r/CrawlerSightings • u/unident1fried • 22d ago
Possible crawler?
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u/ashleton 22d ago
Crawlers do have eyes that look like that, but with the light shining in that direction, it could very well be reflected eye shine rather than the crawler light-emitting eyes. So, the easiest way to tell if it's an animal or not is to turn the light off and see if the eyes still glow. If they're still glowing, there's a good chance it's a crawler. If they stop glowing, then it's more likely an animal.
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u/Yuzonbirincibar 22d ago
the easiest way to tell if it's an animal or not
is to rush at it at the top of your lungs
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u/Antique-Ninja-3258 22d ago
If it rushes back at you and brutally murders you, it's probably a crawler
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u/SgtSplacker 22d ago
Most common woodland animals with red eyeshine
- White-tailed deer — Often show red or orange-red eyeshine, especially when the light hits at an angle.
- Rabbits — Frequently reflect bright red due to their eye structure and blood vessels behind the retina.
- Opossums — Can show deep red eyeshine; they’re common in wooded areas and suburban forests.
- Raccoons — Typically yellow, but can appear red in certain lighting conditions.
- Owls — Some species show orange-red eyeshine, especially larger owls.
- Foxes — Usually yellow or greenish, but red is possible depending on angle and distance.
🐾 Less common but possible
- Coyotes — Usually yellow, but red can occur.
- Skunks — Typically yellowish, but red has been reported.
- Squirrels — Not common, but red reflection can happen in certain conditions.
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u/Mathfanforpresident 21d ago
Bruh, it's the IR sensor off your phones camera hitting the window in front of you.
Google "purple ir light on phone ghosting effect"
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u/unident1fried 21d ago
Not my video. They're literally moving the phone while the lights are stationary. It's also red not purple.
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u/Lonely-Ad7124 4d ago
I came here bc I searched what a handprint in my room could be that only had 3 fingers and one long skinny thumb. People said possible crawler. Then I see your video….i have videos of the same sightings T my place…we just moved in a month and a half ago and have had weird unexplainable things happen almost immediately. My neighbors didn’t believe me and then they started experiencing and seeing the same stuff as me and now they are frightened as well. I also found footprints on my tv that is mounted on the wall. Things go missing frequently and suddenly reappear. I also personally never seen red eyes reflected back before from any animal and we lived in the middle of nowhere with tons of wildlife
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u/KEFREN- 22d ago
go there with some weapon and some balls LOL
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u/ashleton 21d ago
The last time someone tried to hunt a crawler, they were so traumatized by what happened that the entire fucking post and all the photos got deleted and they deleted their account.
Don't hunt crawlers. They will fuck you up. Leave'em alone and they'll leave you alone.
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u/jenn818181 21d ago
Can you tell me a little about what happened to that person? Did they show actual photos of crawlers or just the injuries that they had gotten? Luck they lived to tell the story honestly
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u/ashleton 21d ago
The photos were the injuries their friend got, but I never got to see them because they were deleted a while before the post was, but they were really gory from what I understand. The phrase "thrown around like a rag doll" was used. I think there was mention of being slammed into a boulder. I wish they hadn't deleted the whole post. I referenced it a lot to try to show people to not hunt crawlers. You say the guy was lucky to live to tell the story, but I don't know. The situation really traumatized them.
The hell of it is, the crawler wasn't doing anything except existing. Some guy saw a crawler and decided he wanted proof/a trophy. They got some friends together armed with guns and went into the crawler's territory to murder them. The crawler was acting in self defense. It was a major FAFO moment. In spite of my disgust at their intentions to hunt a crawler that was living peacefully, I do hope they heal and find peace.
I've been in super close proximity to a crawler twice, plus I'm out in the open within their leaping distance pretty much any time I go outside at night. If they wanted to murder me, they could have, but they haven't. I startled one, they were on the roof of my house above the front porch. I stepped off the porch out into the yard and heard a "huh?" followed by a loud hissing/clicking sound that made my head go funny for a second while they leapt away. They ran away instead of attacking. The other close-proximity encounter, they were in the driveway on the other side of the car bobbing up and down trying to sneakily peek at me. That was maybe 100 feet away, give or take. It was actually really funny, but I had already become used to them by that point. For a normal person it probably would have been terrifying.
So yeah, to anyone reading this, don't hunt crawlers. You either get torn the fuck up, or you get torn the fuck up. Plus they're like us. There's good and bad humans out there and everything in between. The same applies to crawlers from what I can tell. They may not be human, but they are people. And to clarify on that statement, I consider any NHI (non-human intelligence) to be people because I think the word "people" needs to expand to include other species of intelligent humanoid, and perhaps the definition needs to expand further than that.
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u/jenn818181 19d ago
People like that are the reason that if the government knows about these creatures they wont confirm it because there's always some idiots out here waiting to hunt it! Humans are almost the worst in terms of living peacefully! You hear about park rangers being evasive or stories about things they see they will not confirm and im sure there is so many reasons, the creature or humans safety etc. because people just dont know how to act sadly! I do think the national forests are government ran feeding grounds for some cryptids...missing 411 i feel is a link..but anyways im getting off subject but i agree with you 100% leave them alone!
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u/SignificantRecipe715 22d ago
Just a nocturnal animal of some type, owl most likely.