).
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Lost Tapes / int_b1c7f430	type	Sea Monster
Lost Tapes / int_b1c7f430	comment	Sea Monster: Several different kinds. Stock Ness Monster in Monster of Monterrey, as a people-eating plesiosaur. Bear Lake Monster is more like a Semi-Aquatic Mosasaur. White River Monster has a giant fish implicitly defending its brood identified as a descendant of Xiphactinus. Giant Squid or...Octopus, really, in Oklahoma Octopus. Kraken has a proper Giant Squid—albiet, one bigger than previously encountered—with eye lenses the size of softballs.
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Lost Tapes / int_b2e94341	type	Based on a Great Big Lie
Lost Tapes / int_b2e94341	comment	Based on a Great Big Lie: While most of the monsters have some sort of mythical, folklore, or historical basis stretching back decades or centuries, the Oklahoma Octopus is believed to have no such basis (the lakes in which it said to inhabit are manmade and didn't exist until the 1950s, and many Oklahoman citizens who've been asked about the matter since the episode's airing have admitted to have never even remotely heard of such a creature until being asked in the time since the episode's airing). Even the drowning death of the boy used as "evidence" in the episode was a completely unrelated incident. The earliest known reference to the octopus dates to only 2006, in a blog post that expresses skepticism that it actually is an octopus.note As of writing, there are only three known references to the octopus that predate the episode's 2009 airing, all of which use nearly identical accounts, suggesting either they were copying from one another or there is one unknown older account that is since lost.
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Lost Tapes / int_b504613c	type	Don't Look Back
Lost Tapes / int_b504613c	comment	Don't Look Back: Seeing the Hellhound three times means a quick, untimely death. Unfortunately, most of the Goth teens saw it twice before finishing their faux ritual when it attacks again.
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Lost Tapes / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Lost Tapes / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: About 80% of the victims literally fall under this category. Two of the most shameful are the ATF agents in "Devil Monkey". Not only do they ignore strange animal calls, blood, odd footprints, a clearly traumatized and terrified victim who warns them repeatedly that they should leave, and even mangled human bodies, they dismiss it when one of them is struck from behind by something, and continue to "investigate" despite all of this as if there is nothing unusual going on, and predictably end up killed by the titular creatures for it. The Sheriff has this to a lesser extent as, instead of blasting the damn thing with a shotgun, He turns around to tell the reporter to flee and then gets jumped. However he gains some sanity points, as he is Genre Savvy enough to not leave the local legend completely out of the equation and at least tries to hold the creature off. How about our divers in Kraken (except the captain), who begin with violating the Cardinal Rule of Diving: Never dive alone!! from the get go. After the first guy goes in... by himself... and becomes a snack for the giant squid, what is the group's next move? Why, to send the girl in... by herself. True, given that the thing ripped the ship apart at the end and was implied to have sunk the wreck they were trying to raise at the beginning, it was probably a moot point. But that still doesn't change the fact that these supposedly experienced divers/treasure hunters were acting like total amateurs from the start. Averted in Monterey Monster. The protagonist doesn't fall for any of the Idiot Balls like trying to board the other ship after seeing blood trails on it or going back in the water to fix her prop. She tells her boyfriend to call the Coast Guard, and adopts the proper Screw This, I'm Outta Here attitude, and goes to raise sails. Unfortunately, she's knocked into the water by something jolting her ship, and she's unable to catch up to the drifting boat. Talk about Yank the Dog's Chain. Justified in Thunderbird; the cast of that episode was a group of terrified preteen boys, so of course they're going to make dumb decisions. Pretty much everyone besides Nora in Hellhound, but Annabel deserves a special mention.
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Lost Tapes / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
Lost Tapes / int_b85c06f2	comment	Glowing Eyes of Doom: Chupacabra, Mothman, Hell Hound, Dover Demon—usually a variety of natural eyeshine found in most nocturnal/twilight active animals.
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Lost Tapes / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
Lost Tapes / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: A popular theme in several episodes, like Wendigo.
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Lost Tapes / int_ba44639	type	Killed Offscreen
Lost Tapes / int_ba44639	comment	Killed Offscreen: being a low-budget Found Footage series, many deaths occur off-screen. Many of them are indicated as taking place in some way—namely the character screaming in pain or terror as the one with the camera runs away—but special mention should go to "Dover Demon" which has probably the straightest example of this in the series. As shit starts going down, Chad and Shannah split up from Glenn to try and find their injured friend Royce more quickly, and Glenn is shown taking out a switchblade to defend himself from the Dover Demon. A few scenes later, Chad and Shannah trip over something which turns out to be Glenn's jacket, now bloodied from a deadly encounter with the Demon.
