CRAWLER SIGHTING in Canada's Northwest Territories

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  • Crawler Sighting in Canada’s Northwest Territories
    Are gaunt, pale-skinned, human-like creatures haunting the Canadian wilderness? Here are the chilling accounts of those who claim to have seen them.
    Special thank you to Don Herbert and Missy Sterling for sharing their encounters.
    Narrated by Hammerson Peters and Missy Sterling
    0:00:00 - Opening Credits
    0:00:31 - The CreepyPasta Phenomenon
    0:03:15 - The Legend of the Rake
    0:05:07 - Rake Sightings
    0:06:54 - Don Herbert’s Encounter
    0:09:32 - Don Herbert’s Own Account
    0:12:15 - Research
    0:14:15 - The Tracks
    0:20:38 - Identifying the Mystery Animal’s Tracks
    0:21:36 - The CreepyPasta Connection
    0:22:45 - The Search Continues
    0:22:58 - The Photographs
    0:24:56 - Newfoundland Sighting, 2010
    0:26:13 - Northern Ontario Sighting, 1990s
    0:28:01 - The Ovens Natural Park, Nova Scotia, 2015
    0:30:08 - Quesnel, British Columbia, 2018
    0:32:19 - Missy Sterling’s Encounter
    Missy Sterling’s video:
    • My Terrifying Encounte...
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  • @HammersonPeters
    @HammersonPeters  2 года назад +22

    The Scariest Video I've Ever Made
    mysteriesofcanada.com/alberta/the-scariest-video-ive-ever-made/

    • @BT-fg1is
      @BT-fg1is 2 года назад +3

      That's a great video , something I can share. Glad to be on the same page.

    • @SilverDreamweaver
      @SilverDreamweaver 2 года назад +1

      That's Koch brother propaganda. Studies and real world results have shown masks, lockdowns, and social distancing to be extremely effective. And while the tests are obviously not 100% reliable due to the newness of the pandemic, they are nonetheless the best we've got and are decently accurate.
      Covid is not a hoax. But I'll let you in on a little secret and say it wasn't an accident. Certain inside connections I have confirmed by suspicion that it was purposely released to cripple the world economy. And at the same time, one of the two raw component factories for electronic chips was burnt down, and we know it was Chinese espionage. China wants Taiwan back and this is their "by any means necessary" way of doing it. And at the same time, their current dictator believes China should be the world power by right, and this is a part of it as well. China is destabilizing the world economy and crippling the west so they can go and take Taiwan consequence-free.

    • @markpettie681
      @markpettie681 Год назад +3

      I love your videos Hammerson!! Your work is impeccable✌

    • @HammersonPeters
      @HammersonPeters  Год назад +1

      @@markpettie681 Thanks for saying so!

    • @iwaswrongabouteveryhthing
      @iwaswrongabouteveryhthing Год назад

      a link to watch a covid video, um, yeah cheers mate

  • @synysterlegato1185
    @synysterlegato1185 2 года назад +312

    Pale lanky humanoids have appeared in humanity's lore since cave paintings. The thing that strikes me is the fear of that exact description had to come from somewhere.

    • @matthewm2528
      @matthewm2528 2 года назад +90

      There are pale lanky humanoids watching this video rn

    • @newyardleysinclair9960
      @newyardleysinclair9960 2 года назад +14

      Ya opium dens

    • @actually_a_circle
      @actually_a_circle 2 года назад +48

      My mother saw one in Texas during the 80s on an all night road trip. I shouldn't say "it" but she says she saw what looked like a skinless grasshopper man running along side her car.

    • @ghost-user559
      @ghost-user559 2 года назад +18

      @@actually_a_circle That’s the exact description of a Skinwalker attack by many sources.

    • @entropydynamic906
      @entropydynamic906 2 года назад +13

      the fear could come out of the fact that a small population of them exists and has been around for ages. Their ghastly appearance alone is frightening, that , together with reported hostile attitudes, makes it a fear trigger

  • @michaelarellano5915
    @michaelarellano5915 2 года назад +56

    My grandfather said when he was a boy his Father and uncles caught a humanoid creature with pale skin and big black eyes , he said he remit crying like a child , they didn’t know what else to do so they let it go , around the time of cattle mutilations in the area , Michoacán Mexico , also Mr Ballin has a story called “Valley of Headless Men “ wich mentions pale creatures.

    • @morningafternoonheadshot6741
      @morningafternoonheadshot6741 2 года назад +3

      Just watched that one today

    • @brooklynzoo2810
      @brooklynzoo2810 2 года назад

      @Michael ARELLANO • How the hell was your grandfather's father and uncles were able to catch that thing!?

    • @disideratum
      @disideratum 2 года назад +11

      My ancestors called them Moon Eyed People and they lived in caves, long before my ancestors came there. Over a thousand years at least. This was Appalachian mountains in eastern US. At first they were at peace with them but the Moon Eyed Peoples started eating the freshly buried dead in my tribe and of course freaked them out! At war with them after that!
      I’ve seen footage of two of these tall pale people on the roof of a building in Mexico City. They were wearing cloaks, had very long necks but looked just like these Crawlers. Maybe their version of elders? I saw this footage on Slapped Ham’s channel. Sorry I don’t have a link.
      People have seen these Crawlers in Europe and Australia and Asia. They’re everywhere. Probably underground😳

    • @ghost-user559
      @ghost-user559 2 года назад +7

      @@disideratum Yes, they are all over the earth and they are awakening again as we speak.

    • @SentientDMT
      @SentientDMT 2 года назад +4

      This channel has more info about the Nahanni Valley in their videos

  • @adamweaver6351
    @adamweaver6351 2 года назад +37

    They're real, I've seen one too. It was walking in the dark, disappeared behind a tree seconds after I saw it. I thought it was a hallucination, but I could hear it walking away for like a minute. One step after another, into the dark woods. No way was it a person. It was white/grey and tall. I used to work on my car outside at night, but not anymore. My sighting scared me pretty badly and had a very negative effect on me.

  • @EviLxFifi
    @EviLxFifi 2 года назад +67

    9:00 I witnessed something very very similar in 2010 when I only recently started driving alone (Belgium). It was past midnight when I was driving home on a long road with dark forest at either side. It would take 5 minutes or so to get to a village, so it wasn't like i was in the middle of nowhere. I was just trying to focus on the road when suddenly a pitch black creature ran towards the car from my left side. I thought it was an animal that wanted to cross and it would definately hit the car. Instead, it started running along with my car which was driving around 90km/h. For around 3 seconds it continued to run alongside with me. After a few seconds, i believe it turned left again, back into the woods. I was scared beyond belief and i probably never ever drove as hard as i did to get away from that thing. Everything happened so fast, the only thing i was able to identify was that the creature was pitch black, running on four legs like a canine and it was large enough to see it running next to me from my car window. To this day i try to convince myself it was a wolf or a dog that was just startled. Only weird thing about it was it's speed, it could keep up with me for seconds which is unbelievable.

    • @kevinhoffman8214
      @kevinhoffman8214 2 года назад +10

      It is almost like another dimension or reality on some of these sightings , I have seen similar

    • @kaijuar2003
      @kaijuar2003 2 года назад +4

      Ain't a Rake, pitch black right and running 90km/h? I'll do some searching. But it sounds very similar to me, I think I've heard another report that is similar.

    • @kaijuar2003
      @kaijuar2003 2 года назад +5

      @@damimlookinggood 90km/h is far more faster than a bear and a horse.
      90 km/h is 55.923 mph and the fastest a bear can be is 35 mph which is the same as a horse.

    • @cherylcooper9049
      @cherylcooper9049 2 года назад +17

      Your encounter seems to describe a dogman.

    • @kaijuar2003
      @kaijuar2003 2 года назад +2

      @@cherylcooper9049 It could also be a Skinwalker. Let's just be happy and glad it wasn't a Wendigo.

  • @deathsyth8888
    @deathsyth8888 3 года назад +222

    I once thought I saw a Rake in my open garage late one fall and chilly evening but once I turned on the lights, I realized it was just a regular rake.

    • @jackthecommenter2768
      @jackthecommenter2768 3 года назад +6

      bruh

    • @drinkthekoolaidkids
      @drinkthekoolaidkids 3 года назад +19

      Don't worry , I'm sure the leaves were more frightened than you .

    • @bbsmasonry4844
      @bbsmasonry4844 3 года назад +27

      Man your making a joke out of something serious. Rakes are dangerous. If you step on them they will attack with ruthless precision!

    • @YahshuaLovesMe
      @YahshuaLovesMe 3 года назад +2

      @@bbsmasonry4844 never heard of a "rake"???

    • @YahshuaLovesMe
      @YahshuaLovesMe 3 года назад +4

      @@bbsmasonry4844 Oh, that is very creepy...

  • @dumoulin11
    @dumoulin11 3 года назад +243

    I love how the Canadian Crawler was so non-threatening that the guy was able to just fall back asleep. No probs, we're in Canada.

    • @madtrapper1312
      @madtrapper1312 3 года назад +10

      Hey man dude just wanted some wiskey

    • @monke1982
      @monke1982 3 года назад +3

      @Roger White yes

    • @tyrannosuperior5248
      @tyrannosuperior5248 3 года назад +21

      Oh sorry there, bud. Why don'cha just go back to sleep there eh?

