Back at the church, he found evidence that someone had been there while he was away, and smelled Darry's scent, as Darry was scared when he found all the bodies. He still ignored them and sped back to the church with all haste. The Creeper had been gone for a while, probably to hunt, and returned when Darry and Trish were parked outside a gas station. It is unknown why he spared their lives, as he could easily have stopped to kill them. The Creeper drove off and left the Jenners where they were. He did this repeatedly sounding his horn, until the final blow that sent their car off the road. The Creeper did not take long to catch up to them and rammed the cattle catcher in the front of his truck at the rear of their car. Knowing very well that they had seen him, he got back in his truck and gave chase. The Creeper had possibly forgotten about the Jenners, but just as he was tossing another body down the pipe in broad daylight, he saw them pass by, looking at what he was doing. He drove behind Trish's car and sounded his horn, ignoring the space Darry offered him to pass. As he drove along the highway on East 9 in rural North Central Florida he came across siblings Trish and Darry. After having fed, he was returning to his church hideout with the body of a victim wrapped in a sheet in the back of his vehicle. He is also revealed to be responsible for the disappearance of the Roanoke colonists in the late 1580s, as well as starting the mine fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania in 1962.įive days before it's hibernation, the Creeper went out on a hunt in it's signature rusty old truck. The Cherokee likewise referred to him as the Uktena, the most feared and respected of all the dark creatures, and performed a similar method of keeping him appeased. The Aztecs believed him to be their serpent god Quetzelcoatl, and he is seen accepting and eating a sacrificed human heart during one of their rituals. Maybe before, even.' The comic Jeepers Creepers: Trail of the Beast further explores his history. While the exact origins of the Creeper are unknown, he is implied to be hundreds of years old and has been around 'since man first walked upright. Justin Long played the Creeper at the ending of the first film and Al Santos played the Creeper in the middle scene of the second film. In all but two of his appearances, it is portrayed by Jonathan Breck.

It hunts for 23 days every 23rd spring, by scaring its victims and using the scent of fear to determine what it needs to feed on. It is an ancient, mysterious demon, who seeks organs from humans to replace its own old or damaged ones. The Creeper is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 2001 horror film Jeepers Creepers, its sequel Jeepers Creepers 2 and their interquel Jeepers Creepers 3. 'Jeepers Creepers' Written By Harry Warren, 1938 'Every twenty-third spring for twenty-three days it gets to.

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