In 2011, shocking private security footage from a premises in Fresno, California was released of an odd, somewhat disturbing-looking white creature walking across a lawn. It appears to be white with long, billowing legs, no arms or torso, and a head sitting atop... well... its legs. Check out the footage below.
Not long after, security cameras inside Yosemite National Park caught not one but two of these unseen-before beings which have been named (by who, I'm not sure) The Nightcrawlers. Though seemingly minding their own business, without a clear explanation of what these beings actually are and where they think they're going, the footage is unsettling.
The one closest to the camera looks like it could in fact be a hoax; a human dressed in white, but the legs of the being in Fresno and the one in the background wandering through Yosemite simply seem too long. And there is no torso, either.
As it should, skeptism, speculation and calls of hoaxes have swirled around the internet, with theories ranging from puppetry to green screen work with the upper half of a human's body deleted in post production, but not even the cast and crew of Syfy's Fact or Fiction: Paranormal Files could adequately debunk the footage when they tried in 2010. Further, according to Fact or Fiction: Paranormal Files team leader Ben Hansen, the Fresno footage wasn't doctored. He says: "the video was not filmed on VHS [as had been previously reported]. It was captured on his DVR. Many DVR systems (usually Chinese) have a very proprietary software program which makes it very difficult to download or export from the machine. He filmed the video from the monitor because he couldn't export it and he was worried it would be deleted.
"The first video filmed in the yard in Fresno would be very difficult to fake as CGI. The home owner would have had to be in on it and he's an unlikely hoaxer. No obvious motive, didn't want the attention, he's not tech savvy to our knowledge, and anyone hoaxing him would have had to upload a CGI video onto his DVR system. Also very unlikely."
As it should, skeptism, speculation and calls of hoaxes have swirled around the internet, with theories ranging from puppetry to green screen work with the upper half of a human's body deleted in post production, but not even the cast and crew of Syfy's Fact or Fiction: Paranormal Files could adequately debunk the footage when they tried in 2010. Further, according to Fact or Fiction: Paranormal Files team leader Ben Hansen, the Fresno footage wasn't doctored. He says: "the video was not filmed on VHS [as had been previously reported]. It was captured on his DVR. Many DVR systems (usually Chinese) have a very proprietary software program which makes it very difficult to download or export from the machine. He filmed the video from the monitor because he couldn't export it and he was worried it would be deleted.
"The first video filmed in the yard in Fresno would be very difficult to fake as CGI. The home owner would have had to be in on it and he's an unlikely hoaxer. No obvious motive, didn't want the attention, he's not tech savvy to our knowledge, and anyone hoaxing him would have had to upload a CGI video onto his DVR system. Also very unlikely."
BUT THERE'S MORE
Photographs of weathered statues of these familiar-looking beings surfaced shortly after the videos. The pictures show statues, carved from wood, that closely resemble the Nightcrawlers. As David Weatherley of Two Crows Paranormal Blog states, nothing involving this case is simple, and the photos' subjects nor origins have been validated.
The pictures supposedly surfaced from a source in Florida who claimed they were merely passed on to him by a woman in New Jersey. Rumour has it that the creatures are related to Native American legends and have been living in the area since before human beings. But surely, with many an internet forum fascinated with the Nightcrawlers, there would be more information on the legend, and the location of these statues would have been revealed. Instead, paranormal enthusiasts continue the search for these statues to this day, with common understanding being that they are somewhere near a DMV office in California, but no one knows for sure.
What do you think of the footage of the "Nightcrawlers"? What do you think they are? All that's known for sure is that it is still a mystery.
The pictures supposedly surfaced from a source in Florida who claimed they were merely passed on to him by a woman in New Jersey. Rumour has it that the creatures are related to Native American legends and have been living in the area since before human beings. But surely, with many an internet forum fascinated with the Nightcrawlers, there would be more information on the legend, and the location of these statues would have been revealed. Instead, paranormal enthusiasts continue the search for these statues to this day, with common understanding being that they are somewhere near a DMV office in California, but no one knows for sure.
What do you think of the footage of the "Nightcrawlers"? What do you think they are? All that's known for sure is that it is still a mystery.
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