5 CHILLING encounters with Pale Crawlers

Kenny: [00:00:00] Hello everybody and welcome back to Enter the Rift podcast season two, episode nine. Today we're gonna be looking back at some more cool pale crawler stories here. I'm your host Kenny. Joining me is my brother and co-host Garrett. 

Garrett: Yo. I is the eepy tonight. Yeah. 

Kenny: 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. [00:01:00] Being teenagers, we would frequent this area in our trucks to have bonfires, shoot targets, drink, smoke, fornicate, et cetera, 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 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 Ooh ooh, to just a regular or to just a singular, oh, noise.[00:02:00] 

Similar to a gorilla sound. At this point, we were concerned and one of my buddies taunted whatever was making 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 through the truck.

I hauled ass as much as possible back to the main road. The main road was still washboard gravel, so I tried my best to channel my inner rally car driver to get it 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 ran at 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 what? Whatever the hell was happening back there. Instinctively, I slammed on the brakes and looked in the rear view. I didn't get a good look, but I can only describe it as a skinny hairless [00:03:00] humanoid creature with an arched back sprinting across the road, behind the truck on all fours, no coordination to its movement.

It moves that 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. 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, 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 [00:04:00] 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 from the air, stomach slashed in six equal cuts, and head nowhere to be found.

I moved outta 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 like a gravel road. So you can't go that fast without worrying about losing control or like yeeting your friends out of the truck bed.

But there's something crawling on all fours, like, like it's moving like two times video speed. So kind of that weird like glitchy, uh, locomotion. 

Garrett: Yeah, like a uncanny valley kind of thing. 

Kenny: Yeah. And that would be like really scary. 

Garrett: Which I, I get why he like tapped the brakes, the, you know, kind of like assessed the situation and all that, you know, like really [00:05:00] read what's going on.

But could you just imagine like, you know, put your, uh, put your POV in, like one of like the dudes who's absolutely shitting his pants right now in the truck bed. 

Kenny: 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. 

Garrett: Yeah. 

Kenny: 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 and the stories, myself included, 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 back country. And so within all that time, I've observed many different animals, [00:06:00] plants, and sometimes things I simply cannot explain. I've gone camping and treking solo many times in my life and it was liberating to just pack whatever you needed to survive.

And go miles deep into the back country 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, and an environment that once felt so comforting and therapeutic turned into one that drove me absolutely mad with questions.

And uncertainty and it's now one I will not enter alone for I know what is possible and what is truly roaming around the forest of North America. It was in 2016 in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania near Dingmans Ferry that I saw a creature that forever changed my life and the way I perceived the world we live in.

The first time I had ever heard of the creature was during a conversation with a friend who, who had lived in that area for years [00:07:00] 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.

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. 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 coworker at the time had just clocked [00:08:00] out.

And we're heading to the friend's house who had warned me originally about the creature. His house is on a long straight road with a dead end with very few houses on one side, in the woods on the other, as we are heading down the road with high beams on. My coworker 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, 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 hide memes were pointed into the woods, and that's when I saw it. That's when my life changed.

My belief shattered and my reality turned upside down. 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.[00:09:00] 

It ran just like a human being. However, it was incredibly fast and jumped over any obstacle in the way until it reached a point where the headlights no longer illuminated the woods. 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 a.

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, and 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.

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 and waking life and in my dreams. I won't go back into the backcountry anymore [00:10:00] alone.

I can't enjoy the solitude without anxiety ruining it. I can't be free. 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, 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 Rs 

Garrett: Well, first, uh, question, why would you get out of the vehicle?

Kenny: Yeah. I don't know why you would do that. I guess maybe I. I mean, if you thought your friend was just trying to like say about all this shit to make you not find his secret weed patch, like maybe you thought he was just [00:11:00] like pranking you, but I mean, if you like 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 were, 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? Yeah. Like get out, endanger yourself like that? 

Garrett: Yeah. I mean, I, I get the whole like, oh, I'm curious, what is it? Kind of, kind of vibe. But like you said, like if you're already getting uncomfortable just from like the way you feel about being in the area, why would you get out and you'd be like, oh yeah, I'm gonna check it out.

Kenny: Horror movie logic. 

Garrett: Yeah. We can determine the race off of this. It's definitely a white person. I'm curious. I'm gonna go check it out. 

Kenny: Gets mauled to death by a pale crawler. 

Garrett: Yep. It's like, oh, look, an un it's like an uncontacted tribe. Don't worry guys. I bet they're chill. Or it's, you know, or it's like, oh my god, a, a horrible monster.

Kenny: Right? I don't 

Garrett: give a look at it. [00:12:00] 

Kenny: Let's go see this thing. 

Garrett: 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. 

Kenny: Right? I only wanna see these things in real life. If maybe in the future there is a crypted or. Monster Zoo where it's behind like six inch, seven inch thick glass.

Garrett: I don't wanna see it, period. Bad juju. 

Kenny: You mean you don't want to see horrors beyond your understanding? 

