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Tends to happen in series where hauntings (or alien visitations) (or whatever) are not only uncommon, but usually unconsidered, like [[Sit Com|Sitcoms]] or [[Action Adventure]] series. Usually avoided in series that are ''about'' investigating and debunking hauntings (or alien visitations) (or whatever).
A variant of [[Skepticism Failure]]. Compare [[Or Was It a Dream?]]. Sometimes a case of [[And You Thought It Was a Game]]. Occasionally, the characters ''do'' see the creature, but it's [[Mistaken for An Imposter]]. Often occurs at the end of a [[Cryptid Episode]].
Contrast [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]] where it remains up in the air to the very end. Sometimes, technically, that trope and this one combine when it is established that the hoaxer could not have done one thing, but it is never established that no other mundane cause could have done it.
See also [[You Imagined It]]. May result in a character being [[Horror Struck]].
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== Things from Outer Space ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the fifth ''[[Friday the
* In what's probably the only appearance of the occult in the [[James Bond]] series, a voodoo henchman from ''Live and Let Die'' appears on the front of the train Bond is in, laughing, even though he was subjected to a coffin full of snakes earlier in the film.
* ''Lake of the Dead'': This Norwegian thriller revolves around a group of friends trying to solve an ancient mystery that involves an immortal crow leaving its feathers as calling cards. In the end a natural explanation has been found, but there is some disagreement about its feasibility. The protagonist insists that the solution is acceptable and nothing supernatural is involved, and to punctuate his words he picks up something from the table and waves it around...
{{quote| '''Bernhard:''' Hey, where did this come from? It's a crow's feather... }}
* ''[[Pee
** Possibly a parody of the song [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_309_<!-- 28Red_Sovine_song29 Phantom 309]]. -->
* In ''[[The Screaming Skull]]'', a man attempts to [[Gaslighting|gaslight]] his second wife [[Driven to Suicide|into killing herself]] by faking the haunting of their house by his first wife's ghost. It turns out that her ghost really '''is''' haunting the place, apparently seeking revenge for her own murder.
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** "Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula": In the episode, the Hardy Boys suspect a man of being Dracula, but this is apparently dis-proven. At the end, the villain is in handcuffs and standing in front of a mirror, and Joe Hardy notices that the villain has no reflection, while the other characters conveniently not look at the mirror. The villain is taken away by the cops before Joe can get anyone else to notice.
** "House on Possessed Hill": The Hardy Boys have supposedly dis-proven a haunted house. Final scene is the brothers driving by the house in their van; Frank is giving logical common-sense explanations for all the haunted phenomena. Cue Joe looking towards the house just as they drive away, in time to see a ghostly figure walk out of the house...which disappears when Frank stops the van to look.
* Spoofed in ''[[I'm Sorry,
{{quote| '''Bill:''' Hah-hah! Ah, you certainly frightened him off with that spooky voice, David.<br />
'''David:''' It wasn't me, it was Graeme.<br />
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* In ''[[Home Improvement]]'' Wilson visited Mark as Santa Claus when he was told that Santa does not exist - or at least this was what Tim and Jill thought, as the REAL Wilson was revealed to be in his garden the whole time Santa was visiting.
* ''[[Lois and Clark]]'': A Christmas episode sees Superman pull a Santa-suited Perry White around in a sleigh to distribute presents to children on Christmas Eve. Later, as Lois and Clark leave the Daily Planet, they hear sleigh bells and a jolly "Ho Ho Ho!" from high above, and Lois exasperatedly comments that Superman must still be dragging Perry around in the sleigh - unaware, of course, that [[Clark Kenting|Superman is actually standing right beside her]]...
* ''[[My Hero (TV)]]'': George is dismayed by the increasing discontent at Janet's Christmas Day party, so he asks all the guests what they'd like. Dr. Crispin is dismissive, but the others answer honestly. He flies out, bringing in a man in a Santa costume (who complains about being very tired)... but just as the guests mock his charade, the man gives them all exactly what they asked for. At the end, Janet wonders how the man got the requested items, and George answers, "I'm glad he decided to help. Normally he sleeps all day today."
* In the ''[[Night Court]]'' first season [[Christmas Episode]] "Santa Goes Downtown", a man that Harry Stone takes for a street corner Santa turns to be [[Real After All|the real thing]].
* In an episode of ''[[Gilligans Island]]'', on the first Christmas Eve they're stuck on the island, the Skipper shows up dressed as Santa Claus. He happily tells the castaways that they should be thankful that they are on an island with food and water, that they all get along with each other, etc. "Santa" then leaves into the jungle. An instant later, the Skipper, dressed normally, emerges -- from the opposite direction -- out the jungle, carrying the firewood that he went to get a moment ago. Even the professor was puzzled by this one.
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