December 4, 2025 • 32 mins
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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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Year Joe, straight from the broadcast studio and then the static.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This ain't no pret sound story.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
So as prophetic encrypt the signals from the shadows of
the party we did where the trot got secret snow parted, microphone.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Alchemists scriptures with a twist, peep the frequency seeds in
the midst we dropped fas like plagues revelations in the catus,
broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveillans wisdom with a
watchman's blade, forth what sound while your whole system fade
blood moons that for love, echoes in the pond sas
far sompen through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream,
(00:37):
We ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code
the dreams. So with you tune in better guards, your
mind is broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design design.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, yeah, yo yo, straight from the broadcast studio.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Static.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You're sitting on your couch late at night. The house
is quiet, the kind of quiet where the fridge sounds
too loud, and every creek in the floorboards makes you
glance up. You flip through the flip through your phone,
end up on some grany old security footage from two
thousand and seven. And that's when you see it. Not
(01:26):
a shadow person, not a gray alien, not a classic
cloaked demon in the corner. No, you see what looks
like a pair of white pants casually strolling across some
guy's front lawn in Fresno, California. Welcome back to broadcasting Seeds.
(01:49):
I'm your host, Benettantin, and tonight we're talking about one
of the strangest, most a mimeable and quietly unnerving modern
out there, the Fresno nightcrawlers. These things should be ridiculous.
They look like walking pajama bottoms, and they've been called
(02:12):
just a pair of pants out for a walk. But
when you strip away the jokes, the stickers, the plushies,
and the tik toks, what you're left with is this
a real piece of security footage shot in Fresno in
twenty two thousand and seven by a man known only
(02:34):
as Jose, who set up security cameras because his dogs
kept going crazy at night. Now a second eerily similar
clip from Yosemite National Park in twenty eleven, where two
long legged white figures, one tall and one shorter, glide
(02:58):
across the trail as if gravity works differently for them.
A wave of attempts to debunk the footage, using puppets, costumes,
and CGI, with no one fully nailing it. Even the
sci fi show fact or Faked Paranormal Files tried to
(03:21):
recreate the original scene and ultimately labeled it unexplainable. That's
the surface level Internet story. But this is a broadcasting seeds.
But this is broadcasting seeds. So we're going to dig
a lot deeper than Reddit threads and reaction videos because
(03:44):
here's the real question I want you to sit with tonight.
What if Fresno Nightcrawlers aren't just ENCRYPTID but a message.
What if they're boundary walkers, beings designed to slip right
through the cracks between categories. Not quite ghost, not quite alien,
(04:06):
not quite demon, not quite a hoax, just enough of
each to keep everyone arguing in circles while they keep
quietly showing up on our screens. On this episode, we're
going to explore three angles. The tapes in the town
will walk through the original Fresno footage, the Yosemite clip,
(04:30):
and how a single grainy video turned into a full
blown local legend that Fresno has embraced as part of
its identity. Spirits of the ground or visitors from elsewhere
will pull apart the theories ancient land spirits, alien scouts,
interdimensional recon units, or something more like a modern digital
(04:56):
tulpa that feeds off belief why walking pants matter in
a watching world. We'll talk about what these beings real
or not say about us, our surveillance culture, our spiritual numbness,
and why the weird is breaking back into the mainstream
(05:18):
at the exact same moment our institutions are losing credibility
because whether the Fresno Nightcrawlers are actual entities or a
clever hoax that took on a life of its own,
they're a mirror. They tell us something about the age
we're living in, the age where cameras are everywhere, trust
(05:42):
is nowhere, and the truly strained seem to be seeping
back into daily life. So if you're into cryptids, conspiracies,
paranormal high strangeness, and the spiritual war humming under the
skin of normal life, you're in the right place. Before
we dive into segment one, do me a solid like
(06:05):
the show. If you're listening on YouTube or podcast app
to let you rate with the thumbs up, Subscribe or
follow so you don't miss future episodes on cryptids cover
ups and the weird spiritual architecture behind the headlines. Share
this episode with one two friends who send you know,
(06:30):
send them at three am, tiktoks of creepy security cam footage.
