The Legend Of The Fresno Nightcrawlers Explained

According to the Fresno Bee, the first sighting of these baffling ambulatory PJs was captured by a Fresno man's front yard security camera in 2007. YourCentralValley states the man, named Jose, was awoken by his barking dogs in the morning and was frightened when he viewed his security camera footage. The Business Journal reports that Jose brought the footage to Univision, hoping to find answers, but was left unsated. From there, the video made its way to paranormal investigators, including Victor Camacho, who hosts the Spanish-speaking supernatural program "Los Desvelados" or "the sleepless ones."

The footage eventually wound up in the hands of the SyFy docuseries Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files. The episode, which aired in 2010, brought the possibility of independently pedestrian pants to the masses and deemed them "unconfirmable." Since then, the original Fresno Nightcrawler film has gone viral, racking up well over a million views on YouTube. More videos, generally of the "determinately faked" variety, have popped up over the years.

That said, sightings of the creature have continued throughout California and the world. Per The Business Journal, a 2011 video (as seen on YouTube), allegedly shows Fresno Nightcrawlers in Yosemite National Park. In 2017 Grainy footage of alleged Fresno Nightcrawlers was later captured in Poland (as seen on YouTube). In 2022, Jose's footage made it onto an episode of the History series "The Proof Is Out There."

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