Lost Tapes Chronicles: Kraken

Chris and artist Maggie the Odd continue their look at Animal Planet's found footage horror anthology series that often misses but sometimes lands its cryptids subject matter: Lost Tapes. This episode is all about the one and only Kraken, a giant sea monster with a reputation that precedes it.

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Episode Transcript

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We're there are creatures science refuses torecognize. If our eyes see it,

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if our cameras capture it, doesit exist? Do you believe? Hell?
Everyone, and welcome to another episodeof Lost Tape Chronicles. Here at
Scary Stories, we tell I amyour host, Kristashi, and I'm joined
one skin as always by my cohost, the one and only artist among
town man among men, one ofthose three guys. Yeah, yeah,

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that's me. Howdy's true? Itis you. How are you doing,
Maggie? Surviving so far? Feelingpretty funky fresh? Now that we got
what our fifth water episode? Now, yeah, god, yes, and
guess what, Chris, we seeit. Yeah, we actually see it.
So it's legitimately a Kraken episode.Yeah. So, on this episode

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of the Lost Tape Chronicles, weare talking about the second episode of the
third season of Animal Planets Lost Tapes, a show that used to be about
cryptids and might still be, orat least about big animals, which okay,
yeah sure, why yeah, soyeah, on this episode we're gonna
be talking about the Kraken. Thisepisode aired the same evening as the zombie

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episode September twenty eight, twenty ten, a different time A simpler time.
And this episode once again has astrange cold open which involves two guys getting
attacked by the Krack in which thenyou think is going to be the Enigma
Corporation, but instead it's a kindof Josh Gates documentary film crew, Jacques

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Cousteau guy A little bit kind oftreasure. Yeah, treasure hunting, that's
all you need to know. Graverobbing, I don't know, man loves
his treasure. Seems like a realasshole. A bit that I think that
I think is kind of the biggerissues. So yeah, we have the
character of Derek Barrow, who isa treasure hunter who is going to look

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for a Finnish ship that has Russiantreasure and they find the ship, and
upon finding the ship, they haveone of their guys go down and dive
to look for it, and wouldn'tyou know, the Kraken attacks him and
kills him, and unbeknownst to everybodyon board the ship, they don't know
that he's dead. It just seemslike he's dead. But they then send

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another person down, right, Imean it's like they're operating on real dumb
shit logic. As they would say, a bit like dude is way too
into his treasure, and like,I appreciate that they mentioned two thousand leagues
under the seat, but this isno Captain Nemo, and I wish people
would understand who the fuck Captain Nemowas and stopped comparing every asshole captain that

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wants his treasure to Captain Nemo.That's more Ahab territory. Thank you.
That is my rant for this one, because yeah, Captain Nemo is not
a bad guy. Captain Ahab is. Captain Nemo is. Captain Nemo just
doesn't like people, and I understandwhy. Yeah, he's still an asshole,
but like, yeah, okay,so he you know, held people

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hostage because they went on a mythicvoyage with him. But still it's like,
come on, man, he didn'tgive a shit about treasure. He
just wanted the conservation of a land. So yeah, okay, I think
I think on the face of it, this episode has some interesting ideas.
I like the idea of a crackin there in the middle of the ocean,
which I think is scary, likebeing on a boat in the middle

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of the ocean and this creature isattacking and making it so you can't go
anywhere, and then it's kind ofthere in the water where you are looking
for the treasure. Like I likeall of that, but then you have
the characters acting like fucking nimro Oh. Yeah, the people in this episode
are not good beyond morons, tothe point where it's it's hard once again

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to empathize with any of the charactersbecause they're so fucking stupid. I do
not remember any of their fucking well, you don't even have to remember their
names. All you have to rememberis that they all willingly go into the
water. Yeah, when they knowsomething is up, I mean right,
like they're they're like, oh no, no, no, like he could
still be alive. It's like youhaven't heard from him in like an hour.

