All during my childhood up until recently, I had thought that ghouls were just spooky imaginative scary monsters that would come out on Halloween night. But now I know differently. I now believe they are synonymous with creatures we know as Crawlers.

In Arabic folklore, the ghul is said to dwell in cemeteries and other uninhabited places. Some state that a ghoul is a desert-dwelling, shapeshifting demon that can assume the guise of an animal. It lures unwary people into the desert wastes or abandoned places to slay and devour them. The creature also preys on young children, drinks blood, steals coins, and eats the dead. It can also take the form of a human. It is a particularly monstrous character believed to be inhabiting the wilderness of Afghanistan and Iran.

The gallu demons were known to be part of the underworld and were thought to carry their victims off to the land of the dead to devour them. People who traveled near cemeteries and abandoned buildings or through desert wastelands were warned to be especially vigilant against these creatures. They were thought to be bipedal – though with a hunched form – and were known to crawl (and sometimes run) on all four limbs like an animal.

I knew there was a reason why I kept warning people to stay away from forests and surrounding areas. Since we have fewer deserts in the United States, these creatures are frequently encountered in wooded areas in addition to cemeteries. After years of research, I've come to the conclusion that Crawlers are actually demons, interdimensional demons. The late great Father Malachi Martin, in his book "Hostage to the Devil", stated "There is a dimension that is devoid of love and compassion, all the qualities that make us human." I believe it is that dimension from which these demon Crawlers come.

People from the Middle East are more familiar with the ghouls(Crawlers), known as gholes, goules, ghilan, Ghuls, Namnams, and Namanim. They are able to shapeshift and spend time in cemeteries, as they feed off the flesh of the dead. You can Google the word "Rasgulla", and it will show you a pic of a Middle Eastern dessert called "Rasgulla" which means "heads of the ghouls".

Hey, someone pointed me to this sub so I’m gonna post my story here.

A few years ago, I was living in rural Appalachia and I took my dog out for a walk around sundown. My dog started barking at something, and I looked over to see a super tall, super pale white humanoid type thing running super fast about 100 feet from me. I ran back to my house. If my dog wouldn’t have seen it, I would think I imagined it. What do you guys think?

I’ve had people suggest a not deer, but that doesn’t seem quite right to me

I’m from Northern Illinois and I grew up on a farm in between Rockford and Chicago (just for reference). I was Reading some of everyone’s accounts and it sounds pretty similar to what happened to me years ago. PM me if anyone is interested in swapping stories! I’d love to hear what some of you have to say, I’m still a little bit skeptical of what happened to me but I’m still open about the existence of these “things”.

I wanted to ask the forum here if anyone of you have ever had any anxiety relating to returning to the woods or more secluded parts of your surroundings following an encounter with something you believe could have been a crawler. A couple of months back as you can read on my profile I believe I may have possibly encountered a crawler and since then I have had some very light anxieties about returning to the woods. Now that a friend group of mine is planning a trip down state to Shawnee possibly I’m hoping to fully overcome it and I think I’m ready to get back to normal, so I wanted to ask have any of you experienced any anxieties or reservations before?

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Hi everyone, just wandering through reddit and came across this page, just wondering if someone can tell me what crawlers are and any other info about them,

Thanks.

It was night and around midnight ish. Anyways I went to make a brew looked up saw this sitting on top of my kitchen cupboards and the bugger jumped down at me. My heart leapt out of my chest. I put my hands over my face when it jumped at me. But I didn't see it after or where it went. It literally looked like this guy. Black, slim white eyes. Completely unexpected. I had never seen anything like it, not even pictures. My house is a horrible place to be so wondering if the dark energy is attracting it or it's creating it. What is it? What do they get up to? If I was hallucinating (which I'm not on substances) then that was so f-ing trippy. Still thinking about it makes my heart go. I'm wondering if I scared it as much as it scared me and it was jumping down to run away. Just incredibly weird. Caught me off guard.