And if your platform lets you leave a review, that's
the fuel that helps this show grow, reach more people
and keep these conversations alive. All right, grab your coffee,
your Bible, your tenfoil hadder, just your curiosity and one
(07:02):
the tapes and the town. Let's set the scene. Fresno, California,
two thousand and seven. A quiet neighborhood where the weirdest
thing you usually see is a loose shopping cart rolling
down the street. A man known only publicly as Jose
(07:22):
is dealing with the problem most homeowners never think about.
Something is setting off his dogs late at night. They bark,
they growl, They act like predators are stalking the yard.
So Jose does what any rational person in two thousand
and seven would do. He installs a low end security
(07:45):
camera to catch the raccoon or the stray cat, or
board teenager messing with his property. Only it wasn't any
of those things. Instead, the tape revealed two pale, spindly
figures moving like a slow fluid glide across the lawn.
(08:07):
They don't hop, they don't stride, they just slide. Their
bodies seem to define normal anatomy, mostly legs thin, with
a tiny head perched on top, no of arms visible.
They look like children wearing baggy white pants, except their
(08:32):
proportions are all wrong. The knees bend like marionettes, and
despite being filmed on a cheap camera, they somehow feel
more real than the CGI creatures and movies. That original
footage made its way into the hands of local Univision affiliate,
(08:53):
where a journalist Angela s ran the story. From there,
the internet just took over coast to coast. Yan picked
it up. Paranormal circles explode, exploded with curiosity, and suddenly
Fresno had aencrypted. This is where things shifted from that's
(09:18):
weird to okay. Now we need answers because the more
people tried to debunk the footage, the stranger it got.
Some said puppets, some said kids in costumes, some said CGI.
But here's the heart. Those theories never quite nail. Why
(09:40):
would someone go through the effort of faking something so absurd.
If you want attention, you fabricate a bigfoot or a
UFO landing a classic demon shadow in the corner. You
fake something people already put walking pants. That's not shock value,
(10:08):
that's it's just uncanny. It bypasses logic and hits that
uncomfortable place, and the human brain reserved for nightmares where
the rules of physics politely excuse themselves. Then came twenty eleven.
In Yosemite National Park rangers install cameras to prevent vandalism.
(10:31):
They expect to catch teenagers sneaking around, but instead they
capture two figures tall, one in front, short one behind,
strolling through the trees like they're out for a casual
midnight hike. Same shape, same glide, same bizarre design blueprint.
(10:57):
Now we have a second sighting government property with no
clear motive to fool anyone that changes the calculus. Around
the same time, the Sci Fi channel Factor Fiction Paranormal
Files team attempts to reproduce the Fresno video. They try puppets,
(11:21):
they try practically effects, they even try they try every
trick in their playbook and finally conclude the original footage
is unexplainable. And when that show, famous for debunking frankly
everything throws up its hands, people take notice, and the
local community did something unexpected. Fresno embraced the night Crawlers.
(11:49):
Today you'll find Fresno Nightcrawler stickers, plush toys, street art,
even a cryptid statue. Tourists actually ask where the creatures
are from. The Fresno Chamber of Commerce has leaned into
the legend. It's become part of the city's identity. Not
(12:10):
they're not monsters but mythical mascots. The question is why here,
Why Fresno, a place better known for agriculture than aliens.
Some believe it's coincidence. Others whisper that California's native land
(12:31):
spirits still walk where the soil remembers them. Still others
think these things are not from here at all, because
if you strip away the pop culture fluff and just
stare at their strange motion, they're impossible anatomy. They don't
(12:52):
look like anything that evolved on Earth. But that's what
we're going to dig into next section two. Spirits of
the ground or visitors from elsewhere, So we could actually
explain those bizarre beings if they're not just costumes or
(13:16):
cgi or hallucinations. There are a handful of theories floating
out there, each with its own flavor strange, so let's
walk through them. Number one ghostly or spiritual entities, the
forgotten Walkers. One line of thinking among paranormal and folkloric
(13:38):
theorists holds that the Fresno Nightcrawlers might not be encryptid
in the usual biological sense, but something more ethereal. At ethereal,
a spirit or interdimensional entity that crosses into our reality
under particular conditions. The nightcrawler's form, long, pale legs with
(14:04):
almost no visible torso or arms, has been described by
believers as ghostly or otherworldly. Their movement is often described
as a smooth glide, almost weightless. That kind of motion,
paired with the creature's appearance, leans more apparition than animal.