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Yeah, I was about to saythat is probably the weirdest move in
this whole episode, is that theyjust assume he's chilling down below in the
water, Like that's not a thingpeople do. They don't just chill forty
feet underwater and not respond to anyof your signaling, like, oh,
if you found the treasure, it'slike legitimately he would be like, well,

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guys, wait do you see thisbecause it's twenty ten, so so
what did you think of the crackin itself? Okay? Uh. First
of all, CGI was not upto part, but that's okay. I'm
trying not to hold that against them, because the CGI is real. It's
they tried. They at least tried, And I will say some of the
visual I don't want to say visualgags because that makes it seem laughable,

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which it kind of was, butI don't want to insult it this time
because they tried it. There's afew that I thought was really cool.
One they brought the animal facts back. They've done dang the bile luminescence mentioned,
and then you get to see agiant glowing thing under the water.
Good visual dig it. Whoever thefuck went underwater for a time then got

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spat back up was covered in ink, and it's like, okay, good
visual. We're actually solidifying the creaturein this environment. CGI was not good
and they didn't really show any ofthe aggression have like an impact on the
boat. You get a lot ofthe star Trek shaky cam technique. Oh
my god, it's like rife withit. Oh it's the only thing that

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is It's like not that hard torock a boat without capsizing it. So
I was impressed that they went asfar as going like whoa, but not
actually doing anything that would affect theenvironment, including the water, which once
again they've done water effects where theymoved something in the water just for like
a little bit of something. TheCGI isn't convincing when it's like absolutely splaccid.

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Yeah, it's a very CAUTI apparently. Yeah, there there's never a
sense of the size of the creaturebeing actually conveyed on screen, like it
feels right for the CGI, butit's like really hard foreshortening. So yeah,
the CGI is not good, soit doesn't help. But yeah,
the size of this creature is neverreally conveyed. And that's the thing.

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You know, krakens. Krakins havebeen around for a very long time.
I mean it still exists. Krakinsare you know, being described as far
back as the seventeen hundreds. Butif they come from the like sailors,
superstition and mythology, because again they'rethey're out in the ocean, traveling all

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this way around the world, andthey're seeing things that they are having a
hard time explaining, and you know, you know, you have these wood
carvings of giant octopuses eating ships,and that's where this idea comes from,
this idea that you know, thesekrakens live off the coast of Norway.
Kraking is a Norwegian word and it'sI guess, I guess For me,

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I don't really have a connection tosomething like krakens because I'm not a sea
person, and so I'm trying tofigure out if they did this creature justice
because like I don't really have aframe of reference outside of pop culture stuff.
Yeah, that's fair. I mean, honestly, just googling giant squid
pictures and knowing that some have washedup on shore as well as like deep

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sea footage of that ship is justabsolutely I mean, it's daunting in a
very beautiful way. And the factthat they have mass intelligence is also one
of those factors that really make ita scary not necessarily enemy, it's with
the aggression it becomes an enemy,which I'm glad that they brought up the
rarity of squids being aggressive, butwhen they are, they're very smart about

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it, very like meticulous. Itwould be tremendous seeing a giant squid just
like wrapped around a ship because it'sin its territory, which didn't be out
of the realm of possibility. Yeah, especially it's territorial right well. And
it's just one of those things whereit's like they touched on portraying the scale
and the effect of it, butit was mostly all build up. It

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was just one of those things whichI think a lot of oceanic movies as
well as TV shows tend to dowhere it's a lot of just the looming
dread of not seeing it but interactingwith it. It's usually held at the
very ass end and it's like no, no, no, man. They're
usually pretty methodical about it. Theymight not be like the actively seek out

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your boat of like Moby Dick,but it's not terribly far either, especially
if you're going to a specific spotfor treasure that has been gone to many
times for treasure, so kind ofmakes it like you're a self fulfilling prophecy
type of thing, which I thinkis still intriguing, and they could have

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pushed on it a little bit more, but as far as conveying like the
mythological scale of this sucker, well, but that's it well, and that
and that's the thing that's the thingabout the Krack in is so, like
you mentioned, there are giants squid. Giants squid exist, but giant squid
and giant octopus are two different things. This is a giant ass octopus bigger

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than any giant squid ever could be. Yeah, which, again, like
the size of this thing that theyshow in this episode seems more like a
giant squid than a giant octopus.Its size is not very well conveyed.
It's Yeah, like you said,there's octopus as tangible man a boat it
should have and it's it's barely interactingwith the boat, you know. That's

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that's the issue is, like yousaid, there's not there's not a real
sense of the krack in interacting withanyone once they're above the water. I
mean, you know there are there'sthe female character that goes in and she
gets you know, spit up backout with the ink all over her.
There is the character that gets killedunderwater. Then there's like another character.

