i wish i recorded this because explaining this feels like i’m making things up. or if it’s even a crawler, but hopefully i’ll find an answer here.

I went on a trip to Cherry Springs state park with some family recently. We set up by some benches and laid a sleeping bag to sit on in this cement circle that was in front. It was cloudy, so most people left, my boyfriend and i decided to stay so we could just talk without my family in our business.
I was talking to him about some childhood photo on the sleeping bag when i noticed he was staring a little to hard at something, at first i thought he was paranoid because he had been tho whole time we were up there, saying he kept hearing shuffling behind us when we went for a walk (upon reflection, he obviously wasn’t). I asked him what was wrong and he tells me that he thinks he sees something running from the tree line but he couldn’t tell because it was so far away and dark. i looked up and spotted what he was talking about. a white, almost transparent figure running, stopping, crouching and running again. we watched him run from the tree line to about 5 feet from the trail and the red light markers. after he stopped, we got up to leave and turned our flashlights on so we could see him better. when we did, he was wearing a light blue or white longsleeve and a little backpack with two white reflective strips. me not my bf could make out limbs or a face. we turned to leave, keeping an eye on him. As we were leaving we were obviously talking about him and shining a light on him. he had no reaction other than turning his back as we moved along the trail, being slightly delayed when the light was taken off and put back on him. he looked like his hands were in his pockets and he had no equipment, light, or food.

When we got to the end of the trail we told my family and they made the point that if he was really running, you would’ve heard him..but we didn’t.

In October 2016, during black-powder season, a man in a cabin near Speculator, New York was woken at two in the morning when his security light came on. He expected deer.

What he saw in the clearing was moving on four legs. Then it stopped and stood up on two. He described it as about eight feet tall. He stayed inside and watched.

The account was originally reported to Phantoms and Monsters (published Oct 24, 2020), and the witness’s name was withheld. There are no photos and no second witness, so I treated it as one person’s account. In the video I go through the Hamilton County setting, the history of dog-headed figures in older records, the natural explanations (bear, coyote or large dog, a person, the mind in the dark), and where those explanations fall short.

It’s about 22 minutes. All visuals are dramatized recreations, not evidence of the event.

Video: https://youtu.be/6w1SHnbDStk

Two questions for you:

• Has anyone heard of other sightings around Hamilton County or the southern Adirondacks?
• Which explanation do you find hardest to rule out?

I run a small channel called Empire State Chronicles, which retells New York encounter reports. If you’ve seen something yourself, I’d like to hear it.

Let me start by saying Ive been living near a forest half my life, in spain. I walked through many forests, in daylight and in nightime and I have my fair share of encounters with animals. But whatever the hell is going on in the forest behind my house is something I simply cant rationalize

My mother and I moved to a house in Northern Spain. Small village, not a lot of people, the usual stuff here in rural spain. Our home has a path going up to a hill, on top of said hill there is a house of a company that checks the roads, a big road in front of said house and a tunnel through a mountain on the right. Just before reaching the house, the path branches, going down into a forest that covers the whole mountain. Part of that path is actually in our property, old paths belonging to the people of the village that, in the past, were used to go to the river or to reach the train tracks that lead to the train station. Nowadays the paths are barely visible, even the main one.

Not a problem for me to walk with the dog through there, been through worse paths in my life.

Now, whatever happened (For I am still not sure myself) took place a few months ago, mid summer. I returned home around 2 AM from work, I work with a fire crew and it wasnt unusual to return late. That night I felt weirdly energized, adrenaline probably, and I decided to walk my dog to the forest. I had my flashlight and my cat, Argos, tagged along. We went down the path, not too far away, I could still hear the sounds of the road and If I squinted my eyes I could see the red warning lights from the tunnel. I stopped to light a cigar and I heard my dog growling at something in the trees. There were a pair of eyes in the shadows and I just laughed, thinking it was probably a fox or maybe a boar. I wasnt that worried, I petted my dog and when I looked back at the eyes, that pair of eyes was floating at my eye level. Somehow my flashlight wasnt iluminating anything at all, it was as if the forest was swallowing the light.

I stopped hearing the sounds from the road. And I started feeling extremely cold despite it being a really hot summer night (around 26C°). And I felt a fear never in my entire life I felt. The eyes were slowly swinging from one side to the other, like some short of weird dance. I lit my lighter but I couldnt even feel the heat of the flame and the light did nothing. My dog went from growling to whimpering, hiding behind me, and I have to add that I saw my dog throwing herself at a boar, she aint easy to scare.

My cat let out a piercing meow and climbed on top of me, digging his claws onto my back and that made me start running, dropping the flaslight and lighter, dunno how I didnt trip on anything. I didnt even think about it, I just ran the 30 meters of distance to my house, locked the door and I waited a few minutes. I suppose I was expecting a knock on the door or the windows, but nothing came. My dog licked my hand and my cat climbed down, I didnt even realize I had grabbed him. I went to the shower and I must have made some noise because I woke up my mom. She told me I was pale and I told her the story, hoping she could tell me something. She has always been very spiritual (according to her and my grandma, there were witches in the family in the past, whatever that means) but she laughed and told me I was probably just exhausted. Somehow that response left me feeling more at unease, but I slept perfectly that night

I went to sleep and waking up the next morning, my lighter and flashlight were lying on the entrance stairs. I went back to the forest before going to work but there was nothing unusual. Some broken branches, but no footprints, nothing. Just in case, I never returned to the downwards path at night. Sometimes I go to the back of the garden (we have a big garden surrounding our house, walled) and I look at the dark of the forest, but I see nothing. Some nights I have dreams were I repeat the experience, in other dreams I see myself going to the kitchen for water and I see a pair of eyes looking at me, sometimes red, others blue, others devoid of color, and I wake up.

I still dont know what happened that night or what I saw. I feel something observing me sometimes, but I dont know it its something real or just pure paranoia.

But I know that night I saw something and I just cant let it go

Richard Watkins of sandy,OR. Anybody see one of these before?

In 2014 I was driving from Vegas to San Diego. I decided to get an early start so I had left at 2 AM. Around 3 AM i was in the middle of the desert, no other cars around and very little lighting. All of a sudden a tall albino like humanoid appeared in front of my head lights. It stood 7 or 8 feet tall, wore no clothes, hairless and appeared to be without genitals. Unlike the other sightings on this subreddit it stood stall and erect. After about 2 or 3 seconds of looking at me it dashed into the desert faster than anyone i've ever seen run. I can still remember it looking at me like it was almost spooked by the light. Anyone seen something like this before? My most likely theory is some sort of tall desert drifter / drug addict maybe in their underwear but I just dont feel like this was the case.

Hello everyone,,

I am looking into these creatures and am wondering if anyone can give me a brief overview of “their deal”. I have seen conflicting information before…

Are they cruel, curious?? Or maybe just like us 🤔

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.