(14:28):
For some, this suggests the nightcrawlers could be ancient watchers,
permutations of the land's spiritual guardians, or entities quietly tied
to places humans long ago forgot how to honor. According
to online folklore interpretations, some people believe the nightcrawlers resemble
(14:53):
symbolic figures in Native American petroglyphs, though this is a
deep contested and not supported by reliable documentation. But and
this is key. Credible researchers have pointed out that claims
linking nightcrawlers to claims linking nightcrawlers to Native American lore
(15:17):
are unsubstantiated. In fact, mainstream summaries of the Nightcrawler's case
note that attempted folklork linkage have been debunked. That doesn't
stop the theory from resonating emotionally. The idea of spiritual watchers,
silent guardians of the land and memory, appeals to something primal,
(15:40):
a belief that the earth itself isn't empty, that beneath
asphalt and suburbia, they are still watchers, still witnesses, still
echoes of what was before. If the nightcrawlers are spiritual,
maybe they're leftovers of those echoes, not trying to hide,
just water walking where the world once echoed with another rhythm.
(16:05):
Second theory alien scouts, extraterrestrial observers. Another popular interpretation among
UFO and exotic cryptic communities is that nightcrawlers are not
of this earth. They are scouts, perhaps biomechanical drones, alien
life forms, or interdimensional probes sent to monitor humanity quietly
(16:29):
without triggered mass panic or immediate threat. Here's why this
theory keeps resurfacing. Their proportions aren't like anything terrestrial, long,
thin legs, tiny or minimal upper structure. It looks more
like biomechanical design than biology. The lack of aggression they
(16:51):
got no clause, no growls, suggests these figures aren't predators. Instead,
they're calumn silent present evokes observation, not invasion. Their appearance
is more than in more than one location, from Fresno
suburbs to remote parkland like Yosemite National Park could indicate
(17:13):
roaming behavior rather than a fixed home. If true, the
night crawlers might be akin to silent watchers, quietly cataloging, surveilling,
maybe gathering data, waiting for something beyond our comprehension. This
theory taps into one of the core themes of broadcasting seeds,
(17:36):
the idea that the unknown isn't always loud, dramatic, or cinematic.
Sometimes it's subtle, quiet, gliding across the edge of the
camera frame while the world sleeps. Three The skeptical case hoax, misidentification,
(17:57):
or something similar. Of course, some of the most logical
explanations are often the hardest for believers to swallow, but
they deserve a fair hearing. Skeptics offer a few options.
Maybe the night crawlers are puppets or costumes. After all,
odd footage can be manipulated. People have recreated walking pants
(18:23):
with puppetry or video editing, and some analysts argue the blurry,
low resonnature of the original footage makes definitive proof impossible.
Others suggest misidentified wildlife, such as a deer on its
hind legs, captured at an odd angle under infrared light,
(18:44):
might create illusions. A deer and low light can appear
even stranger and more alien than it really is. Lastly,
memory expectation and the power of suggestion. Once a story
gets out there, people start expecting to see pants walking.
Our brains lean towards interpreting ambiguous shapes as the nightcrawler.
(19:09):
It's the same psychological phenomenon behind many paranormal or cryptid sightings.
Under this lens, the nightcrawler becomes less a being and
more a cultural artifact, a meme turned myth, an urban
legend dressed up in laundry at number four. Why the
(19:33):
debate matters the spiritual and societal impact. Why does all
the speculation matter, Because what the Nightcrawlers represent, whether real, spiritual, alien,
or hoaxed, reflects something deeper about our era. In the
time when cameras blanket nearly every corner of our lives,
(19:58):
even a twenty second clip can birth a myth. In
a spiritual age often dominated by cynicism and noise, entities
like Nightcrawlers whisper subtle reminders that maybe there is more
out there than what our science textbooks tell us. For communities,
(20:19):
legends become identity. The night crawler has become part of
Fresno folklore, I mean, merchandise, murals, art. It became a
symbol of the strange, the unexplained, and the uncanny, And
for individuals that's an invitation to wonder, to question, to
(20:41):
keep eyes open. Maybe the paranormal isn't always loud and terrifying.
