Don't Lie, This Show Had You Fooled | The LOST TAPES Files: Part 1

Today we look back at Animal Planet's Lost Tapes Season 1, examining the episodes: Chupacabra, Bigfoot, Monster of Monterey, Swamp Creature, and Oklahoma Octopus.
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0:00 Intro
1:48 Chupacabra
5:34 Bigfoot
10:38 Monster of Monterey
16:38 Swamp Creature
22:42 Oklahoma Octopus
29:24 Outro
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[@tormented5636]

Fun fact: the poacher in the bigfoot episode is played by Bill Oberst Jr. He played the creep in the Take this lollipop short, and Abraham Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies.

[@RaptorofRex07]

Well that explains why he is in Lost Tapes

[@purfield7393]

As a trail worker the bigfoot episode still scares me lol, the idea of being totally alone in the woods and being stalked by a creepy pyscho poacher is terrifying

[@GirlYouDontKnow-rx3lm]

I ain't gonna lie: this show had me fooled and I was 15. Even though deep down, I knew it wasn't real, it still freaked the shit out of me. Now I'm a huge horror and monster fan and I definitely enjoy these episodes as guilty pleasures. Great video, Audrie! All your Race to the Edge jokes had me dying, by the way.

[@Graycata]

Yeah, I wasn't fully sure if it was real or not when I was 14

[@johnmcmanus2447]

I was in my early 20s and thought it was real 😂

[@fishboi9582]

All my respect goes out to the octopus survivor at the end of the video. He fought death and won. A real American hero

[@tc-tm1my]

He was being pretty creepy with the girl

[@williamcrandall]

Ah-hoy SpongeBob, I've overdosed on kettimean and am going to die!

[@nojo9308]

This is the most underrated channel. I can’t tell you the last time I laughed this hard at the editing on a video. Keep making these it’s amazing

[@BrandonTheOne2]

33K is underrated? If it is in your opinion I agree

[@NotHippyJustLazy]

That ongoing joke with the Alligator song made me laugh a lot more than it should. 😂

[@andrewquintero7026]

Alligator 🐊 gang for life

[@flowers2734]

The fact that this channel features both how to train your dragon and lost tapes content makes me wish I had met all of y’all when I was in highschool , I was legit the only one who would talk about This show

[@ignaciomg500]

That Mr Krabs edit had me dying on the floor lmao For real tho, this is an amazing video!

[@hollow_specter2063]

You mentioned Doom music, and I was like "Now I wanna listen to Doom." A couple tracks turned into listening to the entire Doom 2016 soundtrack before I got back here. Great vid btw! Will def watch more

[@sprintdistance]

Finally someone else who saw this and it wasn't imagined by me. My favorites was the unnecessarily creepy Jersey Devil and the random yeti one on a random military ship or sub (I forget which) that was probably the worst one Btw that sail boat start sound was accurate and the correct location

[@aslanpedersen7467]

The Bigfoot episode, the Monster of Monterrey episode and the Hellhound episode scared the fuck outta me.

[@vagurl84]

An octopus in freshwater ate 3 people? 😂 I remember this show and was so confused after the first episode because I think they made it look like it was real.

[@Coolbro22vr]

Bruh that’s called the Oklahoma Octopus 🐙

[@gammothguy4866]

I don’t even know how I stumbled upon this show on KZbin at a 10 year old, but all I remember is that the vampire episode scared the ever living shit out of me

[@logangutierrez981]

I was laughing hysterically at “AHOY SPONGEBOB IVE OVERDOSED ON KETAMINE” 😂

[@mousermind]

I grew up in Oklahoma. The scariest thing I ever saw in a lake there was a bunch of leeches. I was the only one smart enough not to swim there.

[@stevenramseyuhu4860]

Dude I’ve been binge watching your stuff while I’m studying. It’s hilarious and makes good points. Love your edits!

