ALL of Fallout's Creepy Cryptids Explained! | Fallout Lore

I actually think the Jersey Devil is just a Northern Fence Lizard that either got experimented on or got incredibly mutated due to radiation or some contamination in the Pine Barrens. The Northern Fence Lizard is native to the New Jersey Pine Barrens and while the females and juveniles are more muted in color the males sometime are a brick red color like the adult Jersey Devil.

You forgot Fallout's resident original cryptid, the Mysterious Stranger

The cryptids were such an amazing addition to this franchise

Considering he is often talked about as being unknown, I genuinely think the mysterious stranger counts as a Fallout cryptid. Just look at Valentine’s investigation

When I was playing F76 and going through that horrible swamp area, I had no idea cryptids actually existed in the game, so when I saw two extremely bright red eyes staring at me from between trees in the foggy distance I shit my pants. They disappeared but man I was constantly looking around me after that lol

Not gonna lie, Bethesda Embracing the Cryptid Craze of the East Coast is one of the best things about Fallout 76. I always love cryptids and it kinda adds to the more "irradiated wasteland". Shoutout to my boy mothman.

It is still wild to me that out of everything Fallout 76 got wrong, it still gave us the most accurate depiction of the Wendigo in pop culture so far. Not only in its physical appearance, but the themes behind the legend. Such as the dangers of human greed and selfishness as well as the importance of moderation.

"Ever dance with the devil, under the blue moon" The smiling man has been my new favorite unknown. Aside from his interest of other cryptic creatures, his grin is known to be unsettling based on studies. V shape, like the Joker from the batman series. Only thing more dangerous, is the fact he can communicate and reason with us

I love how the fallout universe is such a natural environment for cryptids that it could almost be expected that any one of them would be in the games

The one cryptid that I hate the most is the Wendigo. Man that thing creeps me out. It’s a great challenge on early levels but wow it’s vicious. On the upside they do drop a LOT of steel, screws, & springs on that Colossus wendigo boss fight.

What’s crazy is that it took like 2 or 3 years for me to first see a flat woods monster and a mothman, it makes it feel all the cooler that they’re pretty rare in game😅

Years ago traveling across Texas I stopped into a Truckstop for some gas and food. They had a collection of "Jackalopes" mounted on the walls. I soon discovered many Cryptids along RT 66 to California.

I believe the Smiling Man was also referring to the new Main Quest. One of Russos mentioned that Taking the Devil's Blood makes you feel like you are dancing with the devil, but if you stop, it will tear them apart. (it is also a Tim Burton's Batman Reference). Better the devil you know (Blue Devil), than The Devil you Don't well...Not Yet anyway (The Jersey Devil). And yes, i was happier not knowing the Jersey Devil existed. Theory: Ingrid Cold is a Showman. (The Coat is a dead give away since no one dresses like that unless they're from Atlantic City). Mother has a thing about being fake, and Ingram is no fake or is he? His acting skills are superb as a phenom, by the dialogue, it sounds like he knew you, or has cold read you, like as though he was watching. But it could be all a facade. Mother has a pet peeve about every show being realistic as possible with no gimmicks. What if Steven Scarberry is Ingram Cold just a wide grin and make-up. We normally don't get allies like these, but there is a possibility, but then again that is like saying, we never see Katherine Swan and The Mistress of Mystery in the same room. The disappearing act he did on us when we attacked does indeed look like the mothman ability. And maybe that part is true, he obtained it through the encounter of its hatchlings, or maybe it is Scarberry just hiding his ability (since we can't really attack allies) from us to mislead us that he is not Ingrid Cold. Just your mild manner Mothman Cultist. Scarberry was spared for a reason, maybe being bitten from a Radioactive Mothman can do that to a person (if so, gimme that mutation). Being spared is a rush and he may not know he was bitten or introduced to a disease/mutation.

As a WV resident, I love that they kept our real world lore for most of the cryptids. It's especially cool they added a whole family of Mothman since he's our most well known. Loved they added all these to the series.

11:00 I always thought that if they ever wanted to have a slightly more accurate Snallygaster, they could use the giant vulture pinned to Seneca Rocks as an "Alpha Snallygaster"

Cryptids made 76 sooooo entertaining! I loved all the lore they added to the environment. I hope all Fallout games going forward have their respective regional cryptids! And I hope 76 has a few more as well, still waiting for the vegetable man...

I didn't know about some of these due to not playing so much Fallout 76. Good stuff, Uranium! Thank you for the great video!

Black eye children would be a creepy addition to Fallout

As a West Virginian, I personally pronounce monongahela as “Monun-Gale-Leah” I see people out of state pronounce Kanawha county as “Can-a-wha”, but we pronounce it “Kuh-Naw” where the states capital city lies.

17:45 After doing some digging into actual prehistoric turtles, I noticed something off about the 20ft long 500Ibs figure. The largest turtle ever recorded, Archelon, weighed 3 tons and was only 15ft. Leatherbacks regularly get to over 500Ibs with an average length of 5-6ft, and the largest recorded being only 9-10ft. The largest Alligator Snapper was recorded at 211Ibs, half the weight of the Ogua. Whoever sighted this thing and gave those numbers either was way off or was not looking at a turtle.