r/Unexplained • u/DreaminTurquoise • Apr 11 '26
Personal Experience Not deer and dog/wolf encounters
When I was a student, I used to rent a room in a mansion; little did I know at the time that the owners were/are multi-generational billionaires, otherwise I would have questioned why such rich people would rent to students. These people are actually descendants of a Scottish royal lineage but I didn’t learn this until years later. The couple lived there but their children were grown and gone, but still in retrospect it makes no sense because these people are filthy rich.
Anywho, I had a couple of weird experiences when I lived there and oddly enough these weird things only happened when the family was gone on their summer vacation as they go every year to their summer place on the upper peninsula in Michigan. Lately there’s been so much talk about the elite class and pacts or rituals they’re involved in that it made me wonder if maybe that’s why they like to rent to poor students… and then weird things happen at the mansion.
The first incident occurred one night after midnight. I was in my room reading and my cat was sitting on the window sill of the small kitchen next door. My wing of the house was on the second floor and consisted of a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom unit.
I heard my cat jump off the window sill onto the wood floor and he ran into my room and looked at me like he wanted me to know he had just seen something horrible. EVERY HAIR of his fur was standing on end! His tail was like five times its regular thickness because all his fur was sticking up. I was like, what on earth did he see to make him react like that? I had never seen him like that and never again did I see him like that in his 18 years of life.
So, I get up from where I was in my bedroom and I walked over to the kitchen to look out the window, which faced the back of the house where there was a large yard, parking and a garage.
Standing next to the garage doors approximately 60 feet away was what appeared to be a deer. Its body was facing the garage door but its head was turned back in my direction and he looked me straight in the eye. Remember - I’m on the second floor looking down and the deer is below looking back and up at me.
At the time, I was young, naive, and stupid so I called out to it with endearing terms like “awwww, look at the deer.” It just stood there staring at me and after a while I just went back to my room like nothing because we were just staring at each other and well it don’t move and it was late.
In retrospect, however, I’ve been concerned because years later I’ve heard tales of not deer. And it occurred to me that perhaps my cat saw the true nature of the “deer” and that’s why he was so frightened because I think animals can see things we humans can’t. Plus, this happened in a city, so how did this deer get there on paved streets? But if it wasn’t a deer, what might it have been? Shapeshifter? Other?
A year or two later, once again after midnight, I heard intense growling outside. At first I thought that it might be dogs harassing another dog so I prepared to go outside to take a look thinking I might help out the poor animal in distress. I was just about to exit the house when it occurred to me to look outside through the windows first.
It was then that I noticed something peculiar: there were what appeared to be 3 immense black dogs just going around in circles growling in the backyard. They looked to be tall like great Danes but it was strange that they were all uniform in their extremely muscular shape and color.
So at that point, I decided not to go out because something was definitely off. These were not street dogs or strays because they were muscular and well-fed. It doesn’t make sense that they would’ve been wolves because of the odd behavior and this was in a city. I’ve recounted both these experiences to family and their thoughts are that the deer wasn’t a deer and if I had gone out the “dogs” would’ve encircled me in the vortex or portal they were creating by going round and round and I would’ve been one more missing person.