My sister described the following. She was driving at night next to cotton fields in Clint Tx, her daughter was with her in the car, so when they were driving at night passing by the cotton fields she says she saw some 2 very tall and skinny brownish creatures, she says she didn’t see a mouth or eyes, they were so skinny that the limbs were so thin and looked like tree branches, with 2-3 steps they crossed from one side of the road to the other in matter of seconds (1-2sec), its a 4 lane road. She says that its so unreal/incredible that you forget to get your cellphone and record but also she thinks they probably lock your mind and you don’t know what to do, but also it happens so fast! Her daughter who was about 16-17 also corroborated she saw the same thing. She says they had similarity to the alien creature from the movie Signs but way taller and skinnier. Very long legs, and that the arms would reach to the knees

This compilation of pale crawler videos is pretty extensive and worth a look. Im familiar eith some of the source videos and these are from all over the world. I find it interesting that all these crawlers make the same sounds, and behave similarly. Anyway, make up your own mind and enjoy! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYWe5ZU9f8psQSAkuD9hFqvHdnDYGwpx9&feature=shared

Anyone else think the creature design in this movie was heavily influenced by modern day Crawler sightings? This behind the scenes 'making of' video gives some really good looks at the design, so if you haven't seen the movie this will be a definite spoiler.

https://youtu.be/K8TJra6mxxk?si=D-HpvRjTXGdH2aEz&t=115

I am sorry that I did not give an update to my last post. I did not see anything. However, I had an accidental encounter with what I believe to be one.

So I went to visit some family that live on a farm in a different state. I just went up to say hi, not to search for crawlers. There is a barn that is about 50 yards from the main house. There are fields on both sides. I was sleeping in the main house, but for some reason, in the middle of the night, I wanted to walk to the barn. I was about half way when I realized that I was an idiot, I did not bring a flashlight. About this time all of the cattle that were watching me from a distance got scared and started running towards the barn. Now all of the farm dogs started barking. This meant something was really wrong because usually only one of them barks, not all of them. I looked out and I saw about 20 feet away, was a 8-9 foot tall pale thing. It was about as thin as a fence post so I started thinking wait, was that there before? Which by the way, no it wasn’t. I looked and it was not there in the morning. I kept staring at it when it moved. It turned towards me. Before I was looking at its side, now I could see that it was humanoid and had long limbs with black eyes. As soon as it saw me I said fuck this shit and ran as fast as I could. I did not hear it but I kept running and ate it in the dirt pretty hard several times. I got the hell out of there and just got home.

What do you guys think? Was this a crawler?

EDIT: The reason I walked to the barn was because the mattress was bad and the room was stuffy so I needed some fresh air in hopes of falling back asleep.

I am aware that probably 100% of the videos on here are fake. I have a brain injury and it causes pretty severe hallucinations. I have not been able to articulate the things I see until I stumbled across this community.

I see crawlers like this. Daily or every few days. I don't really know what that means. I don't think they're real. But the descriptions and videos I've seen here are pretty good at showing what I see. So thanks you guys in any case.

Hey guy so last year me and my mom were driving and we saw something on the side of the road that didn’t look human at all so i drew it and i was wondering has anyone else seen something like it? Also the skin is like a old persons skin and i estimated it to be 5’0 on all fours

I’ve never experienced seeing a crawler with my own eyes yet I’ve very interested in this topic.

I’ve noticed some people point out that they make some sort of clicking sound when they are trying to track you, I would love to know what exactly this sounds like in your best description. Thanks

For most people in my country it's a topic of ridicule except in a few villages in Kobuleti. They named it Rake. It first appeared a few years ago, then disappeared. Now it's back. According to locals,it walks on all fours, its eyes glow,is extremely fast,doesn't look like a human. it also throws rocks at houses and steals food. But some people in the interview say that it is a human wearing all black, with a mask on. Are those people lying who saw a creature unhumanly fast? And if it's just a madman why hasn't he gotten caught yet?

I'm sorry if this is long or difficult to follow. I saw this sub mentioned in the comments on a post in another sub. When I came here, I read some of the stories and descriptions of crawlers that have been posted, and now I'm wondering if that may have been what I saw about 10 years ago.

I was hanging out with my best friend when she was living with her parents out in a rural community in Victoria County, Texas. She and her dad had told me some stories in the past of odd occurrences in the neighborhood, but I hadn't actually seen anything in their area myself. I will say I have seen and heard plenty of strange things happen in and around Victoria County as well as nearby counties. But never this. That particular night, my friend and I were bored, and decided to go into town to hit up a bar.