    • @bbsmasonry4844
      @bbsmasonry4844 3 года назад +41

      I was chased by a crawler in northern Ontario and when it finally caught me, it gave me my car keys that I had dropped on the trail. They are very polite up here.

    • @epicrobloxgamer1328
      @epicrobloxgamer1328 3 года назад +14

      When I was 12, a crawler chased me home... and cooked me a nice dinner

  • @fz1000red
    @fz1000red 2 года назад +11

    Kids were telling stories of the tall skinny child eating monster man back in 1970 and '71 when I walked to school in 1st grade. We had to pass thru a short wooded area next to an avocado farm that could appear gloomy due to tall trees lining both sides of the road. It was several years after moving away that I finally realized it wasn't an actual child eating beast but a story used by older kids to scare us.

  • @LunarSecrets
    @LunarSecrets 3 года назад +35

    You, sir, know how to tell a story. Consider us captivated.

  • @docholliday9741
    @docholliday9741 2 года назад +48

    The rake may have been invented online but it very much mirrors old tales of ghouls. And ghouls, or whatever you want to call them, are very much a thing.

    • @JoeinAlaska
      @JoeinAlaska 6 месяцев назад +1

      I agree. I was going to write the same thing.

    • @ezsmith3765
      @ezsmith3765 21 день назад

      Very true. And I’m curious if other Cryptids or Notorious entities may also resemble Crawlers or Ghouls.
      Such as the Wendigo (the non antlered depiction). Or Skinwalkers in various stages of shapeshifting between human and animal. Who really knows 🤷🏼 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @ezsmith3765
      @ezsmith3765 21 день назад

      Very true. And I’m curious if other Cryptids or Notorious entities may also resemble Crawlers or Ghouls.
      Such as the Wendigo (the non antlered depiction). Or Skinwalkers in various stages of shapeshifting between human and animal. Who really knows 🤷🏼 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @ezsmith3765
      @ezsmith3765 21 день назад

      Very true. And I’m curious if other Cryptids or Notorious entities may also resemble Crawlers or Ghouls.
      Such as the Wendigo (the non antlered depiction). Or Skinwalkers in various stages of shapeshifting between human and animal. Who really knows 🤷🏼 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @ezsmith3765
      @ezsmith3765 21 день назад

      Very true. And I’m curious if other Cryptids or Notorious entities may also resemble Crawlers or Ghouls.
      Such as the Wendigo (the non antlered depiction). Or Skinwalkers in various stages of shapeshifting between human and animal. Who really knows 🤷🏼 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @babymoon7624
    @babymoon7624 3 года назад +141

    Don’s encounter is very similar to something that myself and my boyfriend experienced a few months ago...we live in Thailand Chiang Mai and at night we often like to go on joyrides outside of the city on less used farm roads...this happened in August 2020, we were riding down one of the small roads we’ve taken before, there wasn’t any traffic on the road that night and the motorcycle headlight wasn’t super bright so only a small portion of the road ahead of us was illuminated when this white, hairless thing the size of a large dog with long legs lunged out at us from the side of the road at us and ran side by side with our motorcycle..my boyfriend swerved to avoid it into the oncoming lane and this thing ran beside the bike snapping at us for a few seconds before it ran off to the side of the road...I got a decent look at its face, it had no ears and a head shaped like a rat...it’s teeth seemed dog-like...we kept riding until we got to a gas station where we stopped, I asked my bf wtf that thing was and he had no idea but was really dismissive of the idea that it was anything else but a dog, he still won’t talk about it and doesn’t want to take that road again at night...I’m not exactly sure what I saw, it all happened very fast but from what I did see I am sure that thing wasn’t a dog...I think about it all the time, I really want to figure out what it is...I really do think it might be a crawler/pale man

    • @fredroehl7812
      @fredroehl7812 3 года назад +24

      Sorry to hear that he doesn't want to talk about it, that must be frustrating to have to deal with this situation on your own.

    • @spartaragekick6202
      @spartaragekick6202 3 года назад +8

      have him take some PA classes...u no...Paranormal's Ananymous....so he wont be alone n his mistakin identity about this criptid he seen....

    • @swagstab
      @swagstab 3 года назад +17

      @@fredroehl7812 rofl nice try simp

    • @katmack4215
      @katmack4215 3 года назад +5

      That's crazy! 😬 I'd legit have nightmares

    • @blakemiller1483
      @blakemiller1483 3 года назад +12

      It was just a dog but your BF wont talk about it or go on that road anymore. Hmmm.

  • @palamambron
    @palamambron 3 года назад +66

    What if the rakes or crawlers are what people afflicted with the Wendigo spirit finally turn into when the transformative disease has run its course?

    • @kingfisher7960
      @kingfisher7960 2 года назад +7

      I like movies too

    • @pinkeye8441
      @pinkeye8441 2 года назад +5

      No.

    • @cosmicdebris42
      @cosmicdebris42 2 года назад +1

      Or you take the shot!

    • @fr33kSh0w2012
      @fr33kSh0w2012 2 года назад +2

      Nah they are Ghouls Ghouls are real!

    • @dob691
      @dob691 2 года назад +2

      Maybe pigs will learn to fly someday...when they run their course lol.

  • @thedyinglight8041
    @thedyinglight8041 2 года назад +23

    One quick addendum to my other comment below: It is very common among the demographic of people who HAVE witnessed these creatures to see them either (1) dart out in front of their vehicle at night, or (2) run “at” or alongside the vehicle for a short ways. This is very unique/unusual behavior as compared to any other nocturnal predator in the animal kingdom. What if they’re intelligent “enough” to know that they could potentially cause a car accident and “scavenge” the resultant body? Possibly intelligent enough to learn from witnessing animals cause accidents- maybe even prey that they’ve pursued into roadways. Also: If you dig into Indigenous American Mythology (truly dig) you can find obscure, rarely-mentioned creatures that match this description within their folklore and spiritual beliefs. There is some precedent there, it’s not entirely a modern thing.

    • @factsdontlie4342
      @factsdontlie4342 Год назад +3

      Im a night owl. Used to work nights for a decade. I still go out for plenty of drives super late in country roads in northern alberta. I have seen lots of weird stuff. Lights that come straight at me and disappear, strange floating lights, large animals. Never seen anything like this. Honestly hope i never do.

    • @xav3157
      @xav3157 8 месяцев назад

      Yeppp all very much accurate

  • @huntermigwans4247
    @huntermigwans4247 3 года назад +220

    i’m so baked rn

    • @christophertedlock7405
      @christophertedlock7405 3 года назад +7

      You're the coolest person ever.

    • @rilorobinson7685
      @rilorobinson7685 3 года назад +6

      Ahahaha me too!!

    • @abnerdighero8989
      @abnerdighero8989 3 года назад +17

      Sweet!!!! I just quit but this comment made laugh hard AF & SHARE lol. I'll probably start back up in a while. I'd been smoking for 22 years I'm 39 & it stopped getting me "Baked" & only made me feel normal. But I figure if I stop for a few months maybe when I smoke again it'll get me LOADED & in child like awe of these videos - anywho keep the fridge fully stalked lol

    • @chrisd6287
      @chrisd6287 3 года назад +10

      Stocked, please don't stalk my fridge. Lol

    • @abnerdighero8989
      @abnerdighero8989 3 года назад +3

      @@chrisd6287 **stocked**
      Yooooooo, my bad 😅😭

  • @kittencomicslol
    @kittencomicslol 2 года назад +16

    I’ve watched this over 5 times and showed it to my friend’s and family and every single time I watch it, it amazes me and fills me with the same wonder and joy it did the first time. The thumbnail and the start talking about creepypastas was unpromising, due to the classic red circle, and the slender man talk, but oh my god this is the most reliable cryptid document I’ve ever seen! Your channel has introduced me to so many new amazing cryptids and it’s re-ignited the flame of my passion for cryptozoology I’ve had since I was 7. Thank you so much for this amazing video and everything you have done and made. Your work is absolutely wonderful.

  • @tuggspeadman761
    @tuggspeadman761 2 года назад +11

    I lived in Slender Man's house and let me tell ya it's not all it's cracked up to be. The water pressure sucks and it's real drafty in the winter. The rent is also very high. All in all Slendy is a slumlord & he took my security deposit.

  • @mattlawrence1932
    @mattlawrence1932 2 года назад +8

    I can tell by your accent that you're Canadian 💯 I think the Northwest Territory is the scariest most unknown desolate creepiest place in all of northern North America !!!! Especially the Nahhani region not just because of all the eerie stories but how much of a extremely dangerous gigantic maze it is of huge canyons & rivers & its completely surrounded by other giant regional mazes of forest & mountains & frozen tundras !!!!! It's like the heart of that whole entire region & even though ppl have been there, it's still the most mysterious unknown place in all of north America because of how remote it is & impossible to get to by foot or by automobile!!!!!

  • @JahBreed
    @JahBreed 2 года назад +17

    Yep. A friend told me that he encountered something like this in California. He told me 20 years ago and it had happened a few years before that. Pretty crazy.

    • @CEOofChairbugs420
      @CEOofChairbugs420 10 месяцев назад +1

      TMDWU

    • @JahBreed
      @JahBreed 10 месяцев назад

      @@CEOofChairbugs420 Yeah, Dawg. He's kind of a serious dude, like Jord would wanna be in his wildest dreams. He was a Virtuoso guitarist by 20 with a self produced and Mastered CD released in the 90's.....Bro wasn't just some idiot. We were only smoking weed and the story he told was making him stand up almost sweating with excitement😂Begging us to believe him🤣

  • @patman0250
    @patman0250 2 года назад +11

    The rake actually isn't a creepypasta creation. Just because some guy makes a creatures similar to something that already exists doesn't mean it's fake. A creature that looks exactly like the right does exist.