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You see his body and it's likecrushed a bit. But it's like other
than that, there's no physical evidenceof the scale, like the suckers or
the beak, Like right, there'splenty of things to solidify that and how
dangerous. It can be that theyjust kind of especially when you know this
show has done really nice makeup job, like you take too much. It

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realized recently is last season. It'sI know, it feels like an over
reliance on CGI because, yeah,you have the only interactions with the people
and the creature are these like CGItentacles that come out of the water.
Yeah, and it going underneath theboat very flatly, but it went onto
the boat, right and then youlike you see it kind of out in

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the distance lit up. But that'sit. Yeah, it's it's I don't
know, it's it's so strange tome because this is the one Water episode
where they I really thought they wouldnail it, and I mean, to
be fair, it's definitely not theworst on this at least they did make
a story that was central to this, so it makes sense. It's just

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the execution fell very short in myopinion. Well, that's the thing.
I mean, like you mentioned thatthere are no more Water episodes. This
is the last one, so fromhere on out it's all going to be
terrestrial stuff. So I guess,I mean, I think this might be
the best Water episode thinking back onthe rest of them. Yeah, this

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one at least seems a lot moretogether, which I can appreciate, Like,
yeah, the human characters are garbage, but it's not like I really
rooted for anybody in the past episodes, just saying well, and and that
for me is the thing that Ithink about when I think about this show
is that it didn't do a verygood job of giving me a reason to

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care about these characters anyways, becauseonce again, the real issue with a
lot of these characters in this showis they're not much of a character anyways.
They're just like they're just like thisstereotype stand in that exists to die.
Yeah, And honestly, this season'spretty brutal with like leave no survivors,
Like the last two seasons were atleast somewhat generous and having a survivor

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or a handful where it's just oneperson died. But no, this is
very stark, like why would Icare about these characters. It's very much
the early thousand slasher flick mentality whereit's like, just put these stereotypes out
and boom done. Yeah, Andthat's the thing, like in every single
one of these episodes that we've seen, you know, recently, and so
far this season it's like the charactersjust don't matter and it'll probably continue,

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and it hasn't there I guess therehasn't really been a push at any point
in this show. So I can'tsay I'm surprised to develop any of these
characters, which is fine, butyou gotta give us a little bit more
because otherwise we will be completely uninvestedand we'll we're just waiting for them to
die right well, and especially whenyou introduce a wraparound concept like this is

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the second episode of season three andwe have not heard a peep of Enigma
Corporation other than our usual routine fromthe last two seasons. It's very strange
having like expendable characters that don't comeback and then inconsistencies right off the rip
with episodes, no explanation, nonothing. It was very experimental and weird.

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Yeah, why wasn't Why wasn't itpeople from Enigma Corporation going out to
look for the crack and they setit up that way. They have one
plant in there being like that's theperson that's like, all right, we
need to cut the line, andthen the guy's like, no, I'll
want Metricia and then that's the conflict, like why else would that Dangiz be
recording everything other than it's like,oh, well it's for a documentary.

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Well I loved an Enigma Corp spyon that one. Well that well,
there needed to be something with theEnigma Corp because they set it up with
the opening that like there's this thinghappening and it's killing people, and it's
like it feels like that's something thatsomeone is seeing that should be doing something
about it, right, So Idon't get it. It's it's so strange.

