Lost Tapes

The lore does not end there.

The creature has been featured on television programs such as Lost Tapes and Monsters and Mysteries in America.

And now on this show, the Dover Historical Society even produced novelty T-shirts featuring Bill Bartlett's witness sketch.

I wonder if he got any royalties from that.

So that photo is not a bear, I'll say that much.

No. That's, uh, from a TV show called The Lost Tapes.

Oh.

Um, it's possible that one had wandered all the way south, as there have been some sightings of bears in Southern Wisconsin.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, uh, in popular media, Beast of Bray Road was featured in an episode of Lost Tapes, where it's attacking a group of militia soldiers and a reporter.

Nice.

He talked to Loren Coleman, the cryptozoologist, and Coleman said his guess was that it started with a carcass somebody planted as a prank, which lines up with the two boys on the Verdigris in nineteen eighty-two, though Coleman didn't know about that article at the time.

And then on the thirteenth of January, two thousand and nine, Animal Planet aired an episode of a show called Lost Tapes, which was a found footage horror series that pretended to be real.

And the episode was called Oklahoma Octopus, and it had five high school graduates on a swim platform at a lake in Oklahoma getting pulled off one at a time by something under the water.

The show was fiction.