Garrett: No, not particularly. No. Uh, I, I'm gonna keep my, uh, you know, safe, uh, logic here and just, uh, not investigate, 

Kenny: just say, uh, it was the wind. You can go on about your day. 

Garrett: Yeah, just pull in NPC mode and just keep it moving.

Kenny: 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 [00:13:00] broadcast. My eyes are my greatest tool for accuracy and detail. I'm an accomplished visual artist and have studied the movements of animals closely since I was very at young.

I've also been coming to the same camping area for over 40 years. 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. 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 [00:14:00] Nevada mountain range. The resort sits in a valley at about 7,000 feet, and in the shadow of the mighty Sawtooth Ridge, a beautiful, secluded spot with no cell phone service and tons of wildlife.

The date would've been just after Labor Day 2014 at approximately 5:30 AM. We had just finished loading the fishing gear and we're 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, so we're always on high alert for the regulars like mule deer, black bear, jack rabbit, 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. [00:15:00] It looked very light and very close to the ground.

It was the size of a large goat, but it moved very oddly. I thought goat, because quickly I remember 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 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 five inches from the ground, yet it was moving at a strangely incredible pace.

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. Maybe because I was so puzzled and troubled that I could not classify this as animal. It kept me from [00:17:00] 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 four 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. Although it was crawling close to the ground, it had very large human alike 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 head features closer to a human or ape than any canine cat rodent or cerivdae.

The skull seemingly had a very heavy protruding eye ridge with a flat curve leading to the nasal opening. Then. [00:18:00] 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 eye. So at first sight, my headlight lit this weird thing up, and this 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 eyebrow ridge. 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, [00:19:00] 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. 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 chaperral.

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.

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 or where fast. And could kick the ass or whoever would try to mess with it. [00:20:00] So if this were a real crypted, 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. So that one is really creepy. Like they got like a really close and good look at it. So obviously like the, the description of the 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 'em having, yeah, 

Garrett: that's what I was mention. It's like all 

Kenny: black eyes or like, I've heard some other cases where they're described as sockets, but it's like, it's just like a black hole, not like a red membrane covering 'em. Yeah. Like a void.

Or like, it's almost like, um, have you, have you ever seen like, uh, pictures of people who'd 

Garrett: vanta black? 

Kenny: No. I was gonna say like, if you've ever seen pictures of people who just had an eye removed from like surgery and you just, so it's like I, it's like the. It's like a pink, red membrane in that spot. So it's almost like it didn't [00:21:00] have eyes, but like it had sockets where they should have been and it was just that like pinkish red color.

But yeah, I could still see, 'cause obviously it turned their head, it's it's head at them and like had that evil grin. So it looked. Knew it was there. 

Garrett: Yeah. It's pretty freaking creepy. Like the, the eye thing, like is what really stood out to me. Like, 'cause the description, well that, and like the four foot long torso, that's, that's pretty freakish.

Kenny: Yeah. So how big, how big was this thing, you know? 

Garrett: Yeah. 

Kenny: But yeah, that one is, um, that was like pretty creepy. I, I don't know. Again, this is a case where like, why do you wanna follow this thing? This thing is like, especially when you get like a sense of evil from it. Like. And you think it, it was strong enough.

Yeah. 

Garrett: I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go follow it. I'm gonna go look at it. I'm gonna, I'm, I'm gonna provoke it and I'm gonna, 

Kenny: I'm gonna go get my head ripped off. 

Garrett: Yeah. It's like, oh my God. This thing horrified me to the core. It traumatized me for life and shook my entire worldview. I wanna see more of it. 

Kenny: I don't know why, why would [00:22:00] you do that?

Garrett: Yeah. Not like, oh shit, let's get the hell outta here. 

Kenny: Right. Let's go to another one here. 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. Crawler. So I'll do some digging on the 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 the sighting, but I'm still terrified to go out at night due to seeing what I saw about three months ago.

I had moved on to 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. Their 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 [00:23:00] solely by oil pumps on neighboring properties at night. You could just see the burnoff from them lighting part of the sky orange. 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. I'm an, if I see it, I'll believe it person. After this experience though, I'm definitely more open to these type of things.

What I saw, I just call the creature. Creative. I know when I moved on to the property, there were weird anomalies in 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 [00:24:00] suddenly chime and the lights would turn on.

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. There was a truck parked between me and the door to the house. As I shown my light towards the truck, I became instantly terrified. What I saw was a tall seven to eight feet humanoid creature with white sort of sickly looking skin.

Its arms and legs looked longer than a humans. As I shone my light in that direction, it ran off. It had the capability to leap over the truck, landing in the bed momentarily before hopping over the other side and [00:25:00] 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 four to five seconds. I never got to see its face, and I'm glad I didn't as I probably would've been even more traumatized than I already am. I can only imagine. What its face looked like. Would it have re reflective eyes like an animal? I still wonder in fear, instead of stepping in the car and locking the door, I quickly rocked 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've 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. And I have one more thing. I wasn't the only one who saw it. My girlfriend saw it out the window At [00:26:00] 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, I can't see any other way to explain it. I still wonder what would've happened to me if I hadn't turned around when I did, 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. 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 [00:27:00] 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 was, that's the end of the tale there. But, uh, this person even deleted their Reddit account, so like, obviously they're really not seeking fame if they, uh, delete their account and everything like that, but the post is still up. So that this one's like the, the closest sighting yet, but it's also pretty short, but just, it's kind of crazy how big and like lanky these things are.