    • @hamishford5486
      @hamishford5486 3 месяца назад

      Be careful as humans are extremely superstitious.

  • @HermunthrudaWaldheim
    @HermunthrudaWaldheim 3 года назад +12

    What an amiable channel! You just got a watcher from Germany!

  • @deborahdanhauer8525
    @deborahdanhauer8525 2 года назад +5

    This was extremely well done! Thank you🐝🤗❤️

  • @dick_richards
    @dick_richards 3 года назад +31

    The Ghoul, or zombie looking creatures have been seen and recorded for millennia. They are always described the same, and the Rake was just someone ripping off the original Ghoul. I know several people who told me they have seen them, and had no idea wtf a rake or ghoul was, but described them as corpses, or zombie like dead people, but the resemblance is completely uncanny. And it was exactly the same.

    • @kristensenger6783
      @kristensenger6783 2 года назад +4

      This! I agree.

    • @disideratum
      @disideratum 2 года назад +3

      Do ghouls basically eat rotten things.. including dead humans? Also wondering if they are purely physical as many think they are or is this a spiritual creature that will manifest into physical? If they are purely physical maybe they are a type of undiscovered humanoid?

    • @feuryie
      @feuryie 2 года назад +3

      @@disideratum myth has ghouls eating rotten or decaying human flesh. so yes, supposedly they eat rot.

    • @actually_a_circle
      @actually_a_circle 2 года назад +2

      My mother saw one in Texas during the 80s on an all night road trip. I shouldn't say "it" but she says she saw what looked like a skinless grasshopper man running along side her car.

    • @dick_richards
      @dick_richards 2 года назад +4

      @@actually_a_circle Amazing. Funny how many people report these types of creatures (dogman, bigfoot, this whatever the heck it is, etc etc etc) runnig alongside their cars, It's astounding actually how many.
      And they vary across the spectrum from surprising them eating road kill, to the packs of dogman launching coordinated and deliberate ambush attacks upon folks in their vehicles.
      Thank you for sharing, just for my own research sake too, i truely appreciate it.

  • @philmorrison9756
    @philmorrison9756 3 года назад +36

    My first thought was a large wolf with mange or some other disease that would cause the fur to fall out. I've seen it on other species here in central B.C., and it can make identification quite difficult sometimes. Even in good lighting

    • @sarahoshea9603
      @sarahoshea9603 2 года назад +6

      I also surmised it was a wolverine or mongoose with mange. They commonly look terrifying and yeah, hard to identify because they will scratch their ears right off till they're stumps. The girl tho, her story and sketch r something different.

    • @Goudney
      @Goudney 2 года назад +5

      Ive seen a fox with late stage mange before and it looked like a straight up demon

    • @jeanettewishall6362
      @jeanettewishall6362 2 года назад +3

      I also wonder about chronic wasting disease in deer, elk, and moose - especially when it comes to wendigo sightings.

    • @anthonyfalcon2113
      @anthonyfalcon2113 Год назад +3

      As much as I would agree with you guys I've seen one, almost hit it and it freaked me out to this day. They are so fast there is no way a manged poor healthed animal is gonna be fast enough to get in front of my car right after I accelerated to 75 and it was 2 steps from being in front. I braced for impact and nothing happened, I looked in the mirror and it was disappearing off along the sidewalk it was crawl running so quickly. It was pale white/gray translucent skin and it had a very round and bald head, it had hands that looked like a mix between paws and human hands or something and it crawl ran so fast that if I had blinked I may have not even seen it. I've questioned weather it was supernatural because that shit will freak you out a little after seeing it. It has peaked my interest though as to what else is out there.

  • @beverlychase3587
    @beverlychase3587 2 года назад +8

    I’ve seen something that’s similar but what i saw was very tall and fast- My husband and i coming home in the middle of the night took a shortcut down Wharton Wheems road from hwy 146 to old hwy 146 to Shore Acres Tx. It’s a two lane farm road that sits high between a landscape of swamp, scrub trees and thicket - sometimes it floods real bad there. From our left we saw it leaping in great long strides towards the road in front of us - when it leapt on the road in front of us it turned its head sideways and i swear it looked as if it was grinning. It was an ashy white skeletal figure but leaning backwards at an angle with long hands legs and feet. If it stood erect i’m guessing it would’ve been 10 to 11 feet high. I don’t know what else to say except that it terrified us - my husband never wanted to talk about it and i doubt he ever did with anyone else - he knew they probably wouldn’t have believed him anyway.

    • @MrDuffy81
      @MrDuffy81 Год назад

      More people need dash cams. I was driving through Plainview Texas on the interstate and I saw a 3 foot tall green skinned little person run across the highway. It scared the hell out of me and my wife woke up out of a dead sleep. She must’ve felt that something was wrong. It was very strange. I wish I had a camera to capture it. I didn’t learn my lesson and years later I actually saw a giant wolf creature in Colorado that defied explanation that I wish I had captured on the dash cam that I never got

  • @patriciaramirez9295
    @patriciaramirez9295 3 года назад +11

    I have seen this thing as well, but it was in Arizona. Driving very late at night up Mingus Mountain. The creature was a blur as it crossed in front of the car, but it paused and looked at us before it crawled over the road barrier. It had whitish skin, long and langy with a bald head and cataract looking eyes. Very creepy and scarest thing I have seen and will never forget it for the rest of my life. My husband who was driving does not recall seeing it, but I was freaking out and asked him, did you see that thing?

    • @anthonyfalcon2113
      @anthonyfalcon2113 Год назад +3

      I saw the same exact creature in northeast Pennsylvania. It ran in front of me after I hit 75. I braced for impact and nothing happened. I looked in the mirror and it was already over the sidewalk disappearing off the side of the road. I have a brief memory of its head accelerating forward as I turned bracing for impact like it had accelerated forward and avoided getting smashed. It's been 2 or so months and I'm still baffled at what happened. Its body was shimmery/translucent and white. Its hands where like a mix between paws and human hands. And it was crawl running in this crazy galloping motion, I didn't get a good look at its eyes as it stepped in front of my car but thinking back on it, out of my peripheral I can remember its eyes where slighly glowing in the dark but I didn't get a good look at its eyes or mouth once I was driving fast and it was crawling like it was fired out of a cannon. I'm pretty happy this thing showed itself to me that day because at least now I know these things are out there and so is probably a lot of other creatures.

  • @MC_SCRIBE
    @MC_SCRIBE 3 года назад +6

    This is fantastic man! Great job!

  • @mikehunt8375
    @mikehunt8375 3 года назад +72

    I think we create our reality way more then we realize...

    • @yes0r787
      @yes0r787 3 года назад +1

      Truly

    • @robertzaborowski3587
      @robertzaborowski3587 3 года назад +1

      As human beings..i assure you our minds areWAY WAY WAY TOOOOOO SMALL TO BY ANY MEANS CREAT REALITY.....(least wise not with our exceedingly limited perceptional abilities)

    • @Missy-Leigh
      @Missy-Leigh 3 года назад +15

      @@robertzaborowski3587 You underestimate mind. The Universe is mental. All thought creates form on some level.

    • @blakemiller1483
      @blakemiller1483 3 года назад +4

      Our imagination is a powerful psychic tool! Along with one's perception, it's always pulling from, among many other source's; the most subtle parts of our own consciousness awareness's. It's an environment in and of itself. Perhaps drawing from not only the plane surroundings of the natural world, as captured by our more dominant sense's. But also the environment collectively. With it's moods, cycles, relationships and awareness (If that makes sense.) Though not always perceptible. However all around us, the subtle energies and wavelengths are picked up like on 2 ends of a CB Radio and the waves are able to take form, as sound and language. like radio frequencies or carrier waves, from different levels of awareness that are transformed and become recognizable, comprehensible to the "inner sense's" so to speak. Perhaps there is a element of co-creation inherent. Like if similar equal or opposite "signals" become engaged somehow...

    • @joshandrew875
      @joshandrew875 3 года назад

      L

  • @daviddrane6643
    @daviddrane6643 2 года назад +6

    I seen a strange critter 3 years ago..
    I was driving down the Irish settlement rd in NB Canada..
    There was snow banks and snow on road.. it was about 3 feet long with a tail of about 1 foot.. I've lived in the woods for years.. and know all the critters.. this thing was something I did not know of..
    Was all black.. had a long muzzle. .red eyes. Long ears which was up right.. a small chest and very short front legs. At its mid rift it's hind quarters were very large with big hind legs twice as long as the front legs....it's tail was the shape
    of a cone. Very thick at the rump and going to a point at the tip..
    I was doing around 30 mph as it came to the center of road. As soon as my lights hit it .it's turned its head away and leaped. It cleared the other snow bank by at least 25 to 30 feet .. and the next leap it took ..took it well into the trees.. I E braked to keep my lights on it.. but it just vanished.. like I said..I know all the critters in NB.. that thing was nothing I have ever seen before. .twice as fast as a deer at least.. 2 nights later I went back and parked in the big fields up the road.. after about 20 min I heard calls that I never heard before.. loud and screeching. . Never seen anything but could not help but hear it... there is strange things we do not know about... FOR NOW ANYWAY..

