Other / Unknown · 2016
XX-2016ID case-e1bac74433First-hand accountAdded to map Nov 7, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- 2016to the year
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator and their roommate observed a hunched creature with long limbs crawling on all fours inside a dark tunnel in the woods.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Other / Unknown reports with no place (800) - When
- 2016
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-e1bac74433
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- My encounter with what I believe to be a Crawler
Reddit · 2022-04-01
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.