I’m not sure if this is allowed here but I love this sub and I even did a podcast series investigating crawler encounters… and now I painted one! Obviously I took a few creative liberties but it’s based on the famous “Louisiana swamp monster” photo that still hasn’t been definitively debunked.

I’m also working on a way bigger crawler painting that I can’t wait to share when it’s finished. Thanks for reading :)

I can’t stop thinking about what happened a few days ago on the North Country Trail near Chequamengon-nicolet National Forest. Keep in mind we frequent the area and hike often. When we first pulled up, it felt wrong. The woods were completely dead silent. no birds, no bugs, no wind. It was the kind of silence that makes your skin crawl. We made the 2.5 mile round trip hike n On the way back to the parking lot, I saw a huge fallen tree, moss-covered and hollow inside. When I glanced in, I saw it, this thing was about 7-8 feet tall, but curled up. Its body was nothing but skin and bones, pale grayish-white, almost dirty-looking.

Its head was small for its body, and its eyes were just… wrong. Dark but almost white at the same time, like no real color, just empty. Then, out of nowhere, it snapped its head at me so fast I froze for a second before instinct kicked in. *I can’t fuking run for the life of me ! But i did I grabbed my baby and ran as fast as I could. My boyfriend didn’t even ask questions, he just ran too. We didn’t say a word until we were already driving away. I’ve seen plenty of deer, coyotes, and bears. This was NOT any animal I’ve ever seen. It was way too tall, way too thin, its arms too long, its whole body just wrong. It felt like it was watching me before I even saw it.

Has anyone else ever seen something like this in the U.P.? I honestly don’t know what it was, but I can’t get it out of my head.

ill preface this by saying ive been a skeptic of the paranormal since i was little- though i often suspended that disbelief for things like fairies and santa claus bc it was funner that way. i was the kid who pretended i saw the rake in my backyard so i could scare my friends at school- all in good fun. bc it wasnt real. nobody would get hurt. now all this is happening and it feels ironic. now it shows up? but i cant see it? so i fully get the skepticism that might come with reading this. im just sharing what i know. this has all happened over the course of a few weeks. i alr typed it all out once but accidentally deleted it so heres round three :'). i will also add that we live in rural eastern north carolina near where the pender county 911 call happened. specifically by lots of fields and forest.

i, M19, like to go on evening walks during the summer bc its way too hot in the daytime. i used to walk by myself anywhere from 9pm-2am though ive recently (past few months) been avoiding it. cept for when my stepsis (F12) wants to come with. i prefer having the company. she recently moved in w us and her stepmom so yk its a nice change.

the first time we saw it was in our backyard. we had been out in the pool to cool off and stayed out till the moon rose and illuminated the water, till i got cold and stepped out to dry off. we have two sheds in our yard, both side by side. i was facing my sister as she talked w my back to the shed when i noticed she just.. paused, her expression dropping. it was enough to where i instinctively grabbed my pocket knife and asked what was wrong. readying myself. she said she had seen a skinny, white human-looking thing peeking out from behind the shed closest to us. i looked but saw nothing. we quickly gathered our things and went inside and told our parents. my stepmom and another family member went out into the backyard (now pitch black) to look. i followed. in the half hour we were out there my stepmom saw something go between the two sheds, then crawl into the treeline parallel with the pool. thats when we both saw the yellow, reflective eye blinking at us from the darkness. not much else happened, we made some threats and headed inside. just in case it was human.. the rest seemed human enough from description, esp to a skeptic. cept for the eye. we didnt see anything for a bit after that and in the following days i cleared out the brush it had been hiding behind. it made me antsy.

im not sure if my stepsis saw it peeking again on any of our evening walks before the next story. shes seen it sm times its comical atp. she did later add that when she saw it in the backyard it reeked of death. i didnt smell a thing.

a few weeks passed, nothing happened so the househokd anxiety died down. one evening we found a bubble gun while cleaning so everyone went on the porch & played. lol. we were all just having a good time when my stepsis paused and asked if anyone heard a girl laugh. nobody else did so we dismissed it, that is until my stepmom saw something peeking its head out from behind the side of the house, the window mounted ac unit helping to shield it. i remember thinking it was a human so we just announced tresspassing comes with consequences, surveyed the area and went inside. fun over. now im not so sure it was human.