    • @localnemesis94
      @localnemesis94 Год назад +2

      Yeah that was a dogman that you saw. I grew up on PEI and it’s crazy to think those things are that close.

  • @brandonjennings9941
    @brandonjennings9941 2 года назад +4

    Love this channel man. Really something else.

  • @gcarrier1971
    @gcarrier1971 3 года назад +8

    They are called Ghouls. They been around for ever.

  • @vesuvius115
    @vesuvius115 3 года назад +71

    This is interesting, I've actually never heard of these guys, thanks for teaching me! Their looks remind me of Wendigo, classic ones that is, not the modern deer/stag one. I feel like the Wendigo is the beast that inspired the Rake and Crawlers, they seem EXTREMELY similar.

    • @Head318Hunter
      @Head318Hunter 3 года назад +7

      I believe that you are correct. Rake = Wendigo

    • @Head318Hunter
      @Head318Hunter 3 года назад +3

      ruclips.net/video/djj6D-uVQKA/видео.html
      Go to about 38:15

    • @vesuvius115
      @vesuvius115 3 года назад +5

      @@Head318Hunter Its cool I'm not the only one who feels this, their similarities are just too great.

    • @vesuvius115
      @vesuvius115 3 года назад +3

      @@Head318Hunter Damn, I see what you mean, shit.

    • @normalusername911
      @normalusername911 3 года назад +1

      The modern look of the wendigo may be more based off an ijirait which is an Inuit legend. A half man half caribou with red eyes.

  • @Optimismus53
    @Optimismus53 3 года назад +13

    what if "something" very old exists out there, that takes the form of beings that people of their time hate and fear the most, in order to frighten and drive them away.

  • @einarvolsung2202
    @einarvolsung2202 3 года назад +65

    I'm on the toilet right now sending my message to society

    • @sandrakelly720
      @sandrakelly720 3 года назад +13

      SHIT HAPPENS

    • @HammersonPeters
      @HammersonPeters  3 года назад +26

      The speed at which people replied to this is almost as spooky as the comment itself.

    • @sirandrelefaedelinoge
      @sirandrelefaedelinoge 3 года назад +6

      That's profound

    • @robh5695
      @robh5695 3 года назад +14

      that's some deep shit bro

    • @Missy-Leigh
      @Missy-Leigh 3 года назад +5

      Having become aware of this information I immediately retreated into my den and emerged after successfully authoring an entire novel. Inspiring. 😁

  • @PatriceBoivin
    @PatriceBoivin 3 года назад +11

    in France they started talking about egrégores, concepts which once imagined, named and given attention, grow and grow. There are pages on the 'net in English explaining the idea.

    • @zeldapinwheel7043
      @zeldapinwheel7043 2 года назад +4

      Like a tulpa?

    • @disideratum
      @disideratum 2 года назад +4

      There’s a book on Egregores by Mark Stavish that’s a great read. It’s a good theory but from what I understand Egregores are not physical though they can manifest themselves like an apparition. These crawlers are physical and solid. There’s also something called the Fresno nightcrawler that’s different but possibly related. Worth checking into! Also caught on CCTV and appear completely physical and solid.
      My ancestors have stories about a race of milky white skinned people they called the Moon Eyed People. They were named that supposedly because their eyes were too sensitive for daylight. Historians thought that maybe the Native American people called them moon eyed because they were a blue color. It would make total sense to me that my ancestors called them moon eyed because their eyes glowed like the moon. In the images and video footage I’ve seen of these crawlers their eyes do glow like that. Allegedly they lived in caves. My theory is that with all the fracking and drilling underground from the oil companies it has brought the subterranean peoples up to the surface and that’s why there have been so many sightings. By the way, my ancestors were originally at peace with the Moon Eyed people but they began eating our dead and then they were not friends anymore! There is also an ancient effigy of the moon eyed people and they look just like the crawlers. If you Google “Cherokee Moon Eyed people you’ll see an image of it”. It’s spooky!

    • @disideratum
      @disideratum 2 года назад +1

      @@zeldapinwheel7043 yes exactly but Egregores are Tulpas created by a group of people rather than individuals and generally not intentionally created.

  • @GrumpyOwl13
    @GrumpyOwl13 Год назад +6

    My ex husband saw this back in 2006 in downtown of Strathmore Alberta. I was there, I just didn't look out our back window facing the alley like he did. We both saw 2 flashes of bright white light which prompted him to go take a look. A car drove down the alley just before this too and i wonder what they might've seen. Those bright flashes weren't car lights either. Way to bright and they came on like they were on a dimmer switch, increasing in brightness then decreasing, each flash maybe taking about 4 seconds. He saw it on all fours duck behind a large garbage bin before the car drove by. Found out some years later what it was he saw. We've never heard of such thing before, creepy.

    • @MrDuffy81
      @MrDuffy81 Год назад +1

      Thank you for sharing your story. Do you think that the flash is that you saw were the creatures entering this dimension possibly?

  • @fredleber2432
    @fredleber2432 3 года назад +8

    LOL the first crawler picture is definitely just sticks and branches xD

  • @b.5191
    @b.5191 3 года назад +7

    Oh man I got work early tomorrow so I gotta sleep but I'm gonna thoroughly enjoy watching this tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @robyunger6853
    @robyunger6853 2 года назад +5

    Props to hammerson Peter's for a great channel. Keep up the great work.

    • @MrDuffy81
      @MrDuffy81 Год назад

      I’m binging on his vids lately. Better than most anything else on RUclips to be perfectly honest. A lot of the Cryptid podcasts have really gone downhill and only offer good episodes if you pay for them.

  • @elfdragon4life909
    @elfdragon4life909 Год назад +3

    The Monster came first. On the Paranormal Rangers episode of Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries, one of the Arizona Navajo Rangers saw one of these creatures in 1986. He called it a Skinwalker, but it was very similar, and its eyes glowed. Other people have claimed to see similar creatures. I don't know if I believe it, but I think anything is possible.

  • @benridge6570
    @benridge6570 Год назад +3

    I realize this is a old post, but I must say how much I enjoy your story and the video & pictures are great . I am ALWAYS LOOKING FOR TRACKS. The wilderness is basically out my front door. Thanks And for whom ever it may concern. NEVER NO NEVER GO GENTLE INTO THE GOOD NIGHT.

  • @Seraph89_
    @Seraph89_ 3 года назад +14

    I’ve seen a beast exactly like this one last summer. It had a very long tail, that was able to go around it’s waist. It tried sniffing us out, but it attacked the humongous dog next door. It didn’t kill the dog, it just flew away after scaring the shit out of it. When I seen it, it looked to be 6 feet tall, walking on all fours and it had beige skin or fur. Also had small spots it’s back. It reminded me of a kangaroo, but it would never survive up North.

    • @diychad7268
      @diychad7268 3 года назад +2

      Which beast are u talking about there obviously were quite a few of them mentioned in the video here.......

    • @Seraph89_
      @Seraph89_ 3 года назад +4

      @@diychad7268 sorry about that, I meant the first beast. The one with the light skin.

    • @zanderkeith8567
      @zanderkeith8567 3 года назад +4

      You saw a chupacabra man

    • @lindaarrington9397
      @lindaarrington9397 2 года назад

      Goodness q
      Did you see it
      Or not
      Whata beast

    • @jackiestowe6987
      @jackiestowe6987 2 года назад +1

      They have the same things in South America too. They came from the water, that’s why they have that dead flesh look.

  • @blakemiller1483
    @blakemiller1483 3 года назад

    Very good sir! Great coverage on this topic.

  • @isaacsamuel7517
    @isaacsamuel7517 3 года назад +2

    Well made video. Clearly going through it by steps as revealing the creature.

  • @sca88
    @sca88 2 года назад +15

    Rake looking creatures have been seen for a longer length of time than the supposed 'invention' of as a creepypasta character. My friend who lives a couple hours away in Murrieta CA (desert town) saw one late at night crawling in an inhuman manner in her neighbors driveway and by their car on the street. When she told me this last year, she had never heard of anything like a Rake. I was the one who told her after her description was the same as others I'd heard of. She won't walk in her neighborhood at night anymore.

    • @anthonyfalcon2113
      @anthonyfalcon2113 Год назад +4

      I almost hit one, had no clue what I was seeing and it was about 2 steps from getting in front of my car and I had just gassed up to 75. I braced and turned my head, thought this thing was about to get smashed. It sped up and got around my car and I looked in the mirror and it was disappearing aross the sidewalk. It had a round bald head, and pale white/gray translucent skin and its hands were so strange. Claw like hands that looked like paws but also kind of like hands, hard to explain. And it ran so fast, it was like if I had blinked I wouldn't have seen it and it made question weather I saw a ghost or something supernatural.

    • @MrDuffy81
      @MrDuffy81 Год назад +2

      @@anthonyfalcon2113 where did that happen Anthony?

    • @MrDuffy81
      @MrDuffy81 Год назад +2

      Too bad she did not catch it on camera. I have seen a couple videos of them and I believe they are real creatures.

    • @anthonyfalcon2113
      @anthonyfalcon2113 Год назад +1

      @@MrDuffy81 It happened in northeast Pennsylvania by a place called the pink apple in tunkannock, pink apple is now closed down but I still vividly remember it crossing the sidewalk by the hotel that is across from pink apple after I almost hit it. I heard a theory that these things eat the decaying soul of the deceased which was a very very odd theory someone suggested because slighly up the road was a church and I think it has dead buried there. I will never forget seeing that creature though, one of the most paranormal experiences of my life.

