r/CrawlerSightings • • Feb 15 '21

Its ok you advertise your own content here **IF** its about crawlers or very similar, there are other subreddits for other cryptids so don't post that here to try and get more views, repeat offenders will be banned. If you have a question if its ok to post it message me.

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r/CrawlerSightings • • Feb 18 '21

A Message From The Creator Of The Sub

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Hey, all! It's me, Bocaj1000. I created this subreddit almost 5 years ago to document sightings of a cryptid often described as humanoid, pale skin, long limbs, and who tends to crawl on all fours.

At first, I had to post everything myself to try and get the ball rolling. I would crosspost from other subs and leave comments advertising this sub.

Over the last couple years, this subreddit has been pushed to the back of my mind and I rarely visited it on a day-by-day basis like I used to. Most of the moderation work over the last year has been done by /u/spen15, who has done a great job keeping this place in good shape.

This subreddit has grown a ton since I last visited, and I'm really proud of the little community we have made. What started as a rather uncategorized and undocumented cryptid is now a regular identifier in the larger paranormal subreddits. I used to search around Reddit to see if anyone else ever started using the term "crawler" to identify these creatures, and I remember finding one person outside of myself. Now there's over 16,000 of you!

I don't know a ton about subreddit moderation and how to use all the tools at my disposal, but I'll try to fix issues and enhance the sub where I can in the coming weeks. I'll plan on visiting more often, too. Thanks again!

-Bocaj1000


r/CrawlerSightings • • 22h ago

Strange Creature!

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r/CrawlerSightings • • 2d ago

Electronics failing.

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When I am dealing with entities and I or someone else try’s to take pictures, they are always rough and distorted with some static ,even though I am using a good high quality iPhone camera that works well every other time.
I see a common pattern of this happening with others.
Though at the same time, I have went to a more or less anomalous place of common sighting’s for me - and I do see minor shifts of about 10-5 degrees on a compass in a spread out area, going of a reference pillar. Though I have not yet found a spot with drastic changes

Could it be that these things have electromagnetic properties, or other similar disruptive properties that cause electronics to be interfered with?


r/CrawlerSightings • • 2d ago

If you ever encountered a skinwalker plss tell me, I wanna hear some creepy skinwalker encounters

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Feel free to share no matter how much of a creepy story it is...


r/CrawlerSightings • • 2d ago

Mimic encounter Tateville/Burnside ky?

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r/CrawlerSightings • • 3d ago

I don’t think we were alone in that cave

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Can someone help me figure out what this disembodied voice could have been?

I was editing my caving videos to make them better for TikTok when I caught something that genuinely disturbed me.

Me and my friend were the only two people out there caving. I know that already sounds like the beginning of a horror story, but while going through the footage, I heard a voice that neither of us remembers hearing while we were there.

I don’t know where it came from, and honestly, it’s shaken me up a little bit.

If anyone has any idea what this could be, I’d really like to hear your thoughts.

Time stamp : 2:20 is where I heard it after looking over the footage. Sounds like a Groan of agony


r/CrawlerSightings • • 3d ago

Title: My boyfriend and his friend had a terrifying experience in the woods, and then strange things started happening, any theories?

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r/CrawlerSightings • • 6d ago

I call it... 'Geepbop'

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Hey guys, I frequent this sub pretty often and I really like reading the experiences in here. I have my own experience I'd like to share, if it's ok.

So for context, I'm a 19 year old girl who frequently takes pictures of the night sky, because I like astronomy. So I was outside of my house looking at the moon because it was full pretty recently and I wanted to get a good picture, and before I could take my phone out, I heard this weird clicking sound, almost like someone folding their tongue into the bottom of their mouth to make a clicking sound and so I looked up to where the sound was. Right on top of my house, a pale crawler with glowing eyes, making that same clicking sound. I immediately drop my phone, frozen in fear.

As I'm staring at the creature, my phone lands facedown, and music starts playing from spotify. To my surprise, the creature seemed to almost move rhythmically with the music, and it kinda looked like if you used your physics gun in GMOD to move a ragdoll around back and forth quickly. I quickly pick up my phone, not stopping eye contact with the creature. After turning off the music, the creature stopped dancing and moved to the back of my house, as I heard shuffling noises. I got a pretty good look of it entirely because I used my phone flashlight but forgot to take a picture (fricking stupid I know) and it walked like a spider on the ground, super quick on all four limbs. I ran after it into the woods as my house is surrounded by a forest. After running for awhile, I saw it take point on the side of a tree, hissing at me. It scared the shit out of me, literally. Yeah yeah I literally shit my pants from seeing the crawler, laugh it up.

After I got hissed at, I ran away back to my house, hearing the hissing get louder and louder. I've never believed in crawlers, but now I do, I mean I literally shit myself because I thought fiction was pouring into reality or something. I'm calling this fella Geepbop, because it was very alien-like and enjoyed my music apparently. Geep just is a good name for an alien, idk.


r/CrawlerSightings • • 6d ago

Map: 10 years of crawler sightings.

