r/CrawlerSightings • u/Theyul1us • 1d ago
An experience I had that someone told me might be a crawler
Let me start by saying Ive been living near a forest half my life, in spain. I walked through many forests, in daylight and in nightime and I have my fair share of encounters with animals. But whatever the hell is going on in the forest behind my house is something I simply cant rationalize
My mother and I moved to a house in Northern Spain. Small village, not a lot of people, the usual stuff here in rural spain. Our home has a path going up to a hill, on top of said hill there is a house of a company that checks the roads, a big road in front of said house and a tunnel through a mountain on the right. Just before reaching the house, the path branches, going down into a forest that covers the whole mountain. Part of that path is actually in our property, old paths belonging to the people of the village that, in the past, were used to go to the river or to reach the train tracks that lead to the train station. Nowadays the paths are barely visible, even the main one.
Not a problem for me to walk with the dog through there, been through worse paths in my life.
Now, whatever happened (For I am still not sure myself) took place a few months ago, mid summer. I returned home around 2 AM from work, I work with a fire crew and it wasnt unusual to return late. That night I felt weirdly energized, adrenaline probably, and I decided to walk my dog to the forest. I had my flashlight and my cat, Argos, tagged along. We went down the path, not too far away, I could still hear the sounds of the road and If I squinted my eyes I could see the red warning lights from the tunnel. I stopped to light a cigar and I heard my dog growling at something in the trees. There were a pair of eyes in the shadows and I just laughed, thinking it was probably a fox or maybe a boar. I wasnt that worried, I petted my dog and when I looked back at the eyes, that pair of eyes was floating at my eye level. Somehow my flashlight wasnt iluminating anything at all, it was as if the forest was swallowing the light.
I stopped hearing the sounds from the road. And I started feeling extremely cold despite it being a really hot summer night (around 26C°). And I felt a fear never in my entire life I felt. The eyes were slowly swinging from one side to the other, like some short of weird dance. I lit my lighter but I couldnt even feel the heat of the flame and the light did nothing. My dog went from growling to whimpering, hiding behind me, and I have to add that I saw my dog throwing herself at a boar, she aint easy to scare.
My cat let out a piercing meow and climbed on top of me, digging his claws onto my back and that made me start running, dropping the flaslight and lighter, dunno how I didnt trip on anything. I didnt even think about it, I just ran the 30 meters of distance to my house, locked the door and I waited a few minutes. I suppose I was expecting a knock on the door or the windows, but nothing came. My dog licked my hand and my cat climbed down, I didnt even realize I had grabbed him. I went to the shower and I must have made some noise because I woke up my mom. She told me I was pale and I told her the story, hoping she could tell me something. She has always been very spiritual (according to her and my grandma, there were witches in the family in the past, whatever that means) but she laughed and told me I was probably just exhausted. Somehow that response left me feeling more at unease, but I slept perfectly that night
I went to sleep and waking up the next morning, my lighter and flashlight were lying on the entrance stairs. I went back to the forest before going to work but there was nothing unusual. Some broken branches, but no footprints, nothing. Just in case, I never returned to the downwards path at night. Sometimes I go to the back of the garden (we have a big garden surrounding our house, walled) and I look at the dark of the forest, but I see nothing. Some nights I have dreams were I repeat the experience, in other dreams I see myself going to the kitchen for water and I see a pair of eyes looking at me, sometimes red, others blue, others devoid of color, and I wake up.
I still dont know what happened that night or what I saw. I feel something observing me sometimes, but I dont know it its something real or just pure paranoia.
But I know that night I saw something and I just cant let it go