    • @MrDuffy81
      @MrDuffy81 Год назад +1

      @@anthonyfalcon2113 that is a very interesting theory. Do you remember the video that was also talked about on the Sasquatch Chronicles podcast of the creature digging in the cemetery? It very much looks like one of these creatures as I recall.

  • @bennywoo1918
    @bennywoo1918 3 года назад +24

    on dogman encounters there are a few witness to these rakes, the dogmen hunt them there were wolves that walk upright the dogmen killing machines top of the food chain not us

    • @waifuwaffles7697
      @waifuwaffles7697 3 года назад +5

      I mean we are still top of the food chain tho we have so many things that could easily kill them at this point the food chain isn't just about physical strength

    • @tiberiu_nicolae
      @tiberiu_nicolae 3 года назад +1

      @@waifuwaffles7697 the way they're described, you need a full military squad to take on a dogman. And sometimes they are in a pack.

    • @waifuwaffles7697
      @waifuwaffles7697 3 года назад +4

      @@tiberiu_nicolae My point is that if we really want something dead IT WILL DIE the only reason it would be hard is because of civilians and keeping it wrapped up we could easily scorch them alive in the forests with the tech we have and the military likely has tech that could do worse so we are above them and shall stay there until they figure out how to defuse nuclear weapons

    • @teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425
      @teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425 2 года назад +3

      For the love of humanity, people, PUNCTUATE.

    • @Truth-Seeker-333
      @Truth-Seeker-333 2 года назад +2

      @@waifuwaffles7697
      Dogman is not the top hunter..
      Sasquatch would pull its head off and scratch his back n a$$ with the dog/werewolf arms & legs..
      Sasquatch are multi dimensional beings, and they are not what most people believe they are...

  • @salish.nation
    @salish.nation 2 года назад +4

    Do you have a step-ladder? Me too. I never knew my real ladder.

  • @Seraph89_
    @Seraph89_ 3 года назад +19

    There’s many new schools being built in the isolated towns of Ontario, Canada. Once the clear cutting began, the beings appeared. In my town there was a herd of ancient humans, more wild than man that were around from May until October. They were 8 feet tall, with the child 6 feet tall. 3 others towns have had Jeepers Creepers or the Mothman visit their towns multiple times. 2 of those same towns have also seen a Goatman being a nuisance to ppl out at night.

    • @chrisw5953
      @chrisw5953 3 года назад +5

      Jesus Christ man get ahold of yourself.

    • @Seraph89_
      @Seraph89_ 3 года назад +9

      @@chrisw5953 why do you follow this stuff if you can’t believe this. Multiple ppl seen these creatures. Life is different up here, we are very isolated and these beings come at night.

    • @chrisw5953
      @chrisw5953 3 года назад +1

      @@Seraph89_ I guess I'm just not that simple minded. And plus I'm not gonna believe in anything unless I've seen it especially this fairy tale BS.

    • @themythhunter9764
      @themythhunter9764 3 года назад +5

      @@chrisw5953 simpleminded is exactly what you are

    • @Seraph89_
      @Seraph89_ 3 года назад +8

      @@chrisw5953 that’s ok. Just don’t go seeking these things. Somethings latch on to you. They become bad omens.

  • @katmack4215
    @katmack4215 3 года назад +9

    I call these creatures the Crawlers too..when they're called Rakes,people think your talking about fake creepypasta. 🙄 when people are reporting actually seeing these awful things 😬

  • @peachypound6108
    @peachypound6108 2 года назад +3

    Maybe, the creator of the rake meme actually saw the rake and then wrote about it. That’s a third possibility

    • @RuinedTemple
      @RuinedTemple Год назад +1

      The creatures from The Descent film as an inspiration do match up perfectly in time with the creation of the Rake, both coming out in 2005.
      If he had seen one in real life, it would be called a crawler... the Rake name should be specifically used only for his fictional creepypasta character.

  • @bretthines1020
    @bretthines1020 3 года назад +1

    Great Channel!

  • @wz1thoughtadjuster330
    @wz1thoughtadjuster330 3 года назад

    Love your work , well presented , good layout ,easy to watch , thanks

  • @CarolynJMarion
    @CarolynJMarion 3 года назад +6

    theres a rabbit in the trail-cam part of the video right in the middle behind the tree, you can clearly see the ears and eye reflection. along with is a rabbit tail on the other side of the tree.
    That's what caused the camera to shutter.

  • @andreweden9405
    @andreweden9405 3 года назад +10

    Omg, this was so good! That animation made me squeal with fear! Yikes!😱 I would not be one bit surprised if sasquatch weren't the only humanoid cryptid out there. Very well presented, and I loved the music as well. Thank you!

  • @shannonlinklater1733
    @shannonlinklater1733 3 года назад +2

    Those were just scary for me
    Thnx for sharing I still have chills

  • @ziduszai4969
    @ziduszai4969 2 года назад +3

    the chicken or the egg, the monster or the myth. I like it. I like it a lot.

  • @MaybeGodwillsaveMe
    @MaybeGodwillsaveMe 2 года назад +8

    I saw something walking away from a deer dead on the road that was really tall and white. I was too scared to focus on it, so I never got a great look. I just remember it was walking into the forest as I was driving up to the deer and swerving to avoid it. It scared me more than anything in my life. I don't believe in ghosts and shit. I am still not sure if I really saw anything. It's just my fear. I have never felt that sort of fear expect when I felt my life was in danger in some way.

    • @anthonyfalcon2113
      @anthonyfalcon2113 Год назад

      You probably saw a crawler sounds like what I saw, they almost don't look fully physical. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this creature running in front of my car and somehow it got around being hit at 75mph.

  • @whitefordpipeshandmadebymi7238
    @whitefordpipeshandmadebymi7238 3 года назад +26

    I seen a Big foot creature here in Welland Ontario Canada crossing Chippawa creek

    • @romeowhiskey2759
      @romeowhiskey2759 3 года назад +1

      did you go look for tracks?

    • @1420Clint
      @1420Clint 3 года назад +2

      I'm from Wooler Ont. Not far from you. I've heard then seen something I can't explain. Couldn't sleep well for nights after and don't like to think about it to this day. I do not spook easily either.

    • @bbsmasonry4844
      @bbsmasonry4844 3 года назад

      @@1420Clint I'm in Ontario too. Let me know if you want to talk about your encounter.

    • @1420Clint
      @1420Clint 3 года назад +2

      @@bbsmasonry4844 I'd talk to you about it. I honestly have no idea what it was but I can explain to you what I seen that night.

    • @bbsmasonry4844
      @bbsmasonry4844 3 года назад +1

      @@1420Clint I'd love to hear about it man. Can you private message on RUclips?

  • @wyattfriedt5446
    @wyattfriedt5446 3 года назад +73

    There's a very small part of me that would kind of like to experience some sort of cryptid. At the moment, the closest thing I have is the big-ass beaver (the rodent, not the other thing) I saw along the river last week.

    • @HammersonPeters
      @HammersonPeters  3 года назад +27

      I think a Sasquatch would be pretty cool to see. But no crawlers for me, thanks. And that's scandalous, by the way.

    • @wyattfriedt5446
      @wyattfriedt5446 3 года назад +7

      Yeah something that looks like an animal that is already known to science.

    • @Scp716creativecommons
      @Scp716creativecommons 3 года назад +15

      Was the beaver in that river, getn all wet, maybe because it was on its way to get some wood?... I'll uh, I know where the door is

    • @chuckh.9351
      @chuckh.9351 3 года назад +3

      Hahahaaahaaaa

    • @Scp716creativecommons
      @Scp716creativecommons 3 года назад +3

      @@chuckh.9351 dilly dilly!

  • @pixlbaronbrebrepixlbaron9251
    @pixlbaronbrebrepixlbaron9251 2 года назад +1

    Nice video and great research done

  • @KingOhmni
    @KingOhmni 3 года назад +9

    1:03 Holy crap now that is what I call a cursed image.

    • @cdvitunac
      @cdvitunac 3 года назад +2

      Pure nightmare fuel

    • @rory251
      @rory251 Год назад

      One of the OG creepypasta images. Jack the ripper or whatever it was i forget now. Been almost a decade since i first saw that nightmare fuel lol

  • @sealyoness
    @sealyoness 2 года назад +3

    I sat down with a little guy who helped me change a tire and we drank tea. I asked about the those skinny crawlers and if they were dangerous. He just shrugged, sipped the tea, and said, 'Only if you wait for them to catch up. They're pretty dam' slow.' (And that's my tall tale for the month.)

    • @RuinedTemple
      @RuinedTemple Год назад +1

      Quite tall indeed, as any eyewitness who claims to have seen them run would apparently know.

  • @eyeticklemymind
    @eyeticklemymind 3 года назад +13

    That Rick Grebenik video is completely legit! There have been sightings all over the world! Austria cave, Australia too I believe.