Maybe sometimes it just slides softly across your front lawn
in the middle of the night, and that soft glide
might carry more weight than a screen. When you line
(21:01):
up all three theories, Spiritual Walker alien, observer or hoax.
None fit perfectly. None explain everything, but that tension, that uncertainty.
That's exactly where real mysteries live. As believers, skeptics, or
(21:24):
just curious wanderers, sometimes we're not looking for answers. Sometimes
we're just listening. Section three. When the strange becomes the signal,
there's a quiet shift happening in our world, and the
(21:45):
Fresno night crawlers are a perfect symbol of it. For
most of history, the supernatural lived in the dark. If
something weird happened, it happened where no one was watching.
The woods on the desert, those lonely backgroads. You swear
you'll never drive alone at night again. But today we
(22:08):
are always watching. You got security cameras and smartphones, dash cams,
doorbell cams that ping our phones when a raccoon sneeze
is too close to the driveway. We record everything now,
and as soon as the world stepped into this age
of constant observation, something unusual followed. The strange stopped hiding,
(22:36):
and instead of a terrifying cryptid lunging from the darkness,
we got a pair of white legs casually strolling across
the lawn caught not by a storyteller or a lone hiker,
but by a cheap camera with a bad frame rate. Silent, calm,
(22:57):
almost playful. What does that tell us the number one?
The threshold is changing. High strangeness no longer needs remote
forests or sacred mountains. It walks suburban streets, It wanders
national parks. It climbs right into the digital world without permission.
(23:21):
The line between the unseen and the recorded is constantly dissolving.
If disclosure is a real thing, whether supernatural or extraterrestrial,
maybe it doesn't begin with a mothership hovering over the
White House. Maybe it starts with a living question mark
(23:42):
showing on your ring dam number two. The more we see,
the less we understand. We thought technology would destroy superstition.
Instead it gave the unknown a freaking spotlight. People used
to say, I'll believe it when I see it. Now
(24:04):
we see it and we still don't know what we're seeing.
That doesn't even start to begin with AI. Nightcrawlers feel
specifically engineered to break the brain. They don't fit biology,
they don't fit myth, they don't fit machinery. They are
(24:24):
a damn blitch that keeps reappearing, a new kind of
cryptid for a new world. Bigfoot is muscle and menace.
The chupacabra is creepy and carnivorous. Mothman is a harbinger
of disaster. But nightcrawlers they're anti predators. They don't chase,
(24:51):
they don't roar, they don't even acknowledge us. They move
like explorers, not conquerors. And maybe that's the sage. Not
everything unknown is dangerous. Some is just freaking unfamiliar. Maybe
those beings, whatever they are, have a mission that doesn't
(25:13):
involve us yet. Maybe they're not the threat, just the
indicator number four. A world is re enchanted. For decades,
the mainstream narrative was if science can't explain it, it
doesn't exist. Now science can't explain a lot of what's
(25:34):
showing up on camera, and instead of dismissing it, younger
generations are leaning in curious open ready. The Fresno Nightcrawler
isn't just a meme. It's a symbol of the world
getting freaking weird again. As trust in government, media and
(25:55):
institutions collapses, belief in the supernatural is at an all
time high. I mean, we're looking somewhere anywhere for truth, meaning,
and wonder, even if that wonder looks like walking pajama pants.
(26:17):
So whether the Nightcrawlers are spirits of the land returning
to walk what once was theirs, or alien scouts quietly
mapping a planet about to change, or simply the universe
reminding us not to get too comfortable in our certainty,
one thing is clear. Mystery is alive and well, and
(26:41):
it is moving quietly across the grass when no one
thinks to look outro keep watching the grass. That's going
to wrap up tonight's episode to broadcasting Seeds. But before
(27:02):
you shut off the lights and double check your security cameras,
I want you to leave you with this. The Fresno
Nightcrawlers might be one of the strangest modern mysteries we've
stumbled across. I mean, it's freaking weird. An't quite funny.
They're not loud. I mean, they're not violent, they're not
(27:25):
even interesting. They're not interested in dragging anyone into the woods.
They just exist, unbothered, unafraid, and uninterested in explaining themselves.
And in the world where we think we've mapped everything
and we really don't know anything, where satellites watch oceans,
(27:50):
and where drones scan forests, where science demands proof before wonder.