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It's so it's such a strange choice. This is again you know,
like the water creatures are such ahard thing to nail, and this one
kind of works better because it's ona boat. So therefore it feels the
least formulaic of the last five.Yeah, because all the other ones are
like yeah, yeah, yeah,god, it's it's better than the other

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water episodes. But that is notsaying essentially anything. Yeah. Yeah,
that's a really low bar. Yeahsaying you trumped out cat noodling catastrophe.
Yeah, it's it's not raising fartoo high for you. No, And
that's and that's the thing. It'slike I don't. I guess I don't
understand, And just so I don'tunderstand how. I don't understand how they

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have such a hard time nailing thenailing these episodes with these creatures that like
write the episode themselves. It's strange. It's almost like they forget the details
that make it scary and they hopethat just throwing out raw facts and dangerous
scenarios that it kind of levels thegrit, like the gravity of it,

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and it's just not quite It takesaway a lot of the mystique behind it,
Like this one was shot like inthe day, daytime, right,
there was no late night attack orthat was essentially no. The very end
was them getting attacked at night.Okay, because they needed the night for
the bioluminescence, but that was theonly advantage that they took over that.

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And even then, it's like thereare other things that you can do to
signal that there is something interacting withthis boat and with water and holding your
boat still, Like they didn't evenrev the boat end engine to see if
they could get away or something likethat. There was no real interaction with
it. They were talking around it. It's very strange. Well, and

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then The other thing is, youknow, if you were if you're talking
about the real giant squid, whichI think this would be more akin to
the colossal squid, which is whichis a which is a difference the colossal
squid. Is it exhibits abyssal gigantismbecause it lives so far underwater. Yes,

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and so you know, for anoctopus to exist at this high level
is very weird. Yeah, Andit's like forty six feet long at its
longest, like this, this octopuswould have to be as big as that,
which like again is just not it'sit just hasn't It's not a real
thing. But the squids are areal thing, and it is scary.
But like we've mentioned, they don'tactually attack people. No, it's a

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very rare, rare thing in normalsquids, let it loan squids that also
understand the concept of just how giantthey are in the world. That's you
know, that's just a hard conceptto really really convey without some physical interaction

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to happen. Yeah, and thereisn't any And you know, showing a
tentacles jumping out of the water andsmacking someone in the face, is not
enough. It's yeah, especially withshaky cam like it just does not have
the same effect. Yeah, no, and that's and that is the other
thing. I mean, they don'tThey don't do a very good job of
conveying the sense of claustrophobia on theboat, which they should have done,

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because again, that's part of thiswhat makes as scary as you're in the
middle of nowhere on this boat withthis giant octopus attacking the boat, but
it doesn't really ever attack the boat, attack the boat, and then yeah,
it's I don't know. I havea hard time really getting motivated about
these big water creatures anyways, primarilybecause of how poorly the show has done

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them. Yeah, and really,if you go simple, it's very effective
any time that like a water creatureinteraction has happened, Like you know what,
just for ships and giggles, let'sthrow out legend as an example with
the seahag scene, It's like,yeah, the creature costume was absolutely fantastic,
but it was the fact that youcould not see its approach. That's
what makes crocodiles so creepy for me, where it's like, no, they're

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silent, they just drift along.You could barely see them in general,
and they're fast and strong and they'resmart. They're built to survive. And
it's like same concept with like thesebig creatures. They get so big for
a reason, Like they still startout as babies. It's just they've been
around because they've survived. Being ableto put that perspective in motion is really

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key, and I think you don'tneed to overdo it. If the boat
rocked suddenly, or if like itrevved and was going absolutely nowhere, like,
you don't even have to. Iwas fully prepared to be disappointed that
we don't see the crack in whatsoever, but they would just kind of like
have these little bob points and itstill would have been interesting. It would

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have been a copile, but itstill would have been interesting. This one
was the opposite. We got tosee the creature, but there's no like
off kilter things going on. Well, and that's and that's the thing.
It's like, so you have thisopportunity now where you're out on a boat
in the middle of nowhere, youcan do some kind of different things with
the narrative, and instead of doinganything, they just they really just use

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the boat as if it were land. Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
It's they're like safe spot. Butit's like, dude, if you were
out in the ocean, Like,that's a relatively small ship. It's not
like a fucking pirate galleon that yousee the kraken usually wrapped around, right,
So this is like a eat deaththing. Yeah, this is like
a tiny ship. Yeah, it'sagain, the creature's size is not made

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very apparent that it's actually a kracket. It seems more like a giant squid,
and giant squids are scary. Imean, colossal squids are scary.
To a creature's forty six feet longbecause it lives in the dark, deep
areas of the water. Water isscary, but you know, they don't
actually attack people. That's the problem. They're scarier in fiction than they are

