UK, Manchester

don’t know what the fuck we found in a wooded area behind our flat, and after that weird shit started happening. I genuinely want other people’s opinions.

This happened about four years ago and we still talk about it because none of us have ever been able to explain it. Quick disclaimer: most of this is from my friend’s perspective because they remember it better than I do, but I was involved in everything that happened.

Before the bigger incidents happened, there were loads of smaller things that slowly built up over time.
My friend started seeing men dressed in long black cloaks walking past the living room window late at night silently walking past. Every time she’d look, she’d get this horrible feeling in her stomach.
Both my friend and her girlfriend also saw the exact same shadow figure, but on completely different days while they were alone in the flat. Neither of them mentioned it to the other at first because they thought they’d sound insane. When they eventually did talk about it, they both described the exact same shape, height and where they’d seen it without either of them prompting the other. That really freaked them out because neither had known the other had experienced it.
Another thing that still sticks with us is that one night my friend looked towards the kitchen window and saw what she described as the face of a dead-looking woman staring back at her from the glass. Pale face, dark eyes, expressionless. She looked away for a split second and it was gone.
Objects would randomly disappear and then turn up days or weeks later in places we’d already searched multiple times. Things that hadn’t worked in years would suddenly switch on by themselves for no obvious reason. Individually you can explain away a lot of that, but when it kept happening alongside everything else it started feeling like part of the same pattern.
Something else that always felt strange was my friend’s old cat. It constantly tried to lead her towards the same little wooded area by the bushes outside the flats. It wasn’t something it did with anyone else, and it happened often enough that she noticed. Most of the time she’d ignore it because it felt weird, but looking back it’s one of those things we’ve always wondered about.
At one point we even went to a local spiritualist church because we genuinely didn’t know what else to do. We’d never met the medium before and she’d never seen or spoken to us. Before we’d even really said anything, she became visibly uncomfortable. She told us she didn’t want to continue because she was scared. She said she could see what she described as a black void or dark presence above my friend that was stopping her from wanting to read for us. Whether you believe in mediums or not, that reaction caught us completely off guard because she had absolutely no prior knowledge of us or what had supposedly been happening.
The weird part is that this whole thing started with the photos I’m attaching. Before the voices, before the figures outside the window, before the 3AM incident, me and my friends went into this little wooded/bushy area near our flats just messing around with a camera. We took a few pictures and didn’t think much of it at the time. Looking back now, that’s the point where all of this seemed to begin.
Not long after that, weird little things started happening around the flat. We’d hear footsteps at night when nobody else was there, random bangs, things sounding like they were moving around by themselves. We kept making excuses for it. “It’s just the house settling.” “We’re tired.” “We’re hearing things.” Anything that sounded more reasonable than admitting something felt seriously off.
Then my friend started seeing people outside the living room window. Not shadow people. Not quick glimpses. Actual figures. She described them as older men wearing old-fashioned clothes, just standing there staring towards the flat. Every time she saw them it scared the absolute shit out of her.
The first thing that really made us stop brushing everything off happened one evening when a few friends were over. Everyone else was stood near the front door talking while my friend and her girlfriend were sat together in the living room. Her girlfriend was just scrolling through her phone, completely silent. Then my friend heard her girlfriend’s voice. Not quietly. Not from another room. It sounded like she’d literally just fucking said something beside her. Except… she hadn’t. My friend even replied, “What?” Her girlfriend looked up confused and said, “I didn’t say anything.”
