
Animal X
Half-hour episodes built from three shorter segments each, chasing cryptids, ghost sightings, and biological oddities around the world. One installment tracks the Chupacabra from its mid-1990s sightings in Puerto Rico to reports as far off as Moscow, with paranormal investigator Ted Loman and folklorist Jim Griffith weighing in alongside witnesses describing a red-eyed, fanged animal on powerful hind legs. Another travels to the high plains near Canberra, Australia, where cattle and sheep are living and breeding well past normal age, and scientists try to trace the effect to the water or soil. A third heads to East Anglia in the UK to interview people who say they have seen Phantom Black Dogs, a sighting tradition documented since medieval times and once blamed for five deaths in a church four centuries ago. The series runs through eyewitness interviews and expert commentary segment by segment rather than building a single case, moving from cryptozoology to folklore to unexplained biology within a single episode.