5 CHILLING encounters with Pale Crawlers

[00:00:11] Hello everybody and welcome back to Enter The Rift Podcast, Season 2, Episode 9. Today we're going to be looking back at some more cool Pale Crawlers stories here. I'm your host Kenny, joining me is my brother and co-host Garrett. Yo, I is the EP tonight. Yeah.

[00:00:37] Let's get into some of these cool Pale Crawlers sightings. This happened a few years ago, when my friends and I were in our junior year of high school around 2018. There's a national forest area northwest of our small western Colorado hometown. This used to be Ute land before the Meeker massacre happened and the natives were forced from the land.

[00:00:59] Being teenagers, we would frequent this area in our trucks to have bonfires, shoot targets, drink, smoke, fornicate, etc. without having to worry about law enforcement crashing our party. One night we were having a small bonfire with a group of four of my close friends. It was a pretty quiet night. I had picked everyone up in my pickup truck so it was the only vehicle available. And the road to the clearing was a bit treacherous, so we had to be very careful not to get stuck in the mud or trees.

[00:01:30] Throughout the night we kept hearing what sounded somewhat like an owl. But almost like someone impersonating an owl. On top of that, owls are fairly rare here in this part of Colorado. It's a very dry climate, more home to vultures and mountain lions. We heard the noise around five times throughout a one hour span, and it quickly devolved from a OOO OOO to just a regular, or to just a singular O noise.

[00:01:59] Similar to a gorilla sound. At this point we were concerned, and one of my buddies taunted whatever was making in the noise by repeating it back into the tree line. At this point, the sound was immediately repeated, much louder than before, as if it was just behind the tree line. We about shit ourselves, and everyone scrambled to the truck. I hauled ass as much as possible back to the main road.

[00:02:24] The main road was still washboard gravel, so I tried my best to channel my inner rally car driver to get the hell out of there. On the drive down the mountain, one of my friends was riding shotgun and the rest were sitting in the bed facing backwards. As we rounded a curve, chaos ensued. I heard screaming from the back of the bed of the truck, and from my friend sitting shotgun, nearly shit herself about whatever the hell was happening back there.

[00:02:52] Instinctively, I slammed on the brakes and looked in the rear view. I didn't get a good look, but I could only describe it as a skinny, hairless, humanoid creature with an arched back sprinting across the road behind the truck on all fours. No coordination to its movement. It moved as if there was an old man trying to bear crawl at two times video speed. I barely had time to process before I was being screamed at to hit the gas.

[00:03:18] We finally got off the mountain, and my friends in the back of the truck appeared shell-shocked. I asked them if they saw what I saw, and they refused to answer, only saying get us the fuck out of here. It was only afterwards, when we were at our friend's house, when they felt comfortable talking about what they saw, and everyone described it the same way. All fours, fast as hell, humanoid. Two of the three described it as having long, creepy-ass fingers.

[00:03:48] Eyes locked on the truck as it crossed the road. They say they saw trees and bushes moving as we drove down, as if it was trying to catch up to us. Four years later, and this story still makes my hair stand on end when I tell it. In addition, other weird things began to happen in that forest after nightfall. We personally encountered a goat that had been killed by something. Feet straight up in the air, stomach slashed in six equal cuts, and head nowhere to be found.

[00:04:15] I moved out of this town three years ago, but whenever I come to visit it, it creeps me out. I refuse to enter that area after dark, even towards sunset." Yeah, so that would be terrifying when you're trying to drive down a gravel road. So you can't go that fast without worrying about losing control or yeeting your friends out of the truck bed. But there's something crawling on all fours. Like it's moving like two times video speed.

[00:04:42] So kind of that weird, glitchy locomotion. Yeah, like an uncanny valley kind of thing. Yeah, and that would be really scary. Yeah, which I get why he like tapped the brakes to, you know, kind of like assess the situation and all that. You know, like really read what's going on. But could you just imagine like, you know, put your POV in like one of like the dudes who's absolutely shitting his pants right now in the truck bed.

[00:05:09] Yeah, like you see this thing rolling up on you and your friend decides to hit the brakes like, oh, I would not be having a good time. Yeah. Yeah. So let's go from Colorado to Northeast Pennsylvania. So you cannot deny that people around the world are seeing and having legitimate experiences with this crawler humanoid creature or rather one that resembles the being in the stories. Myself included.