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in real life because they don't actuallyattack people, which again, like that
doesn't matter at all, but butit's still a good detail right there.
And also, this episode doesn't doenough anyways to really be interesting, and
it really falls short of being ascary krack in episode. It falls short
of being a scary episode in general. But as the most successful water episode

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that means very little, right.There has been less spectacular attempts at that.
Not that this was the worst episodeeither, but it just it doesn't
quite hit the same way. AndI was trying to think if it would
have been better if, instead ofthe treasure being the main plot point,
whether it was a hunt for thekraken, But I don't I don't know

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if that would make it better orworse. I think it's just such an
a strange interaction that wasn't as fleshedout as I wanted it to be,
especially with like the reintroduction of likeway more animal facts behind this one,
and like they didn't even mention thefact that a lot of them like camouflage
themselves, Like I thought for surethey were going to put that out.

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Yeah, they can essentially go invisible, right because they had camera footage like
underwater, so I figured they wouldhave mentioned that, just as like a
Mulligan for well, why haven't weseen this giant, massive thing that we
have attached to our boat and it'slike camouflage, bro, And it's like
not they mentioned literally everything else.But the real question that I have for
you is how do you feel aboutthe way the episode ends with the look

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into the octopus's eye? Oh?I know, right, isn't that just
so iconic, right, so cheese, Like, oh dude, I know
what they were going for. Imean, I get it, but I
know, it's just it looks socheesy. It's so bad, especially when
like that's one of the few scenesthat you actually see the creature, Like

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just general wreckage would have been moredaunting. Yeah. I think that's the
real problem is the fact that thefinal shot of the episode that really crutches
itself with CGI is a look intoa giant octopus I a reflection of a
giant octopus I with CGI, Andit's like, oh, man, like
this this is often, this isreally bad. Just don't dig a bigger

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hole for yourself. Ye please,thank you? And why did the captain
survive? That's what I didn't understand, dide. I was pissed off.
He was all about like, Imean, yeah, I guess survivor is
guilt because he was the one makingthe dumbest choices aside for like actually doing
it. But but everybody else diedand he's the only one that survives.
Like that seems I don't know's it'sa straight it's a strange episode. I'm

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glad that it's a water episode thatthree quarters works better than all the other
ones. But again, the waterepisodes with this show are just, oh
dismal. I don't know what thehell is wrong with them in water it's
like a curse. And they neverdid a Lockness Monster episode, which is
wild to me. No Paleocryptids,like, no, no, it's not

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a thing, no for for suchoh my god, for such a well
known like the I would say,like in the top three, it's like
bigfoot Lockness Monster and then what Chupacabra. Maybe, yeah, I guess lost
Man's definitely high ranking YETTI, LikeI don't fucking know, but like the
Lockness Monster is always in that conversation. Yeah, I mean that's the Quintessen.

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That's like the first thing you thinkof for most people, for most
people. And yeah, and withthat, there is no Lockness Monster episode.
Can you believe that? I honestlyhave a hard time believing this show
didn't do a Lockness Monster episode.To be fair, anytime that they do,
like Famous Cryptids, they totally eatship though, so it's like maybe

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they they're like, we probably shouldn't. I mean that's fair, But at
the same time, I don't knowthey have eaten shit on everything else.
Anyway, you've gone this far.Three seasons is a hell of a long
time. Yeah, it's it's verystrange to me that the krack in is
how they end the water episodes,because right, go figure, it's a

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very basic creature. But I meananimal facts. I guess still they could
have done animal facts for the lacknessmonster too easily. Dinosaur facts. It's
just give us pleasure facts like Icome, please, Yeah, it's I
don't know, I am I'm soI don't know. I'm so disappointed by
the show's lack of care given tothe cryptid Like, yeah, like the

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cryptids are supposed to be the focusof the show. The show is about
interacting with these kind of mythological cryptidcreatures, and yet like it's just like,
now, they should have been workingaround the interactions with the creatures first
and then build everything else off ofthat, Right, characters make sense because
it seems like they were grasping atstraws for scenarios to put people in those

