List of Lost Tapes episodes
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The following is a list of episodes of Lost Tapes, a thriller horror docudrama television series that airs on the Animal Planet channel. Each episode is either "TV-PG" followed by V or L, or "TV-14" followed by V or L. The plot of each episode is described, below, using in-universe tone.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Original airdates | ||
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| 1 | 14 | October 30, 2008 | February 17, 2009 | |
| 2 | 10 | September 29, 2009 | November 24, 2009 | |
| 3 | 10 | September 28, 2010 | November 9, 2010 | |
Season 1 (2008–2009)
| Series # | Season # | Title | Subject matter | Original airdate | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Chupacabra" | Chupacabra | October 30, 2008 | |
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In Nogales, Mexico, while celebrating their daughter Ava's birthday, Carlos and Maritza Ramirez receive a video camera and a letter saying that they will be brought across the border into Arizona from a relative in the United States. Despite Maritza and grandmother, Rosa's, concerns, Carlos is excited. Two days later, the Ramirezes hire a smuggler to take them to America. However, he stops two hours from the border and forces them out at gunpoint and abandons them, taking their possessions and supplies with him. With no other choice, the Ramirezes continue on foot. As they reach the border however, the family is suddenly attacked by a large dog-like predator. Meanwhile, United States Border Patrol agents, Tom Valentine and Martin Santino, receive a report about the Ramirezes' illegal crossing attempt and move to apprehend them. When they arrive, they find Carlos and Maritza's bloodless corpses and a terrified yet unhurt Ava. After taking Ava to their car, the agents confront a strange creature and open fire on it before backup arrives. Their official report states Ava's parents died of unknown causes and makes no mention of the creature while Ava is returned to Nogales, plagued by nightmares of the creature. | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "Bigfoot" | Bigfoot | October 30, 2008 | |
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In the Pacific Northwest, forest ranger Rachel Glen studies the declining black bear population and records her findings on various cameras. Over the course of her study, she reports strange noises and the feeling of being watched. After setting up a camera trap, she hears a strange wailing and tracks it, but gets snared by a poacher's trap. While she disables several illegal traps, the latter responds by destroying her cameras, some of which capture glimpses of an unidentified hairy creature. Growing suspicious over her cameras' findings, Glen later discovers a den with strange hair. She sends the hair to the game warden, who tells her it belongs to an unknown species of primate. Suddenly, she hears someone call out to her and finds a sign reading "WHO'S WATCHING YOU?" on her door. She requests help, but has to wait 48 hours due to her outpost's remoteness. In her study's final hours, Glen hears the poacher trying to break in, followed by cries for help and unnerving screams and growls. She later discovers the poacher was killed by an unknown creature. With this, black bear populations begin to rise, though no confirmation of unusual or new species emerge. | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "Monster of Monterey" | New Nessie | January 6, 2009 | |
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Journalist and outdoor enthusiast Sharon Novak enters the final day of her solo global sailing trip, with several cameras broadcasting her journey live over the Internet and facilitating contact with her boyfriend Charles. West of Monterey Bay, California, Sharon receives a partial distress call from another boat at the Monterey Canyon. Using her boat's engine, she travels to the canyon. However, her boat hits something underwater, killing the engine. Sharon dives underwater to investigate and emerges with a chunk of assumed whale flesh that was stuck to her motor. She eventually reaches the boat, only to find it unoccupied and covered in blood. Worried for her safety, Sharon tries to call the Coast Guard, but fails. She leaves, but something rams her boat, killing the engine again. Frightened, she contacts Charles and tells him everything that has happened. They agree that she should escape and not go back in the water while he calls the Coast Guard. Suddenly, the boat is rammed again and she falls overboard. Charles tries to help her, but she is unable to reach her boat as a large plesiosaur-like creature attacks her. Sharon's remains go unrecovered despite an extensive search while her attacker remains unidentified. | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "Swamp Creature" | Honey Island Swamp monster | January 6, 2009 | |
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University professor Diane Chasny and her nephew Ethan examine the Honey Island Swamp's ecosystem and alligator population following Hurricane Katrina. While testing her equipment, an alligator steals her backpack, which contained her navigational tools. While trying to find their way out, Chasny and Ethan become lost, but encounter a local fisherman, Bud Ray, who agrees to help them. Along the way, Ethan briefly gets separated and accidentally steps on a nest of eggs. The trio later discover a bizarre footprint and Ray urges them to get to his camp by nightfall. Ray tells Chasny and Ethan stories of a purported half-man, half-alligator creature, but she dismisses them as superstitions. Around midnight, Ray awakens Chasny and Ethan before leaving the tent. They hear sounds of a struggle before an unknown creature tries to enter the tent. However, an injured Ray returns and the three fend off the creature, which leaves behind eggshells from the nest Ethan destroyed. Chasny recovers the eggshells, but finds they match no known species. Ethan eventually returns to the swamp to creature a documentary based on his adventures while Ray recovers, but becomes fearful of going out in the swamp after sunset. | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Oklahoma Octopus" | Oklahoma Octopus | January 13, 2009 | |
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Following their high school graduation, Sean Conklin, Tracy Miller, her boyfriend Tyler Shuman, Bruce Delroy, and his girlfriend, Ruthie Semple decide to spend their last weekend together at a local lake. Upon arriving however, Conklin sees apparently large tentacles splashing in the water, but no one else sees it and dismisses him. After Tyler finds a canoe, the group heads out to a floating platform. As the day progresses, Tyler pulls several pranks on his friends. They scold him for it, but he gets upset and leaves with the canoe. Sean assures his friends that Tyler will return, but they hear him scream and see that the canoe has capsized. Despite the others assuming it is another prank, Bruce attempts to find Tyler, but something grabs and pulls him underwater. The remaining three yell for help until night falls, but what appears to be a giant octopus grabs Ruthie and pulls her off the platform. Seeing no other choice, Sean and Tracy decide to attempt to swim to shore. They are later found nearly drowned and treated for exhaustion, shock, and unidentified blister-like wounds on their bodies while Tyler, Bruce, and Ruthie's bodies are never found. | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "Devil Dragon" | Megalania | January 20, 2009 | |
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In Australia's Daintree Rainforest, amateur adventurer Tim Akrin attempts to film the pilot episode of his survival reality show, Stranded. On day one, he attempts to show his audience how to look for food. On the way, he discovers human bones and mentions several likely predators like saltwater crocodiles. He later discovers a den and tries to identify its occupant, but gets bit by its unseen animal. After bandaging his wound, he tries to start a campfire, but his injury prevents him. That night, he hears strange sounds and tries to scare off the creature making it, but to no avail. The next day, a sickly Akrin finds his arm has become infected with a form of blood poisoning. Realizing his injury's severity, Tim realizes he should try to reach a nearby Aboriginal village. While making the trek however, his infection worsens and he gets lost. Realizing he may not live, he sends a message to his family before something catches up to and drags him away. His body is never found, but Aboriginal trail guides find his camera. Saliva found on it was tested and found not to match any known reptile species. | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "Cave Demons" | Olitiau | January 27, 2009 | |