[00:05:38] I've grown up with a relatively open mind in regards to strange phenomena and things that aren't generally accepted by mainstream science or society, but always approach things with appropriate skepticism. I have spent the majority of my life in the woods, hunting, fishing and mountain climbing miles deep in the backcountry. And so within all that time, I've observed many different animals, plants and sometimes things I simply cannot explain.

[00:06:02] I've gone camping and trekking solo many times in my life, and it was liberating to just pack whatever you needed to survive and go miles deep into the backcountry where animals aren't even afraid of you simply because they aren't familiar with humans. It felt so special to be the only one immersed in that environment, but not anymore. Now, hidden behind all the natural beauty is underlying anxiety, fear and legitimate danger.

[00:06:26] An environment that once felt so comforting and therapeutic turned into one that drove me absolutely mad with questions and uncertainty. And it is now one I will not enter alone, for I know what is possible and what is truly roaming around the forests of North America. It was in 2016 in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania near Dingman's Ferry that I saw a creature that forever changed my life and the way I perceived the world we live in.

[00:06:52] The first time I had ever heard of the creature was during a conversation with a friend who had lived in that area for years and had encountered this creature on multiple occasions in very close proximity to his house. I remember him asking me if I had ever seen anything strange in the large plot of woods across the street from his house, which at the time I had not. However, long before it was brought up, I always had a deep feeling in my chest about this plot of woods.

[00:07:18] I didn't know what it was. I just knew that it carried a very heavy, dark energy that was strong enough to encourage you to stay out. My friend took out their phone and showed me the picture of the crawler humanoid that comes up with any Google search. A very generic picture. I laughed it off as he warned me about the creature because I genuinely thought he was just growing marijuana or something in the woods and didn't want me to find it. I couldn't have been any more wrong.

[00:07:44] Months had passed with little more than strange noises at night and the sound of some cats being carried off into the dark until the day that changed my life happened. It was midnight and a rainstorm had just dumped a bunch of rain. I and a co-worker at the time had just clocked out and were heading to the friend's house who had warned me originally about the creature. His house was on a long straight road with a dead end, with very few houses on one side and the woods on the other.

[00:08:13] As we are heading down the road with high beams on, my co-worker slams on the brakes and starts freaking out saying he had just seen the creature kneeling down on the shoulder of the road. Instantly without thought, I jumped out of the car and immediately heard running and crashing through the woods in a parallel line to the road. Thankfully, due to the hard braking, the car shifted slightly so that the high beams were pointed into the woods and that's when I saw it. That's when my life changed, my beliefs shattered and my reality turned upside down.

[00:08:43] A six foot tall naked creature with grayish white skin and long arms ran through the section of the woods, fully illuminated by the headlights. This gave me at least 15 seconds of uninterrupted visual contact with the creature, firmly imprinting it into my head. It ran just like a human being, however, it was incredibly fast and jumped over any obstacle in the way until it reached the point where the headlights no longer illuminated the woods.

[00:09:10] It then pretended to jump and run deeper into the woods, however, it actually turned and headed back to the road where I lost sight of it in the dark part of the woods for about 30 seconds. As I was standing in the middle of the road, absolutely dumbfounded with my jaw to the ground trying to comprehend the severity of the situation, I then crawled out from the woods and crossed the road on all fours about 60 yards away from me and disappeared into the woods on the other side.

[00:09:40] I've been tormented by the creature since. It makes me confused, sad, and curious. I can't get the image out of my head. I can't forget the feelings this creature gave me while I lived there, playing and toying with my head in waking life and in my dreams. I won't go back into the backcountry anymore alone. I can't enjoy the solitude without anxiety ruining it. I can't be free.

[00:10:05] This creature exists, and so do others that we just can't understand, and people must realize this so that they can enjoy nature while also being safe. I'm not sure how this account will be taken, and I'm not really sure why I felt like now was the time to come out about my story, but it's eating me alive. It's given me crippling anxiety, and I have to do something to try to get this off my chest.

[00:10:28] Believe me or don't, that doesn't matter to me. I just want people to be safe, and I want my freedom back, and if coming out about this will help, then I'll do anything. The world truly isn't all that it seems. R.S. Well, first question, why would you get out of the vehicle? R.S. Yeah, I don't know why you would do that. I guess maybe...

