Dec. 4, 2025

The Fresno Nightcrawlers: Walking Spirits or Alien Scouts?

The Fresno Nightcrawlers: Walking Spirits or Alien Scouts?

In this episode of Broadcasting Seeds, host Bennett Tanton delves into the phenomenon of the Fresno Night Crawlers, exploring their origins, cultural significance, and the various theories surrounding their existence. From the initial security footage that sparked curiosity to the implications of surveillance culture and the nature of belief, the conversation navigates through the realms of cryptids, folklore, and the unknown. Tanton encourages listeners to reflect on the mysteries that persist in a world dominated by technology and skepticism, ultimately inviting them to remain curious and open to the strange.



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You're sitting on your couch late at night. The house

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is quiet, the kind of quiet where the fridge sounds

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too loud, and every creek in the floorboards makes you

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glance up. You flip through the flip through your phone,

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end up on some grany old security footage from two

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thousand and seven. And that's when you see it. Not

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a shadow person, not a gray alien, not a classic

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cloaked demon in the corner. No, you see what looks

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like a pair of white pants casually strolling across some

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guy's front lawn in Fresno, California. Welcome back to broadcasting Seeds.

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I'm your host, Benettantin, and tonight we're talking about one

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of the strangest, most a mimeable and quietly unnerving modern

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out there, the Fresno nightcrawlers. These things should be ridiculous.

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They look like walking pajama bottoms, and they've been called

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just a pair of pants out for a walk. But

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when you strip away the jokes, the stickers, the plushies,

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and the tik toks, what you're left with is this

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a real piece of security footage shot in Fresno in

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twenty two thousand and seven by a man known only

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as Jose, who set up security cameras because his dogs

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kept going crazy at night. Now a second eerily similar

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clip from Yosemite National Park in twenty eleven, where two

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long legged white figures, one tall and one shorter, glide

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across the trail as if gravity works differently for them.

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A wave of attempts to debunk the footage, using puppets, costumes,

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and CGI, with no one fully nailing it. Even the

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sci fi show fact or Faked Paranormal Files tried to

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recreate the original scene and ultimately labeled it unexplainable. That's

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the surface level Internet story. But this is a broadcasting seeds.

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But this is broadcasting seeds. So we're going to dig

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a lot deeper than Reddit threads and reaction videos because

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here's the real question I want you to sit with tonight.

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What if Fresno Nightcrawlers aren't just ENCRYPTID but a message.

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What if they're boundary walkers, beings designed to slip right

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through the cracks between categories. Not quite ghost, not quite alien,

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not quite demon, not quite a hoax, just enough of

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each to keep everyone arguing in circles while they keep

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quietly showing up on our screens. On this episode, we're

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going to explore three angles. The tapes in the town

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will walk through the original Fresno footage, the Yosemite clip,

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and how a single grainy video turned into a full

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blown local legend that Fresno has embraced as part of

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its identity. Spirits of the ground or visitors from elsewhere

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will pull apart the theories ancient land spirits, alien scouts,

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interdimensional recon units, or something more like a modern digital

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tulpa that feeds off belief why walking pants matter in

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a watching world. We'll talk about what these beings real

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or not say about us, our surveillance culture, our spiritual numbness,

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and why the weird is breaking back into the mainstream

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at the exact same moment our institutions are losing credibility

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because whether the Fresno Nightcrawlers are actual entities or a

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clever hoax that took on a life of its own,

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they're a mirror. They tell us something about the age

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we're living in, the age where cameras are everywhere, trust

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is nowhere, and the truly strained seem to be seeping

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back into daily life. So if you're into cryptids, conspiracies,

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paranormal high strangeness, and the spiritual war humming under the

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skin of normal life, you're in the right place. Before

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we dive into segment one, do me a solid like

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the tapes and the town. Let's set the scene. Fresno, California,

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two thousand and seven. A quiet neighborhood where the weirdest

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thing you usually see is a loose shopping cart rolling

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down the street. A man known only publicly as Jose

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is dealing with the problem most homeowners never think about.

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Something is setting off his dogs late at night. They bark,

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they growl, They act like predators are stalking the yard.

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So Jose does what any rational person in two thousand

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and seven would do. He installs a low end security

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camera to catch the raccoon or the stray cat, or

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board teenager messing with his property. Only it wasn't any

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of those things. Instead, the tape revealed two pale, spindly

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figures moving like a slow fluid glide across the lawn.

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They don't hop, they don't stride, they just slide. Their

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bodies seem to define normal anatomy, mostly legs thin, with

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a tiny head perched on top, no of arms visible.

