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Cryptids of Reddit || Scary Reddit Stories || Ghosteas || Paranormal Podcast

August 24, 2026

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Cryptids of Reddit: When the Woods Talk Back

The hosts of Ghosteas open their National Park Week episode with a simple observation about Reddit: when you've had an experience that makes you question your own sanity—a creature that doesn't fit anything you learned in biology—you can find someone on the site who understands. For people who've seen something unexplainable in the woods, that community is the difference between feeling crazy and feeling heard. The episode collects four first-person accounts from cryptid-related subreddits, each describing encounters with something that moved, looked, or sounded wrong.

The Crawler in Fairhope

The first story comes from r/crawlersightings, posted fifteen days before the episode was recorded. A woman and her boyfriend rented a horse ranch Airbnb in Fairhope, Alabama. Around 8:30 PM on their first night, they were in the hot tub when the boyfriend spotted something "looming over the front of our car." When it realized it had been seen, it ducked and hid. Then the woman saw it too—a creature running behind a tree about twenty feet away. They exchanged descriptions privately after getting inside and locking the door: both described a pale, yellowish creature with a longer face and head shape. Over the rest of their stay, the boyfriend saw it multiple times near the front door window. The woman felt watched constantly. They kept

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:46) **Introduction: Cryptids on Reddit** - Macy introduces the topic of cryptid encounters shared on Reddit, highlighting the community aspect of the site for people who have had unusual experiences.
  • 2 (03:25) **Crawler Sighting in Fairhope, Alabama** - A Reddit user from r/crawlersightings recounts a weekend stay at a horse ranch Airbnb where she and her boyfriend saw a pale, yellowish creature.
  • 3 (06:54) **Stay in the Street Lights, Part 1** - A story from r/cryptidencounters begins with a narrator from upstate South Carolina describing a cursed-feeling valley with a history of Cherokee settlement.
  • 4 (10:59) **Stay in the Street Lights, Part 2** - The same narrator shares a second story from his teenage years, detailing a terrifying encounter with a mimicking entity while sneaking out with friends.
  • 5 (19:18) **Can Someone Shine Some Light on This?** - A mine worker in a remote mountain area describes seeing a large, bipedal creature cross a wide haul road in just two strides.
  • 6 (26:28) **Encounter with the Sunflower Deer** - A recently discharged Navy IT describes a terrifying encounter on a friend's 65-acre property in Louisiana with a bizarre, deer-like cryptid.
  • 7 (36:02) **Something in the Woods Need Help Identifying** - A woman from North Carolina recounts a terrifying experience at summer camp where a mimic lured her away from her group using her mother's voice.

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Show Notes

Something I love about Reddit is the community aspect of the site. When you’ve had an unusual experience, you’re sure to find somebody in some sub somewhere that can relate to you in a way. This is especially reassuring, and interesting to the broader public, for people who have spotted cryptids! When you’ve had a horrifying encounter with a creature that doesn’t fit the mold of what you learned about in biology, it can feel as though you’re going insane. But not on Reddit! So for National Park Week, I’ve pulled several stories from a handful of subs that detail some spooky encounters with something science hasn’t been able to explain out in the woods… at least not yet.


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