[@Hanathebana]

OH my gosh, this show scared me so bad I went to my dad in tears and he had to look it up and tell me it wasn't real and reassure me. I almost hesitated in clicking this because I don't want it to give me nightmares again! Great video

[@rahnal21]

I don’t know why but I wanted to do a rewrite of this show where all the monsters are instead prehistoric creatures, so here is my synopsis for episodes 1 - 5 of The Lost Tapes: Prehistoric Edition Major changes for every episode: Each episode features every creature on screen much more often than the show. the Testimonials are about the sightings and the sightings alone and are used more sparingly and at the beginning and ending alone Episode 1 - Velociraptor Episode 2 - Therizinosaurus Episode 3 - Elasmosaurus Episode 4 - Kaprosuchus Episode 5 - Ammonite Episode 1 starts with the same premise of the original version with a family being ditched somewhere in the desert. They are then attacked by a pack 5 Velociraptors and it is implied they have no weapons and no car. One of the parents is killed by the raptors while the other is mortally wounded. Later, the surviving parent and child are being stalked by the pack and the parent decides to call, border patrol to hide the kid and sacrifices him/herself and distracts the swift thieves. Border patrol arrives and finds the kid but then cops are distracted by some noises and are attacked by the Velociraptors. One cop dies and the other scares the raptors away by shooting in their general direction. The remaining cop and child are on their way out when one of the dromaeosaurs jumps out for one last scare and before being tossed out the door or window and tumbles down the road but still survives. The pack of raptors are implied to have moved on to somewhere in the vast desert region. Episode 2, starts with not Kristen Belle in addition to earring unknown animal screeches, finds massive claw marks on the trees and large theropod footprints in the woods as well as a deer with huge slashes on it. Later, she briefly spots the culprit in the distance, a Therizeinosaurus. Later, she looks for the massive dinosaur and it attacks her and follows her to the cabin where it busts open a window as it swipes at her. In the scene where not Kirsten Belle is confronted by Poacher Guy, the Theri comes back and chases away poacher guy who shoots the dinosaur twice in the leg and once on its side. Not Kristen Belle finds the injured Theri and convinces it that she is not a threat. She then heals the Theri and feeds it over the course of a few weeks and protects from the poacher, forming a bond between the two. At the scene where not Kristen Belle is confronted by poacher guy and company at the cabin, the Therizinosaurus, now fully healed, charges in and kills all the poachers (and there is no dangling corpse). Episode 3 features Cheren out boating and is not in contact with anybody on land and is recording but not live streaming her trip. She hears the guy dying on the radio and is rightfully concerned. Shortly after, her boat is bumped by something in the water. Cheren soon spots the silhouette of the Elasmosaurus. She soon dives into the water to get a closer look with a video camera to record her find and is chased out of the water by a shark. She later spots the shark’s corpse and shortly after finding the boat with blood all over it, the Elasmosaurus rams itself into the boat before revealing itself. As the plesiosaur lunges at her, Cheren who doesn’t have any weapons with her tries to fight back using makeshift weapons such as paddles. After the sea creatures slithers it head back into the water, Cheren decides to get the heck out of there and drive away as fast as possible, only for the marine reptile to damage the rudders and bite onto Cheren as it tries to drag her into the water and then knocks her in when it rams the boat again. Cheren fails to get back on the boat as the shadow of the Elasmosaurus is seen menacingly swims towards her before dragging her underwater. Episode 4 has the two main character people investigating the swamp when the guy jumped by a Kaprosuchus and the two abandon the backpack as they run for their lives. Main character peoples meet Bud Ray and the guy steps on the eggs to which the Kapro returns and chases them again and biting the A-hole guy on the leg. The Kapro attacks the two main dudes in the tent and is scared off by Bud Ray. Episode 5 starts the same as the original version but faster paced as the college people go out on the platform in the lake but one of them has their leg injured by the Ammonite squeezing and tugging on them. The guy who gets the boat and is dragged underwater. I can’t come up with any new differences so the rest of the episode is pretty much the same besides the change of pacing and the cephalopod has a shell.

