me, my boyfriend and best friend were driving hone from the beach at around 12:00am, (its currently 2:04am as im writing this so only 2 hours ago this happened) when driving back home on a country road multiple cars flashed their headlights at me. i was confused as to why and complained to my man and friend about it, not even 20 seconds later we drove around a dark corner on the road and i saw something at the side of the road which looked like 2 feet. i was confused and turned my eyes back to the road to avoid crashing and as soon as i looked back to the side of the road, there was a man wearing very dark clothing standing there, not walking and as we got right beside him he stepped out into the road and waved. keep in mind this road is very long and there is no reason for anyone to be hitchhiking as there was a gas station only a few minutes down the road, yet he was in a completely dark part of the road. After we had got back into our town we parked and called the non-emergency police number to report it as someone could have easily hit this person. After we had called the police to report this my boyfriend mentioned how the man was on all fours and that what i mistook as feet were apparently hands as this person was on ALL FOURS in the middle of this dark road, we really are just confused as to what we saw and our friends dad who isnt really superstitious mentioned how it could have been a spirit of some sort. my boyfriend also noted that this person did not stand up until we had properly started staring at them.

So, i live in the country and im a child. I've seen horrible things via discord and just shock videos in general. Anyways when I was bringing the trashcan up i decided why not record? I had a headlamp on because it was dark outside. I have edited the video to make it brighter, but I heard a faint girl/woman say 'hey!' so I stopped to look, I happened to look at the trees to my right as you can see in the video, and you can see a human-like head pop up, there was nothing there before and you can visibly see it pop up from thin air. I was scared, so I started running because, well why not? Something felt off about it. I am not able to make out any facial features of whatever this thing is. Is it paranormal? Is it something I should be worried about? Is this thing evil and willing to hurt me? Or am I just in my head too much? edited video - https://streamable.com/divz4a

Anyone know how to make a puppet,I have a weird idea to make a photoshoot of a crawler but I don’t know how to

Me and my friends snuck into a elementary school to play basketball during the start of thanksgiving break and everything was going fine until we all heard a growl but it was like no animal I’ve heard we then went to go investigate but then realized it was coming from on top of the building some of my friends thought it was some weird bird or something but me and my brother didn’t think so I pulled my phone out to take a photo to see if anything was up there and we saw this after we all saw the photo we all ran out of there.

Me and my friends snuck into a elementary school to play basketball during the start of thanksgiving break and everything was going fine until we all heard a growl but it was like no animal I’ve heard we then went to go investigate but then realized it was coming from on top of the building some of my friends thought it was some weird bird or something but me and my brother didn’t think so I pulled my phone out to take a photo to see if anything was up there and we saw this after we all saw the photo we all ran out of there.

First time posting but long time lurker on Reddit.

I am facinated with these stories but I wonder why we don’t hear of so many stories outside of America?

I’m from Scotland and our Highlands were once part of the Appalachian mountain range. We have cave systems and forests which seem like ideal spaces for many cryptids and yet there are no stories of encounters. I have not heard any accounts of Crawlers from the UK and would like to hear people’s thoughts on why this is.

Sure, our history is rich in folklore and there are stories of Fairies, Brownies and other Celtic lore but nothing modern and no sightings.

Ok so to start things off we live in rural northern alabama in a fenced in acre and this was a couple years back. We had gotten chickens due to the egg prices cause of Covid. We had built them different houses and eventually we made a really big enclosure on the edge of the yard next to the woods. It was fine for a while but one day I went out there to let them out and something had BENT a metal fence panel to get in there. Luckily they were sealed in so it only got in the run. It had to have been stronger than me because I couldn’t bend that. We moved the coop next to the house the next day. I’m not sure if it was a black bear or what but it just doesn’t seem like a bear would’ve opted to tear through metal than dig? And our outside dogs didn’t bark at all.

Hi! Local Montanan here found this reddit been keeping this encounter to myself besides some close people in my life. . You guys might find my encounter interesting. I had encounter with one of these things when I was about 13-14 in small town Montana very small town. It was about I wanna say 2 am ish 3 am and we were walking a side road in town. Me and 2 other friends and we had my friend big mixed dog with us ( relative to the story) and we started walking we thought the dog was behind so we kept walking we heard scratches on the gravel assuming it was the dog and his silly nose darting back and forth . Me and my friend got a weird feeling of being watched and unsafe so we spun around to call her dog. Only to see something that we thought was her dog dart from one car to another across the street super fast. And we were confused so we called for her dog again and the thing (what we thought was her dog for two seconds) then darting closer across the street behind another car and we realized when the dog came from behind us on the street( we never leashed him because 1# great recall #2 and because he would protect us better unleashed) and started barking at the thing we clipped up his leash back up and booked it! It was blocking us from our apartment my friends family lived in. That thing chased us for about thirty minutes around town( the town only a mile long for reference ) until we were able to double back and it kept making weird noises like low screeching but not loud enough to wake anyone in the neighborhood but loud enough for me and my friends to hear. We ended up getting to the door her dad was up heard us yelling and the thing yelling so we got through door it hit the door and my friends dad heard it. And that rake thing fucked around outside the apartment all night we couldn't sleep and then I never saw again but mind you us kids got so scared we never went out at night again in that town. I've always been scared of this crawler rake thing coming back. Seeing some post from Montana knowing I'm not the only one makes it spookier! And if anyone wants the town and location I can put in the comments 😀

