Lake Camelot's Pale Crawler

The witness, named Josh, was walking through a trail in the woods with some friends, around Lake Camelot (a smallish residential area just Southwest of Peoria, Illinois) at 10PM on October 27th of 2017 when he saw something he would never forget.

## The Incident

They usually walked along that trail, and so it wasn’t something ’*new or different*’ to them. It wasn’t a proper paved trail, but was more like a game trail that the witnesses had made themselves by walking that same route multiple times. Josh had a flashlight while his friends did not.

Josh was pointing his flashlight to the left of him into the woods, and wasn’t really paying attention to the path in front of him because ’*we usually don’t see anything odd*’. However, he soon heard one of his friends gasp, and when he looked over at him he was forward onto the trail. Josh pointed his flashlight where his friend was looking, and was shocked to see that ’*something was crouched down on the edge of the trail*’.

Nothing was blocking Josh’s view of the crouched entity, but pointing his flashlight at it created a lot of shadows, obscuring certain parts of its anatomy. The thing was on the left side of the trail, facing in the witnesses’ direction. It appeared to be ’*very alert and frozen that we saw it and it saw us.*’ Neither Josh nor any of his friends saw it move, but they decided to run back the way they came. They got about 20ft back before they looked back, but didn’t see anything.

While recounting his bizarre story, Josh described the entity as a grey-skinned, small-to-medium-sized being. It was about 4-5ft tall, but it was crouched down and so it was around 2ft tall, and apparently its arms were very defined and slightly muscular seeming, as opposed to skinny ’*like some online pictures of aliens*’. It had five fingers on its human-like arms. The legs were described as ‘l*ess human like*’, and although Josh couldn’t see the feet, the shape and direction in which the legs were pointed reminded him of frog’s legs. The torso was also obscured from visibility.

Although it was ’*around the same proportion as a human’s*’, the shape of the head was square with a point on each side. Josh couldn’t tell if they were ears ’*or something else*’. The top of head was certainly squareish, but it tapered down at the bottom until it looked like ’*an upside down trapezoid*’. It was grey in colour, and Josh thought that it had short hair, but his friends said it was completely hairless. Josh said that the eyes were completely black, and he thinks that it lacked a mouth - but he admits that this could be wrong because he didn’t look at the creature for very long.

It was completely still and didn’t make any noise while they were looking at it, but Josh said that he and his friends had '*heard squeaking noises*’ earlier on in the walk, but had put them up to baby great horned owls at the time, but apparently they didn’t match owl calls when Josh did some more research. The creature simply just stared at them, and vanished when the witnesses left.

## Analysis

There are currently 25 reports on the Mutual UFO Network in Peoria County, Illinois spanning from 2007 to the present, but there is no obvious correlation between the MUFON reports and this sighting. One of the MUFON reports details an abduction scenario, but the descriptions of the abductors do not match the description of the entity in this case. A better fit for the tentative identification of this creature, in my opinion, would be a ’Pale Crawler’.

## Source

https://nationalcryptidsociety.org/2017/12/16/illinois-october-2017-grey-humanoid-being-in-the-woods-around-lake-camelot/