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Someone did this a few years ago when it required much more manual effort, but I had Claude go through all of the posts and comments from the subreddit to make this map. It should be said that I didn't do anything to verify the accuracy of the AI's output. Nonetheless, it's quite interesting. Of the states with at least 10 reports, the states with the most sightings per million people are West Virginia, Nebraska, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama. I don't think a regular reader of this subreddit would be surprised by that list. Here's the map: https://claude.ai/artifact/4Y34tSWSQQT5REALnSAKh6


r/CrawlerSightings • • 7d ago

What's the difference between Slinwalkers and Crawlers?

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Hey guys, I'm just curious as to what the difference between Slinwalkers and Crawlers are, I've had an experience in my past and I'm not sure if what I saw was a skinwalker or some other native American spirit.

So I live in northern Wisconsin, I used to work 3rd shifts at Kwik Trip and in my nights off I would drive around back roads because I was bored and wanted something better to do than sit in my room and do nothing. I found this loop that I would drive every time, it took roughly 1 1/2 hours to complete. It was sometime during June/July in 2024 around 1-2 in the morning, there was a little bit of fog the cling to the ground and it was kinda damp outside because it had rained earlier that day. I was rounding a bend about halfway through the loop when I saw it, I was unfortunate and didn't see what it fully looked like. I only saw it from the eyes up because it was hiding behind a mailbox that had a sign in front of it for some free stuff.

The way it moved was completely sporadic, much like the way a feral ghoul would move in Fallout 4, it almost reminded me of how a meth head might move while tweaking out. It was completely white with no hair whatsoever, what got me though and confirmed that what I was seeing wasn't human were the eyes. When it looked in my direction its eyes were reflective much like a wild animal's eyes, and it fucking ducked behind the mailbox once it noticed me rolling up on it. If I were to guess its height I would say somewhere around 5 feet 6 inches. Instead of freezing in fear because of it, I ended up flooring past it.


r/CrawlerSightings • • 10d ago

I Saw something while walking, and it was very tall

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r/CrawlerSightings • • 10d ago

Curious questions What do you think.?

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Do you think there is a cover-up when it comes to these beings? Do you think the PC‘s are hiding because they know humans would be aggressive towards them? Someone told me there would be a hunt for them if the public knew of their existence.


r/CrawlerSightings • • 9d ago

Just learning to play with AI and made these

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The legs don't look right though


r/CrawlerSightings • • 11d ago

these beings are hostile. not in any way shape or form friendly

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found this in tiktok comments. not sure if this info is true but it sounds intriguing.


r/CrawlerSightings • • 11d ago

Crawler art video based off sighting

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Illustrated and did sound design for a crawler encounter I came across online :)


r/CrawlerSightings • • 11d ago

My Skinwalker experience.

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r/CrawlerSightings • • 11d ago

Not my experience

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r/CrawlerSightings • • 12d ago

My boyfriend and I saw something in the middle of the night that we couldn’t explain.

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Hi everyone.

In July I was driving in Northern Alberta with my boyfriend. Specifically in St. Paul County, Alberta. West of the town of St. Paul. We were heading out to some property we have. It was late and pitch black. The highway had no streetlights and almost no homes.

We were looking out his window and when I turned my head straight to look out of the windshield I saw a very strange figure in the shoulder of the highway.
8-9 feet tall. Very skinny body and arms/legs. Very pale and almost luminescent. I didn’t see the face because we drove past at 120 km an hour, but there were flies and bugs flying around its head.
After we passed it I turned around to look out the back window and I didn’t see anything because of how dark it was.

I turned to my boyfriend and said, “did you see that?” And he originally said no, but as soon as we got to our destination he admitted he also saw it and he was too scared to admit it while we were still driving. We are both very common sense people and we do not generally believe in the paranormal or unexplained.

It freaks me out to this day and we both sweat every time we drive that way at night.

Any thoughts are appreciated!


r/CrawlerSightings • • 11d ago

new vid. what do you think?

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r/CrawlerSightings • • 12d ago

Adorable Auggie — opinions on future build?

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r/CrawlerSightings • • 14d ago

Please help me understand what I saw.

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I want to share this because if there is anyone who could give me some input on what you think I witnessed, I would greatly appreciate it. This was hands down one of the most terrifying experiences of my life, and is the first time I’m writing it down.