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The USMC send Sergeant Carlos Ramos and Corporals Latrel Wade and Derek Sawyer to investigate bizarre interference disrupting their sonar-based cave-mapping system at Tora Bora. The marines enter a cave and use a tracking device to pinpoint a signal believed to be causing the interference. However, Wade accidentally steps on a land mine and plummets into a chamber below, breaking his spinal cord. As Ramos and Sawyer climb down to him, Wade sees a large creature fly past him. Upon reuniting, Wade tells them what he saw, frightening Sawyer while Ramos is skeptical. Due to Wade's injuries, Ramos elects to temporarily leave him behind, but Wade is attacked by a bat-like creature. The other marines return to him, but find him dead. Believing insurgents killed him, Ramos tells a distraught Sawyer they have to finish the mission. As they head deeper into the caves, they are surrounded by a nest of bat-like creatures and open fire. Nine hours later, a rescue team locates Ramos and take him to a military hospital to treat him for a rare form of rabies. He is reunited with his family following months of quarantine while Wade and Sawyer's bodies were never found. | |||||
| 8 | 8 | "Death Raptor" | Owlman | January 27, 2009 | |
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Paranormal investigators Peter Grey and Jolene Sharrock are called to a church in Fallview, California to investigate a mysterious winged creature believed by the locals to be haunting the church and surrounding forest. They encounter an old woman, Hazel Van Lear, who tells them of the local demon before she is interrupted and driven off by Archdeacon Grant Bolton. Over interviews, Bolton says the demon has been disturbing his congregation for years and it has recently become more active while Hazel believes it followed her from her native Mawnan, Cornwall. While investigating the belfry, the investigators discover an abnormally large owl pellet with a human mandible inside. After turning over their findings to the police, they interview Sue Ann Mills, a little girl who also claims to have seen the creature. They learn she believes the creature is after her and will try to stop them too. Later that night, the investigators use Sue Ann to lure the creature, which menaces them until Hazel emerges and sacrifices herself to it. The following morning, Grey relinquishes his tapes to the police before he and Sharrock suspend all future investigations. Hazel's body is never found while the creature is never seen again. | |||||
| 9 | 9 | "Megaconda" | Giant anaconda | February 3, 2009 | |
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Animal rights activists, Scott Sumner and Evan Medcaf, investigate allegations of illegal animal trading in a warehouse owned by businessman, Ken Tobar. Armed with a video camera, the pair break into the warehouse and find several crates marked "LIVE ANIMALS". They venture deeper, but are confronted by security guard Larry Johnson and his guard dog Bishop. Larry threatens to call the police, but, they hear something break out of a crate. Confirming the pair are alone and confiscating their tape, Larry reluctantly leaves to investigate, not realizing Medcaf brought a spare. After re-shooting their evidence, the pair try to leave, but get lost. They later find an enormous snakeskin before something drags Sumner away. Meanwhile, Larry finds a large empty crate broken open from the inside and Bishop grows aggravated. Larry calls Tobar to report what happened, but Bishop runs off. Larry searches for him, but eventually finds him dead and flees, re-encountering Medcaf on the way. Later, Tobar arrives in response to Larry's call and is attacked by an anaconda. While it nor Tobar have been since, Medcaf and Larry's testimony allow the FBI to raid the warehouse and seize numerous black market animals and animal parts. | |||||
| 10 | 10 | "Thunderbird" | Thunderbird | February 3, 2009 | |
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Brothers Kevin and Cole Weller sneak out to meet with their friend, Paxton Reed, to film a video of them skateboarding at "The Ditch". Paxton doubts the young Cole's abilities, but Kevin convinces him to let Cole come. They enter a restricted area of a national park, but as Cole leaves to relieve himself, a large raptor swoops down at the others. They tell a returning Cole about what happened, but he believes they are trying to scare him. Upon arriving at "The Ditch", they begin filming, but Paxton startles Cole while he is performing a trick, causing him to fall and break his leg. Paxton and Kevin reluctantly leave to get help, leaving behind a cellphone for Cole. On the way however, they hear a loud screech and receive a call from Cole asking for help. The pair run back, but find Cole missing. He is later found the next day at the bottom of a freeway overpass half a mile from "The Ditch", battered and bruised but still alive. He is unable to recall what happened and the mysterious animal was never found. | |||||
| 11 | 11 | "Skinwalker" | Skin-walker | February 10, 2009 | |
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After spending two years at college studying political science, Andy Miller returns to his home at Skinwalker Ranch to visit his parents. Shortly after, Andy joins his father in driving out to the ranch to check on a mother sheep that recently gave birth. While the father tells Andy about a recent coyote problem, they pass a strange Native American woman wearing animal hides. Upon arriving, Andy notices coyote footprints that strangely turn into that of a human's and hears his mother calling for him and his father from the truck. Believing it came from the radio, they return, but learn the radio was off. Hearing a sheep's bleating, Andy's father grabs a rifle before the Millers head to the sheep pen. Andy's father shoots at a coyote, but it seemingly disappears. They later find the sheep was slaughtered and the lamb is missing. After hearing what sounds like a pack of coyotes, the Millers drive back, but apparently hit the woman from before. They get out to check, but find the missing lamb wrapped in the woman's hides. Afterwards, Andy returns to college and changes his study to Native American mythology while the coyote problem ceases. | |||||
| 12 | 12 | "Mothman" | Mothman | February 10, 2009 | |
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Following the Silver Bridge's collapse, the FBI arrest a man named Roy Kirby, who had filmed the incident and events preceding it, on suspicion of being involved. During questioning, Kirby reveals his marriage deteriorated because of his apparent obsession with the Mothman, claiming to the disbelieving agents that he has seen and filmed it over the course of two weeks even in spite of his similarly disbelieving wife. The day before the collapse, Kirby filmed himself at the site, claiming the Mothman drew him there to warn him. On the day of the event, he filmed the Mothman near the bridge and witnessed the collapse before rescuing a woman who also claimed to have seen it. Following an extensive investigation, no charges are brought against Kirby and the collapse is officially attributed to a structural flaw. Kirby returns home, vowing to never speak of the creature again, while the FBI confiscates his tapes. No further sightings have been reported until a woman claims to have seen it before the I-35 collapse. | |||||
| 13 | 13 | "Death Worm" | Mongolian death worm | February 17, 2009 | |
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Longtime friends and extreme sports enthusiasts Greg Cole and Benton Davis compete in an ATV race across the Gobi Desert following a tradition in which they pushed each other to new challenges each year. Though they become lost as night falls, they believe they will find their way when day breaks and stop to rest. Suddenly, Cole is bitten by an unseen creature and Davis' camera captures a trail of sand being pushed up by something underneath it. Later that night, Cole is awakened by acid on his legs and an inability to feel them. Davis tries to start Cole's ATV, but the engine is dead. With his ATV still working, Davis gets Cole onto it and drives until it runs out of gas. Stranded, Davis experiences what feels like static electricity and Cole begs him to find help alone. Promising to return, Davis leaves, but both are attacked by subterranean creatures and dragged underground, though Davis manages to film a warning message before he is taken. Their bodies are never found, but their vehicles and camera were. Their deaths are officially attributed to heat exposure and the strange burrows found around their equipment are not investigated. | |||||
| 14 | 14 | "Hellhound" | Spectral black dog | February 17, 2009 | |
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Goth college students Annabel Lilith, Ophelia, Luna, and Severin pick up Nora Callarman to induct her into their group, blindfolding her on the way to a local cemetery. Upon arriving however, a large Rottweiler with glowing red eyes suddenly appears before them before disappearing. Assuming it ran off, the group dismiss it and perform Callarman's initiation. Lilith asks the "spirits" for a sign, but the dog appears again and disappears again. Most of the group are terrified, but Annabel assumes it was the sign she asked for and insists they finish. As the group leaves, Callarman and Severin break off to be together, but the dog appears again. After hiding from it, they return to the others, who also saw it. Callarman warns them that seeing it three times results in an untimely death, but incites an argument. They drive off, but another argument causes Lilith to crash. Callarman tries to awaken Severin, but learns he is dead. She leaves with the dog, now sporting a friendly disposition. No official record of Callarman has been located and traces of sulfur were found in and around the car, but no evidence of any dog was found near the site. | |||||
