Is the night crawler beast real or not?

Answer 1

Well, there are nightcrawlers. They're an earthworm species, often used, to their mortal peril, for fish bait. This is possibly not the answer you seek, yet the harvesting of the nightcrawler worm is probably just as ghastly as any description of a legendary animal and its proclivities. Picture a light night rain, somewhere along the road from North Carolina through Northern New York, up into Canada's province of Ontario. It is dark, it is damp, it is moistly rural, wet and green in the night. Unsuspecting worms are exiting their holes in the earth's shallow depths, never knowing death quickly approaches in the form of roaming bands of marauding men, crawling along in the dank, wearing headlamps. These are called "pickers," and they carry supplies and fit determination to destroy the worms and all they represent. Everything needed for their murderous machinations can be found inside a bucket and a little can filled with sawdust. The sawdust, you see, makes it easier on the hands of the dozens of pickers disturbing the worms present peace to take them to a final, less restful peace at the end of a hook (prior to their resting in peace forever inside any single fish's gullet, before that fish rests in its own pieces, inside the picker). It's the food chain, from its highest point (say), to its nadir. It is a war of red and yellow headlights and large and small crawling bodies. The weather is fine, the temperature almost balmy. It is a pleasant night, sort of, if you are not a worm.