[00:10:51] I mean, if you thought your friend was just trying to say about all this shit to make you not find his secret weed patch, maybe you thought he was just pranking you, but... I mean, if you trust this person, like if you've been friends for a while and you trust them, why would you doubt them when they're saying they're seeing something repeatedly and like... You already said that you felt like dark energy coming from this patch of woods, so why would you get out and endanger yourself like that?

[00:11:20] C.Yeah, I mean, I, I get the whole, like,via work on both sides and lookpy, but like you said, like, if you're already getting uncomfortable just from like, the way you feel about being an area, why would you get out and just be like, oh yeah around, check it out! C.H.O.A.R. conditions for haunted nature in the call of that. C.H.O.A.R. Yeah, we can determine the race off of this. It's definitely a white person. C.H.O.A.R. I'm curious, I'm gonna go check it out. C.H.O.A.R. Gets mauled to death by a pale crawler. C.H.O.A.R. C.H.O.A.R. E.R. mr.idd ponto.

[00:11:50] Contact a tribe. Don't worry, guys. I bet they're chill. Or it's like, oh my God, a horrible monster? Right. I'm going to look at it. Let's go see this thing. Stay in the car. Stay in the boat. Don't get out. Keep it moving. If you saw something, just keep going. No, you didn't. Right. I only want to see these things in real life if maybe in the future there is a cryptid

[00:12:16] or monster zoo where it's behind like six inch, seven inch thick glass. I don't want to see it, period. Bad juju. You mean you don't want to see horrors beyond your understanding? No, not particularly. No. I'm going to keep my safe logic here and just not investigate. Just say it was the wind. Go on about your day. Yeah, just pull an NPC mode and just keep moving.

[00:12:46] Fair enough. So we'll go to another one here. It is my hope to find those who have had a similar experience, especially in the region of the Sierra Nevada mountains on the border of California and Nevada. I'm in the world of broadcast. My eyes are my greatest tool for accuracy and detail. I am an accomplished visual artist and have studied the movements of animals closely since I was very young. I've also been coming to the same camping area for over 40 years.

[00:13:13] So scouting fish and other wildlife in the wilderness is second nature to me. That is to say, I have exceptional eyesight and I feel I'm a better witness to an event than most others. Not only just because of my keen eyesight, but I also have the ability to keep my calm under extraordinary situations. Having said that in this instance, I have a fellow eyewitness, my wife of 13 years, who is the most skeptical person of people that I know.

[00:13:39] She would never have believed my story if she wasn't there in the passenger seat beside me that night. I do not know how to categorize the creature I saw that night. What I saw was very humanoid and that's what is so disturbing. The location was Bridgeport, California at the Twin Lakes Resort. This is a remote fishing lodge high in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The resort sits in a valley at about 7,000 feet and in the shadow of the mighty Sawtooth Ridge.

[00:14:08] A beautiful secluded spot with no cell phone service and tons of wildlife. The date would have been just after Labor Day 2014 at approximately 5.30am. We had just finished loading the fishing gear and were heading to the creek for some daybreak fishing. The creek campground is about a quarter mile from the lake cabin. I have taken this short trip literally a hundred times before and it is always active with nocturnal wildlife.

[00:14:35] So we are always on high alert for the regulars like mule deer, black bear, jackrabbit, and even rattlesnakes on occasion. This morning was a little foggy and still very dark. The high mountain ridges keep the valley dark from dusk till dawn. I had just passed a small trailer campground as we saw something crossing the road coming in our direction, maybe less than 50 yards away. It looked very light and very close to the ground.

[00:15:02] It was the size of a large goat but it moved very oddly. I thought goat because quickly I remembered that there were some sheep herders on the side of the mountain but I haven't seen them for maybe 30 years. I needed a second to figure out what exactly I was seeing so I asked my wife in the front passenger seat, what is that? Pointing at a thing running in our direction that the likes of which I know I had never seen before. I was mostly confused because its limbs were not bending or moving in the right way that

[00:15:31] a deer, bear, rabbit, or cats were supposed to move. My wife could only say slowly because of disbelief, what the hell? Now when my lights came across the creature, it was crossing the road and we got the feeling we totally surprised it. As I turned on my high beams, it seemed to get very irritated as it turned its long, human-like neck towards us and almost shook its head as it gave us a glare and started the double time along the road now in our direction.

