List of Lost Tapes episodes (2008-2010)

Lost Tapes depicts traumatic scenarios where people are attacked and/or killed by mysterious, dangerous, deadly, wild, and ferocious paranormal cryptids. The series is shot in a mockumentary style. Most episodes begin with a quick introduction of facts, which include interviews with experts explaining scientific theories or facts and folklore behind the episode's titular creature.

In the second season, some episodes began with footage of a person being attacked and often killed by the episode's creature, an introduction meant to set up the events of each episode.

In the third season, every episode had such an introduction, though the events of every episode in all three seasons are accompanied by videos of scientists, cryptozoologists, and folklorists giving their very thoughts and opinions of the creatures, which are called Lost Tapes: Revelations.

Series overview
In most episodes, the creatures are often only partially revealed to the audience, and in brief glimpses or otherwise only as silhouettes, shadows, or are obscured by darkness; sometimes they are never seen at all (such as in "Thunderbird" and "Chupacabra"), but their presence is made obvious by sounds and the characters' reactions to them. To give the show a mysterious atmosphere, techniques such as those used in Jaws are employed, and the creatures are almost never fully seen.

"Hellhound", the last episode of the first season, marked the first time that a creature was fully shown on camera, and the second season revealed more creatures than the first: in "Jersey Devil", for instance, the creature's legs, hooves, and face are briefly shown; in "Vampire", the creature's entire body can be seen on several occasions, such as when the creature watches the boy sleep, though only briefly; and in the season's last episode, "Dover Demon", the entire creature can be seen in the background when a night vision camera is turned on. The third season showed even more creatures, and many of them in full view of the camera.

However, realism was better-maintained with human-like creatures, such as in "Zombies" and "Reptilian". Even non-human-like animals were shown more frequently, though this led to some negative criticism among fans as many of the creatures in the third season were less convincing with low budget animatronics and computer-generated imagery, such as in "Kraken" and "Q: The Serpent God", or even simply people in costumes, as in "Devil Monkey" and "Yeti".

While most episodes feature the titular cryptid as the antagonist, in some episodes they benefit the people that the story follows. For example, in "Bigfoot", the creature seems to be watching over and protecting the main character, even killing a poacher that was trying to attack her; "Mothman" implies that the featured cryptid was trying to warn people about the imminent collapse of a bridge.