Texas Stiltwalkers, also known as Striders, are massive sized cryptids reported primarily but not strictly from the South-West USA, especially Texas.
Reports of Stiltwalkers started appearing online around 2008, though supposedly they have a precedent in South Texas folklore.
Appearance
They are characterized by their enormous size, stick-thin frame and their elongated legs which reach far above trees and step over houses with ease. The head is distinguishable by two piercing, headlamp-like eyes.
The head is sometimes described as being canine-like.
In one account the stiltwalker was seen to scale a vertical cliff with ease, like a giant spider climbing a wall. No other sightings of this ability have occurred, however others have suggested that the creature is not entirely flesh and blood but has a supernatural, bio-fortean aspect. The bipedal Nightcrawler, the Carmel Creature and the humanoid Black Stick Men are similar in their strange two-dimensional to the outsized Stiltwalke
