A North Carolina couple is walking along a local road at dusk. Suddenly, a large and very long entity leaps out onto the road. Was it a 'crawler humanoid' or something else?
“What was it? I want to state a few things. This incident takes place around 1-2 years ago. Initially, I wanted to post my encounter somewhere online, but the more I thought about this encounter, the more it consumed me and my thoughts. Sometime after the fact, I figured the best thing for myself was to try and forget. This didn’t work, so instead I’ll do my best to lay out what I saw.
I live in North Carolina. It’s not a small city by any means, but it’s a highway town at its core. I’ve lived here for 10+ years. On the night in question, I was with my ex. We’ll refer to her as “Z”. This was right around the time when COVID-19 restrictions had yet to be fully lifted, so “Z” invited me for a walk. She was finishing up her online courses for the semester, one being physical activity. So we’d often walk around her neighborhood to reach a daily amount of steps. Anyways, we head out on this walk. It’s around 7-8 pm, so on our way out the sun is already setting. We stick to the street, as it isn’t a sidewalk and we’re just walking through the neighborhood. I’ve been down this area hundreds of times, I drove there nearly every day to be with “Z” during the pandemic. It’s just your average single-story, cookie cutter, every house looks identical neighborhood.
On our way back to the house it’s dusk. A weird time of day, especially on this evening. It was almost a grey-looking atmosphere, but still illuminated enough to see the streets. “Z” is on a phone call for the entirety of the way back, so I’m just taking in my surroundings and waiting for the walk to be finished. That's when I see “it.” Whatever this thing was. About three houses down, mid-jump, arms and legs fully outstretched and leaping across the street. It lands on the other side in an instant, with barely enough time to register that anything had even happened at all. At the time it felt like a hallucination. Something fiction that my brain had just conjured up out of boredom, or lack of visual content. It happened so quickly, but this flash frame is burned into my memory now and is something that I’ll probably never forget. It was huge, and 100% silent. I only caught sight of it flying across the street and landing underneath a car.
It was fully outstretched and took up almost the entirety of the street. Even with its hands on the ground, its rear legs were still stretched from the jump and extended far beyond the halfway point of this two-lane road. I can only guess the size of this thing was from 10-20 feet in length. It looked extremely thin (beyond anorexic) but startlingly human from the waist up. 100% dark grey. Its arms seemed to be car-length, with large claws, and its legs were bowed in a way that reminded me of a dog.
The only feature I couldn’t make out was its face. It seemed completely black, but scarily human. Again, at the time I had no idea if what I saw was some sort of weird animal or just a hallucination. Even so, I kept my eyes glued to where I had seen this “hallucination” land. As I got closer and closer to the car, I almost wanted to freak out. “Z” was still on the phone though, so I decided to keep quiet and inspect the car for myself as we walked by. I turn my head as we slowly pass by the vehicle. At this point, I’m convincing myself that what I had seen couldn’t be possible, but I just couldn’t bring myself to peer and look underneath that car.
As we walk away I turn back a few times, really trying to process if I lost my mind for a moment or not. By the time we get home, I feel almost embarrassed. Did I just have a stare-down with a car for absolutely no reason? By the time we walk inside “Z”s house she’s off the phone. We were kind of bummed that our walk was void of conversation, so we just catch up and converse for the next half-hour. The “hallucination” had almost completely left my mind at this point. We just ended up going about our usual business. Honestly, I was just happy to be spending time with my partner. I was ready to accept that what had happened earlier was nothing more than my imagination.
I had forgotten about the experience almost entirely. Until “Z” asked me something out of nowhere. “Did you see something jump across the street earlier?”
Source: Reddit: CrawlerSightings
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