I live in Kerrville, TX about an hour northwest of San Antonio. I want to preface this by saying I’ve lived here for about ten years. I see deer every day. I also live out in the country, so I’m used to seeing deer in the woods and living around them. I know what a deer looks like. I’ve seen mutated deer that were sick or had birth defects as I took animal science in high school where I would see weird defects in animals. I’m also not really a believer in anything supernatural I’m a little skeptical that maybe there’s something but I don’t really believe in anything.

I have a summer job to earn a little money for college. I’m 19 and will be going back in the fall. Right now, I work as a security guard for a camp in Hunt, TX. I’ve been working there for about two weeks, and it’s been very chill. It’s an easy job I just drive a golf cart around the camp from 12 to 4 a.m. The whole time I’ve worked there, I’ve never seen anything strange besides a few campers up at night. Yesterday was different. It was a quiet night like usual, and I was making my rounds around the camp. Around 3:40 a.m., I was driving back to the main area. There’s a stretch between the main gate and the cabins where the woods are heavy, with cliffs on both sides. While driving, I suddenly got the sense that something was watching me. I looked around, thinking maybe a camper was out, and then I saw something on a cliff about 15 feet away, staring at me. It was a deer. At first glance, it didn’t look too different from a normal doe, but it was about eight feet tall, and its body was much thicker than a typical deer. Normally, deer have proportional features their necks are thinner than their heads, and everything just looks balanced. But this deer was off. Its neck was thick, and its head was massive. It stood next to a tree, and both its head and neck were thicker than the trunk. Its eyes were strange, too not in an obvious way, but in the kind of way where you can just tell something’s not right. Almost like a poorly done taxidermy.

I shined my flashlight at it, trying to rationalize what I was seeing. Maybe it was a large buck or a tree stump. But the more I looked at it, the more I realized this thing was real and not any of the usual explanations.Ex: a buff deer, exotic species, or a weird stump etc…

I felt this sudden, uncanny sense of fear. Not fear for my safety, but the kind of fear you get when you know you’re seeing something that doesn’t belong. I slowly drove off, and as I did, it slowly turned its head to watch me almost like how a camera pans in a smooth, precise motion. When I passed back through that area on my way out, I looked again just to check if it really was a stump or if I’d imagined it.

It was gone. And there was nothing there that looked remotely like what I saw. I’ve been trying to come up with a rational explanation ever since, but nothing makes sense. Nothing natural I know of looks like that. Do yall have any thoughts on what it could be?