[@InitialPC]

I always wanted to see a Lost Tapes dinosaur episode, sadly that wont happen :(

[@KeirahWhite]

I'm glad this was randomly recommended to me, it was interesting! i didn't even know about this show. That education connection bit had me rolling lol

[@archerdelta4770]

I found you through this video looking for other people talking about Lost Tapes, 'cause it's a nostalgia trip I've been going down lately, and I'm so glad that being all grown up now looking back at this show and seeing how mediocre it is, but still having been traumatized by it growing up, is such a universal experience.

[@marianfranklin8383]

Loved this show, also the animal planet movie Dragons made Real and the Mermaid made real where both a good watch. Sadly, I heard there was a Werewolf made real but never got a chance to watch it.

[@Raptorworld22]

Just looked up the werewolf one and there's a review that describes it as "Basically a 2 hour slideshow with voice-over", so I wouldn't be too bummed.

[@hamishstewart5324]

Also, do you remember a mockumentary called Alien Planet?

[@Raptorworld22]

@@hamishstewart5324 Man that one was so good

[@horse14t]

The shows are Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real, Mermaids: The Body Found, and Werewolves: The Dark Survivors. The werewolf one is on KZbin though the quality isn't the greatest... I think I found an upload in better quality on Dailymotion though.

[@InitialPC]

theres also another one on hobbits called cannibal in the jungle, it has joe chill from batman begins in it!

[@totallynotlouie9820]

You’re the first KZbinr I have seen that has acknowledged this show exists. Thank you for taking about it since I unironically love this show.

[@andrewdellapiazza6118]

Every couple years or so I go through a faze where I feel the need to binge watch the series. Love the video!

[@KungfuKumquat]

Ah the good old lost tapes. That Jpeg raptor wing taking the old woman. Still gives me chills.

[@omegamysterio3701]

Legend has it that Ghetto Gator is still driving his Chevrolet movie theater and ruling that swamp to this day! Let's be honest Ghetto Gator was definitely making eggs with the Swamp Creature!🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊 Loving your content, I just found your channel this week and I'm having a great time! 😂

[@sasquatchproductions9088]

12:10 That, my friend, is a frilled shark. This thing is a living fossil, and it was long thought extinct until one just drifted in out of nowhere.

[@indiana47]

Boat engines do in fact not sound like that. For starters, they have lower pitch and have a gurgling sound because of the water, (at least the boats I have been on).

[@Raptorworld22]

The funniest thing about the Chupacabra episode to me, is that they heavily lean into the Mexico angle, then use the Cuero/Texan Chupacabra which is completely different from the original Mexican/central American Chupacabra. Texan Chupacabra: Mangy coyote/dog hybrid according to DNA samples we actually have of them. Mexican Chupacabra: Short reptilian vampire man with webbed armpits who glides at it's victims to drink their blood.

[@leecain5460]

Please continue making this series!

[@TR-td9ce]

I was thinking about this show yesterday and it’s great to reminisce on a show that I was definitely fooled by as a kid. Your reviews are awesome! Keep it up!

[@eddieblancher7557]

I first thought these they were real when I first saw it back in 2009, but I still watch every year, but only at daytime.

[@youdontneedto123]

THAT LAST CLIP WITH THE GUY IN THE POOL MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD WTH

[@CreepyBowen]

My daughter watched this show growing up, she absolutely loved it. When I came across this video I saved it for her to watch. We watched this together and it was driving me nuts but I finally realized who you reminded me of. You look like Kimberly Williams from According to Jim. You’re very pretty, and kinda fun to watch. Hope you get discovered big time.

