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Cryptids (from the Greek κρύπτω, krypto, meaning "hide" or "hidden") are a subset of animals and other creatures that are mentioned in local folklore and other accounts, but whose actual existence is thoroughly questionable. This does not apply to anything that is widely acknowledged as existing. For example, the Deathclaw was presumed to be a rumor or hoax in New California around 2161,[1] but other regions of post-war America would have many confirmed sightings beforehand.
Background[]
Cryptids were largely assumed to be superstition by the majority of the populace, with cryptozoologists, like Shelby O'Rourke, being taken as seriously as a child in a lab coat. But many cryptids actually existed before the Great War, and both the United States Armed Forces[2] and United States Intelligence (like the Sugar Grove Sigint)[3] kept records on any cryptid encounters up until the Great War. While considered to be hoaxes and superstition, Cryptids still played a large part of culture before the war as well, with notable examples of this cryptid craze coming from Point Pleasant erecting a Mothman statue, Vault-Tec University's football team called the Fighting Wendigos,[4] Tales from the West Virginia Hills focusing on a different cryptid for each of its stories, and Grafton holding a local holiday where the "Grafton Monster" would appear in the parade (and the real Grafton Monster appearing in it after the Great War).
After the Great War, cryptids began to appear far more often than they ever had before. This was noted by Shelby O'Rourke from her shack in The Mire where she theorized that the near extinction of the human race made room for cryptids to come out of hiding.[5]
Known cryptids[]
Aliens[]
Multiple species of aliens appear throughout the Fallout series. The most notable of them are the Zetans from Fallout 3 that have appeared in each subsequent game.
Chupacabra[]
The chupacabra (literally "goat-sucker"; from chupar, "to suck", and cabra, "goat") is a creature of Puerto Rican origin with reported sightings throughout Mexico and the United States of America. In Fallout: New Vegas, No-bark Noonan mistakenly assumes an invisible Nightkin as a chupacabra killing Brahmin around the town of Novac.[6]
Flatwoods monster[]
Zetan aliens tasked with capturing test subjects for experimentation, Flatwoods monsters are stealthy kidnappers, grabbing victims and teleporting away before they knew what hit them,[7][8] their mere presence telepathically warping the mind of all but the most iron-willed.[9][10][11]
In pre-War West Virginia, near the town of Flatwoods, many claimed to see a dark, mysterious figure with glowing eyes.[12] A Flatwoods monster purportedly took Colton Pickins onto its spaceship and performed experiments on him, however, that account was disbelieved by the responding police force. Post-War, however, these accounts are becoming more and more real, with accounts of wastelanders being taken away and subjected to vile experimentation; a blinding light their only memory of the ordeal.[13]
Ghost[]
The spirits of the dead that have been trapped in our earthly plane that had unfinished business or failed to attain something valuable to them.[14] Not much is known about the function of ghosts, as the only examples of ghosts are Anna Winslow whose spirit became trapped in the Den after dying, kept on the mortal plane in agony due to the theft of her locket by a petty thief, and Lucy Grandchester who haunts the Grandchester Mystery Mansion for unknown reasons. Based on Anna Winslow's actions in her quest, after attaining the item they need most, the ghost will disappear with the item; leaving only a pile of bones.
Grafton Monster[]
這個怪獸是无头无毛，且有一个皮革质地的浅灰色皮肤。它高约7.5英尺（2.3米），并且胸部过大。基因突变使它变成了一个身强力壮的怪物，也改变了它的皮肤，导致腺体的变态发育，腺体可以在它周围的大范围内射出腐蚀性的球型油性物质。[15]
Mothman[]
Sasquatch[]
The Sasquatch, though more commonly referred to as Bigfoot, are said to be hairy, upright-walking, ape-like creatures that dwell in the wilderness and leave footprints. Depictions often portray them as a missing link between humans and human ancestors or other great apes. They are strongly associated with the Pacific Northwest (particularly Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia), and individuals claim to see the creatures across North America. The sasquatch would continue to be a prevalent cryptid in popular culture until the start of the Great War, with some magazines even proclaiming titles such as Hardy as a Sasquatch.