Maybe this simple act of not fitting in to any
category is its own quiet rebellion. Maybe these beings, real
or or hoaxed, spiritual or extraterrestrial, are doing what the
(28:12):
supernatural has always done best, reminding us that we don't
know shit. We don't know everything, not even close. So
keep asking questions, keep looking deeper, keep testing the edges
(28:34):
of the story the world tells you, because sometimes the
truth doesn't show up with fanfare. Sometimes it just glides
across the front lawn at two am and waits for
something someone brave enough to notice. If you enjoyed tonight's
episode and you want to hear more stories from the
(28:54):
edges of reality, please take a moment to like the
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(29:16):
those strange conversations alive. You can find more content, updates
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if you ever see something unusual show up on your camera.
My inbox is always open until next time. I'm ben
a Tanton. And remember some seeds are planted in the daylight,
(29:40):
others don't sprout until the dark. Stay curious, stay aware,
and stay ready for whatever walks into the frame next.
You can point every camera at the.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Darkness with something still. Choose to walk into the front
middle of the nice and the street lights hum, security
camp on and the world feels nung. Something on along
where the shadows run, tall white legs. The face shows none.
I didn't like they flowed on for god, ain't ground.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
No sound but the dogs, no pound for pound.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Every skeptic tries to shut it down at the footage
blaze back.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
They're still around, starling walkers in the dead of night,
watching us, watching me in the camera light camera like
moving like ghosts just passing by. If the scoutstins on
the other.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Side, silent waters, keep your eyes on the dras Wow,
Thomas taking too fast? How they land spirits from forgotten
Try poor cosmic tourists out here taking vite Maybe in
that dimension No true prescribe that the weirdest ones always
(30:57):
break the lies. They ain't be s dain man, They
ain't machine, but they show up Chris Ball and shaky screens.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Back to fake Try to hand a vean?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
How the unexplainaball?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
You know what that means? If you sing the choe.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
You ain't looking close.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Truth tastes food?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Where the signal girls?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Sharlen Walker's in the diddle Knight watching us, watching man,
the camera like.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Moving like ghosts just passing by. What do they want
from this basing?
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Why just the pair of legs walking.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
You only see them if you.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Keep watching, keep wondering, keep listening to what walks between them,
Year Joe, straight from the broadcast studio and then the static.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This ain't no pret sound story.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
So as prophetic encrypt the signals from the shadows of
the party we did where the trot got secret snow parted, microphone.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Alchemists scriptures with a twist, peep the frequency seeds in
the midst we dropped fas like plagues revelations in the catus,
broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveillans wisdom with a
watchman's blade, forth what sound while your whole system fade
blood moons that for love, echoes in the pond sas
far sompen through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream,
(00:37):
We ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code
the dreams. So with you tune in better guards, your
mind is broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design design.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, yeah, yo yo, straight from the broadcast studio.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Static.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You're sitting on your couch late at night. The house
is quiet, the kind of quiet where the fridge sounds
too loud, and every creek in the floorboards makes you
glance up. You flip through the flip through your phone,
end up on some grany old security footage from two
thousand and seven. And that's when you see it. Not
(01:26):
a shadow person, not a gray alien, not a classic
cloaked demon in the corner. No, you see what looks
like a pair of white pants casually strolling across some
guy's front lawn in Fresno, California. Welcome back to broadcasting Seeds.
(01:49):
I'm your host, Benettantin, and tonight we're talking about one
of the strangest, most a mimeable and quietly unnerving modern
out there, the Fresno nightcrawlers. These things should be ridiculous.
They look like walking pajama bottoms, and they've been called
(02:12):
just a pair of pants out for a walk. But
when you strip away the jokes, the stickers, the plushies,
and the tik toks, what you're left with is this
a real piece of security footage shot in Fresno in
twenty two thousand and seven by a man known only
(02:34):
as Jose, who set up security cameras because his dogs
kept going crazy at night. Now a second eerily similar
clip from Yosemite National Park in twenty eleven, where two
long legged white figures, one tall and one shorter, glide
(02:58):
across the trail as if gravity works differently for them.
A wave of attempts to debunk the footage, using puppets, costumes,
and CGI, with no one fully nailing it. Even the
sci fi show fact or Faked Paranormal Files tried to
(03:21):
recreate the original scene and ultimately labeled it unexplainable. That's
the surface level Internet story. But this is a broadcasting seeds.