Season 2 (2009)
| Series # | Season # | Title | Subject matter | Original airdate | |
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| 15 | 1 | "Vampire" | Vampire | September 29, 2009 | |
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The Redding family move into a new house after the father, Dennis, loses his job. The son, Eddie, sees his closet door open on its own before it closes while he is away. That night, the door opens again and a humanoid creature emerges to steal Eddie's teddy bear. He awakens and screams at the sight, causing it to flee to the closet before his parents arrive, though Dennis finds nothing. They hear a scrabbling sound in the attic, but assume it is raccoons and hire an exterminator, Stan Polanski, to address the problem the following day. While examining the basement, Polanski discovers several strange nests before a creature kills him. After the wife, Sarah, notices Polanski's absence, Eddie investigates, but finds Polanski's body before a creature emerges and chases him. Pursued by three of the creatures, the Reddings flee to Eddie's room and barricade the door, but a creature punches through and grabs Dennis. He grabs a chunk of wood and stabs the attacker, causing it to disappear while the other two flee. The Reddings escape and Polanski's body is recovered, albeit drained of blood, while no sign of the creatures is reported until similar attacks occur elsewhere. | |||||
| 16 | 2 | "Lizard Man" | Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp | September 29, 2009 | |
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For a human interest story, reporter Chrissy Cooper and her cameraman Derek Green follow local firefighters Trevor Andrews and Dana Caldwell into a sewer to rescue a lost cat after it was dragged into a storm drain. Upon entering, the group discover a mauled corpse they assume belongs to the cat. They begin to head back, but hear a cat meowing and attempt to locate it. Dana breaks off to find the cat, but hears something attack it before encountering a humanoid shape. Her scream attracts the others, but they only find her flashlight. Trevor tells the news crew to return to the surface while he finds Dana. He eventually finds her and scares off the creature looming over her. Meanwhile, Chrissy and Derek become lost before they are attacked by the creature. The firefighters rush to their aid, but find them dead and partially eaten. The creature pursues the firefighters, but Trevor severs one of its arms with an axe. Following this, Dana is treated for her injuries while Chrissy and Derek's bodies are recovered. The firefighters turn over everything they have to the authorities, but DNA test results on the arm have not been released. | |||||
| 17 | 3 | "Southern Sasquatch" | Fouke Monster | October 6, 2009 | |
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In the forests of Fouke, Arkansas, Matthew Barton accompanies his fiancee, Abby Knox's, brothers, Levi and Corbin on a deer hunting trip to bond with them. They spot a shape, which Levi shoots at, though it flees before they can identify it. While investigating its previous location, they find foul smelling fur. The trio eventually arrive, but find no sign of deer, so the Knoxes send Barton on a snipe hunt. However, the Knoxes see a huge creature behind Barton and shoot at it, but miss. They run over, but find Barton missing. Gathering their senses, they realize the forest has been absolutely quiet. They hear a growl nearby and follow it even as it grows dark. Suddenly, the creature attacks and kills Levi. A panicked Corbin flees, bumping into Barton. They attempt to escape, but the creature eventually catches up and kills them both. After their bodies are recovered, early news reports indicate that they were victims of a bear attack. However, Fouke locals regard the trio as another piece of the Southern Sasquatch's folklore. | |||||
| 18 | 4 | "Werewolf" | Werewolf | October 13, 2009 | |
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Independent filmmaker Austin Pace arranges access to follow Sergeants Clifford Warren and Javier Mendoza's investigation into an animalistic serial killer nicknamed "The Beast Killer" for a documentary. Staking out a bar that the killer's victims went to, the officers notice a suspicious man flirting with a woman, Sophie Montero. The officers and Pace follow the couple to a suburban house, learning that the suspect has been arrested for assault. After the suspect closes the blinds, the officers and Pace are forced to move closer. Making their approach, they hear a yell and growling inside the house and enter. In the kitchen, they find fur and bloody paw prints. Warren breaks off while Mendoza and Pace search the basement, finding an injured Montero. Mendoza tells Pace to stay with her while he finds Warren. The officers find the suspect dead in a manner akin to the Beast Killer's victims. They return to Pace and demand he back away from Montero. However, Montero takes on a beastly appearance and kills Pace before the officers kill her. Montero is posthumously attributed to Pace and the suspect's deaths while the officers are given paid psychiatric leave, though the case remains open. | |||||
| 19 | 5 | "Death Crawler" | Gigantic centipede | October 20, 2009 | |
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Entomologists Karen and Jonah Urco become stranded on an uncharted and uninhabited island due to engine trouble. While he makes repairs, she explores the jungle, discovering exceptionally large walking-sticks and tarantulas before finding a human skeleton clutching a video camera. She takes the camera and brings Jonah to see the skeleton, but a giant centipede bites him, causing him to become ill. As he comes down with a fever and his wound festers hours later, Karen starts to leave their camp, but sees a giant centipede nearby. She examines the camera's film to determine the island's location, but learns a previous group had been killed by the centipedes. Spying a medical kit in the film, she returns to the jungle to search for it. She eventually finds it and returns to Jonah just as two centipedes attack, though Karen drives them off before bringing Jonah to their skiff so they can escape, only to hear hissing near them. Two weeks later, their skiff washes ashore near Florida with the Urcos' decomposed bodies. A series of tracks leading from the boat to the brush are also found while the island's location remains unknown. | |||||
| 20 | 6 | "White River Monster" | White River Monster | October 27, 2009 | |
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Mac Barrett and Tyler Crenshaw try catfish noodling in the White River with help from experienced fishing guide, Earl Gaines. When Barrett and Crenshaw question Gaines about his reluctance to visit potential fishing spots, the fisherman eventually admits he is worried about the fabled White River Monster's presence, but the pair mock him before goading him into visiting a spot. While giving a demonstration however, Gaines is bitten by an unknown creature. Gaines drives it off and insists on leaving, but Barrett and Crenshaw dismiss him, forcing Gaines to reluctantly stay. While Barrett and Crenshaw make an unsuccessful noodling attempt, Barrett gets stuck. Gaines tries to help him, but something pulls him underwater. As his blood bubbles to the surface, the others panic. Crenshaw retrieves a shovel to free Barrett, but is attacked and killed by the creature. Alone, Barrett tries in vain to call for help until a gigantic fish rams him, freeing him and allowing him to swim to safety. Despite suffering a fractured foot, Barrett survives to petition the Arkansas government to drag the river to find Crenshaw, Gaines, and the creature, but is repeatedly denied while the deaths are officially attributed to alligator attacks. | |||||
| 21 | 7 | "Jersey Devil" | Jersey Devil | November 3, 2009 | |
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Greg and Wendy Stark, the latter of whom is weeks from giving birth, return from a Jersey Shore vacation with their daughters Christina and Joey and dog Cooper through the Pine Barrens. While the daughters argue, Greg accidentally hits an unidentified animal in the road. When they pull over to investigate what happened, Cooper jumps out and runs off. Greg leaves to find him, but fails to return after an hour, forcing the remaining Starks to find him. They find Greg's bloodied hat before hearing a loud roar and running to an abandoned house to hide. Greg turns up and tells everyone to hide just as the creature attempts to break in. Hearing Cooper, the daughters urge him to scare off the creature, but it kills Cooper before barging in. The Starks hide, but Christina's cellphone rings, attracting the creature. Wendy drives it off with a large plank before suddenly going into labor. As night falls, the Starks run back to their car and escape as the creature flies overhead. Arriving at a nearby hospital, Wendy gives birth to a son while Greg receives treatment for minor injuries. The Authorities never located the creature nor Cooper. | |||||
| 22 | 8 | "Alien" | Insectoid alien | November 10, 2009 | |