[00:16:00] We were getting closer but instead of being able to positively ID this creature, I was only more confused. Mostly because this thing's legs weren't broken at all, it was running on them like that. Long, lean limbs but it was crawling, creeping impossibly low to the ground, its torso no more than 5 inches from the ground. Yet it was moving at a strangely incredible pace.

[00:16:25] I wondered first, with such long limbs, why it was so low, and not running on the bottom of hooves or paws. How could it run so fast? The order of the feet landing was completely wrong, too, and if it was really trying to retreat quickly, it was not bounding or bouncing or swaying to the side. Its limbs moved in unison like a crab or spider. It appeared to me to be a puppet being moved by a marionette. Very bizarre.

[00:16:54] Maybe because I was so puzzled and troubled that I could not classify this animal, it kept me from flipping out when we got close enough to see the facial features. I should describe the features that I saw clearly and up close. As mentioned, a human-like torso, about 4 feet long. No tail. Human-like haunches. As we passed it, I saw it was not shaved at all. It was hairless and had pale skin. Its limbs were long, thin, very defined muscle, and sinewy.

[00:17:24] Although it was crawling close to the ground, it had very large, human, ape-like shoulders. I've only seen such shoulders on upright, walking animals. It seemed to be running on its front knuckles or claws. Imagine a sloth but foot-long fingers or claws. The neck was thin and long, holding a forward-gazing predator head. The skull had features closer to a human or ape than any canine, cat, rodent, or cybridae.

[00:17:52] The skull seemingly had a very heavy protruding eye ridge, with a flat curve leading to the nasal opening. Then, even stranger, the mouth. There was no long snout. This was a tight-lipped, human mouth, with a large chin that almost seemed to grin. But somehow, I knew that it was not a friendly grin. Almost evil. But how would an animal have an evil grin, right? If that wasn't enough to freak us out, then came the eyes.

[00:18:21] So at first sight, my headlight lit this weird thing up. And as with all nocturnal animals, the first noticeable thing is always the reflection of its eyes and the car lights. Like the rest of the many animals I have seen on this tiny stretch of road, their cover was blown instantly. Well, not the case this time. And of all the troubling things I had observed, this probably is the most unexplainable. I was driving right into it, and I could see the eyebar ridge.

[00:18:50] I saw deep eye sockets, but no shiny part or tiny eyes, just the sockets. As I was sure to peer deep into whatever animal it was, eyes as we came, within 15 feet of it. Well, when the moment of truth came, my wife and I were horrified when all we saw were deep red sockets. Like the thing had no eyes, or there was a red membrane over them.

[00:19:16] Well, I just about drove off the road and tried to track the thing, but something told me I was better off just watching it run in a cloud of dust into the chapel. The frigging thing turned its head to look at us, was grinning with just red eye sockets, and it just zips away, never breaking its creepy crawl. So that's my sighting. I never heard of or saw this thing again, and I have no idea what it could have been. Nothing adds up. I really feel I was not supposed to see this thing.

[00:19:44] People like to say maybe it was an experiment gone wrong, or a mutated deformed animal, but what I have to say to that is this thing wasn't sick or dying. It was strong, aware, fast, and could kick the ass of whoever would try to mess with it. So if this were a real cryptid, someone else must have seen it since this was a campsite. What would it be doing so close to humans if it depended on seclusion for survival? It just doesn't add up. ZD. ZD.

[00:20:13] So that one was really creepy. They got a really close and good look at it. So obviously the description of it pretty much matches any kind of pale crawler, but the eyes are what's a little different. Most of the time I've heard them having all black eyes. I've heard some other cases where they're described as sockets, but it's just like a black hole, not like a red membrane covering them. Yeah, like a void.

[00:20:41] It's almost like, have you ever seen pictures of people who... Vantablack? No, I was going to say if you've ever seen pictures of people who just had an eye removed from surgery and you just... So it's like a pink-red membrane in that spot. So it's almost like it didn't have eyes, but it had sockets where they should have been. And it was just that pinkish-red color. But yeah, I could still see because obviously it turned their head.

