History Main / OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': While most monsters have been made up from scratch for the franchise, the various series and movies have featured the likes of the Yeti, Loch Ness Monster, and chupacabra.

* While ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'' primarily focuses upon the rescue of prehistoric animals (plus other extinct creatures) already known to science, the story's not afraid to take detours down somewhat more fantasy based paths every now and then via the featuring of several speculative animals. And as it so happens, some of the speculative creatures featured are implied to be the in-universe basis for several modern day cryptids and other mythical creatures, with examples so far including tribes of vicious ape-like hominids that bring to mind various ape-like hominid cryptids like BigfootSasquatchAndYeti, a giant speculative Eocene choristodere species implied to serve as an at least partial basis to legends of dragons (if not also sea serpents, plus potentially responsible for sightings of [[StockNessMonster Nessie]]), and a Pleistocene Australian aquatic marsupial species that very explicitly gets labeled as a [[YowiesBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy bunyip]].

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'': The members of Mission Control are all really into "[=UMAs=]" (Unidentified Mysterious Animals, the Japanese term for "cryptid", which is therefore apparently the normal term in English in the ''Metal Gear'' universe as well) and frequently talk about them to Snake. There is also a Tsuchinoko in the game which you can capture (or eat), and bringing it back alive unlocks the Infinity Face Paint on a NewGamePlus. ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' also has a cryptid Otaku used to justify the CrossOver with ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter''.

Subtrope of AllTheoriesAreTrue. Compare OurMonstersAreWeird, which is for creatures that are too bizarre for even cryptozoology (the study of cryptids) to claim they're for real. Also see FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore.

** Cryptids make up a large part of the ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'' setting, and several have their origin with the alien races that populate the settings.

The biological equivalent of [=UFO=] sightings, cryptids are legendary beings and mythical creatures which are rumored to exist in RealLife, in isolation or in hiding, yet unrecognized and regarded as implausible by mainstream science.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' makes use of a variety of cryptids, including sasquatches, bunyips, chupacabrae, [[StockNessMonster water orms]] and death worms.
* The ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' character Chrono-Ranger was bounced from the Wild West to a future where cryptids had destroyed the human race, leading to him being sent back again to go and kill cryptids. Monsters in that future, the Final Wasteland region, include skunk-apes, chupacabras, abominable snowmen and the Mongolian death worm.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', the Awakening brought many cryptids out of the closet, some as paranormal animals developed from normal ones (e.g. mermaids as Awakened seals) and others as previously shy beings that didn't feel the need to hide any longer (sasquatches).

* Keetongu of ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' is a legendary, fully sentient and sapient humanoid beast whose existence became a legend after his kind had been exterminated. Part of the 2005 story is about the search for Keetongu, with some characters doubting he exists. He was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally intended]] to be a nod to ''Film/KingKong'', being far larger than the rest of the cast and even climbing atop a tower only to get shot down (though Keetongu's tough enough to survive), but his height was decreased when Toys/{{Lego}} decided that they'd only sell one figure of him rather than two: his to-scale model from the "Tower of Toa" playset was removed and replaced with another giant beast, so Keetongu was only released as a standard-sized Titan figure.

* ''Bigface Marsh Madness'' is an indie horror game featuring a monster that is a parody of Bigfoot who can only be warded off by recording him.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', the members of Mission Control are all really into "[=UMAs=]" (Unidentified Mysterious Animals, the Japanese term for "cryptid", which is therefore apparently the normal term in English in the ''Metal Gear'' universe as well) and frequently talk about them to Snake. There is also a Tsuchinoko in the game which you can capture (or eat), and bringing it back alive unlocks the Infinity Face Paint on a NewGamePlus. ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' also has a cryptid Otaku used to justify the CrossOver with ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter''.
* Sega's ''VideoGame/{{Seaman}}'' is said to be an ancient creature from Egypt discovered by French biologist/archaeologist named Dr. Jean Paul Gassé in the 1930s. Taking a sample of a seaman's eggs back to France with him, he started conducting research on the creature's evolution; the player is tasked with following his work in the present day, raising a seaman through all of its evolutionary stages.

* In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "myths & legends", Strong Bad does a {{Mockumentary}} that claims the cardboard cut-out of the Bear Holding a Shark is based on a real creature of mysterious myth (or possibly legendary legend) that lurks in the woods of Free Country USA.

* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts: From the New World'': Natan's personal sidequest involves hunting down and capturing different cryptids inside a special pot. Said pot is then taken to a shaman who uses the power held by the captured creatures to grant/power up Natans's skills.

* A number of RealLife animals were once thought to be this trope until their existence was verified by hard proof. For example:

** '''Okapi:''' [[spoiler:Cross between a giraffe, a deer, and a zebra.]] Yeah, we wouldn't believe you, either. Even the people actively searching for it assumed it was an unidentified species of antelope, [[spoiler:[[ThereIsAnother not a second extant giraffid]]]].

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