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Lost Tapes / int_bba30aeb	type	Late to the Tragedy
Lost Tapes / int_bba30aeb	comment	Late to the Tragedy: A few episodes have the protagonists discovering... something unpleasant having happened, with Monterey Monster in particular featuring protagonist Sharon Novak coming across a boat that the titular Stock Ness Monster has already attacked, and becoming understandably frightened after seeing the blood of some of the boat's crew members splattered over the side of the boat.
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Lost Tapes / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
Lost Tapes / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: Our intrepid Enigma Corporation employees just can't catch a break. First they fight zombies in New Orleans, then they encounter a strigoi and then an Aztec god. Can't get much worse than that, can it? Justified, the Enigma Corporation specializes in investigating the unexplained, naturally they're Weirdness Magnets. Doesn't that make them into the weirdness magnetized since they are the ones going out and looking for these things?
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Lost Tapes / int_bd8aa92a	type	Negative Continuity
Lost Tapes / int_bd8aa92a	comment	Negative Continuity: The first two seasons never showed true continuity. The Third season averts this, introducing the Enigma Corporation, which reappears three times throughout the season. Every episode is more of less self-contained in any case, and even the Enigma Corporation episodes never refer to the events of the others they appear in.
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Lost Tapes / int_bdd4c302	type	Perky Goth
Lost Tapes / int_bdd4c302	comment	Perky Goth: An entire group of incredibly upbeat and perky goth teens are amongst the characters featured in "Hellhound".
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Lost Tapes / int_c0abbbc2	type	Serkis Folk
Lost Tapes / int_c0abbbc2	comment	Serkis Folk: Monterey Bay Monster, Chupacabra (Via Infra-Red), Megaconda, Mothman, small Dover Demons and the Kraken.
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Lost Tapes / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Lost Tapes / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Ken Tobar does a fairly brief example of this after discovering the camera left behind by the activists in Megaconda, clearly pleased that he can potentially dispose of the footage and keep his crimes in the dark. The titular monster eats him before he even has the chance.
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Lost Tapes / int_c14ff35c	type	The Jersey Devil
Lost Tapes / int_c14ff35c	comment	The Jersey Devil: The famed New Jersey cryptid serves as the focus of one episode, in which it attacks a family (including a pregnant mother) when the family in question comes rushing into its territory after their dog gets loose and runs into the forest where it lives.
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Lost Tapes / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Lost Tapes / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Happens twice in Monster of Monterey. First, once Sharon and her boyfriend Charles mutually agree that she needs to get the Hell out of dodge and leave the bloodstained and apparently attacked abandoned vessel Kahuna for the Coast Guard to investigate and stay out of the water for her own safety just in case whatever's responsible just so happens to be an animal swimming about nearby, it looks as if perhaps Sharon will be able to leave the area without further trouble by unfurling her ship's sails and allowing the wind to send her away to safety while she stays inside the interior of her boat where she'll have no chance of getting easily knocked overboard in the event the monster tries to ram her boat once more. But then the halyard sail gets briefly jammed and she's forced to get into a disadvantageous position that allows her to be easily knocked overboard when the monster rams her boat for the third and final time. And after she's been both knocked overboard and subsequently forced to undo her safety tether in order to avoid getting impeded in efforts to swim to the stern ladder, it briefly looks as if perhaps she'll be able to still get back aboard her boat and to safety...only for the wind to pick up and fill her boat's now fully unfurled sails and cause the boat to pick up enough speed to prevent her from being able to reach it in time, leaving her doomed to be caught by the creature as the boat goes floating away without her. The Yeti episode contained a particularly cruel example—our heroes evade the titular monster just long enough to get to the locked gate and desperately call out for a passing worker to unlock it for them. He's just about to do so...and then sees the Yeti, which caught up to them and runs as fast as he can, leaving the gate locked and the protagonists helpless. Rather fittingly, there's another in the requisite Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti episode of the previous season, "Southern Sasquatch": after Levi and Corbin are killed by the Fouke Monster, Matthew finally finds his way back to the hunting blind they'd been at earlier in the episode where he'll be safe. However, he finds that the monster has already ripped down half the rope ladder leading up to it, which he was barely able to climb even when it was intact and so can only scream for help and then vainly try to reach what's left of it as the monster closes in to kill him, too.
