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2023-01-28Episode

Episode 10: Ghost Pants or The Fresno Nightcrawlers

What's up, everybody? Welcome back! We heard ya, Brittiny: we need to talk about some cryptids on this podcast! And we're kicking it off with the most cutest, most merchy-est, most marketable little dude in the world, The Fresno Nightcrawler!

STOP! INSIDE JOKES AHEAD! If you haven’t gotten to listen to the episode yet, spoiler alert! This post contains lots of stuff that will make waaay more sense if you listen to the episode before or while reading. So if you haven’t already, pump the brakes and listen to the episode or just click above to play so that you can be in on all the shenanigans to follow!

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LISTENER STORY ALERT!!

Please welcome Stephanie back to the podcast. You may recall her write-in in an early episode about a restroom at her workplace. It featured a particularly spooky roll of toiler paper that tipped her off to a ghost with, shall we say, boundary issues. This week, she joined us live and talked with Peter about dreams featuring a very special person.

By the way…have YOU ever had the teeth-falling-out dream? Or the school freak-out dream? Yikes.

The Nightcrawlerrrrrrrrrrrrr...

Not this guy…

Or this guy either…

It’s THIS guy!

The Fresno Nightcrawler aka Fresno Alien aka Fresno Pants. What can we say? He’s a star. He’s the bees knees. He’s who everyone wants to be. And rightfully so. Look at him. Aww. Lil guy.

So some background on this fella in case you don’t know…

He’s a very recent addition to the cryptid family, first sighted in the 1990s. A man in Fresno showed up at a police station with this CCTV from home showing an unknown creature just cruising through his yard…

Since then, there have been more sightings and more footage.

This is footage from Yosemite National Park…

And people really seem to love The Fresno Nightcrawler. He has merch, man: plushies, tee-shirts, mugs…even blankets!

He’s just this cool little pair of pants taking a walk. Or is he?

What is he? We have several theories to explore.

Could the Nightcrawler be a fungal life form?

Ghost?

An alien perhaps?

Or haunted laundry???

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Fresno_Nightcrawler

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/fresno-nightcrawlers

https://www.grunge.com/211192/the-legend-of-the-fresno-nightcrawlers-explained/

The Nightcrawlers have captured the imagination of the art community as well. We mentioned Eduardo Valdez-Hevia, whose work is pictured below, during the episode. He along with many other artists have created some really cool pieces inspired by this awesome cryptid.

This creature has also been the subject of multiple attempts at hoaxes. Captain Disillusion of YouTube has an interesting and entertaining video in which he recreates the movements and look of the Nightcrawler using some cool effects.

We here at The Strange Woods Podcast are not sure what we think about the Fresno Nightcrawler’s origins or explanation…but we can agree that he seems like a cool guy and we’d totally hang out with him. He seems super chill. Like Jonathan said, he just seems like he’s bopping on through with a song in his heart…this song specifically.

Some other stuff we discussed...

This is the game we played that allowed us to create this amazing character and guess what. Peter recreated…just for YOU! Check it out below!

The Dobby Video

This is the “Dobby” mystery that was featured on Inside Edition. The video shows a little Dobby-looking dude running and chicken-flapping and just generally having a good time.

We’re so glad you joined us for this episode. Catch you on the next one…where we can hopefully continue filling your ear holes with only the most hard-hitting and accurate information currently available on cryptids, the paranormal, and everything in between. Until then, please remember to stay oh so strange!