The reason this fucked with us so much is because we’d already started recording bits throughout the day. Weird shit had been happening for a while and we wanted to see if we’d catch anything. Later we listened back, and sure as shit, there’s a voice. It sounds exactly like her girlfriend speaking in the room. The problem is she swears on her life she never said a single fucking word. She wasn’t watching videos, wasn’t on a call, wasn’t talking to anyone. She was literally just scrolling through her phone in complete silence. We still have absolutely no explanation for why what sounds exactly like her voice ended up on that recording.
Then came the thing that neither of them has ever been able to forget. And this is important: I wasn’t there for this part. I was in London for my studies. It was just my friend and her girlfriend at the flat that night.
At around 3AM they went outside to the communal washing area to collect clothes from the dryer. The second they stepped outside the flat they both got that horrible feeling that someone was watching them. Not just anxiety. That heavy feeling where every instinct in your body is telling you something isn’t right. They ignored it and carried on. On the way back they had to walk past the bushes near the entrance to the flats. Without even saying anything they both slowed down. Her girlfriend eventually said, “I’m not looking anymore.” My friend kept looking. At first she could only make out something skin-coloured deep inside the bushes. As they got closer it became clearer and clearer until they both saw it.
Something was crouched inside the bushes. Not just a person hiding. The proportions were completely fucking wrong. It was low to the ground on all fours with absolutely massive arms and legs bent in ways that didn’t look possible. The limbs looked way too long and way too thick for the rest of its body, almost like whatever it was had folded itself into the bushes. The skin looked flesh-coloured but wrong. Not pale, not dark, just wrong. Like the texture didn’t look human. My friend said it almost looked unfinished, like it didn’t fully belong to anything biological she recognized. The closer they got, the more detail they could see, and the worse it looked.
Then they ran. Her girlfriend was screaming, “OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR!” while my friend was trying to get the key in with her hands shaking. They got inside, slammed the door, locked it and completely lost it. Crying, shaking, full adrenaline.
And this is the part that gets me. They rang me in London absolutely terrified. I have never heard either of them like that before. These are the kinds of people who don’t get scared, don’t cry, and will happily do the dumbest, craziest shit imaginable without a second thought. If there was ever a horror movie situation, they’d normally be the idiots walking towards it. Hearing both of them sobbing and panicking down the phone genuinely scared me because it was so out of character.
After they calmed down, they both described exactly the same thing without influencing each other. Same crouched posture. Same huge unnatural limbs. Same body shape. Same everything.
Before anyone says it was just bushes or pareidolia, we know those bushes. We’d walked past them countless times. They’re just normal bushes. Nothing about them had ever looked strange until that night.
So now we’re back to the thing that started all of this: the photos. The first picture is the original one we took when we went into that little wooded/bushy area near the flats. The second is the same image brightened and enhanced. Ever since then we’ve spent years zooming in, arguing about it and trying to come up with a logical explanation. At this point we’ve looked at it so many times that I honestly don’t trust our own judgement anymore.
I’m not posting this because I want everyone to tell me it’s paranormal. If there’s a normal explanation, I’d genuinely rather hear it. I just want fresh eyes on it. **What the fuck are we actually looking at?** Do you just see bushes and pareidolia, or do you see something crouched there too? Because the more we brighten the image, the less normal it looks, and it’s hard not to think about the fact that every single weird thing we experienced seemed to start after we went into that wooded area and took those pictures.