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Lost Tapes / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Lost Tapes / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Particularly in the first season, a lot of stories end like this as part of the horror. Episodes 3 and 6 (Monster of Monterey and Devil Dragon) are particularly bad, the former because the protagonist actually avoids any and all Idiot Ball behaviour (letting the proper authorities handle the problem, instead of trying to solve it herself) and only dies because the monster knocks her out of her boat, the latter because of how sympathetic a character he was and the fact it turns out he gets brought down and eaten a mere quarter-mile away from the village he had been desperately trying to reach.
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Lost Tapes / int_c5835f29	type	Ghostly Goals
Lost Tapes / int_c5835f29	comment	Ghostly Goals: The ghost in Poltergeist seems to be type A. Horrifyingly subverted as the climax reveals that it was just screwing with the protagonists and is actually a type B.
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Lost Tapes / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Lost Tapes / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The episode Zombies has the police send in a paramilitary team to investigate a large building (in this case, a boarding house) which turns out to be full of flesh-eating zombies following a crime involving cannibalism. That sounds pretty familiar... One of the animal rights activists in "Megaconda" is killed in a way very evocative of a xenomorph, of all things, being grabbed by it from above and pulled out of sight into the darkness. The snake's pseudo-arboreal behavior also makes it into more an equivalent of the one from Anaconda than a real one.
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Lost Tapes / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Lost Tapes / int_c95d04f2	comment	Double subverted with the Mothman and the Bigfoot. The former is depicted as menacing and possibly more intelligent than it appears and the latter has shades of It Can Think. However, they were depicted as being neutral and fairly docile respectively.
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Lost Tapes / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Lost Tapes / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In "Wendigo", it's left ambiguous whether Matt's really turning into a wendigo or just going insane. More broadly, basically all of the cryptids have some level of ambiguity to them just because of what they are and efforts are made to provide reasonable explanations even if those sometimes fall flat. Stand-out examples include "Q: The Serpent God," (is it just some unknown animal, or is it really Quetzalcoatl?) "Jersey Devil," (is it an individual of some fundamentally mundane species or is it some immortal demon?) and "Zombies" (they use enough varied zombie tropes to leave it ambiguous as to if they're magical or "scientific" in the way they function).
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Lost Tapes / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Lost Tapes / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Ken Tobar in Megaconda, who's involved in illegal wildlife trading.
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Lost Tapes / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Lost Tapes / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Mooney grabbing an Aztec dagger, just used to kill a friend of hers then use it to lure in and stab Quetzalcoatl. She and Conner then proceed to drive it off with an onslaught of machine gun fire.
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Lost Tapes / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Lost Tapes / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: In "Oklahoma Octopus", nobody is amused by Tyler's fake drowning pranks.
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Lost Tapes / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Lost Tapes / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: In the first season. In the second, this is combined with Practical FX, Surprise Scares and gore. While it's debatable how well it works most of the time, the few episodes people do consider to be genuinely terrifying usually make use if it to down right unnerving effects. (Heck, the Skinwalker episode generates creeps by having the voice of the protagonist's wife call him out of nowhere.)
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Lost Tapes / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Lost Tapes / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: A Poacher/Stalker is stuffed into one of his own traps courtesy of Bigfoot. Megaconda ends with Ken Tobar being killed by the titular creature... which he's implied to have had smuggled in to the country.
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Lost Tapes / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
Lost Tapes / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: The militia lead by Brian Cavanaugh in The Beast of Bray Road. They mistakenly believe that the creature killing their members are covert Federal agents. They are all killed by the beast before they can carry out their anti-government plans however.
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Lost Tapes / int_d791dbbb	type	Cannibal Larder
Lost Tapes / int_d791dbbb	comment	Cannibal Larder: The very last episode has such a scene, set deep underneath New York in one of the city's many uncharted subterranean tunnels, featuring numerous missing persons wrapped up in plastic after having been asphyxiated. It's a bit unusual since while it has all the hallmarks of a Cannibal Larder, the culprits technically aren't cannibals since they aren't actually human.
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Lost Tapes / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Lost Tapes / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: The titular Death Dragon is basically a Komodo Dragon with the mass of a polar bear. Then there's Quetzalcoatl, who could be called dragon-like in appearance, but may be a bit more than that.
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Lost Tapes / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Lost Tapes / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Elise of the Enigma Corporation, to survive three supernatural monster attacks you have to be a Badass. And in Q: The Serpent God.
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Lost Tapes / int_dbbaed55	type	Monster Is a Mommy
Lost Tapes / int_dbbaed55	comment	Monster Is a Mommy: Swamp Monster and White River Monster. Mama Bear applies in both instances, even though the later is a fish.
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Lost Tapes / int_dcbddebe	type	Pregnant Badass
Lost Tapes / int_dcbddebe	comment	Pregnant Badass: The mother defending her children from the titular monster in "Jersey Devil" with only a large piece of wood. And that's just before she went into labor.