But this is broadcasting seeds. So we're going to dig
a lot deeper than Reddit threads and reaction videos because
(03:44):
here's the real question I want you to sit with tonight.
What if Fresno Nightcrawlers aren't just ENCRYPTID but a message.
What if they're boundary walkers, beings designed to slip right
through the cracks between categories. Not quite ghost, not quite alien,
(04:06):
not quite demon, not quite a hoax, just enough of
each to keep everyone arguing in circles while they keep
quietly showing up on our screens. On this episode, we're
going to explore three angles. The tapes in the town
will walk through the original Fresno footage, the Yosemite clip,
(04:30):
and how a single grainy video turned into a full
blown local legend that Fresno has embraced as part of
its identity. Spirits of the ground or visitors from elsewhere
will pull apart the theories ancient land spirits, alien scouts,
interdimensional recon units, or something more like a modern digital
(04:56):
tulpa that feeds off belief why walking pants matter in
a watching world. We'll talk about what these beings real
or not say about us, our surveillance culture, our spiritual numbness,
and why the weird is breaking back into the mainstream
(05:18):
at the exact same moment our institutions are losing credibility
because whether the Fresno Nightcrawlers are actual entities or a
clever hoax that took on a life of its own,
they're a mirror. They tell us something about the age
we're living in, the age where cameras are everywhere, trust
(05:42):
is nowhere, and the truly strained seem to be seeping
back into daily life. So if you're into cryptids, conspiracies,
paranormal high strangeness, and the spiritual war humming under the
skin of normal life, you're in the right place. Before
we dive into segment one, do me a solid like
(06:05):
the show. If you're listening on YouTube or podcast app
to let you rate with the thumbs up, Subscribe or
follow so you don't miss future episodes on cryptids cover
ups and the weird spiritual architecture behind the headlines. Share
this episode with one two friends who send you know,
(06:30):
send them at three am, tiktoks of creepy security cam footage.
And if your platform lets you leave a review, that's
the fuel that helps this show grow, reach more people
and keep these conversations alive. All right, grab your coffee,
your Bible, your tenfoil hadder, just your curiosity and one
(07:02):
the tapes and the town. Let's set the scene. Fresno, California,
two thousand and seven. A quiet neighborhood where the weirdest
thing you usually see is a loose shopping cart rolling
down the street. A man known only publicly as Jose
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is dealing with the problem most homeowners never think about.
Something is setting off his dogs late at night. They bark,
they growl, They act like predators are stalking the yard.
So Jose does what any rational person in two thousand
and seven would do. He installs a low end security
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camera to catch the raccoon or the stray cat, or
board teenager messing with his property. Only it wasn't any
of those things. Instead, the tape revealed two pale, spindly
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
bodies seem to define normal anatomy, mostly legs thin, with
a tiny head perched on top, no of arms visible.
They look like children wearing baggy white pants, except their
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proportions are all wrong. The knees bend like marionettes, and
despite being filmed on a cheap camera, they somehow feel
more real than the CGI creatures and movies. That original
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,
the internet just took over coast to coast. Yan picked
it up. Paranormal circles explode, exploded with curiosity, and suddenly
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
people tried to debunk the footage, the stranger it got.
Some said puppets, some said kids in costumes, some said CGI.
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.
If you want attention, you fabricate a bigfoot or a
UFO landing a classic demon shadow in the corner. You
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
uncomfortable place, and the human brain reserved for nightmares where
the rules of physics politely excuse themselves. Then came twenty eleven.
In Yosemite National Park rangers install cameras to prevent vandalism.
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They expect to catch teenagers sneaking around, but instead they
capture two figures tall, one in front, short one behind,
strolling through the trees like they're out for a casual
midnight hike. Same shape, same glide, same bizarre design blueprint.
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Now we have a second sighting government property with no
clear motive to fool anyone that changes the calculus. Around
the same time, the Sci Fi channel Factor Fiction Paranormal
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
trick in their playbook and finally conclude the original footage
is unexplainable. And when that show, famous for debunking frankly
everything throws up its hands, people take notice, and the
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,
even a cryptid statue. Tourists actually ask where the creatures
are from. The Fresno Chamber of Commerce has leaned into
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,
Why Fresno, a place better known for agriculture than aliens.
