History WebVideo / BritishCryptids

*** "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2rehpv-L2E The Ramflaggie of Argyll]]''" (January 1, 2023)

* FictionalDocument: Almost every episode contains quotations, and images of, numerous fictional books and news reports.
** "Lanou, the Amazon Girl" by the equally fictional writer Florez Blackwell is mentioned in the Woodwose episode. It's an example of FamousFamousFictional as it comes right after mentioning [[Literature/TheJungleBook Mowgli]] and Literature/{{Tarzan}}.

*** "''The Ramflaggie of Argyll''" (January 1, 2023)

*** "''The Ramflaggie of Argyll''" (not yet released)

* GruesomeGoat: The titular cryptid of the upcoming episode "The Ramflaggie of Argyll" is a giant goat that has AscendedToCarnivorism and attacks people.

** The Stag Men are reported from Yorkshire, though they also range into Scotland too.

-> Thousand of years ago, these isles were teeming with flora and fauna undreamt of by the modern Britain. Invasion from Rome, the Scandinavian Countries, and France have produced a rich cultural heritige that continues to inspire and influence people all over the world.

-> These mysterious animals are occasionally glimpsed or encountered by the more educated, who recognise them as unclassified and undescribed specimens hiter to unknown to science."

''[[https://www.youtube.com/@BritishCryptids British Cryptids]]'' is an AnalogHorror web series created by Whinny Moor, professing to be a long lost documentary from TheSeventies, focusing on unknown creatures sighted across Great Britain and its own history.

** "Lanou, the Amazon Girl" by the equally finctional Florez Blackwell is mentioned in the Woodwose episode. It's an example of FamousFamousFictional as it comes right after mentioning [[Literature/TheJungleBook Mowgli]] and Literature/{{Tarzan}}.

* AnachronismStew: Keen-eared viewers may recognise that some of the information and dates given don't match up with reality.

*** There is a sequence discussing Alexander Selkirk and his marooning on Juan Fernández Island and a fictiotous enxounteer with a giant wildman.

** The Woodwose is compared to bigfoot come the 70's (the then-present day). However, the series itself bears skepticism towards it itself, calling it a film hoax and a man in an ape costume as opposed to a flesh and blood creature, as opposed to the MaybeMagicMaybeMundane angle it takes to the rest of the series' subjects.

** "Lanou, the Amazon Girl" by the equally finctional Florez Blackwell is mentioned in the Woodwose episode. It's an example of FamousFamousFictional as it comes right after mentioning Mogwli and Tarzan.

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: The Yorkshire Yeti episode occasionally lapses into other cryptid subjects like black dogs and alien big cats, which are actual myths. The other episode usually stick to one alone, and.

** Creator/ArthurConanDoyle is mentioned in 'The Woodwose of Cannock Chase' for his part in the story of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wyrley#Great_Wyrley_Outrages Great Wyrley Outrages]], a series of livestock mutilations in 1903, which he investigated in an attempt to overturn the conviction of a local man who had been wrongly accused. The story diverges from reality in the film's version of Conan Doyle blames a Woodwose for the mutilations.

** In the Dregpike episode, Creator/CharlesDickens appears and is mentioned to have heard a story about the monster and considered writing one book about it himself. Creator/BeatrixPotter is also mentioned as trying to make a story based off the the Dregpike.

There is also a spinoff called ''Man's Unknowable World'' which focuses on paranormal phenomona not related to the creatures, so far consisting of the episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgGEJFUwReI Mising Persons]].

** The Yorkshire Yeti.

** In the Dregpike episode, Creator/CharlesDickens appears and is mentioned to have heard a story about the monster and considered writing one himself.

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: The Yorkshire Yeti episode occasionally lapses into other cryptid subjects like black dogs and alien big cats. The other episode usually stick to one alone.

** Creator/LewisCarroll in "Souter Seawolf"

* IstanbulNotConstantinople: The North Sea is called the German Ocean in the setting.
* MarsNeedsWomen: The narration seems oddly fixated on the idea that semi-humanoid cryptids, like Stag Men and Woodwose, desire sex with human women.

* {{Stinger}}: 'Missing Persons' contains a stinger after the end credits showing a screaming woman, poissibly from the tape itself.

** The Souter Seawolf is from South Tyneside.
** The Cumbrian Dregpike is from the Lakes District.

* {{Stinger}}: 'Missing Persons' contains a stinger after the end credits showing

** [[WildChild The Cave Children of Coniston]], mentioned in the Introduction's description and seen in a newspaper in "Stag Men".

** In the Dreghorse episode, Creator/CharlesDickens appears and is mentioned to have heard a story about the monster and considered writing one himself.

** [[WildChild The Cave Children of Coniston]], mentioned in the Introduction's description and seen in a newspaper in "Stag Men"

** The Cumbrian Dregpike is from the Lakes District

* PlantPerson: The Hereford Twiggywitch is a little skeletal being made of twigs and leaves. A scirntific study brought up towards the end of its episode hints its made of cells that switch between properties of plant and animal cells.