They're almost like if you've ever seen those like really tall with skinny like basketball players, but could you imagine something, somebody like that big, like those really tall dudes like over seven feet, but like pale and crawling like Gollum. 

Garrett: But yeah, I mean, I wouldn't wanna see like. Those like tall, lanky freaks, freaking crawling around in like a morph suit [00:28:00] that would freak me the hell out.

I mean, it's kinda like how, if you've ever seen, um, I don't know his name, but it's like this dude with gigantism who played, uh, one of the aliens and like, uh. Like a Ridley Scott movie, you can do xenomorphs and shit. Yeah. 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, you have it freak you out. 

Kenny: Yeah. And could you imagine like, um, if it's moving, but the locomotion is wrong, like it shouldn't be able to move how it does, it's just an, it's another layer. Creepiness. I mean, if this thing, like, even like 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, it would still, oh yeah. Oh, it'd still be scary shit. Right? Um, but adding this to it, 

Garrett: but yeah, moving all broken and messed up is, uh, [00:29:00] a nice little detail on top of a. Great. Creepy as shitness. 

Kenny: And, um, he said he saw the truck move when it jumped and landed in the truck bed for a second.

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 a truck bed, it's gonna move a little bit, but like h 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.

Garrett: Yeah. I mean, maybe you'll get lucky. He's built like he got like fricking bird bones or something. You know, you might be able to kick 'em in the chest or hard enough to put it down. 

Kenny: I have the feeling that's not the case, but you could, you could hope. 

Garrett: Yeah. Homie's probably not built like a stork. You can always shoot it.

I mean, 

Kenny: there's that too. So let's go to a different part of the country now. This is gonna be in Gulf Shores, Alabama. About five years ago, my older sister and I went to a nature park, a wetland, so to speak, and Gulf Shores, Alabama. Of course, we went at [00:30:00] night so we could skateboard 'cause you weren't allowed to.

But you know, a 14-year-old trying to look cool in front of her 24-year-old sister. 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. I first shrugged it off like it was a person, maybe a, maybe a ranger of the park, but then it got on all fours and walked away.

I didn't say anything at first, mainly 'cause I thought it was maybe, 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. We both saw the figure. This [00:31:00] time at this point I was totally freaked out. 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. 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 in an eternity. As we finally got to the main building, we finally stopped riding our boards outta 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 [00:32:00] safer. After we got to my sister's Jeep, we both got in 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, 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 and my sister and I don't even talk about it to this day. Something changed between us. I could feel it after that day. DL.

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 and you turn around one last second [00:33:00] just to double check 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.

Garrett: Mm shit. Your pants would fall down perhaps. 

Kenny: Hopefully they're not. 'cause what are the thing that pounces on you then that would be like, oh my god. Hmm. I guess, uh, I don't know if these things attacked 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?

Garrett: Mm-hmm. 

Kenny: Because these things, these things seem to be predatory despite 

Garrett: everyone's need to get a closer look. Yeah. 

Kenny: Despite some people's need to, like, I need to go see what that is. Uh, 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. 

Garrett: Stay the hell of away. Stay 

Kenny: away. 

Garrett: Do not go [00:34:00] look. Yeah, it's not that hard to figure out. Right. And say 

Kenny: 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 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. 

Garrett: Yeah, definitely don't want to ever see one 

Kenny: for sure. 

Garrett: It's like neat to listen to. Do I wanna see any of this?

Not at [00:35:00] all. 

Kenny: Right. So what, what's been your, uh, your favorite story? This batch here? 

Garrett: I mean, I would say like, the, the scarier ones were like the more entertaining. So like, you know, like the ones that are like, they were like the closer encounter ones. Like the guy with the truck that was, you know, that was, it was pretty, uh, pretty spooky.

Kenny: Yeah. I think mine was the one that took place in the Sierra Nevada mountains because just like the, how unique that one was and like the description of like, just like the red membrane over the eyes, or just like the empty sockets, like, because I haven't heard that before with, in regards to a pale crawler.

Garrett: Yeah. That one was a lot more, uh, detailed. It 

Kenny: 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? Yeah, I guess it could have been, but like, 

Garrett: yeah, almost all these like could [00:36:00] easily be, but you know, it's still entertaining.

It's 

Kenny: definitely entertaining and it's just like the, uh, kind like the XFiles I want to believe. I do like want to think that there are like these kind of things, even though I would never want to see one, just because it is entertaining. 

Garrett: Kill it with fire. 

Kenny: Or 12 gauge. 

Garrett: Yeah. Or that, or just run it over.

Whatever you got handy. Make it, make it, you know, play Frogger. 

Kenny: We're gonna 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.

Garrett: [00:37:00] Peace.