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
think these things are not from here at all, because
if you strip away the pop culture fluff and just
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
we're going to dig into next section two. Spirits of
the ground or visitors from elsewhere, So we could actually
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
out there, each with its own flavor strange, so let's
walk through them. Number one ghostly or spiritual entities, the
forgotten Walkers. One line of thinking among paranormal and folkloric
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theorists holds that the Fresno Nightcrawlers might not be encryptid
in the usual biological sense, but something more ethereal. At ethereal,
a spirit or interdimensional entity that crosses into our reality
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
believers as ghostly or otherworldly. Their movement is often described
as a smooth glide, almost weightless. That kind of motion,
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,
permutations of the land's spiritual guardians, or entities quietly tied
to places humans long ago forgot how to honor. According
to online folklore interpretations, some people believe the nightcrawlers resemble
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symbolic figures in Native American petroglyphs, though this is a
deep contested and not supported by reliable documentation. But and
this is key. Credible researchers have pointed out that claims
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
note that attempted folklork linkage have been debunked. That doesn't
stop the theory from resonating emotionally. The idea of spiritual watchers,
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
asphalt and suburbia, they are still watchers, still witnesses, still
echoes of what was before. If the nightcrawlers are spiritual,
maybe they're leftovers of those echoes, not trying to hide,
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
UFO and exotic cryptic communities is that nightcrawlers are not
of this earth. They are scouts, perhaps biomechanical drones, alien
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
theory keeps resurfacing. Their proportions aren't like anything terrestrial, long,
thin legs, tiny or minimal upper structure. It looks more
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,
they're calumn silent present evokes observation, not invasion. Their appearance
is more than in more than one location, from Fresno
suburbs to remote parkland like Yosemite National Park could indicate
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roaming behavior rather than a fixed home. If true, the
night crawlers might be akin to silent watchers, quietly cataloging, surveilling,
maybe gathering data, waiting for something beyond our comprehension. This
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.
Sometimes it's subtle, quiet, gliding across the edge of the
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
explanations are often the hardest for believers to swallow, but
they deserve a fair hearing. Skeptics offer a few options.
Maybe the night crawlers are puppets or costumes. After all,
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,
low resonnature of the original footage makes definitive proof impossible.
Others suggest misidentified wildlife, such as a deer on its
hind legs, captured at an odd angle under infrared light,
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might create illusions. A deer and low light can appear
even stranger and more alien than it really is. Lastly,
memory expectation and the power of suggestion. Once a story
gets out there, people start expecting to see pants walking.
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.
Under this lens, the nightcrawler becomes less a being and
more a cultural artifact, a meme turned myth, an urban
legend dressed up in laundry at number four. Why the
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debate matters the spiritual and societal impact. Why does all
the speculation matter, Because what the Nightcrawlers represent, whether real, spiritual, alien,
or hoaxed, reflects something deeper about our era. In the
time when cameras blanket nearly every corner of our lives,
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even a twenty second clip can birth a myth. In
a spiritual age often dominated by cynicism and noise, entities
like Nightcrawlers whisper subtle reminders that maybe there is more
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
Fresno folklore, I mean, merchandise, murals, art. It became a
symbol of the strange, the unexplained, and the uncanny, And
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.
Maybe sometimes it just slides softly across your front lawn
in the middle of the night, and that soft glide
might carry more weight than a screen. When you line
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up all three theories, Spiritual Walker alien, observer or hoax.
None fit perfectly. None explain everything, but that tension, that uncertainty.
That's exactly where real mysteries live. As believers, skeptics, or
(21:24):
just curious wanderers, sometimes we're not looking for answers. Sometimes
we're just listening. Section three. When the strange becomes the signal,
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
most of history, the supernatural lived in the dark. If
something weird happened, it happened where no one was watching.
The woods on the desert, those lonely backgroads. You swear
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,
doorbell cams that ping our phones when a raccoon sneeze
is too close to the driveway. We record everything now,
and as soon as the world stepped into this age
of constant observation, something unusual followed. The strange stopped hiding,
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and instead of a terrifying cryptid lunging from the darkness,
we got a pair of white legs casually strolling across
the lawn caught not by a storyteller or a lone hiker,
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?