[@thatfishingfella4672]

This show was absolute terrifying. The vampire episode got me the worst. I slept with the light on until I was like 15 because of it. Even though I realised it was fake years before. Your commentary is hilarious, love the video, thanks for the entertainment

[@lowcusyellow]

bruh, this show literally freaked me out as a kid. The centipede episode kept me up at night for some reason.

[@grazzhopper6799]

I remember being terrified at the alien buss episode and the vampire basement door episode.

[@KingKong19100]

My god you are fucking hilarious. Super well spoken and the amount of effort you put into this editing is astounding! PLEASE do more lost tapes videos these are amazing ahaha. We’re about the same age and I love that more people our age are starting to make videos on this series as opposed to a bunch of 40 year old dads sitting on the couch lmao

[@rexwrecks2735]

Ngl that little gator slowly crawling with the banjo music is kinda adorable.

[@QESTize]

this unlocked something in my brain about some cryptid show i saw as a kid. i think it was on the discovery channel but it wasnt this. it was presented by teens looking for stories about cryptids and i remember the mothman episode with a recreation of an encounter with it when it just straight up stood up beside the car in pitch black with red eyes. ive been trying to find it ever since. i think it was around 2008-10 so around when i was 9 or so. EDIT: i found it its mystery hunters

[@baneofthespliff]

This is such a dope channel, so glad I found you keep them up!

[@traviswartooth]

I love Lost Tapes! This is great. 3 mins in.. Subscribed.

[@Squashylemon]

I really enjoy this channel, I'm glad I found it!

[@adamkinnon6822]

Absolutely LEGENDARY editing on these videos lol

[@adamkinnon6822]

Particularly ghetto gator

[@yith2116]

12:10 Ah, yes! The adorable Frilled Shark!

[@MartinKobeCOriel]

Fun fact: The little girl who survived being drained by the Chupacabra was portrayed by Lexi Medrano, whom is best known for voice role in Trollhunters as Claire Nunez. There is no movie after the ToA trilogy.

[@whitekanye2162]

you're becoming one of my favorite channels

[@amsnadwich]

BROOÒ I USED TO LOVE THIS SHOW, YOU BROUGHY MY NOSTALGIA BACK. I'm not afraid of snakes but man the snake warehouse episode stuck with me, no matter how bad this show is I would stay up past my bedtime to watch it back in the day.

[@alexanderortiz807]

Just ran across you channel and I must say you didn’t disappoint! You my friend are hilarious. 😂 you’ve earned a sub from me.

[@alec116463]

found your content today love your use of dragons clips. you earned my sub

[@Jade_The_Squeak]

I just found out someone uploaded and have been binging the nostalgia

[@manniboi_drache1651]

Great show one of my favorites to this day

[@MyLoveliestRose]

As a born and raised Okie the Oklahoma Octopus one had me cackling. Never heard of it and even looked up what lake it was talking about being rumored in... Only to discover it says Lake Thunderbird aka Lake Dirtybird is one of the lakes it's said to be in, which I find infinitely hilarious as I've been to that lake plenty and never heard of this BS.

[@Singingshadowgirl]

I think around 14 I ran into an episode on KZbin, it was after a River Monster's binge, and so- it was a killer fish episode, which, well, I knew fish could kill you; I was confused if it was a true story and a reanactment- or what. The thought it could be real passed my mind, but-- I wasn't convinced. Then I watched the Octopus episode and- well that horror concept of something dragging you under water lives rent free in my head to this day, it, proceeded into the giant snake episode slowly cooled my anxiety that any of it could be real into a new show to binge because-- well it's hilarious.

[@romangodfrey2228]

Sooooo I’m late to these videos. But THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing these videos. I thought no one else remembered 😂😂

[@adochild93]

I remember this series! I still love it!

[@mortarion9813]

I choked - there's _more than one season_ of this?! Bro, I have some binge watching to do.

[@adamkinnon6822]

The Lost Tapes nostalgia trip hits different

[@kevinnorwood8782]

I SO WISH they made more seasons of this show, and I really wish that they had more like the Bigfoot episode where the Cryptid/Monster is actually the GOOD guy.