    • @thecoreyfamilyreviews3446
      @thecoreyfamilyreviews3446 2 года назад

      There’s no way to prove his video is real. Although it is creepy as hell! Scared me

  • @wolfturkey4579
    @wolfturkey4579 Год назад

    I once stumbled across this RUclips channel about most terrifying things caught on camera/trail cam and in this one clip this man pulled over on the highway to have a cigarette and said he could smell a stench so he wondered off the highway into the bush just a few metres and out of nowhere this white hairless humanoid creature that looked like a crawler started chasing him, it just brushed out of the forest from nowhere and the way it manoeuvred through the bush on all fours and so swiftly and agile it honestly resembled the rake or crawler. I think you would find this footage to be rather fascinating and match the description spoken about by the witnesses in your video!
    Love your channel and these kind of videos pls keep them coming.!

  • @midnightsentry84
    @midnightsentry84 2 года назад +3

    They don't hybernate, i met a few jumping through the tops of trees in the dead of winter.

  • @diabolosmoerdeth1909
    @diabolosmoerdeth1909 2 года назад +5

    The problem with these stories is that there is always an excuse why they didn't do something like go back soon after to find evidence. Why are every one of the witnesses afraid in these stories. There are some people who would go back and find evidence shortly there after in every other case except these kinds of cases. Where is the real evidence is all we want to know?

    • @anthonyfalcon2113
      @anthonyfalcon2113 Год назад

      Hhahahhaha

    • @anthonyfalcon2113
      @anthonyfalcon2113 Год назад +1

      You are hilarious. I almost hit one and no freaking way is someone sticking around one of those to get evidence and holy shit they move quick. So fast that at about 75 mph and about to be smashed this thing went faster after stepping in front of my car and still managed to get by across to the sidewalk and was disappearing across the road like it was shot out of a gun or something. I swear that whatever I saw that day, no fucking way is anyone keeping up with it. It was bald, round head. White/gray skin that looked translucent and it had hands that were like paws mixed with human hands. They looked like something I've never seen before. Didn't see any ears. Didn't get a good look at the eyes or mouth though. And if I had blinked I may not have seen it. The way they move is very odd, crawling on all 4 running but it looked odd but extremely fast like holy smokes it was quick. I saw this 3 months ago and its hard to forget it. I kind of hope you see one so you can understand how difficult it would be honestly. I wish you luck man.

  • @thomaso6763
    @thomaso6763 Год назад +1

    I was driving one night in Mn. out in the country with my girlfriend, it was about 11:00pm at night in the winter, temps were about 10 degrees or so and about a foot of snow on the ground. The snow brightens everything in the headlights so what appears in front is real visible. So, were driving along about 45 mph and this thing hobbles across road about a hundred yards ahead of us on all fours, looked like a disfigured animal or something with no hair, white skin and almost like it was gliding along. It had crossed the road by the time we got about 30 yards from it. I kept driving and about 30 seconds later I looked over at her and said "Did you just see that thing cross the road?" She says, "Don't talk about it" Now, she has in the past and even today seen shadow figures and sometimes hallucinations when tired or anxiety strikes her, I said "I'm not so sure your experiences are all illusion, cause I saw it too" She said "I said, don't talk about it" and that was that!

  • @christophermichael.w.7577
    @christophermichael.w.7577 2 года назад +53

    I use to really enjoy watching paranormal videos. I liked to analyze them and decide if they were basically real or fake. Alot of them were videos that were simply taken from someone and given a new scary backstory.These days I find myself getting angry at the stuff I find. Most of the channels are so lazy that they either just keep showing the same old videos in a never ending cycle or one guy will do some work and find new videos than a dozen other guys steal their entire compilation and post it on their own channel.

    • @teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425
      @teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425 2 года назад +5

      *used. Used to enjoy..
      But yes, you're right. And sadly the internet is full of people with a 5 second attention span who seek out these doppelganger channels and sub to them, making them lots of money for doing piss all work. Much like footballers and actors, really.
      I believe there are things out there, but the videos are mostly fake and the stories hyped to be more than they are.

    • @chriscorbin3190
      @chriscorbin3190 2 года назад

      ive noticed the same thing...

    • @agentbuckwall2806
      @agentbuckwall2806 2 года назад +5

      What kills it for me is when they throw in videos that are just obviously really bad cgi but then they act like they can't tell if it's real. Like I get that it might be hard to get enough really good ones to put in every video but at least don't fill in the space with ones that are just obviously and really badly faked

    • @disideratum
      @disideratum 2 года назад

      Seems like the best of them follow reddit streams and repost with some dialogue added. It's a news feed I suppose but unfortunately no way to know fact from fiction. Probably the best of all the paranormal channels right now is the Darkest Secret who I think get most of their material from subscribers and I've seen amazing original stuff there. Also pretty open about potential fakes and will show how they test that. Frostmare is another good one though he'll include obvious fakes unfortunately. He has actually worked as a paranormal investigator so does have that background and has alot of very compelling captures. Hope that helps. There are many terrible ones but not all!

    • @Astra_Dystopium
      @Astra_Dystopium 2 года назад +3

      The only channel that has stayed immune from this is Beyond Creepy

  • @jonathanbrooks1906
    @jonathanbrooks1906 3 года назад +37

    Tulpa are creatures that are generated by mass public belief, and can be generated by myths, legends, or urban stories. These things are occasionally captured on trail motion triggered video.

    • @3-Kashmir
      @3-Kashmir 2 года назад +1

      If you ever get possessed or someone infront of you does you will definitely change your mind because your can feel that energy in the air!!!
      ruclips.net/video/bh6MLrAOMN0/видео.html

    • @angelmartin7310
      @angelmartin7310 2 года назад

      They are opportunistic demons.

    • @Thekoryostribalpodcast
      @Thekoryostribalpodcast 2 года назад +1

      @@angelmartin7310 oh jeez. Stop. They are evil spirits, and a number of things can be done to protect yourself from them.

    • @angelmartin7310
      @angelmartin7310 2 года назад

      @@Thekoryostribalpodcast what do you think a demon is? An evil spirit. I grew up around bloodline Luciferians who nonchalantly consort with fallen angels and "marry" their children off to demonic entities by age 4 as well as subject them to rituals that layer demons into their programmed alter personalities to function as the battery of the whole system of alter personalities...my best friend since preschool was born into it. And there is only ONE thing you can do to protect yourself against them. Short of being born again in Christ you are at their mercy, and most of the time they do their job (deception and destruction) totally under the radar. They are only scary when they want to be.

  • @MatanuskaHIGH
    @MatanuskaHIGH 3 года назад +10

    Could the rake just be some tweaker out chasing bush narcs in the middle of the night? Maybe out looking for Catalytic converters to sell for metals

    • @BeetleBuns
      @BeetleBuns 2 года назад +1

      catalytic converters are the natural prey of tweakers, they can smell them from up to a mile away. They often trade them with humans for odd crystals, which they seem to treasure. Oddly, no metter how much they may consume, they always appear emaciated, with rotted teeth and pallid skin. Fascinating creatures.

    • @tittyrino
      @tittyrino 2 года назад +1

      Great comment and everyone should be on the lookout for these creatures especially after you park your vehicle near the bad side of town!

    • @vanguard6498
      @vanguard6498 2 года назад +1

      Thousands of them? In all towns? Some encounters happening deep deep in the woods? Hmmp

  • @moonie9000
    @moonie9000 2 года назад +2

    > Monster face is staring through my window.
    > Hide under covers and go back to sleep lols

  • @newyardleysinclair9960
    @newyardleysinclair9960 2 года назад +3

    So he was too scared to drive by the scene in his car during the day, yet wasn't too scared to go hunting for its den in the woods by himself? I don't know man....

  • @Spoeism
    @Spoeism 3 года назад +16

    I believe these creatures are a variation of Hominin adaptation (Nocturnal-Subterranean; past environment catastrophe?) and would inspire the fictional versions later on.
    Denisovan
    Antecessor
    There are a few hominin candidates who share certain similarities.
    I think this is what the "Wendigo" truly are.

    • @renacleerican7824
      @renacleerican7824 7 месяцев назад

      Wendigo are more like possessed humans. They are a metaphor for selfishness and glutonry.
      But I like your theory about subterranean troglodyte hominins surviving hidden in the dark of their undeground dens.

  • @einienj3281
    @einienj3281 2 года назад +5

    I came across a theory, that we, the people who read and watch these videos about cryptids etc, that our collective imagination is "willing them into being".. enough people think about them and they just pop up in to reality... I thought it was an interesting take on these creatures that people claim to see and how some creatures are very localized and some are worldwide..

  • @ANPC-pi9vu
    @ANPC-pi9vu 2 года назад +5

    I've heard a lot of accounts of things like this in the states. There's a historic story from the gold rush in the South West of people going missing in a remote canyon and members of a tribe who sometimes go into the canyon warning people not to look the white humanoid things in the eye and not to stay the night. The canyon is somewhat narrow in places, the cliffs are very sheer stone, and they are dotted with numerous caves the things are believed to live in. I think the Rake is just a much more exaggerated fictional monster that has some vague similarities to these white humanoid entities. Some people give similar descriptions of Chupacabra, except that Chupacabra isn't typically described as being able to walk upright, where as the creatures in the canyon during the gold rush if I remember correctly normally walk upright. Ether way, the Rake isn't that impressive and this was already a common monster of American lore long before the internet. Thing is, most tribesmen don't like to talk about their lore because they believe talking about entities brings their attention to you, and their fear of these things has much deeper roots than ours.

    • @rdc7622
      @rdc7622 2 года назад

      What happens if you look it in the eye?

    • @samfranklin659
      @samfranklin659 2 года назад +2

      @@rdc7622 Don't. Just don't.

