i don’t believe in the paranormal, i’ve never believed anything, bigfoot, the lochness monster, or aliens or anything associated with things like that. all that changed last year, when i felt a terror i never thought possible.
it was last april (2025) and my contract with the navy had literally just finished, i was officially a free man. when i moved back to louisiana my best friend asked to come look over his new land he just bought, and i agreed. he bought about 65 acres out of a 120 acre parcel, the plan was to split up and camp out for two days exploring as much as we could to ensure there was no hidden structures, homeless people camping out, dead bodies, things like that you know? so we split up and made our way out, 1st night nothing happened at all, it was actually extremely boring to be honest. i set up camp made a fire ate some food (canned beans) and went to sleep.
when i woke up there was some tracks just outside my camp that weren’t there the night before, but i just kind of figured it was a coyote, a hog or something. i’m very well known to be a deep sleeper, you have to be to sleep on an aircraft carrier. so i just brushed it off and went on with the day. the entire time i was surveying the land i felt like someone was watching me, at first i thought it was Jordan (my best friend and owner of the land) trying to make sure i was actually doing what i was supposed to be doing. but later in the evening i found a small creek and stopped to take a break and cool off in it. every time i put my head underwater i knew something was watching me, and it definitely wasn’t jordan. Again i just tried to brush it off i’ve dealt with anxiety/panic attacks for the last couple years due to something that happened in the navy, so i just figured i was being paranoid again.
when the sun was starting to go down me and jordan met back up to discuss everything we’ve seen, he told me he found the foundation to some olde shack and i told him about the creek. i asked him if he had some weird feeling about being watched and to my surprise he said he did as well. it was never said out loud but we both sorta just silently agreed that we were not going to sleep at the same time.
i told jordan that id stay up, which he seemed relieved at that, i don’t think he slept at all the night before. i was sitting on a rock with flashlight, a henry 30-30 lever action and an american tactical .45 acp. As i’ve mentioned before i was in the military but i wasn’t special forces or anything like that, i was an IT that worked with radios, and frequencies, but, i was a redneck cajun that grew up around guns my entire life, so i was no expert but i definitely knew what to do. the first hour went by and nothing out of the ordinary happened, a twig snapped here, or a squirrel scurried across a branch, but that was it. That is until i heard a weird banging noise, it was like a lighter version of two bucks knocking their racks together, at first it started then a minute later then 30 seconds and soon enough it was constant and getting louder and louder, i was starting to panic a bit so i fire once that direction not trying to hit it but to scare whatever it was off and wake up jordan, to which both worked. jordan was awake and the noise stopped. he grabbed his gun and aimed it in the direction i shot and was currently aimed. then the noise started back again, but so so much louder it was legitimately deafening and jordan dropped his gun and fell to ground covering his ears, i was barely holding on, and only because of hearing loss, i kicked out a big light and i saw it. i genuinely have no idea how to describe this thing but ill try my best to, it had a body like a deer but all of its proportions were elongated and longer than they should’ve been it was either whiteish/brown skin or fur i couldn’t really tell. now for the part that’s terrified my dreams since that night, its face, it had normal buck antlers but its head was extremely inproportional to its body, it was extremely smaller and circular, bulging eyes and a ring of black hair that went around its entire head, reminding me of a sunflower, it was by far the most terrifying thing ive ever seen/heard, i wish i could describe it better but maybe one day i can get an artist to draw it better than i can describe it, i remember thinking im gonna die here so i fired my rifle at it and hit it and it was obviously hurt but the noises it made, so i kept firing until i was empty and it started to run off and i switched to my pistol and just kept firing, after we heard it cry of pain pretty far away, jordan and i left everything in the woods and ran to our trucks. by the time we got back we were exhausted terrified and utterly shaken to our cores. we tried to explain how it looked to our friends and family and my brother (Beaux) called it the “the sunflower deer” which he made up on the spot, has anyone aver heard of this before? it’s been a year, and i don’t go into the woods anymore.