Sheepsquatch[]
A cryptid stalking the Appalachian mountains, the Sheepsquatch myth was an obsession for a cryptid hunter named Calvin van Lowe, who devoted his life to hunting it down. The Wandering storyteller talks at length about the creature, questioning how it came to be and their experience with them in the past.[16][17][18][19]
Snallygaster[]
在阿帕拉契亚的威斯科技研究中心用FEV重组菌株进行的实验产生了许多失败的变异生物，只有两个例外。其中第一个是2077年10月14日的FEVS-006443，这是一个第二阶段的组合菌株，它结合了与许多不同物种相似的性状。这些结果被科学家们认为是令人不安的，但为重组FEV的能力提供了有价值的见解。变化包括一些眼部器官沿着增大的上肢，第二组手臂末端有爪状趾，每个内侧脚趾上都有一个巨大的镰刀状爪。活的、稳定的、有功能的受试者正常地维持着自己（这个项目的一个主要成就），并计划在后续实验成熟后在亨特斯維爾释放。[20]直到2078年1月3日，突变体才被送回该地区，当时它逃离了控制和设施。突变体繁殖，导致阿帕拉契亚地区出现了鳥形龍突变体。[21]
Wendigo[]
Wendigo is a mythical cannibalistic monster, mentioned before the Great War and encountered in post-apocalyptic West Virginia.[22] The term is used to refer to a dangerous humanoid monster encountered throughout the Appalachian region. Wendigos are found frequently at their namesake wendigo cave, where the "progenitor" wendigo must be eliminated by the Vault Dwellers as part of the Key to the Past questline.[23]
References[]
- ↑ The Vault Dweller: "{347}{}{Do you know anything about the Deathclaw?}"
John Maxson: "{262}{Gen_78}{Oh. Just another stupid rumor. Some people say it's a huge fanged monster and others say it's a vampire.}"
(MAXSON.MSG) - ↑ Citadel terminals; Pentagon Library Terminal, Report on U.F.O. codenamed "Palandine"
- ↑ Cryptid Sightings: Grafton Monster 9/27, Snallygaster 10/4, and Wendigo 10/25
- ↑ Fallout 76 loading screens: In 2031, Vault-Tec re-branded Morgantown's local college as Vault-Tec University, and some of their top executives and scientists either taught or graduated from there. Go Fighting Wendigos!
- ↑ Hunter's shack terminal entries, Entry 8: Motion Detected!
- ↑ The Courier: "What's been going on in town?"
No-bark Noonan: "Seems every night one of their herd meets a most unnatural death, and always there's holes all over the body. Work of the chupacabra, the livestock vampire, says No-bark, but they don't pay no mind. Too many holes, they say, and there's bullets in them. Well, says No-bark, we got a chupacabra with an automatic weapon. And that's when they get real quiet, 'cause now they see the predicament we're in."
(No-bark Noonan's dialogue) - ↑ Wandering storyteller: "The thing... it didn't walk but hovered with glowing purple eyes. I didn't get a good look, because it got him and vanished."
- ↑ Wandering storyteller: "With my own two eyes I saw the creature zap him with a purple laser and then the two of them vanished into the night."
- ↑ Wandering storyteller: "An interdimensional being from beyond the void! It's mere presence can warp the mind of all but the most iron-willed!"
- ↑ Wandering storyteller: "It was the Flatwoods monster, and you killed it! Most enter a stupor, petrified with terror as the creature slowly invades their minds!"
- ↑ Flatwoods monsters possess the ability to control every single non-player entity in-game
- ↑ Fallout 76 loading screens
- ↑ Wandering storyteller: "Finally found him cold and naked. Couldn't remember a thing, just ranting and raving about a flash of bright light."
- ↑ Return Anna's locket
- ↑ Grafton Monster characteristics.
- ↑ Wandering storyteller: "Or perhaps radiation is to blame, causing an ordinary farm animal to warp and distort into a living nightmare."
- ↑ Wandering storyteller: "How could such a vile creation exist? The product of fornication carried out far from the eyes of God! Truly an unholy creation!"
- ↑ Wandering storyteller: "Still, I do wonder what poor, forsaken soul found themselves so lonely, driven by madness they made company with a damn goat?"
- ↑ Wandering storyteller: "Many thought it to be a thief using a disguise to hide his identity. Hell, at the time that's what i thought. So when I saw the upright figure of a goat bathed in moonlight I figured the thief was coming my way."
- ↑ West Tek research center terminal entries; advanced mutations lab terminal, Report: Test Subject AM52
- ↑ West Tek research center terminal entries; advanced mutations lab terminal, SPECIAL REPORT: CONTAINMENT BREACH
- ↑ Cryptid sighting: Wendigo 10/25
- ↑ Morris's end
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