The host suggests that historical reports of werewolves or beasts in Germany may have been ways for people of that era to rationalize the actions of human serial killers.

“it's interesting to think that in the early 1800s, people simply couldn't fathom the idea of a person being capable of such heinous crimes as serial killers. Now, they'd come across this brutal scene splattered with gore and mutilated bodies, and they would maybe try to rationalize it as the work of”

Bob believes that the stories of cryptids can be made scarier by the way the information is presented, comparing the effect to the distressing memes subreddit.

“it's always about what the mind conjures up of what it could do or how it could harm you or how it could get you that always makes it scarier and that's like the essence of horror is just the unknown”

Mark claims that cryptid stories are a reflection of the time period they originate from.

“I feel like the type of cryptids that people talk about is like an interesting reflection of the time they're from”

Wade argues that certain cryptids, such as the oviedo dick monster, make the classic, more widely known cryptids seem more plausible by comparison.

“every time I start to disbelieve in the existence of creatures such as bigfoot and nessie I just remind myself beings like the oviedo dick monster which make most of the classic cryptids look pretty plausible”

Ryan Magee claims that Bigfoot is the third scariest thing in the world to ever exist.

“Bigfoot uh is the number three on the scariest things of all time to ever exist during the creation before the creation and probably after the creation of human civilization.”