History Main / CryptidEpisode

* ''WebVideo/TierZoo'' did a Cryptid Tier list as an AprilFoolsDay joke. It's actually surprisingly well-made for an April Fool's joke, detailing why certain cryptids such as the Chupacabra and Jackalope were low on the tier list due to being diseased animals, while others such as the Loch Ness Monster and Mokèlé-mbèmbé were high on the tier list due to being living prehistoric reptiles.

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidGroundZeroes'' has a mode where you play as Raiden to fight aliens.

** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', it is possible to capture the Japanese cryptid the tsuchinoko, which causes Zero to order you not to eat it and to bring it back home. If you successfully return it you get the rank 'tsuchinoko' and stealth camouflage to use. (If you eat it, it tastes delicious.) Only one exist in the game.

* A [[LaterInstallmentWeirdness latter-season]] episode of ''Series/MiamiVice'' has one of the characters being kidnapped while investigating a cult and the rest of the cast rushing to find her, only to find out that they have run into an honest-to-God AlienAbduction plot with honest-to-God aliens (the leader of whom [[WhatTheHellCastingAgency is played by]] ''Music/JamesBrown''). A good example of the "BizarroEpisode" variant.

* The official ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' manga have indulged in this a few times, since Gensokyo is a FantasticNatureReserve. ''[[Manga/TouhouSuzunaanForbiddenScrollery Forbidden Scrollery]]'' had a chapter where [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Remilia]]'s missing pet turns out to be a chupacabra, while ''[[Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' had a chapter where Reimu discovered a mysterious puffball that was eventually identified as a keseran-paseran.

* ''High Rhulain'', one of the Literature/{{Redwall}} books, contains the Slothunog, an obvious Loch Ness Monster expy. It's notable for being the only instance in the entire series where Brian Jacques deviated from his rule of only using real animals, though one could argue that it's [[LoopholeAbuse based on a prehistoric sea reptile]].

* ''Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami'', of all things, has an episode based around a sea monster.

* In ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow]]'', you can find various newsletters from "UMA News" that give hints about three rare cryptids (the Yeti, the Mothman and the Flying Humanoid). The said cryptids only appear in one room and require specific Souls to draw out/defeat.

* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' uses either stock monsters (vampires, werewolves, mummies, etc.) or original ones, the sole exception being ''The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena''.

** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', it is possible to capture the Japanese cryptid the tsuchinoko, which causes Zero to order you not to eat it and to bring it back home. If you successfully return it you get the rank 'tsuchinoko' and stealth camouflage to use. (If you eat it, it tastes delicious.) Only one exist in the game.