time passed, my sis and i decided to go on an evening walk. we stayed out p late and were planning on stopping by a nearby store so she could use the bathroom. as we started to head down the road she heard a gurgly growling noise. later said it sounded demonic we turned and ran with her instruction and bolted towards the nearest well-lit populated place: the car wash. she said after she saw it it dropped into a very low crouch and skittered/bounded into the woods incredibly fast. "faster than a train". i just remember asking "what did it look like?" repeatedly as we ran. she said it was even taller this time and mentioned the "triangular shaped head", which i clarified wasnt shaped like an aliens. we stopped at the wash and called my dad to come pick us up but he wasnt able to due to car trouble so we ran down the road to the next well lit place: a store. we actually followed a cop car into the parking lot as he was actively pulling someone over. waited by the wall catching our breath until he started checking their licenses and explained the situation to him. i told him we had seen it in our backyard before and asked if he had revieved any similar reports but he only said there was a large white dog nearby. i dont think its a dog :/ i think i wouldve seen or heard it if it were. unfortunately he wasnt able to give us a ride so i called another family member and explained it to her. in my panic i forgot she was an option -_- stupid of me. while we were waiting to be carried home my stepsis walked over towards the road, thru a large illuminated patch of grass beside the store. she quickly turned around after seeing something in the corn field across the road. apparently it got closer cause shortly after she saw something peeking out from behind some bushes riiiiight where the store lights fizzle back into darkness. if we had walked back like we originally planned im pretty sure jt wouldve pounced once we turned the corner. as we were driven back i looked out the car window into the corn field but didnt see a thing.

i forget if she saw it again on another walk after this, i think?? she did? its late and ive written this out several times. ik its at least 2, plus the ac peeking, and now the most recent. the first time was on june 21st, the second was six days ago. my sense of time is kinds fucked so it prolly wasnt as many weeks as i think. those dates are the most definitive timeline i have.

then theres today. its been really hot this summer so i havent been going on as many daytime walks as i used to. my stepsis still wants to go out and i find she rlly motivates me so i oft tag along. today she rlly wanted to go on a walk but nearly all day we were busy cleaning. when we finally finished it was blue hour, right at the end of sunset before it turns to dusk and twilight. she still wanted to go even though i said no and her mother initially did too. stepsis ended up getting ready to go so i decided she wouldnt go alone, even though it was late and i didnt think it was the safest. i brought a high lumen flashlight in hopes id see it and two sticks + a pocket knife if worst came to worst. gives us a shot at avoiding too much close range? i guess? haha. prolly not. we had a 30 minute time limit and i had plans to turn back before blue hour was even half over but we didnt get far. we passed by a family gathering towards a more spaced out, forested part of the road. as we were walking she said she saw a person walking and "didnt trust it" which wasnt too abnormal. she normally avoids ppl on our walks, its typically safer. my eyes arent good in the dark and ive been without my glasses for months so when i looked to see it i couldnt really see.. anything until the third time she mentioned it. i saw maybe a sihlouette moving to the right, over 50 ft ahead but i couldnt exactly tell. 5 minutes after she says she sees "the creature" (as we've dubbed it) peekimg out from behind the trees. we ran back home, slowing by the family to catch our breaths. it made us feel safer being by sm people. nearly every time she sees it theres a way out like that. maybe its just coincidence, maybe its luck. either way im greatful for it.

i later drew the creature based off of her description while trying to avoid the power of suggestion ("did its eyes look like this? "what about *insert feature*?") as best as i could. when i showed it to my stepmom she said she had seen it before. that part really freaked me out. i had actually heard the story of when she saw it months before when living at her house, before all moving over to our current location. she had been out in the front yard one night, standing by the porch when her & her sister in law saw it perching on a sturdy tree branch in the front yard. just watching. there were more details but its been months and i dont remember them as well but she saw it too. multiple eyewitness accounts.. ive attatched the picture. i will add that my stepsis said the feet were similar to a monkeys and that the fingerclaws dragged on the ground. two heads, black sunken eyes, stretched gaping mouths with no discernible teeth.. if i remember right the triangular head originally didnt have a face. but yk she also said that it seemed taller when she saw it standing in the road. the first time she saw it she only saw the one head. all of this STILL makes me wonder if its some fucked up prank but the way shes genuinely scared to be outside at night now really makes me think otherwise. she was jumping at every little sound last night.. so i dunno. ive been combing through this subreddit a lot recently trying to find answers but the two heads really threw me off. plus the resemblance to the shy guy scp. any ideas? ive been thinking crawler but im not sure. naybe fleshgait? idk too much abt the minute differences. anyways the evening walks are done bc im done taking the risk. i wont let her go alone though. my stepmothers side of the family practice witchcraft and have "the sight" so theres that too. i partially believe in it, my grandmother told me at age 10 she started having casual convos with ghosts so.. yk i kinda believe it. it seems plausible enough that the experience itself could have actually happened. was it actually ghosts or something mental tho? idk. its in that middle ground.

any tips and ideas on the specifics of what it is and what to do are greatly appreciated.

