History Main / OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious

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** '''Okapi:''' [[spoiler:Cross between a giraffe, a deer, and a zebra.]] Yeah, we wouldn't believe you, either.

* {{Unicorn}}

* ''Film/TheHunter'' is about a professional mercenary played by Creator/WillemDafoe tasked by a shady organisation to track the last Tasmanian Tiger -- the thylacine is a real extinct species that has been turned into a cryptid due to many modern-day alleged sightings.

* The Film/{{MonsterVerse}} predominantly centres around the secret international cryptozoological organization Monarch, whose task is to keep up the {{Masquerade}} against cryptid organisms (up [[Film/Godzilla2014 until 2014]], when it became TheUnmasquedWorld). In this universe however, cryptids are {{Kaiju}} such as Franchise/KingKong and Franchise/{{Godzilla}}. A few {{Freeze Frame Bonus}}es in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' show the names of some kaiju we never see in person, which include Bunyip and Mokele-Mbembe, and the {{novelization}} links Behemoth - - to the South American cryptid Mapinguary.

* ''Film/TheHunter'' is about a professional mercenary played by Creator/WillemDafoe tasked by a shady organisation to track the last Tasmanian Tiger -- the thylacine is an extinct species that has been turned into a cryptid due to many alleged sightings.

* ''Film/TheHunter'' is about a mercenary for hire played by Creator/WillemDafoe is tasked by a shady organisation to track a Tasmanian Tiger -- the thylacine was is an extinct species that has been turned into a cryptid due to many alleged sightings despite .

* ''Film/TheHunter'' is about a mercenary for hire played by Creator/WillemDafoe is tasked by a shady organisation to track a Tasmanian Tiger -- the thylacine was a real creature that has been turned into a cryptid due to many alleged sightings)

* ''Film/TheHunter'' is about a mercenary for hire played by Creator/WillamDafoe is tasked by a shady organisation to track a Tasmanian Tiger (interestingly the thylacine was a real creature that has been turned into a cryptid due to many alleged sightings)

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.

* A number of RealLife animals, such as the okapi or the Komodo dragon, were once thought to be this trope until their existence was verified by hard proof.
** Descriptions for these three animals are as follows:
-->'''Komodo Dragon:''' [[spoiler:Very large lizard.]] How its existence was deemed a myth is beyond us.
-->'''Okapi:''' [[spoiler:Cross between a giraffe, a deer, and a zebra.]] Yeah, we wouldn't believe you, either.
-->'''Platypus:''' [[spoiler:Like a beaver with a duck bill, except it also lays eggs and the males have venomous feet.]] Initially assumed to be just the work of a rogue taxidermist.

** Big cat stories got a fair bit of media coverage in the 1980s and 1990s, especially in [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers the tabloids]] which exaggerated the stories and may have even made some of them up. In 1995, for example, a large cat skull was found in Cornwall [[ContrivedCoincidence shortly after]] a government report had disproved the existence of the Beast of Bodmin Moor. It was sent to London to be examined by the Natural History Museum, which determined that it was the skull of a leopard that had died in Africa several decades previously and had likely come to Britain as part of a leopard-skin rug -- leading to the conclusion that it had likely been planted in order to keep the "Beast" story going following the government report.

** A lot of the more recent (ie. late twentieth century onwards) ones are usually attributed to pet big cats being released in the 1970s after the laws were changed to stop people owning big cats, or animals that had been held illegally that escaped or were released when they became too difficult to manage. Some sightings might possibly be explained as domestic cats (or, in Scotland, wildcat-domestic cat hybrids) seen near to a viewer [[DepthDeception being misinterpreted]] as larger animals seen farther away.

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* The United Kingdom has a history of mysterious big cats of various sorts (known as "[=ABCs=]"[[note]]Anomalous, or Alien, Big Cats[[/note]]), for example the Beast of Bodmin Moor, the Beast of Exmoor, the Cotswolds Big Cat and the Galloway Puma.