Hello, this is my first time ever posting on reddit. This occured maybe 1-2 years ago when I was going to see family over the day. Maybe not super intresting but well, here we go.

I was just watching outside the car window as I said, I was tired so I wanted to nap but could'nt and just looked outside and far away like 200-300 meters. It was an area with some trees and a clearing, by the road there was a fenced in area, probaly for farmers to growing stuff etc and just by the fence by a tree I saw something that at first I thought was a tree. But it had yellow eyes, was kind of leaning or hanging from a tree, it was brownish but also white. Probaly it was because it was a tree. When I got home I tried to google for things like tree entity, yellow eyes but the pictures I got up did not match at all. The moment I saw it and it saw me I felt absolute terror. We went passed there for barerly 30 seconds but I just had this pit down in my stomach. Sorry if I made some grammatical errors, I'm born and raised in sweden.

I post this now because I listen to reddit stories and recently I found Snook on Youtube and I did not know what a glimmerman crawler was. Yes, wendigo, skinwalker and stuff like that I know but not this and when I saw some pictures it reminded me of this little 30 second glimpse I saw.

Did I see a glimmerman crawler or what was that? Am I going crazy? Was it just simply a tree? And if someone could educate me into what glimmerman crawlers is, I would be most thankful.

When one sees a video of a crawler, and believes in them, one asks, "What is this creature?" I believe I can shed some light on what these creatures are from a biological perspective.

In nature we have this schema for organisms-

Insects= Just a body Mammals= A body, and emotions Humans=A body, emotions, and a mind

Now where do crawlers fit? They possess just body intelligence, yet their organism is equipped for thought, and feeling. Yet they don't think or feel. They are totally base, just like insects and also reptiles. So, even though crawlers have a mammalian body, like human beings, they psychologically are more similar to insects.

So how did this creature come to be? These crawlers seem to be humans- but without a soul and without consciousness. Without feeling and without mind. Were they once human beings? Perhaps. These beings could have originally been human and then transformed into their current state. Let's say we take a human being, remove his soul, remove his mind, you would just have an empty body left over and the base instincts and desires. This is what crawlers are, human beings minus the higher faculties.

Let me know your thoughts.

Alright I’ve made comments about this story on other reddits but just found this sub today and I’m pretty convinced what I saw was a “crawler.” Now let me set the scene. I lived in a suburb of Chicago that is pretty foresty. About 6/7 years ago we had what’s called a polar vortex where it dropped to like -30 for a week. This wasn’t during the vortex but happened right after so it was still bitter cold. My backyard door is elevated and has this little platform that lets you see into most of the neighbors yard. It was probably around 2am and I just finished watching a movie and was about to smoke a cigarette and go to bed. I went out the back door and it was probably -10 outside and everything was completely still. As soon as I stepped outside I heard this weird scratch and banging noise. I look over and two houses down I see it in my neighbour’s backyard. It was this weird looking human thing with light grey skin. It seemed to be moving around on all fours and looked like it was trying to get into my neighbors garage. Kind of like it was trying to lift of the door and wedge itself under it. If it stood upright I figure it must’ve been 5-6 feet tall but it was hard to tell. I stared at it for about a minute or two and just went back inside and locked the door. I peaked out my window and kept looking at it. After another minute of it fucking with the garage door it slammed into and scuttled off, it moved kind of like crab. I don’t believe in a lot of paranormal stuff but this thing was unreal.

A few years ago, I saw something weird in Cumming georgia , in someone’s backyard by a small creek. It was around 4–5 PM during the fall, and everything was calm and quiet, with some birds in the background. I was with a few friends and my brother at the time.

We noticed this figure, and it stood out because of how strange it looked. It was cream-colored or off-white and didn’t have any facial features at all. The head looked football-shaped (but not exactly a football, more like an elongated oval), and the rest of the figure seemed pretty human-like in shape. It was around the same height or maybe a little taller than a normal person, and it had a slim build — not fat, but not overly muscular either.

At first, it was just standing there, staring at some sticks on the ground. After a while, it looked up and stared at us. It didn’t move or make any sound, just stood there for a bit, watching us. We ended up running away after that. I wasn’t really scared at the time, just kind of confused.