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Lost Tapes / int_dd46397e	type	Just Desserts
Lost Tapes / int_dd46397e	comment	Just Desserts: Unsurprisingly, a lot of the bad guys get eaten in this series.
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Lost Tapes / int_dd608502	type	HellHound
Lost Tapes / int_dd608502	comment	Hell Hound: Such a creature serves as the focus of one episode, in which it takes the form of a bloodthirsty red eyed rottweiler which can both directly kill people with its claws and fangs and indirectly cause people's deaths via a curse that's activated in the event the people in question look directly at it three times.
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Lost Tapes / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Lost Tapes / int_e13156e1	comment	A couple of the animals, like the Honey Island Swamp Monster and the White River Monster are depicted as parents who were NOT pleased with the fact that someone decided to mess with their nests.
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Lost Tapes / int_e1ba59f3	type	Voice Changeling
Lost Tapes / int_e1ba59f3	comment	Voice Changeling: The wendigo, skinwalker, and poltergeist featured prove capable of altering their voice as needed for the sake of luring their prey (in the case of the former two) or torturing their would-be victims (in the case of the latter).
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Lost Tapes / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Lost Tapes / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Tim in Devil Dragon is one of Steve Irwin, which makes his death Harsher in Hindsight for some, though these days he resembles Survivorman.
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Lost Tapes / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Lost Tapes / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Several episodes feature at least one incredibly despicable Jerkass or similarly loathsome human. You can't hate a cryptid, but you can hate terrible human beings.
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Lost Tapes / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Lost Tapes / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Hazel Van Lear in "Death Raptor" spends almost all of her screen time teetering on the edge of hysterics, at best, but becomes The Stoic the minute she starts her Heroic Sacrifice.
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Lost Tapes / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Lost Tapes / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: In keeping with the legend, there's still no clue as to the Mothman's motives.
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Lost Tapes / int_eb4086e3	type	Big Creepy-Crawlies
Lost Tapes / int_eb4086e3	comment	Big Creepy-Crawlies: Deathcrawler and Alien both feature arthropodal organisms. The first is a 3 foot long centipede, while the other is a wasp-like organism about the size of a softball. Also, "Death Worm", showcasing the Mongolian Death Worm.
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Lost Tapes / int_eb4ee9eb	type	Guns Are Worthless
Lost Tapes / int_eb4ee9eb	comment	Guns Are Worthless: Averted, While many of the victims are either too shocked to just shoot the monsters or are unarmed at the time, most of the creatures lack bullet immunity (with the exception of the blatantly supernatural creatures such as Q and the Skinwalker). Even the supernatural Strigoi was harmed enough by gun fire to retreat for a brief moment.
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Lost Tapes / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Lost Tapes / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Tylor Shuman, in Oklahoma Octopus. He insists on playing pranks faking drowning that nobody thinks is funny, then when he gets called out on his crap he throws a fit and steals the canoe to leave his friends stranded out in the middle of the lake all night. It would almost be a Karmic Death when the titular monster drags him to his death... except it basically means he helps it eat Bruce Delroy and Ruthie Simple as well. Annabelle from Hell Hound. Hey, fake Wiccan, why don't you take the real Wiccan seriously?
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Lost Tapes / int_ef23acb9	type	Xenomorph Xerox
Lost Tapes / int_ef23acb9	comment	Xenomorph Xerox: The Alien has a surprisingly large amount in common with the xenomorphs. While it largely looks more like a small parasitic wasp than the humanoid form taken by the xenomorph, it is born via getting implanted in a live victim before then hatching by bursting through said victim's chest. And the entire situation that the characters that encounter it find themselves in unfolds very similarly to the events of the original Alien1979 film.
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Lost Tapes / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Lost Tapes / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	The Reptilians in their respective episode serve as a group of villainous monsters acting upon an as of yet unknown Evil Plan against humanity, and are not above resorting to murder to prevent those who discover their presence amongst humanity from potentially putting a stop to their nefarious agenda.
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Lost Tapes / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Lost Tapes / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Su Ann Mills from the Owlman episode, although she's only this way due to the trauma of getting an up-close and personal encounter with the Owlman himself...
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Lost Tapes / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
Lost Tapes / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Deadline News: Happens in Lizard Man, when the Intrepid Reporter and her cameraman are killed and partially devoured by the monster.
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Lost Tapes / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
Lost Tapes / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Several episodes end with the victims' bodies never being found, with Monterey Bay Monster explicitly mentioning how the luckless protagonist's underwater camera attached to her life vest was the only thing that the Coast Guard was able to find over the course of their thorough search for her after her attack by the titular monster.
