History Main / OneMythToExplainThemAll

* At least in the [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack animated version]] of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'', everything supernatural is an alien, similar to ''Series/DoctorWho''. The Christmas special reveals Yeti and Elves are of alien descent, too. The nature of Santa, however, is left unstated.

** FridgeLogic would indicate this means that no such legends or myths existed in the pre-Matrix/pre-Machine human society.
*** FridgeBrilliance would indicate that ''all human history'' is suspect, because where did humans learn their history? ''In the Matrix.''

* This is {{Demonization}}, in a nutshell: "Demons are just other people's gods."

-->-- '''River Song''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]], about the Doctor

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': Subverted. Depending on whom you ask, aliens/time-travelers/esper powers can explain everything, with their own {{Technobabble}}. While the three groups can and do coordinate on minor matters, it's made clear several times that their core beliefs are completely mutually contradictory. Only one of them can be right about what Haruhi is, and yet evidence supports all of them and none of them.

* This is {{Demonization}}, in a nutshell: "Your gods are all just our demons."
** And [[{{Demythification}} Euhemerism]]: "Your gods are just famous people."

* A section of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'''s credits implies this.

* The final ''Series/{{Quatermass}}'' serial has stone circles (which do nothing; the stones only mark the places where people congregated in the past) around the world becoming activated; people congregate there (an activated race memory), expecting to be: contacted by aliens, 'raptured' into heaven, 'go to the planet', etc. Instead, they are 'harvested' by an interstellar energy beam that reduces them to dust, with a tiny fraction lost to the beam. It is further suggested that all religions, and by extension, all of human politics, wars and history, have been the result of this race memory: to congregate and be harvested.

* ''[[Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil The Stronger Evil]]'': Shendu states that the older and further back a myth's origin goes, the more likely it is that it has some truth to it. [[spoiler:Tiamat from Babylonian mythology and Typhon from Greek mythology]] are real supernatural entities, whilst the eight Demon Sorcerers are indicated to be the basis of the Babylonian myth about [[spoiler:Tiamat's LaserGuidedTykeBomb monstrous offspring]].

* Minecraft: a section of the minecraft credits implies this: Minecraft Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change.

* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' Ozpin was the wizard from the Maidens story, and also the last king of Vale and is suggested to be the father of Silver eyes. He was also the one to save The Girl in the Tower

* A subversion happens in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. Depending on whom you ask, aliens/time-travellers/esper powers can explain everything, with their own {{Technobabble}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiracies'': All mythological creatures are actually aliens who have been on Earth for centuries, or millenia.

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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' is this for slasher films.

* The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' series has a number of historical events caused by wizards, and at one point it is mentioned that one real witch even enjoyed being burned at the stake, because of a spell that rendered the flames harmlessly ticklish.