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places when really there's like a wholeslew of reasons for like people to be
around these cryptids, and like,I don't even know why they haven't done
like a straight up Oh well we'rehunting cryptid, so cryptid reasons, right,
like bigot hunt. Right. Iunderstand why they don't do these things,

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but at the same time, it'slike you're allowed to like, yeah,
yeah, people do this shit allthe damn time. Yeah, I
don't understand. I'm I'm glad thatwe're done with the water episodes because they
were a real drag. Oh they'rea pill. Yeah, and I'm I'm
really not wanting to have to dealwith any more of this show's lack less
your attempts at making water scary.But yeah, what what a shame that

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they didn't do a luck in asponsor episode. I know, terrible And
that for me is like it's astrange thing because you know, the krack
In is a not a literary creature, but again it's a creature inspired by
something that's real, yeah, whichis the giant squid. Because I don't
think the crack can exists, butthe giant squid does, which is what

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people were seeing. So the giantsquid is scary, but it's just not
aggressive. Well, it's like anothergiant animal episode, Like we've seen a
billion and a half of those things. So it's like, Okay, yeah,
I could see the line of logic, sure, but especially in a
season that initially presented itself as notquite following the script to what they were

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trying to, you know, modelan episode around, it's like, Okay,
we're just making it up. Exceptfor this one. You can definitely
see, like the team seems abit more on this so far. Yeah.
Well, and and the other thingI think about is, like you
just mentioned, there is a lackof the through line that they've presented in

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the first episode, which is strangeand I don't And the next episode has
the Enigma Corporation again, but likethere, it's I figured it was going
to be every episode they were goingto reintroduce them, Yeah, because that
would make sense, And especially soearly in the season, it's very weird.
Yeah, to do a back toback airing on one night and only

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one of those episodes is an Enigmaone, but then the next time you
do it. Yeah, I don'tget it. I don't get it.
I don't get I don't get alot of the decisions that are being made
right now with the show because Idon't, like we've talked about I don't
really think that there needed to beany overarching mythology, but the fact,
you know, the fact that thereis now is okay. But they of
course aren't doing it very well,so that almost not okay, right.

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It almost seems like it was liketheir PR department saying, all right,
now, you guys need to doyou know, an episode on all of
these creatures. Also, we developedthis keen idea used if you want,
if you're having trouble figuring out howto get a camera in the mix,
and it's like, I mean,it's still not very intuitive, like,
yeah, sure, Enigma Corp.Gets sent out to like monitor these things,

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but at the same time or something, it's like why, I get
why they're recording, but it stilldoesn't make sense because they're not doing a
very good job. Like I saidin the last episode. Yeah, and
it's made very clear to us thatI think they're never going to do a
very good job. No, it'sjust very strange. I don't know why
I have the overarc if it's notgoing to be a significant development in this

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season. I don't know. Itseems like this is this was the season
that they knew they were going toget canceled, So I think like the
crack In is one of the olderepisodes that got revamped to fill spot,
like a spot out this season orsomething like that, where they could only
record x amount of new episode,but they had plenty of the role from
previous seasons that they didn't get touse. I don't know. That's my

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main theory on it, because it'slike, why why would they go through
like such pageantry to introduce the EnigmaCorporation to then just be like, oh
yeah, I'm having a hard timemyself figuring that out. Maybe that is
the case. I mean, itwouldn't surprise me given this show and our
kind of feelings on the Water episodes, on the other episode or the other

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seasons of the show, where we'reconvinced that those were interchangeable, Oh yeah,
easily. I'm sure if somebody's CGIhad a fucking squid in any of
the other episodes, it's like,oh yeah, that works, or octopus,
that's a crack Well, that's theKraken. Yeah, it's like,
well, okay, yeah, Idon't know. I'm I'm glad that the
Water episodes are over, but I'mbummed that there's no lock nest, But

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yeah, I think, like yousaid, maybe it's better that there wasn't.
Yeah. I just think that anytime that they do one of like
the hot celebrity cryptids, it's justso weird, just weird. They make
very strange choices. I think themost successful out of the bunch that we
have seen so far was Mothman,and that's because it was so batshit insane.