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Astronaut Captain Miranda Bach is placed in psychiatrist, Dr. Lee Morris, and Internist, Dr. Rebecca Damon's, care after inhaling comet dust. Examining Bach, Damon becomes concerned after discovering a bizarre rash on Bach and two distinct heartbeats. After an x-ray reveals an unidentified object in Bach's chest, Damon speculates Bach might be infected by a mutated parasite. As Morris plans to move Bach to a secure facility, an alarm goes off. The doctors and security rush to her, but find her dead and with a large cavity in her chest. Suddenly, an insectoid creature swoops at them before flying out of the room. Realizing it cannot escape, the doctors put the building on lockdown. Most of the staff and patients evacuate in time, but Morris and Damon fail to and barricade themselves in an office. However, the creature attacks Morris through a vent. Damon runs, but the automatic doors open, allowing the creature to escape. The government confiscates and classifies all records of the creature's existence and what happened at the hospital while Bach and Morris' official causes of death remain unknown. While the creature is never found, spores similar to the ones Bach inhaled are detected in South America. | |||||
| 23 | 9 | "Bear Lake Monster" | Bear Lake monster | November 17, 2009 | |
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Erica Jameson, Jan Hollis, Rose Peters, Sally Rudolph, and Mary Allen Stewart celebrate Jameson's 22nd birthday at Bear Lake, Utah. When Hollis uses her cellphone to record everything, the others play keep-away with it, but accidentally throw it into the lake. As the girls search for it, Jameson feels something brush up against her twice and returns to shore, but the others dismiss it. Peters dives underwater and eventually finds the phone, but keeps it with her. Later that night, an unseen creature pulls Peters underwater. The others try to find her, with Jan entering the lake to do so. Seeing something in the water, the girls urge Jan to come back, but something drags her underwater. Rudolph leaves to find help while Jameson and Stewart mourn their missing friends. After seeing something move near their camp, the pair flee to Stewart's car to escape, but Stewart realizes she left her keys behind. As the creature attacks the car, Hollis returns. Jameson and Stewart run for it, but the creature kills the latter. Jameson and Hollis escape and tell police what happened, though their friends' bodies are never recovered while tourism at Bear Lake continues despite everything that has happened. | |||||
| 24 | 10 | "Dover Demon" | Dover Demon | November 24, 2009 | |
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In Dover, Massachusetts, unemployed construction worker Chad Hurliss recruits his wife, Shannah, and friends, Glenn Diffy and Royce Best, to film a fake Dover Demon sighting. Diffy expresses concern, but the non-believing Hurliss berates him. The group eventually reaches a suitable spot in the woods, with Best donning an unconvincing monster costume before he and Shannah walk off to prepare for the video. As Hurliss and Diffy hear screeching, Shannah returns, screaming and claiming the demon is real. In the confusion, Hurliss fires his shotgun in the darkness, and later claims she only saw Best before having the group split up to find him despite Diffy's concerns. The Hurlisses eventually find Best, injured by the earlier shotgun blast. Unable to move him, the Hurlisses leave to find something to carry him with, but hear Best screaming moments later. They return to find Best missing and bloodied pieces of the costume. Fleeing in terror, Shannah trips and discovers Diffy's bloodied jacket. They continue running, but Hurliss falls and breaks his leg. She stays next to him before the creature attacks and kills them. The group's bodies are never found and the blood found at the scene is confirmed as theirs. | |||||
Season 3 (2010)
This season does not present facts or interviews regarding the creature in the prologue compared to the last two seasons; instead, it introduces the episode's creature attacking random victims. This season also introduces recurring characters in Agents Elise Mooney and Noel Connor of the Enigma Corporation. It also shows much more of the creature's bodies and with a clearer view than the last two seasons.
| Series # | Season # | Title | Subject matter | Original airdate | |
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| 25 | 1 | "Zombies" | Zombie | September 28, 2010 | |
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In Winter (February) 2010, during Mardi Gras, Josephine LeDieux was murdered by Malcolm Clement, a man who she had been housing in one of New Orleans Haitian communities. Because of unique and strange circumstances surrounding the murder, New Orleans police hired the Enigma Corporation, a private security firm, to find and arrest Clement. During their briefing, Agent Noel Connor reveals that Clement apparently died eight years ago in Haiti. Accompanied by tactical specialist Elise Mooney and rookie agent Tanner Noble, he goes to the boarding house where they believe Ledieux's other boarders may be harboring him, a building which has been condemned since Hurricane Katrina. They enter the house but find nothing other than a mess. While searching the house, Mooney hears growls from the upper level of the house and demands that anyone who is hiding show themselves and surrender. They enter a room where they discover a voodoo shrine to Ledieux, along with tetrodotoxin, a powerful and lethal neurotoxin. Downstairs, Connor discovers dismembered human remains and notifies the other agents that they may need to use deadly force. A motion sensor that Tanner is carrying with him suddenly picks up movement just outside the building and he leaves to investigate it while Connor moves upstairs. While Mooney continues examining the shrine, she suddenly sees a man who is acting strangely approaching her, brandishing a wooden board like a club. Mooney kicks him out into the hall right as Connor arrives, and he attacks the man as well, causing him to fall from the second floor to his apparent death. Meanwhile, Tanner is securing the perimeter outside when he is suddenly approached and attacked by a girl, who is acting similarly to the man who attacked Mooney. Connor tells him to apprehend her and be extremely careful over the radio, but she suddenly attacks and bites him and their struggle moves off-screen. Connor, disturbed by the feel of the boarding house, suggests that they simply find Clement and leave. He and Mooney begin to leave, but are suddenly attacked by the man from before, who is still 'alive.' Connor manages to wrestle him to the ground and hold him down, and they question how the man was able to recover from a seemingly fatal fall. Outside, it is revealed that Tanner is still alive and well, and has apprehended the girl, who he takes to the Enigma Corporation's van. During a brief conversation over the radio, Connor tells Tanner to keep the engine running in case they need to escape quickly and be prepared to call for backup. Suddenly, the man Connor has subdued wakes up and begins snarling as he tries to attack Connor yet again, and refuses to give up even after he is tased. Clement suddenly approaches Mooney from behind, and he refuses to stop even after Mooney shoots him at point blank range. The noise of the struggle has attracted the attention of the other residents of the boarding house, who are all zombies. Connor and Mooney barricade themselves in the shrine room and restrain Clement while trying to hail Tanner on the radio who, unbeknownst to them, has passed out and is being eaten by the girl in the van. Mooney suggests simply leaving Clement behind and torching the building in order to keep whatever is causing the residents to act strangely from spreading, but Connor insists that they do the job they were hired to do as the other residents try to break into the room. Suddenly, the girl that Tanner arrested returns through the balcony window, but Mooney and Connor shoot and subdue her as they escape through the window, tossing Clement to the ground below. Even after such a fall, Clement is still active and growling at them. They run back towards the van, only to see that the other residents have caught up to them. As they approach the van, they see Tanner emerge. However, he is acting strangely, too, and suddenly attacks them. Early in the morning following the events surrounding Clement's arrest, the boarding house was demolished, and it is not known if the residents were inside when it was destroyed or if they are roaming the streets of New Orleans. A statement was made that the demolition had been ordered long ago, and that a full report would be released, which never happened. Tanner was given a quiet funeral in his home town of Laredo, Texas, with Connor and Mooney in attendance. Deaths: 2+ (Josephine LeDieux, everyone in the boarding house, Agent Tanner Noble) | |||||
| 26 | 2 | "Kraken" | Kraken | September 28, 2010 | |
