Bonus: The X-Files, “Quagmire”
This season-three X-Files episode sees Mulder and Scully head to Georgia to investigate a local legend nicknamed “Big Blue” that’s apparently vaulted out of legendary status and started taking human victims. Unfortunately for Mulder, it turns out not to be a cryptid, but rather a wayward alligator. Unfortunately for Scully, her dog gets eaten by the beast—very likely a knowing wink to what’s a common trope in animal-attack horror (think the dog in Jaws), as well as an expectation that gets pleasantly subverted from time to time (like the resilient dog in Crawl).
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