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It's like, Okay, yeah,sure, why not. I can
appreciate the lengths you took to getto this point. Yeah, No,
Mothman was kind of weird, butMothman, like being a period piece,
was kind of different. Yeah,it's kind of Yeah. The Bigfoot,
Yeah, the Bigfoot episode I don'tremember, but I don't think it's much
of anything. It was the huntingparty. That was the oh you're getting

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married to her dark Oh no,that was the Southern Sasquatch. The Bigfoot
Bigfoot episode was before. Yeah,that was like season run ship that.
I think it's like episode two,but it's not very it's not very good.
It's like a park ranger in thewoods and like the Bigfoot is like
protecting her from poachers. Essentially,it's not very good. Yeah. Oh,

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my god. Yeah, I guessI forgot that one too. I
mean that one's not great. Yeah, and like Jersey Evil, that one
wasn't that great idea. Yeah.No, the Moffman kind of walks away
as the kind of winner of thebig champions so far. I mean again,
there are some bigger ones before weend the season, but god,

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yeah no, no more Water LocknestMonster out of the running. I wonder
what their Locknest Monster episode would havebeen, Like, I'm genuinely curious what
it would have been. I know, I am glad that we're we're saved
from terrible Scottish accents, so that'syeah, right, Yeah. The Owlman
of Monand was enough. H yeah, please, no, don't you're doing

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it's the Awlman of Bonn and likethe holiest place in the chapel. Fucking
awful, real, real bad.I just love that a pedestal was the
holiest place in a goddamn church.It's like, oh cool, yeah,
oh man, it's the scaredest he'snot touching that, oh my word.
Yeah yeah, And you know whatway to go out on a medium high

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note for the Water episodes, guy, Yeah, I can appreciate the understated,
but we got to see the creature. There were people talking about the
krack in at least during the lasthalf, so that's a plus. Yeah.
I again, I am enjoying thisseason for what we're kind of how

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weird it is comparatively, but Iam not to itself. Yeah, I
don't. I don't know when theseason's over. So far this season has
definitely been very strange, so we'llsee. And yeah, the getting that
final water episode out of the waythis early is not a bad thing,
So no, I'll take him.That's fine. Yeah, So on the

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next episode of the Lost Tapes Chronicles, we're gonna be talking about vampires again.
Why why the Holy Strucally I havea hard time understanding what they didn't
say the last time they did avampire episode. Last two times that they've
done vampire episode, it's very fair. Yeah, there have been a few.

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Yeah, because there was those uhthose kind of the vampires in the
caves in Afghanistan, and then there'sthe vampires to be Mexico like not New
like New Mexico I guess, orwherever that is, the new desert.
Yeah, and it's like in thebasement. Yeah, yeah, it was
the beginning of the last season.Yeah, yeah, I don't don't know

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what's going on here. Three vampireepisodes sounds like a lot, especially when
you don't put in a lockedness,right, it's very strange. Yeah,
you know one of those situations whereyou're doing group projects and it turns out
that three groups turned in the sameproject and you're like, hmmm, I
can't but I can't help but compareyou to one another. Sorry, Yeah,
did we do some cheating guys?Do we need to change some names

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around real quick before we air these? Yeah? I don't. I'm not.
I'm not hopeful, So yeah,I can't blame you. I really
can't blame you. So until then, where can people find you? Maggie?
Oh? Me personally? You canfind me at the Dolan Museum Dolan
Museum dot com, d O lI N. That has just a collection

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of a bunch of stuff I've beenworking on. And my YouTube channel is
Dolan the Odd taa As for me, you can find me at cstashu dot
com, cstacchiw dot com. That'smy link tree. Go there for all
the things that I work on,which are a lot. So yeah,

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that's um that's where you can findme. As for this show, scary
Stories, we tell dot com scarystories wt on all social media. But
don't go there. Just listen tothe show. That's all you gotta do.
Keep listening, rate and review oniTunes all that good shit. Maggie,
thank you for joining me. Asalways, of course, anytime,
anytime there are cryptids vaguely involved,vaguely they passed over, right, Yeah

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and yeah, we'll let our goodfriend, the former host of siding is
mister Tim White, lead us out. No mystery is closed to an open mind.