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In the Summer of 2006, two oil rig workers (Per and his friend) on the Virtanen Deep Sea Oil Platform in the Baltic Sea are attacked by an unknown creature. Their bodies were never found. The following Spring, documentarian James Werner follows a treasure hunter named Derek Barrow and his crew of three (Brad Downing, Sasha Porsis, and Ron McCorkle) when he goes to recover the wreck of a Finnish ship supposedly loaded with Tsarist gold and treasure in the Baltic Sea. On their way to the site of the wreck, their boat hits something, but it does not damage the ship. Once they reach the wreck, Brad makes a dive to try to find the treasure, intending to do so in just one dive. While submerged, he notices that the center of the shipwreck appears to be "crushed like a beer can", but he dismisses water pressure because the depth is too low for that. Then he sees something drifting in the distance which he cannot identify due to the murky water, and is suddenly attacked by a mostly unseen creature. Radio contact with Brad is lost, and while the crew goes to the deck to wait to see if he will resurface, the underwater camera captures what appears to be an enormous squid mantle. After hours pass and there is no sign of him, Sasha decides to go down to try to rescue him. She discovers Brad's body far below, and is suddenly attacked, too. Captain Barrow and Werner try to locate her by sight (seeing a tentacle slap the window), but instead find Ron dead, his rib cage crushed and covered with a strange ink. The two see a light in the distance, and Barrow takes out a rifle, saying the light is not a boat while the glowing creature (giving an outline of an enormous squid) heads under the boat. Sasha surfaces, but is pulled back into the water by a giant tentacle and killed. The creature whacks Barrow with one of its tentacles and later grabs him with another tentacle after ramming the boat again, and then suddenly emerges behind Werner, who turns and captures the gigantic eye of the creature on camera right before it attacks and kills him. The following morning, a ferry heading to the oil rig discovered floating debris from the destroyed boat, and Captain Barrow was found clinging to a small raft, but he refused to speak of the incident, and vowed to never return to the sea again. The bodies of James Werner and Barrow's crew were never recovered. Deaths: 6 (two oil rig workers, James Werner Brad Downing, Sasha Porsis, and Ron McCorkle) | |||||
| 27 | 3 | "Strigoi Vampire" | Strigoi | October 5, 2010 | |
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In Summer (August) 2010, in Silver Rock, New Mexico, the Enigma Corporation is hired to investigate the mysterious deaths of workers at an oil outpost. Noel Connor and Elise Mooney are accompanied by doctors Naomi Robeson and Seldon Fischer, wearing hazmat suits in case of a gas leak or airborne virus. They find that the workers all died very suddenly, with fresh food still being on the tables and the phone in an office still having a dial tone. They find a dead man still seated in his office in one of the buildings, and Fischer takes a blood sample. He finds that most of the man's blood has been drained from his body. They suddenly hear shuffling above them and part of the ceiling falls down, wrecking Mooney's hazmat suit. When nothing happens to her, they conclude that whatever killed the workers is not airborne and everyone but Fischer takes their helmets off. They discover more bodies outside, in the same state as the man in the office. Mooney notes that one of the dead workers is holding what appears to be a wooden board ending in a sharpened point as though it were some rudimentary weapon. A black German shepherd suddenly appears, and a suspicious Mooney shoots it with a tranquilizer dart, but it flees into a container. As they go over to the container, a man suddenly jumps out, claiming to be a worker named Clint Webber, who alone somehow survived what he described as an enormous orange sandstorm. While Robeson and Fischer conduct a medical exam on him, Connor and Mooney go to the office to look up Webber on the company profiles. They discover that the man claiming to be Webber is not him, and call for backup. As the doctors continue their examination, Fischer pulls a tranquilizer dart identical to the one Mooney shot at the dog out of Webber's mouth. Webber suddenly acquires a demonic grin and huge fangs and kills Fischer and Robeson. Mooney receives word from headquarters that they will not be receiving backup because a quarantine had been placed over the area. They see someone who appears to be Fischer approaching, but when he ignores their warnings to not come any closer they shoot at him in suspicion, and he vanishes into thin air. Connor investigates a growling sound behind them while Mooney goes to find the dead doctors. The dog from before appears, barking at her aggressively, while Noel (with a sharp wooden board) appears behind it, claiming it is not what it appears to be. Mooney flees, finding a truck, and attempts to drive away when "Webber" suddenly pops up from the back seat with the same demonic grin as before and lunges at her. Mooney crashed the truck, but miraculously survived, while Connor escaped with only minor injuries. The deaths of the workers and the doctors were officially attributed to a gas leak, and the company ceased operations in North America. Animal hairs and saliva samples were confiscated by the FBI, and no lab results were released to the public. Deaths: 2+ (all Oil outpost workers, Dr. Sheldon Fischer and Naomi Robeson.) | |||||
| 28 | 4 | "Poltergeist" | Poltergeist | October 5, 2010 | |
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In May 2005, the Golden family moved into the house of their dreams in the sleepy suburban town of Lakeview, Colorado. 4 years later, those dreams were soon shadowed by unexplainable occurrences that seemed to surround their son, Troy. after Troy's sister Megan was nearly crushed by a falling bookcase, Mark and Jen Golden decided they could no longer close their eyes to the growing danger. After this incident, they hire a paranormal investigation team consisting of parapsychologist, Dr. Jeremy Reinhold, Kristy Johns who is paraplegic, and Bill "Shots" Cooper, to help the family. The team film the account for their TV show, "Paranormal Encounters". While testing to see if Troy could move a pen without touching it, he told them that he can't do it but the pen suddenly moves. That night, Troy suddenly wakes up screaming after objects in his room move on their own, and a stuffed panda in his arms is replaced by a butcher knife of unknown origin. After moving the Goldens to Jenn's parents house (where they moved Megan after the bookshelf incident), the team begins their investigation. They enter Troy's room, where the paranormal activity seems to be strongest. The closet door shuts behind Shots on its own, knocking him into a wall and revealing a box. They find newspapers inside the box that tell them of a man named Charles Weatherly, who lived in the house twenty years ago. The newspapers state that Charles brutally murdered his wife and children with a knife and then killed himself and Jeremy shows it to Kristy. They conclude that Charles' ghost is haunting the house as a poltergeist, and they become determined to get rid of him. They hear ghostly utterances of "Leave," and Jeremy sees something in a window. When he investigates, he sees an image of himself holding a knife through the window, but it vanishes. Kristy suddenly gets thrown against the wall and begins convulsing, and the lights in the house go out and is now in night vision mode. When Jeremy and Shots try to help her, a sinister-sounding voice says "Leave!" through her, and she dies soon afterward. While Jeremy refuses to let the poltergeist win, Shots tries to leave with Kristy's body, but sees a message written in blood on a mirror: "Too Late." Seconds later, he is killed as well and Jeremy goes in and turns Shots' head to find that he is still. Finally, Jeremy concedes victory to the ghost and tries to leave, but the door keeps locking itself as he tries to get out, and he suddenly hears the voice of Troy calling for help from the bedroom. Jeremy warily walks upstairs and enters the bedroom, to find it empty. Then, the closet door opens and he turns around to see the apparent ghost of Charles Weatherly, which can only be seen by him and the camera he is holding. The murderous young husband and father's ghost, whose covered in blood and holding the weapon in question, a knife then attacks and kills Jeremy by stabbing him to death; the same Charles’ family ended up. After the investigators' bodies were discovered, their deaths were officially attributed to coronary arrests. The episode of their series never aired, shortly after the events of June 11th 2009, the Goldens sold their home. Colorado real estate law did not require them to disclose any of the activity that had occurred. Deaths: 4+ (Charles Weatherly, his family, Dr. Jeremy Reinhold, Kristy Johns and Bill "Shots" Cooper.) | |||||
| 29 | 5 | "Devil Monkey" | Devil monkey | October 12, 2010 | |