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They look like children wearing baggy white pants, except their

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proportions are all wrong. The knees bend like marionettes, and

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despite being filmed on a cheap camera, they somehow feel

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more real than the CGI creatures and movies. That original

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footage made its way into the hands of local Univision affiliate,

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where a journalist Angela s ran the story. From there,

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the internet just took over coast to coast. Yan picked

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it up. Paranormal circles explode, exploded with curiosity, and suddenly

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Fresno had aencrypted. This is where things shifted from that's

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weird to okay. Now we need answers because the more

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people tried to debunk the footage, the stranger it got.

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Some said puppets, some said kids in costumes, some said CGI.

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But here's the heart. Those theories never quite nail. Why

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would someone go through the effort of faking something so absurd.

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If you want attention, you fabricate a bigfoot or a

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UFO landing a classic demon shadow in the corner. You

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fake something people already put walking pants. That's not shock value,

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that's it's just uncanny. It bypasses logic and hits that

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uncomfortable place, and the human brain reserved for nightmares where

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the rules of physics politely excuse themselves. Then came twenty eleven.

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In Yosemite National Park rangers install cameras to prevent vandalism.

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They expect to catch teenagers sneaking around, but instead they

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capture two figures tall, one in front, short one behind,

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strolling through the trees like they're out for a casual

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midnight hike. Same shape, same glide, same bizarre design blueprint.

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Now we have a second sighting government property with no

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clear motive to fool anyone that changes the calculus. Around

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the same time, the Sci Fi channel Factor Fiction Paranormal

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Files team attempts to reproduce the Fresno video. They try puppets,

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they try practically effects, they even try they try every

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trick in their playbook and finally conclude the original footage

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is unexplainable. And when that show, famous for debunking frankly

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everything throws up its hands, people take notice, and the

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local community did something unexpected. Fresno embraced the night Crawlers.

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Today you'll find Fresno Nightcrawler stickers, plush toys, street art,

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even a cryptid statue. Tourists actually ask where the creatures

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are from. The Fresno Chamber of Commerce has leaned into

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the legend. It's become part of the city's identity. Not

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they're not monsters but mythical mascots. The question is why here,

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Why Fresno, a place better known for agriculture than aliens.

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Some believe it's coincidence. Others whisper that California's native land

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spirits still walk where the soil remembers them. Still others

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think these things are not from here at all, because

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if you strip away the pop culture fluff and just

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stare at their strange motion, they're impossible anatomy. They don't

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look like anything that evolved on Earth. But that's what

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we're going to dig into next section two. Spirits of

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the ground or visitors from elsewhere, So we could actually

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explain those bizarre beings if they're not just costumes or

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cgi or hallucinations. There are a handful of theories floating

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out there, each with its own flavor strange, so let's

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walk through them. Number one ghostly or spiritual entities, the

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forgotten Walkers. One line of thinking among paranormal and folkloric

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theorists holds that the Fresno Nightcrawlers might not be encryptid

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in the usual biological sense, but something more ethereal. At ethereal,

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a spirit or interdimensional entity that crosses into our reality

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under particular conditions. The nightcrawler's form, long, pale legs with

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almost no visible torso or arms, has been described by

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believers as ghostly or otherworldly. Their movement is often described

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as a smooth glide, almost weightless. That kind of motion,

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paired with the creature's appearance, leans more apparition than animal.

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For some, this suggests the nightcrawlers could be ancient watchers,

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permutations of the land's spiritual guardians, or entities quietly tied

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to places humans long ago forgot how to honor. According

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to online folklore interpretations, some people believe the nightcrawlers resemble

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symbolic figures in Native American petroglyphs, though this is a

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deep contested and not supported by reliable documentation. But and

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this is key. Credible researchers have pointed out that claims

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linking nightcrawlers to claims linking nightcrawlers to Native American lore

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are unsubstantiated. In fact, mainstream summaries of the Nightcrawler's case

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note that attempted folklork linkage have been debunked. That doesn't

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stop the theory from resonating emotionally. The idea of spiritual watchers,

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silent guardians of the land and memory, appeals to something primal,

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a belief that the earth itself isn't empty, that beneath

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asphalt and suburbia, they are still watchers, still witnesses, still

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echoes of what was before. If the nightcrawlers are spiritual,

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maybe they're leftovers of those echoes, not trying to hide,

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just water walking where the world once echoed with another rhythm.