This was in 2022 me, my buddy, and my gf were riding around at night. As we were coming by this church we seen a humanoid figure with dark hollow eyes no mouth or nose, and unnaturally long limbs come out of the tree line and start walking across the parking lot 50 feet from us. So we pulled over and watched it, and for maybe 5-10 seconds it had no idea we were watching it. If I had to estimate it was probably 6-7 foot tall on all fours, But as soon as it did notice us it ran across that parking lot faster than any animal I’ve ever seen. Best way I can describe its motion is that of the ice cream man from the movie legion. It went over this hillside on the far side of the lot and kept peaking over to see if we were still there. Almost like it was trying to lure us to it. This lasted maybe 2-3 minutes if I had to guess until we were finally like we need to go. It messed my buddy up so badly he refuses to talk about it. We all beat ourselves up for not taking a picture or video of it, but we were just so in shock at what we were seeing. Everybody I’ve talked to about it here has never seen anything like it, I’ve fished and hunted these woods my whole life and have never seen something like that. I quit hunting bc I absolutely do not want to run into whatever the fuck that was ever again.

Also just wanna say I just found out the name of these creatures yesterday, it’s nice to finally have a name for what we saw, because most of the time telling people it’s similar to the rake when telling the story, people would say ya know the rake is fake. Of course I do, but the crawler we saw was most definitely real. Was also wondering if anybody else has any sightings here as well.

when i was 3/4 I was living in a trailer park in bullit county, Kentucky and there's was this thing that looked like jeepers creepers, who would show up pick me up and fly me around the trailer park. it didn't harm me or anything . some time later this jeepers creeper look alike took my baby wipes, wiped his " skin " off . later on walked into the front door looking like an ogre ( Shrek )

to this day im still wondering if it was a dream or if it actually happened, but I ended up going back to that trailer park to visit the person who was watching me during the encounters, had told me the jeepers creepers/ ogre thing took her car that still had my car seat and wrecked it. sadly im not able to ask her anything since she passed away a few years ago.

So I discovered this rabbit hole of stuff after hearing a North Carolina 911 call of some humanoid figure jumping in the back of a man’s truck and leaving scratch marks, and the guy is screaming “that’s not human”. I’m now very interested in this entire rabbit hole.

Are “crawlers” and other cryptids actually real? If so, where are they most commonly found in the world?

What are the origins of them?

Are they related to other cryptids and humanoid unknown creatures, how common are crawlers compared to other cryptids?

Are crawlers aggressive towards humans?

Whether or not this story is true I can’t say for sure. But there were 3 eye witnesses and one of the witnesses I know and worked with. This man doesn’t really strike me as a dramatic story teller. So take this all as you will. It is quite long and all of the information may not be 100% accurate as I am reciting it from memory. I don’t even know what to think of it to be fully honest. So here we go anyway.

For background information before the actual story he told:

I used to work with this man at a food processing station and he was a trucker. I no longer do work with him and haven’t for over almost 2 years. His name for privacy reasons is “D.” My mother currently works with him. She basically handles all of the truckers load weights, and keeps track of their routes to send to corporate and she handles the truckers paperwork. 2 days ago “D” told my mom about an encounter he just had.

He was on a trucking run in North Carolina I don’t remember where specifically I think it was in Pender county. (if I am able to find out where I will edit this post) He had to go to the bathroom and he was maxed on his road hours also. So he stopped at a quiet truck stop to go to the restroom. There was no one else in there. While he was on the toilet doing a number 2. He heard the door open and what sounded like sandals or flip flops walking in. Then he heard a voice say “let me in, let me in, let me in.” He sees a face peak through the crack in the stall door. He describes it as about 4 feet tall, pale, living and moist eyes, it had abnormally long skinny crooked fingers. He said it began banging on the door. Then it began shoving on the door the latch on the stall door broke so “D” put both of his feet on the door to stop that thing from coming in. It then went into the stall beside him. He saw these abnormally long crooked skinny fingers reach over grabbing the stall about to climb over. Its face peaks over the stall and “D” punches at this thing but he describes that his hand went through this thing. He screamed and then this thing let out a deafening screech that “D” describes as like a train when it comes to a sudden stop. “D” pulls up his pants and runs out. This thing runs out of the bathroom. Another trucker, a large black man “D” described as about 300lbs was walking to that bathroom. The creature runs at this man and knocks him over as it runs past him. This man looks at “D” asking him “what was that thing? I used to be a football player and that thing just threw me like nothing!” Both of the men decide to get out of there. There were bushes nearby their trucks so the men walk to their trucks together because they thought that would be safest. They get in their trucks and begin to pull out of this truck stop. “D” looks in his mirror and sees 3 of these things standing there where “D” and this other man just were. “D” takes a picture of these creatures as he drives out. He then talks to the black man over their radios. But as “D” turns his radio on, he hears the same voice from the bathroom. It just repeated “let me in, let me in, let me in. The black man talks to “D” over the radio asking him if he hears that voice too. He agrees that he hears it. They then decide to check each other’s trucks passing each other in turns to make sure nothing is on their truck. The trucks are clear so they drive for a while and stop at another truck stop a long ways off from the previous. “D” and the other man that he was now traveling with get out at this truck stop. and they see an older man that was security at this new truck stop. “D” and the other trucker he was with hear this security guard while in the truck stop say “oh no, those things are back again.” All of the 3 men run to their vehicles. The security guards car wouldn’t start so “D” and the black trucker decide they can’t leave the poor old guy and help the man. After “D” and the other trucker leave and keep driving despite “D” being over his time limit for trucking. He said he was so terrified he did not want to stop he didn’t care that he was over his time limit. He’d rather get in trouble with the law than stop to even chance seeing those things again. “D” told his wife about what he saw and said she does not believe him at all. He now believes in supernatural creatures.
“D” went to show his wife the picture he took of the creatures. But in the photo nothing was there.