[00:21:10] It's head at them and you had that evil grin. So it knew it was there. Yeah, it's pretty freaking creepy. The eye thing is what really stood out to me. Well, that and the four-foot-long torso, that's pretty freakish. Yeah. So how big was this thing, you know? Yeah. But yeah, that one is... That was pretty creepy. I don't know... Again, this is a case where like, why do you want to follow this thing?

[00:21:37] This thing is like, especially when you get like a sense of evil from it. Like, and you think it was strong enough. Yeah, I'm going to go follow it. I'm going to go look at it. I'm going to provoke it. I'm going to go get my head ripped off. No. It's like, oh my God, this thing horrified me to the core. It traumatized me for life and shook my entire worldview. I want to see more of it. I don't know why... Why would you do that? Yeah, not like, oh shit, let's get the hell out of here. Right, let's go to another one here.

[00:22:07] So I posted this in r slash paranormal, and they told me this might be a crawler. As I'm unfamiliar with these type of things and just posted what I experienced, I was told to put the post here. So tell me what you think. I've never really heard of crawlers, so I'll do some digging on this subreddit. But here's the post I made. This is the story of the scariest moment of my life. It's been a few months since I experienced this sighting, but I'm still terrified to go out at night due to seeing what I saw.

[00:22:37] About three months ago, I had moved onto an 11-acre property in rural Texas. Specifically between Yorktown and Smiley, the entire plot of land was about three to four times the size of the lot we purchased, but nobody had purchased any of the other portions while we were there. The land was fresh and never had been built on before, and didn't even have an address. It was surrounded solely by oil pumps on neighboring properties. At night, you could just see the burn off from the lighting part of the sky orange.

[00:23:08] Our house was a bare bones tiny house. No walls, just wooden beams and a bare floor. No running water, no plumbing. We had to dig the electric from the pole all the way to the house ourselves. That's how new the property was. It was a miserable experience all around, but we're poor, and it was the only living situation we could find. I had never been a believer of the paranormal. I still don't believe in things like ghosts or demons.

[00:23:36] I'm an if-I-see-it-I-believe-it person. After this experience, though, I'm definitely more open to these types of things. What I saw, I just call the creature. Creative, I know. When I moved onto the property, there were weird anomalies and technology that started to happen. Phones would just glitch out and stop working. The cameras would act strange. And parked cars that were turned off would suddenly chime and the lights would turn on.

[00:24:02] I thought it was odd, but I never connected it to the property until my girlfriend mentioned the strange happenings later on after my sighting. One night, soon after I moved there, I had to get something out of my car. I took my phone light and walked out, opened the car door, and started digging around in the glove box with my full focus on finding what I was looking for. I forgot exactly what it was I was searching for after working for a little while and not finding it. I closed the door and showed my light back towards the house.

[00:24:31] There was a truck parked between me and the door to the house. As I showed my light towards the truck, I became instantly terrified. What I saw was a tall, 7-8 feet humanoid creature with white, sort of sickly looking skin. Its arms and legs looked longer than a human's. As I showed my light in that direction, it ran off. It had the capability to leap over the truck, landing in the bed momentarily before hopping

[00:24:57] over the other side and disappearing beyond my sight. I distinctly remember how the truck shook when it nimbly jumped over it. The time it took to do that was about 4-5 seconds. I never got to see its face, and I'm glad I didn't, as I probably would have been even more traumatized than I already am. I can only imagine what its face looked like. Would it have reflective eyes like an animal? I still wonder in fear.

[00:25:24] Instead of stepping in the car and locking the door, I quickly walked around the truck and into the house like an idiot. I was so terrified that when I stepped around the truck, it would be there waiting for me. Luckily, it wasn't. For the rest of the night, I was absolutely horrified, as well as the rest of the time that I lived there, which was only about a month. I would have thought maybe I just imagined it, but it was so, so clear to me. Even the fact that the truck shook was a detail that was too realistic to be in my imagination.

[00:25:54] And I have one more thing. I wasn't the only one who saw it. My girlfriend saw it out the window at one point, though not as clearly as I had seen it. She did some digging, and other people have seen a similar creature in the area. That makes it clear to me that what I saw was real. I still doubt it to some degree because how could it be real? But I can't see any other way to explain it. I still wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't turned around when I did.