    • @joeberlanga727
      @joeberlanga727 Год назад

      I seen what must have been a baby or juvenile one of something like this In south New Mexico…. It walked / glided upright like a man with no problem but it had fur and best way me to describe it is no face jus a blank spot…. I looked up local wildlife but I knew im my head there’s nothing known in nature that walks like that but man so I wasn’t surprised not to find any info but going back to find it and get famous lol

    • @kacieogle513
      @kacieogle513 Год назад

      That's superstition mountains! That place is legit freaky! People vanish there all the time

  • @soul_luv3710
    @soul_luv3710 3 года назад +15

    It's what's referred to as a tulpa. The energy focused towards something then materializes. Although I'm sure this happens I believe these were here long before creepy pasta decided to create it.

    • @Seraph89_
      @Seraph89_ 3 года назад +8

      Oh yes, that’s true. The fairy tales we hear about are true, but some stories are changed to make creatures seem friendly.

  • @Head318Hunter
    @Head318Hunter 3 года назад +9

    Then there's the whole "Tupla" theory/phenomenon.
    Makes one wonder.
    6:14 = Tuplas

  • @flavbeatyouinthehead
    @flavbeatyouinthehead 2 года назад +3

    Some 24 years ago me and my friend saw an odd faceless white being who was tied up and screaming some days it would just stand and wave at us my younger brothers couldn't see this thing an more did my friend s older brother.....my friend left an well was traumatized i ignored it until i never saw it again after that summer ..... thinking nothing of it i never mentioned it to anyone......turned out my brothers as they grew and got to the age i was when I saw it they too had seen it but ignored it as much as possible......children around the age of 8 to 10 could see this thing but as you got older an ignore it it would go away .....this happened long before creepy pasta became a thing we were also poor and hadn't a tv just happy children who would play outside all the time

    • @badgirldiaries9211
      @badgirldiaries9211 2 года назад

      Wow really? Where and what was it tied too?

    • @flavbeatyouinthehead
      @flavbeatyouinthehead 2 года назад

      @@badgirldiaries9211 no it was free it came out of a small pioneers type shack but none of that was there and my kid brother told me when he saw it it was a faceless woman tied to a tree that also didn't exist

  • @babydollgremlin
    @babydollgremlin 3 года назад +2

    damn i love your vids i subbed directly

  • @WellStudied
    @WellStudied 2 года назад +3

    EXACT same thing happened to my wife and I... but ours was what looked exactly like a HYENA, in NY! Ours was following deer off the mountain and stood in the road staring at us for like 15 seconds. When I called NYS depof ENCON, no one believed me. In fact, they errantly sent us and email in a chain that was making fun of us! I grew up in the woods, weened on Animal Planet and Willd Kingdom. I even called the local game farm to see if something got lose. The next month I saw the exact same anial on Monster Quest. As for the BC video, I looked at that over and over and actually think it wasnt ON THE WINDSHIELD, but reflecting from somewhere in the car ONTO THE VIDEO. Mine, or sjould I say OURS, my wife and I, was completely real. In fact, we even saw it again a few nights later!

  • @entropydynamic906
    @entropydynamic906 3 года назад +11

    This is very credible to me because i have seen something very similar in switzerland a few years ago , in good detail and I have every reason to remain assured that it was not any sort of prank. I have been casually researching since. These things have been sighted in numerous countries in relatively similar ways for decades. Some cases involved injury. These gorgoil human horror movie looking creatures tend to display both curious and hostile attitude.

    • @noehirschi1367
      @noehirschi1367 2 года назад

      May i ask where this encounter precisely took place ?

    • @entropydynamic906
      @entropydynamic906 2 года назад +2

      @@noehirschi1367 it was on a lake road a few kilometers outside of Geneva, Switzerland...next to a town , called Bellevue.

    • @noehirschi1367
      @noehirschi1367 2 года назад

      @@entropydynamic906 Thanks for the response, i never thought that you could see one in such a densely populated area and in switzerland on top of that.

    • @entropydynamic906
      @entropydynamic906 2 года назад +5

      @@noehirschi1367 well, imagine my astonishment?! The closest houses are about 40 meters away from where i saw it. It was casually sitting right on the side of the road and looking at us , as we slowly drove by. It was late and we were the only moving car around. The road there is a long straight stretch with a low speed limit, so i noticed it from far away and was wondering why would a person be ducking down there at such hour or any hour for that matter and as we gradually approached , i was rewarded with a very unexpected sighting. What seemed to have a very human silhouette from afar, turned out to be not human at all but humanoid and it did not look 'pretty' or friendly

    • @brooklynzoo2810
      @brooklynzoo2810 2 года назад

      @@entropydynamic906 Did you see its face?.

  • @majorromance-mjr.garrymatt7678
    @majorromance-mjr.garrymatt7678 2 года назад +4

    If you want to see one, there is a video on RUclips where a traveler goes into a private zoo in a backward country in the former U.S.S.R. wherein a barn locked in a steel cage is one of these creatures. This video is short, and you only get one look at it as cameras were not allowed. I have seen several pics of this creature & they have the ability to project light from their eyes that will light up an area about 4 or five feet in front of them. I cannot find any reports of these things causing harm to humans, but they will give chase to anyone too close to them. I have found that these creatures have been seen in several different places, like old mines, buildings, storm drains, tunnels, and wooded areas. When I was in the military I was briefed on several different beings and creatures, but this is a new one. Just what they are or where they may have come from is unknown. If anyone has more information, please contact me. "Thank You"

  • @wintershock
    @wintershock 11 месяцев назад +1

    I have a feeling I might’ve encountered one of these things. I used to have a cabin at Candle Lake in northern Saskatchewan. When I was 8, 9ish, I wanted to sleep outside in a tent with my dad. He set up a tent outside and we went in for the night. It was about midnight, I remember because I got scared and ran inside the cabin later on. Anyways, we were about to go to sleep and we heard something walking in the driveway. We assumed it was a deer because they would walk through our yard and graze often. That was until it made a sound. It was a horrifying howl, unlike a wolf, fox, cougar or lynx. Not even like an elk either. It was terrifying. Even my dad was confused. When we were sure whatever it was left, I ran back into the cabin, where my mom was waiting for me. She too heard the sound and wanted to see what it was but it left before she could.
    If anyone else who has been or is currently at Candle Lake has heard that foreign howl, please let me know. I really wish I could go back up there and try to search for that thing but given how big the area is it will be hard. Also, for anyone wondering, this was near the south end of the airport.

  • @Head318Hunter
    @Head318Hunter 2 года назад +2

    BEST DOC ON YT

  • @Nova_Scotia_Adventurer
    @Nova_Scotia_Adventurer 3 года назад +34

    Trolls,goblins,ghouls all came from something real , probably other species of man.

    • @kathleenanderson5769
      @kathleenanderson5769 2 года назад +1

      You are on the right kind of thinking. The Secret Book of Enoch or The secrets of the Book of Enoch (same Book of Antiquity but 2 different titles from the 2 different translations) holds the keys to these mysteries. I found a lot of answers also in The Kolbrin bible, which is a Celtic book. These 2 books seem to back each other up, whereas the Christian bible has only vague references to these secrets and mysteries. Bottom line is that the angels from heaven called the watchers, married the women of earth (200 in all), and those angels then revealed to their wives how to use magic (witchcraft incantations and the mixing of herbage/botanicals to create giants out of the children, (which were half angels and half human). There was a 3 tiered descendancy of these giants from the biggest (titans were the first generation to the shortest of the 3 generations of giants). When these giants died their spirits left their bodies and became demons. Down through history those demons had the ability to enter into biological, mineral and vegetable matter and create new bodies for themselves, goblins etc. Or else reconfigure into monsters, ghouls etc. During the time of King Nimrods reign he had the knowledge to cross humans with animals, and thus many creatures evolved during that period, eg pan (half human half fawn), the Centaur, the Sasquatch, the dog an etc. Canada, especially Alberta has had a spate of sightings and video evidence concerning the human like crawlers and even a few sightings of centaurs. People mistake the centaur for a Bigfoot, and have reposted the original video labelled as a Bigfoot. Check out the following if you are interested
      Pinterest - Gersia Sanchez Jaime - her board called gigantes.
      RUclips - Mudfossil University channel

    • @waytoomuchtimeonmyhands
      @waytoomuchtimeonmyhands 2 года назад

      How do you know that? Do you think ancient peoples didn't have imaginations? Are all the characters in Star Wars based on other species of man?

    • @loweni7460
      @loweni7460 2 года назад

      You got 1 detail wrong the giants were birthed from the women who had sex with fallen angels they didn't use witchcraft to make them

    • @SkarsnikofdaCrookedMoon0013
      @SkarsnikofdaCrookedMoon0013 2 года назад

      @@kathleenanderson5769 I recently heard about a village in Chihuaha,Mexico,called "El Sueco" or "La sueca"(can't remember) that witness centaurs with regularity! They call them "Sagitarios" or "Hombres caballo(Man-Horses) and their last sighting was the last year.

