Galician Nightcrawling -

While the term has poetic and mysterious connotations, it also manifests in contemporary ways:

But the skeptics have failed to account for one detail that unifies the Nightcrawling reports: the smell . Almost every witness describes a sudden, overwhelming odor of wet lime and brine, as if a sack of shellfish had been left to rot in a tomb. Badgers do not smell like the intertidal zone. The sea does. galician nightcrawling