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Second theory alien scouts, extraterrestrial observers. Another popular interpretation among

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UFO and exotic cryptic communities is that nightcrawlers are not

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of this earth. They are scouts, perhaps biomechanical drones, alien

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life forms, or interdimensional probes sent to monitor humanity quietly

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without triggered mass panic or immediate threat. Here's why this

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theory keeps resurfacing. Their proportions aren't like anything terrestrial, long,

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thin legs, tiny or minimal upper structure. It looks more

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like biomechanical design than biology. The lack of aggression they

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got no clause, no growls, suggests these figures aren't predators. Instead,

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they're calumn silent present evokes observation, not invasion. Their appearance

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is more than in more than one location, from Fresno

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suburbs to remote parkland like Yosemite National Park could indicate

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roaming behavior rather than a fixed home. If true, the

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night crawlers might be akin to silent watchers, quietly cataloging, surveilling,

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maybe gathering data, waiting for something beyond our comprehension. This

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theory taps into one of the core themes of broadcasting seeds,

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the idea that the unknown isn't always loud, dramatic, or cinematic.

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Sometimes it's subtle, quiet, gliding across the edge of the

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camera frame while the world sleeps. Three The skeptical case hoax, misidentification,

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or something similar. Of course, some of the most logical

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explanations are often the hardest for believers to swallow, but

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they deserve a fair hearing. Skeptics offer a few options.

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Maybe the night crawlers are puppets or costumes. After all,

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odd footage can be manipulated. People have recreated walking pants

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with puppetry or video editing, and some analysts argue the blurry,

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low resonnature of the original footage makes definitive proof impossible.

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Others suggest misidentified wildlife, such as a deer on its

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hind legs, captured at an odd angle under infrared light,

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might create illusions. A deer and low light can appear

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even stranger and more alien than it really is. Lastly,

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memory expectation and the power of suggestion. Once a story

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gets out there, people start expecting to see pants walking.

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Our brains lean towards interpreting ambiguous shapes as the nightcrawler.

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It's the same psychological phenomenon behind many paranormal or cryptid sightings.

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Under this lens, the nightcrawler becomes less a being and

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more a cultural artifact, a meme turned myth, an urban

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legend dressed up in laundry at number four. Why the

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debate matters the spiritual and societal impact. Why does all

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the speculation matter, Because what the Nightcrawlers represent, whether real, spiritual, alien,

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or hoaxed, reflects something deeper about our era. In the

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time when cameras blanket nearly every corner of our lives,

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even a twenty second clip can birth a myth. In

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a spiritual age often dominated by cynicism and noise, entities

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like Nightcrawlers whisper subtle reminders that maybe there is more

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out there than what our science textbooks tell us. For communities,

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legends become identity. The night crawler has become part of

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Fresno folklore, I mean, merchandise, murals, art. It became a

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symbol of the strange, the unexplained, and the uncanny, And

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for individuals that's an invitation to wonder, to question, to

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keep eyes open. Maybe the paranormal isn't always loud and terrifying.

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Maybe sometimes it just slides softly across your front lawn

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in the middle of the night, and that soft glide

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might carry more weight than a screen. When you line

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up all three theories, Spiritual Walker alien, observer or hoax.

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None fit perfectly. None explain everything, but that tension, that uncertainty.

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That's exactly where real mysteries live. As believers, skeptics, or

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just curious wanderers, sometimes we're not looking for answers. Sometimes

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we're just listening. Section three. When the strange becomes the signal,

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there's a quiet shift happening in our world, and the

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Fresno night crawlers are a perfect symbol of it. For

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most of history, the supernatural lived in the dark. If

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something weird happened, it happened where no one was watching.

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The woods on the desert, those lonely backgroads. You swear

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you'll never drive alone at night again. But today we

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are always watching. You got security cameras and smartphones, dash cams,

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doorbell cams that ping our phones when a raccoon sneeze

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is too close to the driveway. We record everything now,

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and as soon as the world stepped into this age

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of constant observation, something unusual followed. The strange stopped hiding,

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and instead of a terrifying cryptid lunging from the darkness,

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we got a pair of white legs casually strolling across

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the lawn caught not by a storyteller or a lone hiker,

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but by a cheap camera with a bad frame rate. Silent, calm,

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almost playful. What does that tell us the number one?

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The threshold is changing. High strangeness no longer needs remote

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forests or sacred mountains. It walks suburban streets, It wanders

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national parks. It climbs right into the digital world without permission.

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The line between the unseen and the recorded is constantly dissolving.

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If disclosure is a real thing, whether supernatural or extraterrestrial,

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maybe it doesn't begin with a mothership hovering over the

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White House. Maybe it starts with a living question mark

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showing on your ring dam number two. The more we see,

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the less we understand. We thought technology would destroy superstition.

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Instead it gave the unknown a freaking spotlight. People used

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to say, I'll believe it when I see it. Now

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we see it and we still don't know what we're seeing.