[@pixelgamergirl]

I knew the show wasnt real in my 20's when I use to love watching it, but the show legit use to creep me out on 3rd shift CNA work. We were working in assistanted living so the night shit was SLOW and quite so me and the nurse would put on Lost Tape Marathons (it ran like 3am-7am) and freak each other out.

[@Gamersargent]

Yass queen, I remember the vampire episode keeping me up for nights xD

[@crimsonbladewielder1975]

Oklahoma octopus was one of my favorite episodes as well

[@MamaManta]

I LOVED this series, oh the childhood trauma I got from this show was so memorable, I would love to see it come back some how with other cryptids in mind

[@tokkyu6497]

I love this show so much needs more attention

[@lilangel2653]

I thought the show was very funny to watch too but you made it so great I love this

[@Machamp-ps7wx]

As a kid It definitely had an eerie feel to where it wouldn’t be far off to see stuff like this in irl footage. Minus the bad acting. I wish they made episodes for the Ogua and Sheepsquatch ngl.

[@immasweetslovinggirl]

thanks for reminding me about the education connection rap you have a new subscriber

[@JokerVoorhees13]

Lost Tapes scared the hell out of me so bad as a kid especially Vampire. I was scared to go into my own basement and go to bed. And Wendigo made me scared to go camping in the woods. Yes the show is cheap but I still love it at the age of 21

[@oxygenwaste714]

Damn I really hope this series continues

[@evelynverdejo6926]

4:33 at first I misheard you saying Dune, I’m like “Okay, Hans Zimmer composed my trauma too!” 😅

[@LoneCarrot]

Yes, I remember this show. I watched this show on Netflix all the time and would always get creeped out because I was a little kid and I loved it.

[@aeonstrife147]

fuckin loved this show as a monster lover with an era with the internet still fresh with cryptids information

[@terrykennedy1958]

Found Footage= it MUST be authentic! Yeah, AUTHENTIC HORSECRAP 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I like this little series you got going, keep it up

[@andrewretoske6336]

They should've done Champ from Lake Champlain instead of Monster of Monterey Bay, at least with Champ there's more lore behind it.

[@MrKavonne]

Not gonna lie I use to love this show but I like your breakdown new sub. 😎

[@thezambambo2184]

This is the show that got me into horror, and since it was on Animal Planet, it got me thinking about how these fantastical critters tick, which led to me eventually getting into world building as a hobby, even if I'm not the best at it

[@captain_fruitcake101]

The narrators voice is also another highlight of the show

[@gorillazsan]

I remember being hooked on this show. A show based around cryptids and monsters of legend was such a refreshing change to enjoy watching. (Probably why I ended up liking The Secret Saturdays) But every week, I'd be glued to my TV and record the show. I still have every episode on VHS. ...I should find those tapes.

[@wolfy297]

I about drowned in my chocolate milk laughing at Mr. Krabs on that boat

[@blair4865]

“because this was before my life revolved around rewatching rtte” so true, me too

[@shadowtriggers5443]

As a kid, I used to believe this show was real, but now as an adult, I know it’s fake, but I can still remember Manny, Manny, nightmares from two episodes, vampire zombie to this day. I still claim that vampire is the best episode.

[@jtanimeandnerd101]

I loved this show when I was a younger kid, and I'm not gonna lie, I still love it. Even if the acting is unrealistic, the horror and terror aspect of the episodes are frightening, with my favorite episode that I still cover my eyes on is the Strigoi Vampire.

