The Fresno Nightcrawlers

Fresno Nightcrawlers

While there have been claims that they are a part of Native American folklore in the region, this has been debunked.

The first sighting of a Fresno nightcrawler happened in Fresno, California, by a man named Jose. After being woken up by his barking dogs, Jose observed the Nightcrawlers on his front lawn through CCTV. He woke up his brother to rewatch the footage. After, his brother claimed to have seen small footprints outside, but by the time investigators made it to the site, all evidence was washed away. After the initial sighting, the original CCTV footage was lost. The only remaining footage is a grainy video recorded from a monitor.

Jose had a surveillance camera watching his front lawn and looked at the camera when he heard a dog barking.

In March of 2011, Yosemite National Park officials were putting up cameras in an attempt to catch trespassers that had been damaging the property. Instead, what they caught was some rather unusual footage. The security cameras again captured images of pale, small, and armless creatures, just walking down one of the park paths. 

Again, once the media got ahold of the footage, the Fresno Nightcrawlers were on everyone's lips once more. The creatures appeared to be the same as the ones that had shown up on the Fresno film, and they appeared to walk and behave in the same way. 

There were a handful of alleged sightings, but neither Yosemite nor Fresno had them show up on any more security footage.

Another tidbit about Nightcrawlers is that they do not travel alone. Most times when there are cryptid sightings, they are of lone creatures; just a single Bigfoot running through the woods, or a strange alien coming into your bedroom, for example. Instead, the Nightcrawlers specifically seemed to travel in twos.

One is generally smaller than the other, which could suggest that one is a child, that one is of a different sex than the other, or perhaps that one is simply dominant over the other. While we may never know, the fact that they come in twos is something that has been observed numerous times.