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That doesn't even start to begin with AI. Nightcrawlers feel

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specifically engineered to break the brain. They don't fit biology,

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they don't fit myth, they don't fit machinery. They are

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a damn blitch that keeps reappearing, a new kind of

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cryptid for a new world. Bigfoot is muscle and menace.

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The chupacabra is creepy and carnivorous. Mothman is a harbinger

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of disaster. But nightcrawlers they're anti predators. They don't chase,

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they don't roar, they don't even acknowledge us. They move

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like explorers, not conquerors. And maybe that's the sage. Not

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everything unknown is dangerous. Some is just freaking unfamiliar. Maybe

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those beings, whatever they are, have a mission that doesn't

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involve us yet. Maybe they're not the threat, just the

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indicator number four. A world is re enchanted. For decades,

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the mainstream narrative was if science can't explain it, it

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doesn't exist. Now science can't explain a lot of what's

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showing up on camera, and instead of dismissing it, younger

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generations are leaning in curious open ready. The Fresno Nightcrawler

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isn't just a meme. It's a symbol of the world

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getting freaking weird again. As trust in government, media and

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institutions collapses, belief in the supernatural is at an all

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time high. I mean, we're looking somewhere anywhere for truth, meaning,

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and wonder, even if that wonder looks like walking pajama pants.

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So whether the Nightcrawlers are spirits of the land returning

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to walk what once was theirs, or alien scouts quietly

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mapping a planet about to change, or simply the universe

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reminding us not to get too comfortable in our certainty,

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one thing is clear. Mystery is alive and well, and

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it is moving quietly across the grass when no one

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thinks to look outro keep watching the grass. That's going

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to wrap up tonight's episode to broadcasting Seeds. But before

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you shut off the lights and double check your security cameras,

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I want you to leave you with this. The Fresno

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Nightcrawlers might be one of the strangest modern mysteries we've

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stumbled across. I mean, it's freaking weird. An't quite funny.

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They're not loud. I mean, they're not violent, they're not

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even interesting. They're not interested in dragging anyone into the woods.

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They just exist, unbothered, unafraid, and uninterested in explaining themselves.

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And in the world where we think we've mapped everything

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and we really don't know anything, where satellites watch oceans,

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and where drones scan forests, where science demands proof before wonder.

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Maybe this simple act of not fitting in to any

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category is its own quiet rebellion. Maybe these beings, real

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or or hoaxed, spiritual or extraterrestrial, are doing what the

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supernatural has always done best, reminding us that we don't

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know shit. We don't know everything, not even close. So

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keep asking questions, keep looking deeper, keep testing the edges

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of the story the world tells you, because sometimes the

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truth doesn't show up with fanfare. Sometimes it just glides

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across the front lawn at two am and waits for

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something someone brave enough to notice. If you enjoyed tonight's

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episode and you want to hear more stories from the

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edges of reality, please take a moment to like the

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That's the fuel that helps the show grow and keeps

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those strange conversations alive. You can find more content, updates

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and deep dives over at broadcasting seeds dot com, and

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if you ever see something unusual show up on your camera.

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My inbox is always open until next time. I'm ben

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a Tanton. And remember some seeds are planted in the daylight,

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others don't sprout until the dark. Stay curious, stay aware,

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and stay ready for whatever walks into the frame next.

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You can point every camera at the.

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Darkness with something still. Choose to walk into the front

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middle of the nice and the street lights hum, security

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camp on and the world feels nung. Something on along

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where the shadows run, tall white legs. The face shows none.

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I didn't like they flowed on for god, ain't ground.

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No sound but the dogs, no pound for pound.

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Every skeptic tries to shut it down at the footage

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blaze back.

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They're still around, starling walkers in the dead of night,

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watching us, watching me in the camera light camera like

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moving like ghosts just passing by. If the scoutstins on

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the other.

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Side, silent waters, keep your eyes on the dras Wow,

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Thomas taking too fast? How they land spirits from forgotten

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Try poor cosmic tourists out here taking vite Maybe in

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that dimension No true prescribe that the weirdest ones always

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break the lies. They ain't be s dain man, They

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ain't machine, but they show up Chris Ball and shaky screens.

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Back to fake Try to hand a vean?

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How the unexplainaball?

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You know what that means? If you sing the choe.

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You ain't looking close.

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Truth tastes food?

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Where the signal girls?

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Sharlen Walker's in the diddle Knight watching us, watching man,

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the camera like.

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Moving like ghosts just passing by. What do they want

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from this basing?

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Why just the pair of legs walking.

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You only see them if you.

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Keep watching, keep wondering, keep listening to what walks between them,