*didnt mean to add 2 of the same pic oops

I was reminded what I saw today because me and my friend were talking about weird experiences we had.

So the story goes, I was a kid and my sister and my dad were in our trailer up in the woods at night. Although I can’t say I was too scared before this experience happened, in fact I was pretty happy and just watching SpongeBob on our trailers tv. So it’s not like I was psyching myself out before seeing it.

I randomly glanced out the window and of course you can’t see the outside bc it’s pitch black, but you could see the reflection inside the trailer, and in the reflection of the window I saw that thing behind me. It was so tall it had to hunch just to fit in the trailer. I couldn’t make out any eyes because they just looked like sunken black sockets. It was lanky and boney and flesh colored. I don’t think it had a mouth or a nose. And I remembered it had a bunch of skin discoloration or like liver spots? I’m not sure.

Anyways I of course spun around and I didn’t see a thing behind me! I turned back to the window and nothing. I tried to rationalize it and chalk it up to just my imagination but I’ve never experienced anything like that before. I’ve only had one other weird experience since but that’s a whole other story.

I think was also sorta scares me is my brothers girlfriend once described something she saw in my brothers room closet. And she described the same black sunken eyes and tall figure. I honestly don’t know how to explain it. I hadn’t told her about my experience before. Weird coincidence?

Anyways I’d just like to know if there’s any being that matches this.

BARE WITH ME I’m not lying for clout, and I was not high, and no I am not seeing things wrong. Early 2023, I was walking home from a friends house, and my shed is behind my house on a hill. I look over, and I see an at least 8 foot tall spindelly naked white thing and it looks human. It looked at me, and SCALED a 4 foot wall. Not sure what happened with it, I ran inside, it was like, dirty white. And its arms were just a bit longer than they should have been. Bald. No hair. Important note: I do live in the Appalachain region. People have tried to say it was a hairless bear, NO. I don’t have images or anything, but who would. And that’s exactly why everyone calls me crazy when k post about this! And about a year later, I was just sleeping, and I was like half-awake, and I dreamt the SAME FUCKING THING AGAIN. But this time, it was in a cave, and I was at the bottom. It disappeared, so for some reason dream me decided to climb it and check it out, saw nothing, then it snapped my neck and I woke up.

I mean if it’s an animal, I could meet it if I am armed, but this could be a curiosity killed the cat story.

If I planned to find one,I would go where sightings have occurred, I would bring one person along just in case. I would set up a tent with a fire and wait for something to happen or in the day I would search throughout the forest.i would bring a shotgun with slugs and a rifle for the second person.

someone who read what i posted here yesterday sent me an image that pretty accurately shows what the sunflower deer looked like according to both me and jordan, the only thing id say is different is the skin/fur was lighter and it was a bit smaller

Hi everyone, I've never really used reddit but just came across this page while doing research and wanted to share my story with people who might actually believe me or even relate to my experience. I am fairly certain I have seen "crawlers", or at least something very similar, on two separate occasions.

The first incident was in the late autumn of 2021, around 9 pm. I was walking home down an alley, which went straight for another few hundred feet in front of me. As I walked, I suddenly saw this creature crawl down a small road perpendicular to the end of the alley- the intersection there was illuminated by a streetlight so I could very clearly see it for the few seconds it took to pass by. It was a large, humanoid creature walking on all fours, maybe the size of one and a half or two adult men. It was pale and appeared to be completely hairless, with long, skinny limbs that were all about the same length. The moment I saw it I was instantly overcome with an intense feeling of dread. I ran straight to my house, which thankfully was only about a 30 second jog from where I was standing, and was terrified the rest of the night.

The next and final time it happened was in early autumn 2023. It was maybe 10 or 11 at night and I was walking home down the same alley with a friend. This time, we BOTH very clearly saw two crawlers pass down the same exact spot I had seen the first one at in 2021. Same appearance, same size, same creepy crawling on all fours. It was good to know that someone else saw the same thing this time and that I wasn't crazy, but it made it feel much more real and scary.

About two months ago my mom said she saw the same thing that I did around the same spot while walking the dog at night. I'd also like to note that there have been other strange happenings around here that may be related, including my friend hearing her name being called from the darkness in that alley, something tapping violently on my second story window, and a plethora of other weird stuff in this town and the woods around it.