The threshold is changing. High strangeness no longer needs remote
forests or sacred mountains. It walks suburban streets, It wanders
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.
If disclosure is a real thing, whether supernatural or extraterrestrial,
maybe it doesn't begin with a mothership hovering over the
White House. Maybe it starts with a living question mark
(23:42):
showing on your ring dam number two. The more we see,
the less we understand. We thought technology would destroy superstition.
Instead it gave the unknown a freaking spotlight. People used
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.
That doesn't even start to begin with AI. Nightcrawlers feel
specifically engineered to break the brain. They don't fit biology,
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
cryptid for a new world. Bigfoot is muscle and menace.
The chupacabra is creepy and carnivorous. Mothman is a harbinger
of disaster. But nightcrawlers they're anti predators. They don't chase,
(24:51):
they don't roar, they don't even acknowledge us. They move
like explorers, not conquerors. And maybe that's the sage. Not
everything unknown is dangerous. Some is just freaking unfamiliar. Maybe
those beings, whatever they are, have a mission that doesn't
(25:13):
involve us yet. Maybe they're not the threat, just the
indicator number four. A world is re enchanted. For decades,
the mainstream narrative was if science can't explain it, it
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
generations are leaning in curious open ready. The Fresno Nightcrawler
isn't just a meme. It's a symbol of the world
getting freaking weird again. As trust in government, media and
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institutions collapses, belief in the supernatural is at an all
time high. I mean, we're looking somewhere anywhere for truth, meaning,
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
to walk what once was theirs, or alien scouts quietly
mapping a planet about to change, or simply the universe
reminding us not to get too comfortable in our certainty,
one thing is clear. Mystery is alive and well, and
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it is moving quietly across the grass when no one
thinks to look outro keep watching the grass. That's going
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,
I want you to leave you with this. The Fresno
Nightcrawlers might be one of the strangest modern mysteries we've
stumbled across. I mean, it's freaking weird. An't quite funny.
They're not loud. I mean, they're not violent, they're not
(27:25):
even interesting. They're not interested in dragging anyone into the woods.
They just exist, unbothered, unafraid, and uninterested in explaining themselves.
And in the world where we think we've mapped everything
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.
Maybe this simple act of not fitting in to any
category is its own quiet rebellion. Maybe these beings, real
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
know shit. We don't know everything, not even close. So
keep asking questions, keep looking deeper, keep testing the edges
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of the story the world tells you, because sometimes the
truth doesn't show up with fanfare. Sometimes it just glides
across the front lawn at two am and waits for
something someone brave enough to notice. If you enjoyed tonight's
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
and deep dives over at broadcasting seeds dot com, and
if you ever see something unusual show up on your camera.
My inbox is always open until next time. I'm ben
a Tanton. And remember some seeds are planted in the daylight,
(29:40):
others don't sprout until the dark. Stay curious, stay aware,
and stay ready for whatever walks into the frame next.
You can point every camera at the.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Darkness with something still. Choose to walk into the front
middle of the nice and the street lights hum, security
camp on and the world feels nung. Something on along
where the shadows run, tall white legs. The face shows none.
I didn't like they flowed on for god, ain't ground.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
No sound but the dogs, no pound for pound.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Every skeptic tries to shut it down at the footage
blaze back.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
They're still around, starling walkers in the dead of night,
watching us, watching me in the camera light camera like
moving like ghosts just passing by. If the scoutstins on
the other.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Side, silent waters, keep your eyes on the dras Wow,
Thomas taking too fast? How they land spirits from forgotten
Try poor cosmic tourists out here taking vite Maybe in
that dimension No true prescribe that the weirdest ones always
(30:57):
break the lies. They ain't be s dain man, They
ain't machine, but they show up Chris Ball and shaky screens.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Back to fake Try to hand a vean?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
How the unexplainaball?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
You know what that means? If you sing the choe.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
You ain't looking close.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Truth tastes food?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Where the signal girls?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Sharlen Walker's in the diddle Knight watching us, watching man,
the camera like.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Moving like ghosts just passing by. What do they want
from this basing?
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Why just the pair of legs walking.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
You only see them if you.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Keep watching, keep wondering, keep listening to what walks between them,
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