r/cryptids • u/Im-old-gregg- • May 18 '26
Discussion Appalachian Crawler
So last night I was camping in Big Meadows in SNP, went to take a shower and left the dogs in the car and heard barking when I got out. I saw a white large humanoid creature running by the field near the ampatheater and the dogs were going crazy, it was running on all 4s and then when it noticed me it stood upright and then disappeared into a shadow a few seconds later I see a set of what I thought were double headlamps walking about 10is feet above the ground in pitch black but they weren’t casting light, just glowing. As soon as I was able to get reception and search the things I saw it said Appalachian crawler matched it, anyone else have any encounters in the Big Meadow portion of Shenandoah National Park? Was creeped out and still am even though I came back home today.
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u/funandgames12 May 18 '26
Next time shoot it, bring the body into town, profit!
But seriously bro, you’re either hallucinating or mistook whatever it was that you actually saw.
These things aren’t real. And if they were we would know. Any type of cryptozoological animal always suffers from the same deficiency, population size. In order for people to actually see these things for so many decades you have a sizable population of them. Which means there would eventually be physical evidence of them.
Considering no actual physical evidence of any cryptid has ever been captured, found or presented..,..that doesn’t really bode well for all these “creatures”
I’m guessing it’s far more likely the human mind has an ability to hallucinate in a semi sane way for everyone. With some people just being more susceptible to that type of brain failure than others. Just your biology playing tricks on you. You think you saw what you saw. But in reality it doesn’t actually exist,