The Ghost Deer

Gather round children, for this Halloween I’m going to tell you the scariest story you’ve ever heard. So turn off the lights and light the candle in your jack-o-lantern while I tell you the true tale of the Ghost Deer.

A few years back, on a dark and rainy night, I was driving home from a party late at night. The road was dark and wet, no other cars were around. It had been a long night, I’d had a couple drinks and was getting pretty tired. I was approaching the crest of a hill in my Ford Thunderbird and just as I started over the hill, out of the left corner of my eye I saw a white flash with antlers, and then I heard a loud thud.

I looked right and couldn’t see anything. I looked back left, nothing. I slowed down my car and checked the rear view mirror, nothing. Was I dreaming? Did I really hit something? All of the sudden, my car’s engine shut off and I started coasting down the hill. I was able to pull off to the side of the road. As I put on my hood and stepped out into the freezing rain, I looked back up the hill and the shoulders of the road. I couldn’t see anything hurt or dead in the road at all.

And then it hit me. Clearly I had run into a Ghost Deer, probably the ghost of a deer that was hit by a car on this very road. Now, it spends it’s time haunting the highway, ramming itself into other cars, looking for revenge on the man that killed him. The Ghost Deer passes through your car, shutting off your engine. When you get out of the car to examine the damage, it will stab you with its ghost antlers. There’s no doubt in my mind that if I had been the man that ran him down so many years before, I would not be standing here today.

So I caution you, dear reader. This Halloween season if you hit a deer and your engine stops, don’t move. Call 911 and wait for them to arrive. If you get out of your car, it will be the last thing you ever do.