[00:26:22] It seemed like it might have been stalking me or something. I can only imagine in terror what it might have done to me if I haven't turned around and saw it. I'm honestly traumatized from this experience, as silly as that may seem. I feel embarrassed saying that, but it's true. I know sightings like this to me before I experienced it myself would just make me think, those people are crazy. Or they're making it up for the attention, fame, and are faking it.

[00:26:49] But now I'm more open-minded towards people's experiences. I don't want to be famous. I just want someone to know what I had experienced that night. I want to know what it is that I might have seen, if anyone has an idea. Please let me know what you think. I'm never moving to the countryside again, ever. I'd rather get stabbed by some homeless Austinite than live out here and die from that creature. I think going back to how, so that's the end of the tale there.

[00:27:16] But this person even deleted their Reddit account. So obviously they're really not seeking fame if they delete their account and everything like that. But the post is still up. So this one's like the closest sighting yet. But it's also pretty short. It's kind of crazy how big and lanky these things are. They're almost like, if you've ever seen those really tall, skinny basketball players.

[00:27:44] But could you imagine somebody that big, those really tall dudes over seven feet, but pale and crawling like Gollum? But yeah, I wouldn't want to see any of those tall, lanky freaks freaking crawling around in a morph suit. That would freak me the hell out. It's kind of like how, if you've ever seen, I don't know his name, but it's like this dude of gigantism who played one of the aliens in like a Ridley Scott movie. He can do his enormous and shit.

[00:28:14] And he's creepy as shit as it is, just going throughout his day-to-day life, let alone imagine seeing that dude crawl around on the ground. So actually seeing something creepy as shit like that just pop up behind you, yeah, it's freaky out. And could you imagine if it's moving, but the locomotion is wrong? Like it shouldn't be able to move how it does? It's another layer of creepiness.

[00:28:40] I mean, if this thing, even if it looked like it moved correctly, you know what I mean? Like it didn't have any kind of weird gait or motion with it, it would still be terrifying. Oh yeah, it'd still be scary as shit. But adding this to it. Yeah, moving all broken and messed up is a nice little detail on top of a creepy as shitness. And he said he saw the truck move when it jumped and landed in the truck bed for a second.

[00:29:08] So like, I mean, obviously even if it's like a person, like a normal, like, I don't know, 180 pound dude jumped into the truck bed, it's going to move a little bit. But like how much did it move? So how heavy are these things? But yet it was still able to nimbly jump into the truck and then jump to the other side. Yeah. I mean, maybe you'll get lucky. He's built like he got like freaking bird bones or something. You know, you might be able to kick him in the chest or hard enough to put it down. I have the feeling that's not the case, but you could, you could hope. Yeah.

[00:29:38] Homie's probably not built like a stork. You can always shoot it. I mean, there's that too. So let's go to a different part of the country now. Well, this is going to be in Gulf Shores, Alabama. About five years ago, my older sister and I went to a nature park, a wetland, so to speak, in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Of course, we went at night so we could skateboard because you weren't allowed to. But you know, a 14 year old trying to look cool in front of her 24 year old sister.

[00:30:07] Well, we went just around the sun was setting. For a little bit, we got lost since the park was so huge and condensed with thick woods. We were trying to find the bridge, a 20 foot or so bridge, so we could just hang out above the rushing river. By the time we got there, the sun was hardly visible over the mountains. I looked around after drinking my water and here is where the creepy stuff happened. As I looked at the other side of the bridge, I saw a tall, skinny, human-like figure.

[00:30:34] I first shrugged it off like it was a person, maybe a ranger of the park. But then it got on all fours and walked away. I didn't say anything at first, mainly because I thought it was a bear. I looked back at my sister as we chatted about boys and along many other things. Then I looked back at the end of the bridge. My sister did too when we both saw the figure this time. At this point, I was totally freaked out.

[00:31:03] Mind you, it's still not dark out. The sky was purple and orange, so it wasn't like we were seeing things like when your mind makes pictures in the dark. No, it was right there and getting closer. I told my sister to get the hell out of there. Her going first off the bridge and down the hill. I went second. And as I turned to look at the bridge again, it was five foot in front of me on all fours once again. It stood there as me and my sister skated off. And this isn't even the end.

