A reader from western North Carolina states that he believes that crawler humanoids may actually be feral Dryad, possibly rogue tree/forest spirits that he claims to have experienced.
I received the following information:
Mr. Strickler,
First off, I've been following your blog for a time, and I appreciate your steadfast work. Now, let me start by saying that of the encounters I am about to describe, I have never personally experienced any of them, and this is due in part to the theory I will lay before you in good time.
I live in the western part of North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, and over the years have had a number of people visiting my neck of the woods describe rather frightening encounters with a similar phenomenon.
The first of note was years back, around 2008. A friend of mine and a practicing medium met with me at Andrew's Geyser, a local monument known for its Civil War past and shadow people. She claims to have seen a very disturbing creature, a gaunt humanoid with pale deathly flesh, willowy limbs, black eyes, and a gaping maw that seemed to emanate pure fear. She was very unsettled by this vision, but I never saw a thing.
A few years later, in 2011 or so, my significant other at the time would talk about a feeling of dread whenever she was alone in certain parts of the woods, and that she always had the feeling of being watched and unwelcome, occasionally seeing pale shapes dart in and out of the trees.
Now, around the 28th of April of 2017, a close friend of mine was driving down a gravel road after visiting me and claimed to have seen, crouching in the forest just off of the road up on a small rise, a pale and terribly thin crouching figure. The description she gave was eerily similar to the account given by my medium acquaintance years before, even more eerie considering that these two have never met, yet describe the same entity. Their only connection is of course the woods, and myself.
Now, in my college days, I theorized with a friend what my Medium ally had seen in 2008, and came up with an interesting hypothesis as to what she saw, what other people have encountered, and why I have never seen a thing, nor felt any unease or dread from these forests. The idea is thus: This creature, which bears many similarities to a Crawler Humanoid of quasi-pop culture is, in fact, a Dryad (a tree/forest nymph or spirit) gone bad. These forests have been periodically clear-cut and burned by loggers and the railroad for decades upon decades at this point, and I believe that nature spirits or tree spirits who survive this, will inevitably "go bad" or turn feral.
The reason I have never seen nor felt the dreadful presence of this entity is that I have lived and grown in these woods with the recovering forest since I was a child, and this Dryad sort of adopted and claimed me, which would, in turn, explain why certain women would experience a sense of unwelcome.
I therefore further theorize that these Crawler Humanoid entities that people seem to be experiencing are in fact more of these Dryads gone feral and angry, and will only be a more and more common encounter as industry and progress eat up more and more of their natural homelands.
Hope this information and ideas prove useful." JA
NOTE: It is an interesting comparison that I have never considered. What are your thoughts? Lon
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