About a year or two later, I went back to that area with some people, and I saw it again, only this time it was closer — maybe about 150 feet away. It was still staring at us, just standing there and not doing anything else. It didn’t try to approach us more quickly, but I definitely knew it was aware of us. After that, I never saw it again.

I was wondering if anyone has seen anything like this before, or if you might know what it could be. A pale humanoid with a football-shaped head and no facial features, just standing still and staring.

So we were out camping, Boy Scout Activity actually, (I'm 11) and I was in my tent with my tent mate. I couldn't sleep, so I went out to take a walk in the 1 AM morning. I don't remember it much but we were in a field and the treeline was a few meters away. My tent mate was I think awake too and there was a pale humanlike figure, no mouth, nose or eyes, just a smooth head. About 8 or 6 feet tall I suppose and thin limbs and bent legs. All white. Then it galloped away like a dog, or a horse on all fours, and my tent mate saw it too, I think. I didn't tell it to our Headmaster though. Warning to all: they are real, and they exist.

November 13, 2024

6:16am

(All of this happened closer to 5:30am but I couldn’t write it up yet because I had “wake-up” chores to do first.)

For the first time in a while I finally saw glowing eyes and could hear a lot of movement from the woods in a few spots. I couldn’t see the eyes clearly for all the remaining brush (it’s been very warm so the foliage hasn’t been dropping as fast). This is the first chilly night since October, so I’m not surprised this is the first night I’ve seen and heard them.

The visible eyes were watching me from Carl’s area. I heard one moving around a lot in the woods just north of me. I could hear another one back closer to the barn/whimsy area. But one was right in the backyard. I even caught a glimpse of its pale skin as it ducked behind the large bush planted right beside the house, but I didn’t see any glowing eyes. It seemed a little smaller than typical crawlers, but I’ve read people seeing them as family units, plus my very first impression of them when I saw them for the first time was that it was a familial group. Perhaps this one was younger?

I do believe with a little more certainty that they can go invisible. While I stopped being able to see the one that was in the backyard, I could hear it because of all the dried leaves. Skippy started barking at it, and again, I couldn’t see it, but the sound and the energy were… defensive with a touch of aggressiveness, and it was false-lunging towards Skippy (like a short lunge forward with an immediate step back so it looks like a threat but is only acting defensively). I think it was more of a bluff, but I kept Skippy on a short leash right next to me to make sure. I bent down to pet Skippy to calm him down and after a moment, the crawler energy changed and it stopped making lunging sounds. I think it realized I wasn’t going to let Skippy loose on it. Once it felt safe to move again I brought Skippy back into the house and went back out the back door to see if anything was still around, but they had already left.

To give an idea of just how close it was to me, I’m talking a matter of feet. Maybe 15 feet away at most. I was on the side of the house between the house and the garage looking at the backyard, and it was just on the other side of this very large bush we have planted at the corner of the house. Honestly, once I couldn’t see it and could only hear it moving the leaves, it was uncomfortably close, even for me.

While I was aware of the different energy signatures, I’ve learned that unless they look at me, I’m not going to be able to read them very much. I’m sad that I didn’t feel Carl. His energy towards me is lighter and friendlier than the others, presumably because he “knows” me, as much as a crawler can know a human in our multiple but brief encounters. Since these crawlers don’t seem to know me, I’m going to have to practice more caution like I had to when all of this first started. I’m also going to have to try to communicate with them to make them understand that they can stay in the woods and around the barn, but not to approach the house. Even though this is frustrating, at least I know what to do.

Their appearance patterns are also lining up with the past: no moon and cold temperatures.

Temperature: 53°F, clear sky, no moon, light wind (8mph ENE)

Last night I went out for a cigarette around 130 am and I started hearing noises like a person or large animal walking through the leaves and heavy exhaling sounds. the noises seemed to be originating from the far side of this rundown shed in our backyard. As the noise got closer it made me feel nervous because it sounded big. Like really big. I'm in Massachusetts we do have some coyote in the part I'm in so that's what I was worried about. I stood up to go back inside but first wanted to see if I could see anything and whatever it was, as soon as it noticed me, started making running noises like it was charging. And it made a horrible kind of noise different from the exhaling sounds. I've heard coyotes all the time but it was not a noise typical to coyote. Like a screech of a teradactyl, almost is the closest thing I can think of. Once I was safely inside I peeked out the blinds on the door to the back yard and shined my phone flashlight through the door and I saw two glowing eyes in the area around the top of the shed. So either it was on the shed, or in the tree directly behind it. This wasn't the first time I've heard the walking sounds in my yard at night but it's the first time the thing charged or seemed aware of me, and the first time it made that really loud cry/scream. Wtf was it!?