To describe her neighborhood, picture one main road that makes a big loop all the way from one section of a highway to another section of the same highway. Off one side of this road was a very large corn field and a couple farmhouses, and off the other side were the two long main roads of my friend's neighborhood. Those two main roads had one short road connecting them about halfway down, then another short road going between them again at the very end. Almost like a boxy digital 8, but the top line keeps going in both directions. She lived at the very end of one of the longer roads.

We got into her car, and we started driving up her road. She began telling me some story or some gossip from work, I don't remember, the topic of conversation isn't important, just that she was talking at the time. I'm sort of half-listening and staring blankly out through the windshield. We had gotten to just about, or maybe a little past the halfway point, when I saw her headlights illuminate this...thing, walking across her road up where it ends at the main road that connects to the highway. It was very tall, impossibly skinny, pale and grey-ish. For reference of how it moved, picture or look up that scene from Signs when they showed the birthday party footage on the news, but it was a little faster, more fluid, and the arms and legs were longer. I got instant chills as it passed in front of us. I thought maybe I was imagining things but just as I told myself that, I heard my friend say, "What the fuck was that...?", and realized she had stopped telling her story, and that she had brought her car to a full stop as well. She stepped on the gas and we got up to the main road as fast as we could, but when we got up there, neither of us could see anything in either direction, as it was too dark with no streetlight, and her headlights only showed the crop in front of us. We were both a little shaken up, and ended up not trying to pursue it, and just sticking to the plan and heading to town. But I remember being terrified leaving her house later to go home.

Neither of us ever saw it again. I haven't heard any stories since about similar sightings in my area. I don't know what I thought it was at the time, I didn't have a word for it. But now that I've found this sub, I'm wondering if it may have been a crawler.

I encountered something with a human face that was crouching under the overhang of my camper. We locked eyes, I felt immediate dread and screamed as I turned away from it. My partner say he was something run into the bush a bit in from of me. I felt air rush behind me, I also felt it touch my side. I plan on finding it. Any advice?

I’ve often wondered, what’s the relationship between crawlers and some formidable cryptids like Sasquatch or even grizzly bears? The look of crawlers is enough to make humans terrified of them, but I’ve wondered how Sasquatch would view them. I know in the realm of BiGfo0Tery that Sasquatch’s don’t take shit from anyone, or anything, and I’m Basing this off reports of people who’ve seen them and have had encounters with them. They are an apex predator in their own category. With humans, Sasquatch’s tend to evade humans most of the time but when the aPes have to deal with a problem, whether it’s a human or another animal they will deal with it and it’s usually swift and severe. I’ve read reports of enraged and unhinged Sasquatch’s twisting the heads off humans so it makes me wonder how crawlers co exist with non humans in the woods, even with something like a grizzly bear. I know a griz would “likely” evade a crawler similar to how a griz evades humans but griz, like a Sasquatch, are fine until they’re not fine and lose their shit. Crawlers seem to terrify humans for the lolz but they have to co exist with other apex predators So how would crawlers co exist with them?

I didn't see it but I heard a scream, to human to be a coyote, to animalistic to be human, is this a crawler? (BTW I live right on the border between rule Wisconsin and the suburbs in Madison)

I and many others here have provided advice to people that have been having problems with crawlers. How are you doing now? Are you still having problems, or did you find success in getting rid of them? What have you tried? What appeared to succeed?

I hope you're all doing well :)

i'm new to this sub and just found out about these things, are these stories actually real or is this just a horror page people like to write scary stories on?

I’ve had a few encounters with these things. I’m just curious if anybody else local to Oregon has had some more recent encounters? Mine took place about a decade ago, and every time I’ve went back since nothings happened. I tried browsing most of the Oregon paranormal subs and just get a lot of Sasquatch.

It was March 12, 2010. We decided to go mountain bikeing and camping. It all hapend in Eldorado National Forest. So here is the story: we were mountan bikeing and we decided to make a camp and sleep through the night. At 7 PM we decided to make a camp. My friends went to get something to eat in the forest. I was making a fire and i heard my friend scream. I ran to him and he said he saw a creature so pale and w so long arms. We decided not to eat dinner. As night rolled around we decided to go sleep. At 1:57AM my friend woke me up and told me he saw something. He directed his flashlight to a white,crawling abnormal creature. I saw it. We woke the rest of the friends up and we called another friend with a truck to pick us up. We just took our belongings and bikes and went home. Next day(March 13, 2010) and went to get the rest of the stuf. It was all scatterd and there was handprints all over our things. We never went camping.