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In Spring (April) 2009, a reporter from West Virginia named Stacie Foster accompanied ATF agents Ollie Moye and Mark West and law enforcement officer Ernest Tybee as they ventured into the Appalachian forests to bust an illegal moonshining operation. Tybee and the agents have been tracking the moonshiners for some time, and hope to catch them red-handed and end their illegal business. It is becoming dark as they enter the forest and come upon a wooden sign with the words "KEEP OUT", but they see claw marks on the sign which Tybee cannot identify. They then hear loud rustling in the trees, but assume it is the moonshiners trying to scare them off. Shortly afterwards, one of the agents discovers a tripwire connected to a rudimentary alarm system, which they carefully step over. Suddenly, they hear strange sounds as the alarm is suddenly triggered by an unseen creature. When they return to check on what happened with the alarm, they discover a footprint in the dirt that Tybee does not recognize as belonging to a local animal. They discover another tripwire, this one connected to a booby trap in the form of a crossbow set to fire when the wire is disturbed. They hear more rustling and sounds, and, suddenly, a teenager named Matt Jones, who along with his friend Owen was attacked earlier that day, emerge from the darkness, bloodied and terrified. He claims that monsters are following him and warns that they must leave immediately or be killed, but the agents cannot let him compromise their mission. Ignoring Matt's pleadings, they continue into the dark forest until they finally come upon the moonshiners' camp. Moye and West break off to investigate the far side of the camp. They discover claw marks and fresh blood on a barrel, and as they continue, they find that the camp has been trashed, and there is no sign of the moonshiners. Moye hears more sounds from the forest, and West suddenly discovers the mauled corpse of one of the moonshiners and tells Moye to come to him. West is suddenly attacked by an unseen creature from behind, which disappears as suddenly as it appears. They hear more screeching and leave to regroup with Tybee and Foster, who have begun to investigate the distillery where the moonshiners have been brewing their product. Inside, they discover the dismembered body parts of Owen and hear the sound of scraping claws on the outside of the still. Moye and West, meanwhile, are attacked and killed by mostly unseen creatures. Tybee and Foster hear growling coming from behind a board in the still, and Tybee demands that whoever is hiding there come out. Suddenly, what appears to be a large, tailess monkey emerges from behind the board in full view of their cameras, and Tybee tells Foster to run as it attacks him. Foster yells for him in desperation, and everything suddenly becomes quiet. Seconds later, the monkey emerges from the still, screeching as it chases her. Foster runs to a fence, but it is locked. In a last-ditch effort to escape, she tries crawling under the fence, but the creature catches up to her and kills her. Matt escaped from the forest, telling authorities about the creatures. A search of the area was performed, and the bodies of all the other people who entered the forest were recovered, but were so badly mutilated that they could only be identified through DNA and dental records. A team of zoological experts was assembled to identify what perpetrated the attacks, and though it was obvious that the creatures were mammals, it is not known what kind. Deaths: 4+ (several moonshiners, ATF agents Ollie Moye and Mark West, Stacie Foster, Sheriff Tybee Foster) | |||||
| 30 | 6 | "Yeti" | Yeti | October 12, 2010 | |
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In Spring (March) 2005, renowned billionaire explorer Mark Hordstrom went missing while climbing Mount Everest. Three years later in 2008, his body was discovered along with another huge discovery. Two journalists, Jared Slate and Alex Turner, bribed Charlie Newhouse, a longshoreman working on the cargo ship Inventus that was rumored to be carrying Hordstrom's remains and the discovery, in order to break the story a day early. Newhouse takes them aboard, and they sneak into the inner workings of the ship. Turner asks Newhouse what he knows about the discovery, but says that he knows nothing more than they do, and has in fact agreed to get them aboard because his employers have recently let him go. Newhouse takes them into a cold storage area where the crates containing Hordstrom and the discovery are being kept. Slate sees some dead rats on the floor; Newhouse says that the ship's staff have been putting out poisons to deal with the pest problem, but Turner notes that the rats look more like they were ripped apart. They suddenly hear loud banging noises, but assume that it is machinery shifting. They find a crate, and Slate opens it with a crowbar, expecting to find Hordstrom's body inside. However, the crate is instead filled with fruit. Suddenly, the mauled corpse of one of Newhouse's co-workers falls down from the ceiling. While wondering whether they should call the police, Slate notices a crate behind them labeled "BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN", which they conclude is the major discovery that they heard about. As they examine the crate, they see that it has been forcibly opened from the inside, and they discover white fur caught on some of the splinters. They hear more clanking, and Newhouse explains that no one else was instructed to enter this part of the ship, so the sounds must be being made by the creature. Newhouse refuses to continue on to find the creature and tries to convince the journalists to leave with him. Slate tries to convince Turner to come along, but she insists that they get a shot of the creature before they do. Newhouse makes for the exit, but the door is jammed. As his flashlight begins to go out, the hulking form of a mostly unseen and very hairy animal suddenly comes into view of a security camera and attacks him as everything goes dark. Hearing him screaming, Slate panics and runs, but slips in a large puddle of fresh blood on the floor, and they see a huge, bloody footprint. Turner again insists that they capture the creature on film, or else they will be accused of staging the scene. They follow more footprints to where the creature is apparently hiding and begin to hear low growling sounds. Slate picks up a hammer to defend himself, and the creature emerges in full view of the camera for a brief moment. Now terrified, they flee, but Turner bangs her knee against a vise. As Slate tries to help her, the yeti comes out and tries to attack her on-camera. Slate manages to hit it, and they escape, thinking that they've scared it off, but it emerges from behind some boxes roaring. They hide behind a metal storage container where they can see the door. As they prepare to run, Newhouse's severed arm suddenly falls down on them from above, its hand still gripping the flashlight, and they discover the rest of him immediately afterward. They reach the door and get out of the cold storage area. Thinking that they're safe at first, they suddenly see that the yeti is still following them. They run up toward the main deck with the creature in hot pursuit. They finally reach a door out onto the deck, but it's locked. A security guard appears on the other side, but he does not have a key to the door. He runs away when he sees the yeti approaching them, obscured by the darkness, and Slate and Turner try to break the door down until it finally attacks and kills them. The bodies of Newhouse, Slate, and Turner were never recovered, and though their video evidence would suggest otherwise, their deaths were officially attributed to drowning. The press conference awaiting the arrival of Hordstrom's body, and the creature was abruptly canceled, and the Inventus was diverted to Plum Island, a government-controlled island notorious for biological experiments and research. Deaths: 4 (Mark Holdstrom, Jared Slate, Alex Turner, and Charlie Newhouse) | |||||
| 31 | 7 | "Wendigo: American Cannibal" | Wendigo | October 19, 2010 | |
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The episode opens with "recovered footage" of four campers looking for food by fishing, the camera then cuts to day ten with one of the campers killing a squirrel, finally a girl is shown running from something, when she stumbles upon a strange altar of junk then the camper who killed the squirrel comes into full view of the camera looking extremely demented; In Fall (September) 2009, four college students on a spring break camping trip became lost in the Appalachian wilderness and tried to catch fish and squirrels so that they would not starve, but to little success. A search party composed of tracker Porter Voss, paramedic Trent Dorsey, and leader Shelby Nash was organized to try to find them. The search party knows that the campers have been lost for approximately two weeks, and know that the campers are named April Desoto, Vince Gabriel, Matthew Gaahl, and Lane Corey, and that they have no first aid experience. After hiking for about four hours, they hear a strange ominous wailing sound coming from the forest. Dorsey suggests that it may have been made by a human, but they cannot identify the sound or see what made it. Shortly after they hear the wailing, the come upon the students' campsite, which has been trashed, and they discover blood on one of the tents. Nash tries to hail their base camp on the radio, but they are out of range. Nash and Voss send Dorsey to a nearby stream to replenish their water supplies. When he is alone, he hears another wail in the forest and goes to investigate it, coming upon a bizarre scene of items and animal parts hanging from the branch of a tree by strings, including a pair of glasses and what appears to be skin. At the campsite, Voss