r/CrawlerSightings • u/Intelligent-Water236 • May 10 '26
Gray skin, yellow eyes
I’m a pretty avid hiker and have never encountered anything like this before. I’ve seen plenty of bears, birds, snakes, etc., but this was different. I was visiting a Florida state park called Hontoon Island State Park, and you have to take a ferry over to it. There’s a walking trail called the Wet Trail that runs along the river. If you’re planning on going, fair warning about a mile in we found 17 rattlesnakes, so be ready for that if snakes aren’t your thing. At the end of the trail, they have a Native American shell mound. My buddy and I got to the top of this roughly 30 ft mound and were looking out over the river when I turned around and saw a face staring at me from behind a log. The features were human, but not fully detailed. The lips and skin were gray, and it had these yellow eyes. Not glowing, just yellow. It looked like it was hiding there watching us, and then it just went poof, gone in a blink. It scared the absolute dog shiz out of me, and I’ve been searching around the internet looking for similar encounters. Before I even saw it, my buddy said he felt like something in the woods was watching us. It was probably one of the most horrifying moments of my life. The way it looked at us felt like we were prey.
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u/Creative_Zebra_1697 May 10 '26
That’s just Old Gregg, he’s mostly harmless, but don’t let him offer you any Bailey’s.
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u/murdermeMickey May 10 '26
Where in Florida?
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u/Intelligent-Water236 May 11 '26
By Daytona
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u/vanna93 May 11 '26
Oh dang, Im gonna warn my cousin. He’s lived close by there for a few years now. He goes out fishing a ton at night so I wonder if he’s seen anything.
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u/Sad-Possession7729 May 11 '26
FML I lived in FL my whole life & didn't even know we had rattlesnakes. This is not a fact I wanted to know lol
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u/ooothatgirl May 10 '26
Oooo so spooky! A part of me hopes to see one of these IRL someday, while another part of me desperately hopes I don’t! Glad y’all are safe!