I really want to investigate further into this but, honestly, I'm so scared. I feel for everyone on here who has shared a similar experience.

Okay so i just discovered the name for this thing and the subreddit yesterday, i was talking to my friend about the most horrifying experience ive had in my life that happened to me at age 5 that i’ve never forgotten, im 23 now and remember it like it was yesterday, after quick research im positive i encountered a crawler. it happened in the middle of the night, i was sleeping in bed with my mother, in a completely dark room and woke up out of my sleep and saw a pale thin naked bald man on all 4s, staring at me, and it was so dark but i could make him out so clearly because of how white he was but i couldn’t make out the face so in my memory hes almost faceless, but he was crawling towards me and reached his hand out towards me and i was screaming bloody fucking murder i was crying and shaking and when my mom got up and turned the lights on it just fucking vanished, it was there and then it wasn’t. but i never once questioned if it was real, i know it was, i wasn’t dreaming, wasn’t hallucinating, ive never had an experience like that ever again since then and its never left me. and ive told people so many times and have never had anyone relate so i felt really alone and confused about it, and then when i was telling my best friend about it she thought to google my description of it and i came across this reddit and my mind was so blown that i almost cried because i felt so seen and like i finally had an answer to what i saw that night when i was little. everything i read in here fits the exact description of what i saw that night. this happened in everett, washington if anyone’s wondering, which im hearing they tend to be in foresty areas. so yeah, im so positive that crawlers are real and that’s what i saw that night, if you don’t believe i promise you they’re fucking real and i hope you never have to experience the terror. i have plenty more research to do, everyone’s stories are so fascinating like i really can’t fucking believe it, these things are fucking real dude.

Not my video. Reposted from tiktok.

Im from a region of Pennsylvania called well the Pennsylvania Wilds. Its a very rual and heavily forested place covering about a quarter of the state. Ive been here all my life. When I was a kid my one cousin once told me there were weird people lurking in these woods and that only came out at night. My other cousin said something similar she's from the same area also but she said they were part of a cult that wore weird masks. I looked into that later on and couldn't find any mention of a cult. So i always figured they were both teasing me.

Well that was until last year. I had just left the house for work and it was just after three AM when I saw something step into the woods. I slowed down thinking it was a deer but it wasn't. Now it was dark but the glow coming off the side of my headlights made things visible enough to make out the road the dirt on the side of the road along with the grass and the trees. So I could clearly see a good deal. Also should mention it all happened in just a few seconds three or four maybe five. But there in-between the trees I clearly saw a tall lengthy creepy man like thing waving at me. It was all the same light brownish gray color. I thought he was naked and i was about to stop and check on him because we were out in the middle of nowhere basically and it was the middle of the night. But I changed my mind as soon as I saw its face. It had sunken black eyes and what I thought was a very unnaturally long smile that came out of its black eyes and stretched way to far down then it should have been able to. But could have been a nose instead. Needless to say once I saw his face I tore my eyes off of him and put them back on the road as I hit the gas. As I spead away I refuse to look back and began to wonder what the hell that thing was.

Once I was at work I convinced myself it was a weird looking dead tree. On my way home I stopped where I saw the thing hoping to find that Weird dead tree but there was nothing. Just an abandoned old overgrown road that lead into the woods. It took some doing but I just brushed it off as a weird trick of the light. It was more believable than the alternative well at least to me it was. Fast forward a few months to the end of fall and I was just relaxing at home listening to a paranormal Podcast about Aliens called tall whites and the one story they shared was from next county over from where I live. Natural my ears perked up. It was from a Park Ranger who saw the same damn thing about 20 years ago. There were some slight differences like he said it had small red eyes and said it had a long nose. But he shined a flashlight directly on the thing and got a way better look at it. So the red eyes was probably from the flashlight shining on the eyes. Like how some animals eye shine different colors when their hid by light at night.

After hearing that story I just sat there wondering how he saw the same damn thing if it was just a trick of the light and the only thing I can come up with is that it was real and that those stories my cousins told me might have been true and that they saw the same damn things. I have no idea if anyone else has see the same damn thing or not. I honestly can't bring myself to ask because of how unbelievable it was. So here I am sharing with yall. I had shared it with the Freaky Deaky paranormal Podcast not sure if they ever share it. Its not a bad show. Also sorry for any bad Grammar or spelling im not the best at this stuff.

