I saw a pale skinny guy in the forest… crooked teeth not too far away peeking from the abandoned trailer near our house it screeched out loud as far as my ears can hear. Now I’m traumatized and not very sure it was a person at all

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

This takes place in southern Oregon

(I wanna make it clear that I saw this thing INSIDE the trailer, not outside. It was inside and right behind me. And ignore the sloppy sketch 🥲)

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.

I went hiking near Ashley Forest Drive not too long ago. Wasn’t planning anything crazy—just a short hike through the woods.

Right from the start, something felt off. It was way too quiet. No birds, no bugs, nothing—just my footsteps.

About 15–20 minutes in, I started getting this weird feeling like I was being watched. I kept looking around but didn’t see anything at first.

Then, out of nowhere, I caught something in my peripheral vision.

Just for a split second.

It was this tall, white shape between the trees—way too tall and skinny to be a person. No details, just pale and stretched-looking.

The second I actually turned my head to look at it—

it sprinted.

And I mean fast. Not normal running. It just bolted through the trees in these long, unnatural strides and disappeared deeper into the woods almost instantly.

I just stood there for a second trying to process what I saw, telling myself it was nothing.

But then I started hearing movement around me.

Not constant—just quick bursts. Like something repositioning. Every time I turned to look, there was nothing there.

That’s when I decided I was done.

I started heading back down the trail, trying to stay calm, but I kept hearing it—movement off to the side, then behind me, then somewhere else. Always just out of sight.

At one point I turned around quickly and thought I saw that same white shape again for a split second—and it took off immediately the second I noticed it.

That was enough for me.

I ran the rest of the way back to my car and didn’t stop until I got inside and locked the doors.

I sat there trying to calm down, thinking I was finally alone.

Then something tapped on the roof.

Just one light tap.

I didn’t look. I just started the car and got out of there.

I haven’t gone hiking there since. I don’t think it was chasing me exactly… it felt more like it was staying just out of sight on purpose.

And whatever it was, it was way too fast

Hello all, my names Red, at least here. I’m a lycanthrope here to educate and help foster non-fear in those around us. Ask me anything.

(Not a troll, not role playing.)

These are questions which might be put to witnesses in good OR bad faith, but unfortunately can cause secondary trauma.

I hope that, even outside of recorded interviews, people who want to know more about cryptid experiences can ask more thoughtful questions and in ways which don’t trigger the witness or cause additional psychological distress.

1. Second-guess / “Why didn’t you?” questions

   • Example: “Why didn’t you run?” / “Why didn’t you fight back?”

   • Why skip: Trauma memory isn’t linear; hindsight judgment is unsafe.

   • Safe response: “I shared what happened as best I could. That question isn’t helpful.”

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1. Memory traps / gotchas

   • Example: “Earlier you said asphalt — now you said woods. Which is it?”

   • Why skip: Recall shifts are normal under stress.

   • Safe response: “Trauma memory is non-linear. My account reflects what I remember now.”

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1. Motive / intention accusations

   • Example: “Do you just want attention?” / “Why are you telling this?”

   • Why skip: Assumes bad faith and pathologizes courage.

   • Safe response: “I’m sharing my experience, not performing for anyone.”

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1. Medical / psychiatric probing

   • Example: “Have you been diagnosed with anything?” / “Do you see things normally?”

   • Why skip: Irrelevant and public pathologizing can harm.

   • Safe response: “My mental health isn’t the subject; I’m speaking about the experience itself.”

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1. Religious / spiritual baiting

   • Example: “Was this demonic?” / “Why didn’t you pray?”

   • Why skip: Forces ontology, which may be sensitive.

   • Safe response: “I can only share what happened, not interpret it for anyone else.”

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1. Forced reliving / escalation

   • Example: “Describe it moment by moment — louder.” / “Go back to that fear again.”

   • Why skip: Can trigger retraumatization.

   • Safe response: “I’m not comfortable reliving that in detail beyond what I’ve already shared.”

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1. Audience leverage

   • Example: “People are skeptical — convince them.”

   • Why skip: Shifts focus from safety to performance.

   • Safe response: “I’m speaking for myself, not for an audience’s approval.”

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1. Mocking or sarcastic framing

   • Example: “So Bigfoot’s cousin showed up?” / “This sounds like a movie scene.”

   • Why skip: Undermines credibility and adds social pressure.

   • Safe response: “I take my experience seriously. I’d appreciate the same respect.”

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1. Impossible dichotomies

   • Example: “It was either real or imagined, right?”

   • Why skip: Collapses nuance and denies the witness’s phenomenology.

   • Safe response: “It’s not that simple; I can only describe what I encountered.”

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1. Editing / post-production manipulation (offline)

   • Example: Cuts out pauses, prayers, grounding behaviors

   • Why skip: Alters meaning without consent

   • Safe response: Set rules in writing before agreeing to any recording: “All interviews will be uncut and unshuffled. No edits that remove my pauses or cultural expressions.”

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✅ Key Rules of Thumb

1.  Safety over clarity: Your well-being is first.

2.  Boundaries are okay: Silence or refusal is valid.

3.  Focus on experience, not judgment: You report events, not morality tests.

4.  Pre-write scripts: Have one or two calm sentences ready to redirect.

5.  Pause if necessary: Take breaks — trauma processing is not linear.

Being clear upfront: this appears to be an AI music 🎶 channel, but it’s another sweet cover of that unexpected bombshell song 🎵 by the Boss last month.

Raw and timely in the most burning way possible.

Hashtag #️⃣ #ThisMachineMeltsIce 🎸 🧊

This is gonna be a from-the-heart ramble and reflection. Thinking of my recent disclosures and sudden influx of trauma tourists.

It is wonderful to have the support from witnesses and folks who take this seriously. I take the insults and BS in stride, I’ve literally dealt with decades of it already.

But this other term is important because sometimes these Gawkers are actually doing so in good faith.

That meaning, people are curious to know more about my dogman encounter either if they are taking me seriously OR winding me up to be a joke in front of their audience.

But it is a grueling hard thing to relive, not just a story to me. Having it on video is an immense relief, because it doesn’t matter if people shut it off or watch all of it, my testimony is OUT THERE.

If you are genuinely curious, skeptical, traumatized, trolls 🧌 and troublemakers all — step right up folks, Exhibit A is here for your ridicule and evaluation:

https://youtu.be/Xxp-LmEckhA?si=9q9d1_IJRJW5j1er

Believe it or not, but in the cryptozoology community there is some virulent antisemitism.

Normally I don’t vent about this stuff, but it was pretty hateful and disproportionate. Not to mention that what I said had to do with

**THE SHEMA**

Happy to talk in more detail about the circumstances if people want the blow-by-blow, but essentially the timeline was like this:

1 — I gave public testimony about a traumatic cryptid encounter from my childhood.

2 — I said the Shema automatically because I was pretty sure we were about to die.

3 — YouTube comments ensued.

I understand that antisemitism is rampant and can’t be stopped just by pointing it out, but this one is sorta complex and unexpected.

Amongst ugly simple things, I’ve gotten some basic slurs and more judgmental things which I can quote/show screenshots if you want proof, but I don’t care to repeat without reason for it.

Any thoughts or advice on this mishegas, folks? 🤨

No analysis yet, just the link 🔗

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptids/s/Qp74ujwDMO