[00:31:33] I told my sister to head to the main building since there are cameras and lots of light. We skateboarded for what seemed like hours. Every minute seemed to last an eternity. As we finally got to the main building, we finally stopped riding our boards. Out of breath and scared, we both looked around. By this time, it was pitch black outside. We made a mad dash to the car, taking a path we had never seen before. But it was outside the park, which made us feel safer. After we got to my sister's Jeep, we both got in,

[00:32:03] hearts racing and scared out of our minds. And when we tried to leave, the gate was locked, meaning we couldn't leave since there was only one way in and out of the park. We got even more scared. We tried everything to get out. We even thought about just leaving the car behind and walking the two hours home. But we drove onto the sidewalk and got out of the park. To this day, I won't ever go back to those wetlands ever again, even in daylight. Whatever that thing was,

[00:32:32] I never want to see it again. I can't stop thinking about it. And I'm almost 19. You may think this is just a story, but it really did happen. My sister and I don't even talk about it to this day. Something changed between us. I could feel it after that day. Deal. Damn. So like, you think it's running away and you're, or it's walking away and you guys are trying to get the hell out of there. You turn around one last second, just to double check

[00:33:01] and it's there five feet in front of you. I don't know. Like, I would probably, well, well, scream would probably be one of the first things I did. Shit your pants and fall down, perhaps. Hopefully not. Cause what are the thing that's pounces on you then? That would be like, oh my God. Yeah. I mean, I guess, uh, I don't know if these things attack people, but I mean, if they did, I guess we were only hearing from the ones that didn't, who are the people who got away. Cause he's saying these, these things seem to be predatory.

[00:33:30] Despite everyone's need to get a closer look. Despite some people's need to be like, well, I need to go see what that is, which of course, you know, is just a bad idea. If you're seeing something like that, if it is a flesh and blood creature, stay the hell away. And if it's not just flesh and blood, like if it's like a, I don't know, like a, uh, demon, interdimensional entity, evil spirit, uh, stay the hell away, stay away.

[00:33:59] Do not go look. It's not that hard to figure out. Say your prayers, burn sage, do whatever you want to do, but like, you know, don't entertain it. You know, like I don't keep like looking for it. These were some pretty cool stories and it was kind of like all over the country. So like I, from what I've been seeing, this is mostly a North American thing, but I would love to see if there's like any stories from South America, Europe, Asia, anywhere else. Like,

[00:34:27] so maybe I will look for some more pale crawler stories from around the world. And if you guys would like to hear that or like, not just like North America stories, let us know. And I'm definitely still like curious about doing this anyway. Cause I do like really like love these pale crawler stories, even though I would never want to see one in real life. I do like reading about it. Yeah, definitely don't want to ever see one for sure. It's like neat to listen to.

[00:34:57] Do I want to see any of this? Not at all. Right. So what, what's been your, uh, your favorite story this batch here? I mean, I would say the, the, the scarier ones were like the more entertaining. So like, you know, like the ones that are like, there were like the closer encounter ones, like the guy with the truck that was, you know, that was pretty, it was pretty, pretty spooky. Yeah. I think mine was the one that took place in the Sierra Nevada mountains because just like the,

[00:35:25] how unique that one was and like the description of like, just like the red membrane or the eyes or just like the empty sockets. Like, cause I haven't heard that before with, in regards to a pale crawler. Yeah. That one was a lot more, uh, detail. It was. And, and, you know, he said he was like good at describing things and keeping calm. So like, I appreciated the extra details. I mean, could that have just been fiction?

[00:35:54] Yeah. I guess it could have been, but like, yeah, almost all of these like could easily be, but you know, it's definitely entertaining. And it's just like the, uh, kind of like the X-Files. I want to believe I do like want to think that there are like these kinds of things, even though I would never want to see one just because it is entertaining. Kill it with fire or 12 gauge. Yeah. Or just run it over. Whatever you got handy. Make it, make it, you know, play Frogger.

[00:36:23] We're going to see how well you can jump. But yeah, I think it's fun in any case. So if you guys have enjoyed listening to this episode of enter the rift podcast, please like subscribe. Let us know what you think. And yeah, have a good one. Peace.