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Lost Tapes / int_f5190cfc	type	Shapeshifting
Lost Tapes / int_f5190cfc	comment	Shapeshifting: The Skinwalker, true to the legends about it, is capable of shapeshifting into whatever animal or humanoid form it desires. The Werewolf has a VERY mild version of this in that, after spending the majority of every month as an ordinary human, it unwillingly transforms into a vicious wolf-like monster on the night of a full moon. Matt transforms slightly when he finally becomes a Wendigo. Though he still looks somewhat-human, those teeth definitely do not. The Strigoi is able to transform into various animals, it prefers a black dog.
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Lost Tapes / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Lost Tapes / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Chad and Shannon Hurliss, the married couple's fate in "Dover Demon". Also, Karen and Jonas in "Death Crawler".
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Lost Tapes / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Lost Tapes / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: One episode devotes it to the Skin Walker, which is accurate to the legend. In The Beast of Brey Road episode a "dog man" clings to a more classic visual design. The actual Werewolf, however, is much closer to the original legends, being a human who turns into a beast when the full moon is out (even when the moon isn't visible to them).
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Lost Tapes / int_f8df38e6	type	Pater Familicide
Lost Tapes / int_f8df38e6	comment	Charles Weatherly in Poltergeist is the titular spirit, having stuck around to continue wrecking havoc after brutally murdering his family and subsequently killing himself.
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Lost Tapes / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Lost Tapes / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Bigfoot is depicted as a Gentle Giant, but don't you dare mess with his human friend. You WILL regret it. That poacher learned that the hard way...
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Lost Tapes / int_fd1b902c	type	Non-Malicious Monster
Lost Tapes / int_fd1b902c	comment	Non-Malicious Monster: Some of the creatures are largely this trope. Many of the creatures are only menacing the protagonists because they're predators that are simply looking for a meal. The Monterrey Monster, Chupacabra, Thunderbird, Megaconda and Death Crawlers qualify in this regard. The Yeti and Devil Monkey are implied to simply be territorial and royally ticked off. The Alien, of all things, is also one of these; unlike most portrayals of alien sightings, this one is simply a parasite that was going through its typical lifespan. The talking heads segments also point out that animals in general will become more aggressive when trapped or cornered because they have no other options, which is exactly what happens when the hospital that the episode takes place in goes into lockdown after the alien properly shows itself. A couple of the animals, like the Honey Island Swamp Monster and the White River Monster are depicted as parents who were NOT pleased with the fact that someone decided to mess with their nests. Subverted with the more supernatural creatures, including the Owlman (implied to be a demonic entity), the Skinwalker (implied to be a shapeshifter)and the Werewolf (implied to be a shapeshifting Serial Killer). The Hellhound is the exception; it is one of the only implicitly supernatural monsters in the series that has no deaths directly attributable to it (the other is the Skinwalker). Double subverted with the Mothman and the Bigfoot. The former is depicted as menacing and possibly more intelligent than it appears and the latter has shades of It Can Think. However, they were depicted as being neutral and fairly docile respectively.
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Lost Tapes / int_fec2b522	type	Happy Ending
Lost Tapes / int_fec2b522	comment	Happy Ending: Skin Walker is one of the rare upbeat endings. So is Bigfoot, since the titular monster only attacks the human antagonist of the episode. Heck even Thunderbird qualifies as there aren't any reported human deaths.
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Lost Tapes / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Lost Tapes / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Justified in Devil Dragon since that is how Komodo Dragons hunt. Also justified in Kraken as it knew there were more tasty treats on the boat and it was big enough to eat multiple people and still be hungry for more.
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Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Creepy Centipedes / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	"Darkness von Gothick" Name / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Daywalking Vampire / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Death by Genre Savviness / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Don't Go in the Woods / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Evil Poacher / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Feathered Serpent / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Horde of Alien Locusts / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Horror Hunger / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Human-to-Werewolf Footprints / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Killed Offscreen / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Monster Delay / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Monstrous Cannibalism / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Paranormal Investigation / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Prehistoric Monster / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Reptilian Conspiracy / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Sand Worm / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Sinister Deer Skull / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Skin Walker / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Snipe Hunt / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Stock Dinosaurs / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Stock Ness Monster / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Super-Persistent Predator / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Suspect Existence Failure / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	The Jersey Devil / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	This Bear Was Framed / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Wendigo / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Who You Gonna Call? / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Wormsign / int_b3414986
Lost Tapes	hasFeature	Xenomorph Xerox / int_b3414986

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