    • @kathleenanderson5769
      @kathleenanderson5769 2 года назад

      @@waytoomuchtimeonmyhands I have spent decades researching and reading books that are of antiquity writing concerning the anti diluvian and Sumerian eras, as well as other histories. (but in revised editions etc). Those books and many other historical writings are all over the internet these days if you just spend time searching. The Secret Book of Enoch was secreted away for 2000 years approx, but was re-discovered in the late 19th/early 20th century. The manuscript was translated into english and other languages from two versions (almost identical) One Ethiopic and the other Slovenian. By the way the Dead Sea scrolls found in the 1950’s in a cave in the Middle East contains fragments of The Secret Book of Enoch. But linguists did not know that until decades later when it was finally translated. So the Secret Book of Enoch has been proven to be real, not just something made up. There is also a lot of photographic evidence coming to light that the Smithsonian Institute has covered up, like the skeletal remains and fossils of giants and human/creature hybrids. And our education systems worldwide for 2 centuries have also kept this kind of information from the general public. But now it’s all out there. In my opinion (which is just that) the Star Wars characters are based on the cultural gods of Hinduism and Buddhism. There are “god energies” symbolised in both religions that are a common theme. Like the Skywalkers (think Luke Skywalker). The “god energies” are male or female. It’s where the term and concept “event horizon” comes from. Also the varying “species of man” is based on some of those ancient human/creature/alien blends which were around back in the anti diluvian and post diluvian eras. But the NWO (today’s world leaders) have been putting “black budgets” together to breed these strange human/creature/alien species, so in a sense bringing Star Wars to life. The Hadron Collider is part of the “scientific” system to manifest a “Star Wars” era. There have been whistleblower scientists who have photographed things and told stories of supernatural things going on inside CERN Hadron Collider. It opens stargates into other dimensions (think Harry Potter port keys and time/dimension travel.

  • @mohawksteel2215
    @mohawksteel2215 3 года назад +12

    probably just a poor animal who has mainge and half starved .Poor thing.

    • @Scp716creativecommons
      @Scp716creativecommons 3 года назад +5

      Probably but, I've seen enough weird that when I come to these videos, I always think maybe not.

    • @Head318Hunter
      @Head318Hunter 3 года назад +1

      Haha that's cute, but... NO

  • @muskyelondragon
    @muskyelondragon 3 года назад +27

    The Rake is real, I have seen it in my yard. It's hell on leaves. It drags them around the yard and piles them up.

  • @girthbrooks39
    @girthbrooks39 9 месяцев назад +3

    To be fair, aside from being a pale, lanky humanoid that oftentimes walks on all fours, there are stark differences that differentiate the creatures described in the majority of sightings and the supposed progenitor from the creepy pasta..... Almost always absent from sightings are the 3 green eyes and no noticeable mouth feature which are pretty big hallmarks of the made up creation just to be regularly omitted yet confidently claimed to be creatures one and the same.

  • @natashat2702
    @natashat2702 3 года назад +13

    I swear i saw a big foot type looking thing in southern ontario

    • @whitefordpipeshandmadebymi7238
      @whitefordpipeshandmadebymi7238 3 года назад +3

      I believe you because i seen one here in Welland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 it crossed Chippawa creek then when I actually seen it it was shaking the chain link fence that surrounds a hydro electric transformer station it was probably 10 feet tall i was down there trying to take pictures of the new LED lights that were installed on restored bridge 13 absolutely blew my mind! I believe it was actually trying to scare me off! And it did because I didn’t even try to photograph it

    • @mcgheestrees5030
      @mcgheestrees5030 3 года назад +3

      I believe you, we have them east of port perry, Ontario. Kawartha lakes.

    • @natashat2702
      @natashat2702 3 года назад +4

      @@mcgheestrees5030 okay im not alone. I tell ppl. Their first respsonce is. What were u smoking. The weird thing. Its a forest around residential. It was huge. Brown walking up right. First i thought it was s bear. Then logic kicked in. Bears dont walk up right for long distances. Thank for ur stories guys

    • @mcgheestrees5030
      @mcgheestrees5030 3 года назад +2

      @@natashat2702I used too think of them as beasts. But now I think they are interdimensional and are able to slip in and out of our vision or dimension. Which sounds totally insane too say. But they can appear out of think air at will so its gotta be something science based. They are people sometimes kind sometimes horrible. I have the second kind. It's like a trickster. Tries to scare us. Not sure if serious or kidding either way terrifying

    • @peterf1029
      @peterf1029 3 года назад

      @@mcgheestrees5030 where exactly

  • @TupDigital
    @TupDigital 3 года назад +3

    Woah....quite a story by Missy!! And that final one...window smudges don't dart a visible 6 ft behind trees on a camera verifiably stable enough by referencing the windshield and trees/moose in frame.

    • @Missy-Leigh
      @Missy-Leigh 2 года назад +2

      I’ve stabilized that video. I’ll upload about it soon. Stay tuned. ❤️

  • @shanaguilar8352
    @shanaguilar8352 2 года назад

    Interesting!👍

  • @mernaloy2269
    @mernaloy2269 5 месяцев назад

    I love the fireplace picture !

  • @rinkybooboo1155
    @rinkybooboo1155 2 месяца назад +1

    I worked with Don Herbert well over 25 yrs in the mine . He is one of the most down to earth and honest person I know. He used to go to the deep woods stayed overnight by himself and has no fear or any strange feeling over him . But after the encounter with the unknown creature , he has the strange feeling n fear of the woods speak a lot of the encounter had changed him.

  • @SilverDreamweaver
    @SilverDreamweaver 2 года назад +4

    Their behavior is always either curious or defensive. Their hostility is because they're afraid of contact with us. That's why they're seen as hostile half the time. The other times they're seen as curious. Curious about us, about our society, about our civilization. They are seen looking into our houses and observing us, and then shyly running away once they're spotted. They're not evil. They just look creepy. But I'm not convinced they're malevolent at all. They just seem to be another creature as curious as we are of say, bigfoot. And their curious/shy/hostile behavior is the exact same behavior humans exhibit in similar situations.

    • @gallick0060
      @gallick0060 10 месяцев назад

      Have you had encounters? Ive had an encounter with one at some woods near my childhood house a few times, both times it just seemed to be watching me from a distance. Nonetheless i sprinted off because it was terrifying

  • @MAGIKMARTIAN9526
    @MAGIKMARTIAN9526 3 года назад +3

    I saw a video of man was trying to see what was walking through the woods towards him and as it came into view it looked just like that and it chased him and it did not look photoshopped and the guy sounded genuinely terrified

  • @lightways5685
    @lightways5685 4 месяца назад +1

    I was not sold on the rake unril one of my ex's and her boyfriend saw one. They had no idea what it was they had seen when she related the story to me, but after listening to their story and description , I showed them a couple of Pics and videos from the internet. You could see the uneasyness on their faces as they both confimed that this was the creature that they encountered.
    Location : Voyageur Provincial Park, Ontario

  • @NeuJynXproductions
    @NeuJynXproductions 2 года назад +1

    Imagine riding on a motorcycle with it running next to you

  • @Wendigo_Rye
    @Wendigo_Rye Год назад +2

    I remember my dad freaked out while driving, me and my brother were dozing off it was 1am, we were deep in Oregon woods. He said a drunk bald man ran quickly like a bear across the highway. I have no idea if he was making it up at the time but his reaction seemed genuine and now I kinda believe him, that he saw one of these things.
    Edit: I say kinda because he did admit he was just trying to scare us but maybe he didn’t want us scared?

    • @RuinedTemple
      @RuinedTemple Год назад

      Seems kinda weird that he'd wake you guys up that late just to mess with you like that, or is that something he'd do?

    • @anthonyfalcon2113
      @anthonyfalcon2113 Год назад

      I swear to god the same shit happend to me. I'm so glad you posted it and now I'm starting to understand. You are like the 2nd or more person to say this and it's making me think more about my experience. I accelerated up to 75 and this creature crawl ran straight into the road and was heading dead in front of my car, it was 2 steps from being in front and I literally just hit 75. I braced and nothing happened, as I braced though I recalled it didn't stop and it somehow got in front and when I looked in the mirror after I thought I was going to hit it. It was disappearing across the sidewalk and was basically almost gone. It was so quick it was like damn near impossible. I thought I saw a ghost and I'm starting to think they are supernatural and may be trying to get in front of people to cause trouble. This girl said in another comment that her and her boyfriend had to swerve to avoid one that jumped out right in front of her. Pretty much the same shit that happened to me also happened to your father. Shit is crazy.

  • @midnightsentry84
    @midnightsentry84 2 года назад +4

    i alays carried a machete with me and in my mind I thought even if you kill me I'm going to make you pay. luckily nothing ever tried to come too close

  • @shithorse3781
    @shithorse3781 2 года назад

    good stories easy to listen to sound realistic thanks

  • @BT-fg1is
    @BT-fg1is 3 года назад +21

    Wow thanks for the video. Damn America has got more than it's fair share of cryptids for sure, I love reading the comments on serious and thoughtful videos like this because it's almost like a green light for people to come out with their experiences, and they fascinate me too. There's so much lurking on this planet with us that we just don't know about.

    • @strangerdanger187
      @strangerdanger187 2 года назад

      You may like Mrballen channel, great story teller, with quite a selection to choose from

    • @BT-fg1is
      @BT-fg1is 2 года назад +1

      @@strangerdanger187 I've been following Mr Ballen for a while. When I saw the like button hitchhiking I pulled over then drove off when he reached for the car door handle.

    • @jackalope2302
      @jackalope2302 2 года назад +2

      Check out Beyond Creepy. He's got all manner of Cryptid, UFO, Ghost and other paranormal tales

    • @BT-fg1is
      @BT-fg1is 2 года назад +1

      @@jackalope2302 I just subscribed, cheers