[@Anthony-Cavasos]

I did some research on the Oklahoma Octopus and I read from one source that some Native American legends date back over 200 years that tell of strange aquatic creatures "with a desire for human flesh" that lives in some of Oklahoma's lakes. I guess they are said to live in Lake Tenkiller, Lake Thunderbird, and Lake Oologah. Both these lakes have an unusually high number of unexplained drownings and disappearances of swimmers. Also, I read somewhere that in 2003, a fisherman named John Mazurek caught an octopus in Mayflower, Arkansas in Lake Conway. One guess as to how it got there is someone may have had an aquarium and it grew too big so they dumped it in the lake. The largest species of octopus is the Pacific Octopus which can grow up to 16 feet. However, there is NO physical evidence of an octopus living in any of the lakes of Oklahoma. P.S. I loved this show as a kid and I still watch it from time to time. I don't know about others, but this show used to scare me when I was 8, the first episode I saw was the HellhoundSo

[@LegionX7N7]

Ah the good old days…this show was my childhood especially during grade school, middle school and junior high school. Even The nightmares I had some nights I look back on fondly. Death Raptor was the episode that made me have a deep chill in my soul if there was ever an episode that was so creepy and chilling with an ever present atmosphere death raptor was the episode.

[@theghidorahwithmanynames6016]

Came here once seeing a clip of this in your T9R season 2 video, and I got to say. I'm happy to see someone remembers this show and thought it was real as a kid as well. The monster of Monterey is the one I remember the most, mainly due to it having a incredibly inaccurate plesiosaur be the monster in the episode lol, if you can even call it that with how bad the CGI is for it lmao. Also fun fact, it is an actual real cryptid, except the real one is confirmed to be a Baird's beaked whale. Not a plesiosaur or reptile like sea monster. Nessie has plenty of copy cats from all over the world, some are more blatant than others. But I'll stop the cryptid nerd in me and say that I had a blast watching the video, the edits are funny as hell lol

[@correa223]

This show is a source of trauma for me. There are nights that I think about this show, and it makes it hard for me to sleep. It was so scary as a kid, and it messed me up. I LOVED it, 10/10 would reccomend.

[@himbourbanist]

wow the Oklahoma Octopus episode is a carbon copy of a short in Creepshow 2 where douchey kids go to a lake, swim out to a platform, and get eaten one by one by a blob creature. Only difference is that creepshow short had some intense melt-movie body horror. I'm so confident that whoever wrote that episode had just seen creepshow 2 and loved it

[@4perspective740]

Tbh was sad at first how you were shittin on my favorite show growin up but the roasts had me dyin lmfao, good video

[@KrisRN23935]

Oh, I remember this show. It was basically the end of Animal Planet for me. But that Gator from episode 4 is great. I love him, he is best boy.

[@des9368]

i remember seeing these and being so terrified as a child lol

[@ar31415]

Team Ghetto Gator

[@dmichael7144]

Gangster Gator 🐊 🤘😂 Also, you should see the episodes with the recurring Umbrella Corps esque soldiers!

[@Thanadeez]

why is this channel so underrated

[@Shippo28]

I am now subbed and hoping for more lost tapes.

[@austinhuffman1175]

I love the lost tapes series its my childhood ❤

[@belugaval144]

bruh the octopus one is so good bc that's not even a cryptid. like... there are much bigger things that could be mistaken for an octopus. hell, even octopi get that big. that's not a cryptid, just a lost boi.

[@alcottic]

The “Oklahoma Octopus” episode almost copy’s a part of a movie called creep show 2. 4 or 5 teens hang out before going to college and go to a lake. After that they get on a wooden raft and then notice a tar monster, (think of the blob, but can float on water) in the water and eats them one by one. I recommend the movie it’s fucking awesome and gory as hell. Also as corny and cheap lost tapes was, it was my favorite show as a kid.

[@anthonypineda8041]

“The internet connection b*#%+” killed me to much of flashback haha

[@foethefox793]

montereys monster legit just looks like a giant squid

[@gabrielalmond3363]

I remember seeing one episode of this show while I was watching episodes of Crocodile Hunter and River Monsters

[@nickbooze9766]

When that guy was describing the Oklahoma Octopus all I could think was He's literally me.