Again, I do NOT know how true any of this is. If it even has an ounce of truth to it at all. I simply was not there. My mother seems convinced by his reaction while telling the story. She is not usually the gullible type. But still, take this all with a grain of salt. True or not it is still an interesting story! lol

1904 Grayson County, Texas 'HORSEMAN' ENCOUNTER! Strange CRAWLING HUMANOID Terrorizes the Red River Borderlands - Later reports described a crawling humanoid near Colbert that could outrun horses, survive gunfire, and vanish in gunpowder smoke. https://phantomsandmonsters.com/post/1904-grayson-county-texas-horseman-encounter-strange-crawling-humanoid-terrorize

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.

GOLLUM-LIKE HUMANOID Reported Feeding on Horse Inside Locked Barn in Pierce City, Missouri - Inside the locked family barn, he found his motorcycle knocked over, a dead horse, and a crouched, Gollum-like humanoid feeding in the dark. https://phantomsandmonsters.com/post/gollum-like-humanoid-reported-feeding-on-horse-inside-locked-barn-in-pierce-city

Not my video. Quality is shit.

Is there anybody from Northern, CA like the Plasterville/Camino/Polluk Pines area that has seen any Skinwalker/Crawler sightings??

My co worker just told me a scary story about when she was a teenager and she was walking home from school and she was near a thick forest and heard something rustling behind her. She stopped multiple times and never saw anything. She turned around finally and saw what she described as “a white man” and she BOOKED it. She said it took off running keeping pace with her in the dense woods next to her and sounded huge and heavy like a Bigfoot. I told her she probably saw a Skinwalker (I’m doing a podcast episode on it right now) but she wasn’t sure. She’s not really into that stuff but I am so I am SO curious if there’s anybody else in that area. For reference she was 13 at the time and is 50 now so curious if anybody else around that time or even recently has seen anything. Thanks in advance!

According to the OP twitter, they are from Southern Utah (Lake Powell per the pic), though they think this creature is a Wendigo.

This past winter I was at my boyfriend’s house on the west side of Cincinnati about 15 from the river. We woke up, it had snowed a decent amount, we looked out the window and saw some really strange tracks in the snow. They were about 2-3 feet apart, bipedal, with large hoof like prints. They led from the house window to a tree and stopped. As if something ran across the yard. He recalls a creature when he was younger carrying a dead deer through his backyard into the forest area near the back of his house. We have been curious since to know if anyone has seen anything similar or would have an explanation.

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PALE, LONG-LIMBED HUMANOID Seen on Wooded Family Land in North-Central Alabama - This north-central Alabama report has all the hallmarks of a chilling crawler-type encounter. https://phantomsandmonsters.com/post/pale-long-limbed-humanoid-seen-on-wooded-family-land-in-north-central-alabama

this was today. I'm glad I made it home. I was at a cafe then I was getting ready to read, I'm only 19 so I don't have a car so I was walking home I heard foot steps behind me so like a sensible person I turned around to see the source then I saw something, It wasn't human I wanted to take a picture but I didn't have time, so this post doesn't have one. I ran home went inside locked the door. I called 911, It was banging on my door, It left, then the police arrived. please someone explain this I'm scared to be in my house. and scared to leave, I'm spending the night at my aunt's house

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So I took this screenshot shot of the guy holding down the gator that ate the man and seems I was only one to notice there was a problem with dude sitting on the fator when they caught it. What do you guys think?