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Doctor Who's Mythical Monsters

Not all aliens the Doctor faces off against are exclusive to the show. Some have resided in the human imagination for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

By Eugene Fomin March 9, 2012

The subject of the paranormal has been a fascination of the human race for countless generations. Something about the unexplainable and the otherworldly reaches out to us and pulls us into a world of imagination and sometimes terror. Witches, ghosts and goblins. They have populated tales of the human imagination since time began. But what if they're more than just imagination? What if they are real? In fact, what if they're nothing more than extra-terrestrials whom humans have mistaken for these creatures of lore? In the universe of Doctor Who, that's just what they are. Check out 11 mythical paranormal creatures that our traveling Timelord has faced off against.

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Yeti

The Abominable Snowman has haunted Himalayan travelers for countless centuries, so it's no surprise that the Doctor would eventually have a run-in with the creature. As he found out, however, the Yeti is not quite what most people think it is. Instead of being some sort of large primate, it is actually a huge bipedal robot. This machine was created to serve a disembodied entity from another dimension. This Great Intelligence had originally devised the Yeti in order to protect itself and keep nosy adventurers well out of the way. It later discovered that such creatures would make a useful army... to take over the world!