Episode 422: Fresno Nightcrawlers: Alien Break Dance Battle?
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On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we delve into the paranormal and look at a creature that some say is an alien and other say is a cryptid—the Fresno Nightcrawler. Now, Fresno is only about an hour and a half from the Fight Club Studios, so we were instantly interested in a creature that hails from our backyard. In this case, the creature is a strange one, or a strange two since they seem to travel as a couple. Unlike most cryptids, there is video footage of them (see the notes below). They look like a pair of lanky, strange legs with knees that don’t bend quite right. Oh, and it has no real torso or head, just a bit of a lump above the flowing, blowsy legs.
The first encounter with them that was filmed was on a security camera in the backyard of a man named Jose (he keeps his last name out of it to avoid all the nonsense). In November of 2007, he heard his dogs barking in an odd, threatened way at 12:45 AM. He went to check the video camera in case it was another break in, and he saw the Fresno Nighcrawlers. They shambled and flowed across his front yard and through is wrought iron gate, on and then another.
The next day, he called the police, and they obviously had no jurisdiction on alien pants creatures. They suggested the media, and he called the local Univision station. They filmed a video of his video and sent it to MUFON for investigation. MUFON sent a man named Camacho out to investigate, and after several months, he finally interviewee Jose and took the footage to a MUFON conference. That was when the video went viral.
After that, another video appeared, allegedly shot north of Fresno in Yosemite. But even before all this, there was an encounter of something called the Caramel Creature, a strange being with a similar description in Indiana, an alleged ancient Yokuts Indian myth, and even a video from Poland.
People try to debunk these videos. Hard. And some succeed more than others. What do the guys think of these videos? Why do they think one might be more legit than the others? How tall are these Fresno Nightcralwers, and how did they fit between an iron fence? Why was Jose so scared that he didn’t even leave his house for three weeks after the encounter? Where are the creepy wooden statues that are said to depict these creatures? Are they aliens, cryptids, beings from the spirit realm? Listen, laugh, learn.
Visit Our Sources:
First Video of Nighcrawler: https://youtu.be/fMv85lRAmuk
Second Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziB35K9shuI
Polish Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLcDscJoOfQ
MUFON Video with Jose: https://youtu.be/a_cjmy_ehiI
Break Down of Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvIPNYTzGuA
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Fresno_Nightcrawler
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Carmel_Area_Creature
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article219755195.html
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/fresno-nightcrawlers
https://www.ranker.com/list/fresno-nightcrawler-facts/laura-allan
https://www.gaia.com/article/the-fresno-nightcrawler-an-armless-faceless-two-legged-cryptid