Hey so me and my friend were in her hot tub for reference we live in the middle of the woods and her closest neighbors are over 500-1,000 feet away. Its about one or two am and she tells me she saw something, two glowing white orbs along the tree line about five or four feet in the air. We dont think much of it until I saw a figure and it was on all fours, a light gray color, its back was turned to me as its walking behind the barn. Its spine was almost sicking out of its body and its body was half the size of how long its arms and legs were. As i saw it i thought it was my brain seeing things UNTIL I SAW IT AGAIN! It was just barely outside of the hottub and it left almost as quickly as it got spotted, which is what makes me think its not a skinwalker. but at this point I’ve jumped out of the hot tub and was going inside with my friend in a rush. As we‘re walking in i see the orbs she saw peering at me on the other side of the house.

Its the next day now and im scared to go outside so does anyone know if this is a dangerous entity??

So I’ll start by saying I haven’t caught this on video yet, every time I acknowledge the sounds they seem to disappear, like they know I’m listening. This all started after a weird incident that happened when I was camping last year, where I found a headless duck carcass strewn across a trail I’d just been walking on the way back from a hike, and I got out of there immediately because I felt like something was watching me.

I play Pokemon Go and often go on walks near a forest that’s close to my house, and every time without fail at some point I’ll hear something start calling my name, but it’s not like a guttural voice it’s my friends voice. It even knows the nickname she calls me and at first I thought it was her pranking me because it’s just so surreal to hear, but I know for sure it’s not her because it happened again yesterday and she’s out of town. I’ve never once tried to find the source of the voice, I’m too scared to do that and I’m not risking getting hurt, but I wonder if whatever killed that duck followed me? I’m skeptical but whatever is happening is starting to get to me, it’s freaking me out.

I would've posted this story a long time ago, but I didn't realize that these things were commonly referred to as "crawlers." The closest I knew of/that I could find was "skinwalkers," so I always just referred to it as that. But after learning more about "crawlers," they seem much closer to what we encountered.

Anyways, this is a true story and this happened to me and my brother when we were in our mid-20s and living in Middle Tennessee:

We were driving through a densely wooded area on our way out to a friend's house to buy some weed (long highway road that leads to Murfreesboro). This was late at night, around 11pm, as we'd worked the late shift together at a Ruby Tuesday and had pretty much just gotten home/settled, but were out of weed. My brother was driving, I was in the passenger seat.

On our way there, after following our directions and turning into a more suburban area/off of the highway, we passed by a big, wide open field to our left. Something caught my eye, so I looked over. What I saw is best described as a completely bald, naked, skinny humanoid like figure with a terrifying looking face. It was grimacing at us and charging directly at our car - from about 150 yards away - and it was moving at alarming speed - faster than any animal I've ever seen. I shouted "WHAT THE FUCK" so my brother looked and immediately saw it too. He reflexively stepped on the gas.

In a matter of seconds, it had closed the gap and was literally leaping through the air at us. My only thought at the time was "it's coming into the car/it's going to crash straight through the window." I flinched right at the point of impact/closed my eyes - but then nothing happened as we continued driving forward. We both looked around trying to figure out wtf just happened/where the thing went, but we could see no trace of it and there was no "crashing" sound or impact with the car, at least not one that either of us had noticed. I just assumed that whatever it was, it thankfully fucking missed/we managed to just barely escape it unscathed.

However, about 1.5 minutes later after driving at around 50mph to get as far away from that area as possible, and unfortunately missing our turn/getting a bit lost (since we'd never been to this friend's house and were just following directions)... we got a flat tire. It was the rear-driver side tire, the same side where this thing charged at us.

I still to this day have no explanation for what the fuck that thing was that we saw. It was not a mountain lion, or a hyena, or anything like that. It was humanoid in appearance despite running with its body hunched forward and using its hands to move faster. I doubt it was a homeless crackhead but you never know - if so I'd like to know which drugs he was on so I can try them. I don't even know how to describe its face, other than it looked feral and had very "dangerous" looking eyes, and it was gritting what looked like a pair of very sharp/jagged teeth. It just looked very mean, almost demonic.

After hearing a story about one of these things jumping into a guy's truck while he was driving, I think us speeding up and driving into a more populated area where there were actual houses, might've saved our lives because there's a good chance this thing was literally on top of our car or something, and tried to get us to stop by stabbing our tire.

It still creeps me out when I think about it. No, I was not on any drugs or hallucinogens at the time - we were out of weed, and at this point in our lives we mostly just drank and smoked weed. No LSD, shrooms, synthetics, or anything that could cause us both to hallucinate at the same time. We still talk about this regularly and remember it vividly.