suddenly discovers the body of Vince Gabriel hidden in the brush. When they uncover his leg, they see that something has been eating his body and rule out black bears as the cause because the flesh has been chewed off cleanly, not crushed as would be the case with a bear. When Voss mentions that there is obviously something vicious in the woods, they realize that Dorsey has not returned yet and rush to find him. As Dorsey continues examining the scene before him, he is suddenly attacked by a strange creature with claws and a head resembling a deer's skull, which kills him with an axe. As night falls, Nash and Voss continue looking for Dorsey, but to no success. They come across a cave and enter it, lighting the way with a flare. They suddenly discover one of the hikers, Lane Corey, who is utterly terrified and defending herself with a spear. As Lane tries to explain that there is a dangerous creature out in the woods, recovered footage from the hikers' camera show the events of what happened the campers leading to Lane's hiding in the cave. Mere days before the search party set out to look for them, Lane found Matthew eating something that she could not identify and April becomes severely injured and unable to move. Matthew confided in Lane that something is making him act strangely and suggested that they try to leave on their own, but Lane questioned him about where Vince had disappeared to. When Matthew changed the subject about what they should do about April, he began to imply that they cannibalize her and Lane became angry with him. Later that night, Lane found Matthew lingering over April's body and making strange sounds, only to turn to her with a bloodied and monstrous-looking face and roars at her. Presently, Voss decides to try to find Dorsey, as it has become clear that the search party's only option is to leave the mountains and return with a much larger group. As he searches, he comes across the same scene that Dorsey did before, only it now includes some of Dorsey's belongings. As he hails Nash on the radio, he suddenly hears a sound and turns around just in time to see the same monster that killed Dorsey roar and swing the axe at him. Back in the cave, Nash and Lane overhear Voss' death on the radio, and Nash says that they have to leave the cave to try to save him, but Lane insists that he is already dead. They suddenly hear a loud wail and Nash goes to investigate the entrance to the cave. Where they see Matthew, now fully transformed into a Wendigo, enters the cave, but they manage to escape. As they run through the woods, Lane suddenly trips, and Nash hears what sounds like Dorsey calling her. Ignoring the pleadings of Lane, she leaves to find the source of the sound. Instead, she finds Dorsey's corpse (with his face half-chewed off) and Matthew's "shrine," which now includes Voss's still activated camera, which captures an image of her being brutally killed by the Wendigo. Lane discovers the corpses of the rescuers and, knowing that she will never escape from the forest, uses her last moments to try to send a message to her family before she, too, is attacked by the Wendigo. A larger search party was organized and found the bodies of Nash, Dorsey and Voss, as well as those of April and Vince. In spite of video evidence to the contrary, their fatalities were attributed to black bear attacks. Lane's body was never recovered, and the search for them continues to this day. Tales of the Wendigo persist throughout the Native lands of the Northeast, echoing through the mountains like an age old question. The final image shown is recovered footage of Matthew partway into his transformation into a Wendigo as he roars at the camera. Deaths: 3+ (several campers, search party members Porter Voss, Trent Dorsey, and Shelby Nash.) | |||||
| 32 | 8 | "Q: The Serpent God" | Quetzalcoatl | October 26, 2010 | |
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In Spring 2008, in response to a series of ritualistic murders in which the victims' hearts were cut out, the Mexico City police department hired the Enigma Corporation to investigate. Agents Noel Connor and Elise Mooney were dispatched, accompanied by Dr. Nadja Santo, an expert on cult activities, and Santiago Vargas, an informant with ties to the murderers. During their briefing, Santo points out that the Aztec numeral for 52, which is significant to Aztec religion, is painted on the walls where the bodies were found. It is also clear that the victims were murdered elsewhere, as there was little blood where the bodies were found. They plan to have Vargas make contact with two of the alleged murderers, including the leader, Lucas Marzo, a local businessman who has ties to cult activity. Connor confiscates an obsidian knife that Vargas has, which Marzo has told him to bring, and tells Vargas to tell the cult members to meet him tomorrow instead so that the Enigma Corporation can arrest them. Marzo becomes furious when Vargas tells him that he does not have the knife and tells him to meet the cult at Los Portales, an abandoned train depot, at 11 o'clock that night. Vargas tries to get out of the deal, but Connor and Mooney will not let him. After arriving at Los Portales, Vargas tells them that it was built on top of Aztec ruins, and that anyone who comes there is putting their life in grave danger. Connor tells him there is nothing to worry about, and Santo gives him the knife with which to bribe the cult members. Suddenly, Vargas takes Santo hostage, claiming that they do not understand what they are dealing with. Connor convinces Vargas to let Santo go, which he does, and he runs off. Mooney uses bolt cutters to open another gate into a warehouse where they believe the murderers are hiding, and need something that will stick with the local laws or else the cult will get away with its crimes and continue to kill more innocent people. Shortly before midnight, they split up and enter the warehouse. Connor and Mooney hear chanting and suspect that the ritual is already underway. Santo, meanwhile, comes upon what appears to be a nest made out of hay and finds the mutilated body of Woody Shields, a young tourist who was murdered in the beginning of the episode and whose just being found now. Then, she is suddenly attacked from behind. Connor and Mooney discover a bizarre sight: men wearing masks are patrolling around a sacrificial altar, and they see that Santo has been captured and is about to be sacrificed. They try to save her and place the entire cult under arrest, but there is a sudden explosion and a loud, inhuman screech as the lights go out. They see that all of the cult members have inexplicably died and discover the body of Marzo, who was the one who killed and sacrificed Santo. They suddenly hear strange screeching and hissing in the darkness, and see the shadow of a huge, bat-like wing against the lights on their guns. They open fire at the creature, but do not seem to hit it and run away to find cover. As they hide, Mooney looks at the creature through a night vision camera. She sees the creature, which is still obscured by the darkness, as it flies at them. Seconds later, they see that the creature has disappeared. They decide to try to lure the creature to the altar so that they can try to kill it. Mooney begins banging the obsidian knife that Marzo used to kill Santo against her gun to try to attract it. Suddenly, the creature emerges in full view of their cameras, looking like an enormous snake with wings and covered in feathers, and they open fire on it when Mooney stabs it with the dagger. What the creature was and what happened to it remains unknown, and the Mexican government burned Los Portales to the ground. Marzo was posthumously convicted of all the killings, including the murder of Santo, and Connor and Mooney escaped with minimal injuries. Deaths: 2+ (Victims of the ritual murders, Dr. Nadja Santo, the cultists, Lucas Marzo,) | |||||
| 33 | 9 | "Beast of Bray Road" | Beast of Bray Road | November 2, 2010 | |
