Ghost Story #4 – The Deer

I hope you’ve enjoyed my “ghost stories” series this month! Here I have the final installment. It’s not a particularly exciting one, but it’s the most recent, and interesting regardless.

About this time of year 10 years ago or so, the DJs on one of the local radio stations started talking about local ghost stories & urban legends during their show all month. My fiance at the time & myself just so happened to be listening when they mentioned the area we were living in at the time, and how there were sightings of a headless horseman with a lantern in the woods by our house, and ghost deer all over the area. “Ghost deer?!?” I laughed. “Are they sure it wasn’t an albino?!?” (There are a lot of deer in that area.) But they said they weren’t just your typical white ghosts – mangled shadow spirits resembling deer were also spotted in the area.

A couple weeks later, as I was driving home from work late at night, a big tree about a half mile down started to look weird to me. Assuming I was just tired and stressed, I didn’t think much of it, but I kept watching purely for the entertainment. It was really weird. It was probably about 6 feet tall, walking weird, seemed to have white glowing eyes, & it eventually melded with the tree. As I said, I didn’t think much of it and simply headed home. Well about an hour later my fiance got home from work, and his face white as a ghost. Now, this man does not believe in anything paranormal, so for him to be freaked out like this was a sight few have ever seen. He drove from the opposite direction, more in the area where the headless horseman was typically seen, but he said he saw a large black mangled deer in the ditch with glowing red eyes, and it jumped off into the woods as he creeped up by it with the car. I laughed & told him my story. He said he was never leaving the house again lol! I don’t know what we saw, but there was definitely something strange in the air that night!

A couple weeks after that, I was again driving home late from work at night, and had another strange deer experience. I saw a doe in the road, and so I slowed way down, hoping I could just get around it without spooking it into running directly into my car. Plus, deer always travel in groups. It strolled casually into the other lane, but as I drove past, I realized she was lit up as though my headlights were still shining on her. Mind you, I was probably only going like 5mph, so I had plenty of time to look around & verify that there weren’t any other cars on the road, shining their lights on her. Looking in my side mirror, I could still see her, & she was still lit up. But when I stopped the car in the middle of the road & turned to look behind me, she was gone. I have no idea what that was all about, but it was…different.

So that concludes my life’s ghost stories. So far, lol. It’s been over a decade since this last experience though.

If you haven’t yet, check out the other ghost stories I’ve posted this month :

The Man of the House

The Ouija Board

The Air Base

Share your own stories below, and have a wonderful spooky season!! 🧡🎃

Ghost Story #2 – The Ouija Board

While I was always fascinated by Ouija boards (I got my first from my mom for my birthday when I was about 9), I never really believed in them. I’d always get messages like “stay away”, “danger”, & other ominous things for no apparent reason. I quite quickly realized how easily people can manipulate objects they’re not even trying to move. Or how often people will intentionally move things to make an experience more fun, lol!

In high school, I had a friend who did too much acid. She always said she was very in tune with spirits, & she was always saying she’d have weird things happen to her, & she’d get messages or feelings at random times. Even when she was sober. Of course, nobody believed her because she was so “out there”, but then one night we were bored & playing with the Ouija board in our other friend’s basement. I decided to take a break to smoke a cigarette because the “spirits we were talking to” were boring, and she asked if there was anyone I wanted to contact. I figured why not, & told her to try to contact my mom. And she did. It was the freakiest thing I’d ever experienced. I spent most of the time just asking tricky questions that no one else would know, & it was unbelievable! She didn’t have a whole lot of energy to work with, but she ended with something along the lines of “take care of your father, because no one else will”, and no truer words have ever been spoken. I took care of him for the rest of his life.

Moral of the story – don’t discount the Ouija board. Or hippies LOL

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Here’s the previous installment of this series : Ghost Story #1 – The Man of the House