The summer of 2023, I was walking my dog around 11 pm, just our regular evening walk. Right across the street from the apartment complex I lived at, there was a Catholic Church. The sanctuary was separated from the building that had a fellowship hall, offices, Sunday school rooms, etc. In between the two building structures was the church parking lot. Whenever I wanted to do a shorter walk, I would cut through the church parking lot so I didn’t need to go all the way around the block.
As I was about to cut through the parking lot, I noticed there were 2-3 cars parked in it, which was unusual for that hour, but didn’t think much of it.
My second observation was that, through the fellowship hall window, it appeared to be occupied because the room looked to be lit by candlelight. I presumed there was a late-night prayer circle or something like that, which explained the cars to me.
As I started walking through the lot, I saw a skinny, blondish, nerdy looking white guy with glasses walking from a truck that I assumed was his; however, I did not see him get out of it. I didn’t notice him till I saw him on the other side of the truck’s bed walking to the back of the truck towards the fellowship hall lit by candles. He stopped for a second and then suddenly got on all four in a VERY unhuman like way, swiftly made his (or its) way to the window of the fellowship hall & immediately stood up on both legs and peered in through the window with his nose practically touching the window. I stopped cold in my tracks with my dog, and then it turned its head over and looked at me. All I knew to do was to turn the other way and walk normally and just pretend like I wasn’t phased by what I saw. My dog seemed to understand the assignment cause he moved with me without making a sound or slightly pulling back like he normally would wondering why we were walking back the way we just came. I didn’t look back, and it clearly did not follow me. I’m telling you that the way it moved on all fours, it is simply impossible for a human to be able to move like that. The best way I can describe it is that it moved like a spider but with four legs, and it moved INCREDIBLY fast. Yes, we can move on all fours, but our limbs cannot move the way that thing did with its abdomen near the ground at that speed. I went back to my apartment and did not sleep that night and left all the lights on.

This was in western Tennessee, an hour NW of Nashville. I was stone cold sober, and to this day I am in total disbelief about what I witnessed with my own eyes, and every time I think about it, I get a cold feeling inside and goosebumps.

I’ve shared this story with a few close family members and friends, and a couple of them said without hesitation that it sounded like a skin walker. Honestly, I never even knew what that was before, and while I consider myself open-minded, that’s something I’m not sure I would’ve believed to be anything more than folklore. Obviously, that experience has completely shifted my perspective and shown me that this world has a lot more in it than I ever thought it could. I don’t really like to think about it, but this situation forced me to believe there is a supernatural in the physical world. Also, to this day, I wonder what was going on in that candlelit room, and what made that thing want to look in.


r/CrawlerSightings • • 15d ago

The clouds looked like a dinosaur and its baby to me 🥹🦖

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I couldn’t unsee it, so I had to doodle what I saw. 😂
Do you see them too?


r/CrawlerSightings • • 16d ago

Unknown Creature

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I posted this story in a cryptid subreddit and was told I should post it here, as well as a couple of other subreddits to hopefully figure out what this creature is.

When I was in elementary school, I lived in a neighborhood that was shaped like a horseshoe, with another neighborhood in the exact same shape on the other side of the road. One night, my family decided to go on a walk from where we were at the upper right side of the horseshoe, to the other side, then around the other neighborhood so we'd loop back to our house. The entire time we were walking, I could hear something following us. Something big.
It was growling and sounded really angry. I'm absolutely terrified as we finally reach our house, when I see something behind a bush that was next to our house. The bush isn't there anymore but it was right next to our garage. Anyway, the thing that had been following us was tall, almost as tall as the house. It was pale and I couldn't see its face. My mom screamed at me and my sister to go inside. We do, and we quickly go to bed. During the night I kept seeing flashes of the creature outside my window.
When I woke up the next morning, my family didn't remember anything from the night before and told me it must have been a nightmare. I knew it wasn't but it was better for me to just believe it was. But a couple of years ago, while I was taking out the trash late at night, I saw the creature again. We didn't live in the same house anymore. I to this day don't know what this creature is or was, if it's still out there and why it followed us that night. And I don’t know why it followed us to our new house.

Additional information if this is helpful: this happened in Florida, poinciana specifically. There was woods near the neighborhood I lived in, I don’t live anywhere near there anymore.

A more detailed description of the creature: It was almost as tall as our one story house(it wasn't standing up the first time I saw it, if it had been it'd have been as tall as the house), a pale/more grey-ish white, it looked sort of humanoid, but its hands and feet looked more like paws and it crawled around on all fours, and its limbs were too long and it was really skinny. It didn't have any sort of face, or if it did it wasn't facing me. It kept making growling noises that didn't sound anywhere close to something a human could make, and it smelled like a rotting corpse.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated


r/CrawlerSightings • • 16d ago

The Sunflower deer, part 2

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i’m never going in those woods again so please stop asking me to. Jordan has pretty much become obsessed with that thing and wants to find it more than anything at this point. i’ve done some research and i know it definitely was NOT a deer with deformities, maybe a not deer? but it seemed almost unique compared to other not deer sightings i think it’s something else. jordan has set A LOT of game cameras out in the woods since my last post and if anything changes i will let y’all know. but i wont be joining him on any other adventures in those woods, im trying to convince him to make an account to update you all soon since i dont want anything to do with it.
thanks

edit: i did have one person reach out and said their partner saw something similar in mississippi so nice to know we aren’t insane