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In Spring (May) 2009, a militia group led by a man named Brian Cavanaugh came under attack by what they suspected were federal agents. In order to thwart future attacks, Cavanaugh hired investigative reporter Randal Steiner and cameraman Mike Monroe for an exclusive interview. They were driven to the militia's headquarters deep in the woods of Wisconsin. Shortly after arriving, Monroe sees deep scratch marks on a tree which appear to be stained with blood. Steiner and Monroe are brought into a cabin that the militia is using as their base of operations, where they meet Cavanaugh for the first time. Cavanaugh states that he and his militia are simply exercising their Second Amendment rights and plan to take control from big government and return it to the individuals through any means necessary. They have recently hidden numerous stationary cameras in the woods as well as attached cameras to the scopes of their rifles so that, if a raid is ever instigated, the actions of the federal agents will be documented. When Steiner asks Cavanaugh how he is so certain that the government is behind the attack, Cavanaugh shows him the brutally mauled corpse of Bruce Renfro, a militiaman who was killed two days before. Steiner notes that the damage looks more like it was inflicted by a wolf or large coyote rather than a government agent, but Cavanaugh insists that an agent with a government-issue combat knife could have created the wounds to look like an animal attack. Just then, they hear loud growls from the woods outside, which Cavanaugh credits to federal agents trying to throw them off-guard. As he checks a computer, one of the stationary cameras suddenly goes off-line and the militia conclude that an agent is in the woods. Cavanaugh sends Tom Kiniry to investigate, who hears more growling in the woods. Kiniry hears a twig snap and turns around, so he does not see a large shadow looming up in the darkness behind him. Suddenly, another militiaman, Bobby McCrea, runs up and yells at Kiniry to get down before firing his gun. Kiniry is suddenly attacked by something with such ferocity that it tears a piece of flesh off his body and hurls it at a surveillance camera, causing it to short out. Though the creature itself is unseen, it casts a shadow that resembles a werewolf. Seconds later, another camera fifty yards away is taken off-line as well, which leads the militia to believe that it is a raid. Cavanaugh and Nancy Nyson go to investigate, taking Monroe with them, but Cavanaugh tells Steiner to stay with the cabin and warns that he will personally kill him if he had anything to do with the 'raid.' As they enter the woods, they hear gunshots and Nyson breaks from the group at Cavanaugh's order. Back in the cabin, Steiner begins recording himself as he wonders about what is really behind the attacks. Meanwhile, Nyson checks a stationary camera. While her back is turned, the shape of what appears to be a wolf emerges from the shadows, crawls across the upper-right corner of the screen and silently disappears off-camera. Nyson suddenly discovers Kiniry's corpse, which has been mauled in the same way Renfro had been. She discovers fur on his body, and suddenly sees McCrea emerge from the darkness. Nyson questions him about what happened, and McCrea says he is unsure if federal agents or an animal were responsible, and Nyson becomes suspicious because the fur she found on Kiniry looks like the jacket that McCrea is wearing. While arguing about whether or not he may have accidentally shot Kiniry, they are both suddenly attacked and killed by the creature. Cavanaugh and Monroe hear gunshots and screaming and go to investigate, only to find the two militia dead and partially eaten. Cavanaugh questions Monroe about having anything to do with the raid, and Monroe says that Steiner might have brought another cell phone with him. Monroe panics as they head back to the cabin and runs, yelling for help. He runs to a car that he finds unlocked, but cannot find the keys before Cavanaugh catches up to him and insists that they get to the cabin. After hearing another roar in the woods, Monroe begins to seriously doubt that the government is behind the attacks, but Cavanaugh ignores him, and uses Monroe as a shield on the final stretch to the cabin. Cavanaugh catches Steiner making a recording, which he interprets as him breaking their deal for no outside contact. Believing Steiner ordered the attack himself, he forcefully pulls him out of the cabin, ignoring Monroe as he insists that they had nothing to do with the attacks. Cavanaugh threatens the 'feds,' saying that he will kill Steiner if they do not cease and desist at once. Suddenly, they hear a loud growl as the beast lunges at them from the roof of the cabin, briefly appearing in full view of the camera, attacking all three of them, killing Cavanaugh and Steiner, and severely injuring Monroe. Monroe survived the attack and managed to crawl to a fire road. Information provided by him prompted federal agents to raid the Wisconsin woods two days later. They discovered the mauled bodies of Steiner and the militia, whose deaths were officially attributed to wolf attacks. However, the federal agents and animal control were unable to locate any such evidence. Deaths: 6 (Randal Steiner, Brian Cavanaugh and several members of the militia.) | |||||
| 34 | 10 | "Reptilian" | Reptilians | November 9, 2010 | |
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In Fall (September) 2008, a dramatic rise in teenage disappearances in New York City prompted the mayor's office to assemble a task force to investigate the disappearances. Detectives John Sloan and Rhonda Ramirez were dispatched to follow a lead which suggested that secret underground raves in abandoned subway tunnels had something to do with the disappearances. They apprehend Steven "Spike" Mills, who works for the rave organizers as a promoter. While interrogating him, they learn that the directions to the raves are marked by bizarre symbols which can only be seen in night vision cameras. As they journey into the tunnels, they hear a whistling sound, seemingly a means of communication, which Spike seems to understand. They are suddenly approached by a man with snake-like eyes, who is wearing a coat with a snakeskin-like texture that completely covers his body and obscures his face most of the time. The man marks their hands with stamps designed like the directional symbols, but says nothing, and they continue, Spike noting that Sloan got the "V.I.P. stamp." They come upon the rave momentarily, and see another person in a coat walking down another tunnel. When Sloan questions Spike about what it is, he claims that he does not know--nor does he want to--and that the officers do not want to mess with the organizers of the rave. Nonetheless, they convince Spike to come along with them by threatening to revoke his immunity. As they begin investigating the area around the rave, they see another person in a coat, whose eyes seem to shine in the dimly lit room, watching them. They continue into the tunnels and notice that no one seems to be following them, but suddenly see another person in a coat walking by at the end of the tunnel. Sloan walks ahead and sees what appears to be a gigantic lizard's tail disappear as someone or something climbs up a ladder. Sloan runs ahead, leaving Spike and Ramirez behind as he goes to apprehend the person. He draws his gun and follows strange sounds into a very dark part of the tunnels; he comes upon what appears to be a larder, where the bodies of some of the missing teenagers are hanging upside down from the ceiling. He sees a reptilian tail slither around a corner and follows it, coming out onto a catwalk. Suddenly, another victim's body, wrapped up in plastic, is thrown at him; Sloan only has time to utter, "Oh no," before he is suddenly attacked from behind as an unseen figure attempts to asphyxiate him. Sloan passes out, but wakes up momentarily to see that it is one of the hooded people from before, who also has snake-like eyes, who attacked him. The hooded person drags him down the tunnel, and Sloan is unable to free himself or resist. Meanwhile, Ramirez and Spike come upon the larder, and see that there is a stationary camera watching them. Spike's camera reveals that there are many more symbols, comprising an entire language, all over the walls. With her gun drawn, Ramirez walks down a flight of stairs, and they hear hissing all around them. Spike keeps insisting that they simply leave and save themselves, but Ramirez refuses to leave without Sloan. They discover more bodies, and Spike's camera reveals that the bodies' hands are marked with the same symbol that Sloan was given. Ramirez investigates something dripping from a catwalk above them, and they suddenly see Sloan on above them, face-down and wrapped up in plastic like the bodies. However, he is still alive. When their presence becomes known, the person who was dragging him runs away before they can see him. Ramirez runs to free Sloan before he can suffocate, and Spike, fed up with the situation, leaves on his own. Sloan tells Ramirez to leave him behind and get out while she can, but she refuses. She suddenly hears squealing and hisses all around her, and fires at a shape with a tail, but seems to miss. Another person suddenly appears below them, snarling at them and staring with piercing snake-like eyes, but she fires at him, too. Ramirez frees Sloan, but the hissing is growing louder. Spike, meanwhile, is utterly lost and in a panic. As he tries to read the directions out of the tunnels, he sees another stationary camera above him. He tries to escape, but suddenly sees one of the hooded figures, who attacks him. Ramirez and Sloan try to escape as well, and Ramirez fires twice at another of the hooded figures at the top of a flight of stairs and hits her mark. She discovers Spike, who has suffocated to death, at the top of the stairs. Ramirez comes upon the body of the man she shot, who seems to be bleeding glowing blue blood, and removes his hood. For a brief moment, in full view of her camera, Ramirez sees that the man no longer looks like a human, and instead has a very scaly-looking face. Sloan yells for her to look out, but it is too late; another of the reptilians has snuck up on Ramirez and asphyxiates her with plastic wrap. The bodies of Sloan, Ramirez, and Spike were never recovered. Though their surveillance equipment was confiscated, no arrests were made, and the task force was abolished because of "budget cuts." The raves continue to occur throughout the country, and with them the disappearance of those who attend them. Deaths: 3+ (Several teenagers, Spike, Detectives John Sloan and Rhonda Ramirez) | |||||