The Not-Deer and Other Disturbing Tales from North America

Haunted House and a Vengeful Spirit

• 👻 A dogsitter experiences escalating paranormal activity in a family friend's house, including shadows, humming, and a moving candle.
• 🔨 The climax involves a man hammering a wall who vanishes, later revealed to be the ghost of a great-uncle who murdered his great-aunt and left a note blaming her.
• ⚠️ The story serves as a cautionary tale to research the history of homes due to potential undisclosed paranormal activity.

The Cursed Ghost Town and Mysterious Creatures

• 🏚️ An amateur cryptid hunter explores a deserted ghost town in the northeastern US, rumored to be cursed and plagued by mysterious creatures.
• 💀 The town's history is marked by a curse on a family of settlers, leading to madness, untimely deaths, and disappearances into the dense forest.
• 🦌 A disturbing encounter involves a massive buck that exhibits unnatural behavior, including jumping an 8-ft fence and emitting a human-like howl, suggesting a predatory, non-deer entity.
• 🐕 The narrator's dog, Fial, is tragically killed and torn apart by an unseen force, with the narrator experiencing a trance-like state and finding himself covered in mud.

The 'Not-Deer' Phenomenon and Unsettling Encounters

• 🌲 The 'Not-Deer' phenomenon describes deer exhibiting predatory and unnatural behaviors, including aggressive attacks and unsettling vocalizations.
• 🌕 A groundskeeper recounts experiences in the oldest part of a cemetery, hearing strange sounds, finding mutilated animals, and seeing unsettling footprints, suggesting something unnatural lurks there.
• 🐺 An electrical infrastructure worker encounters a tall, gaunt, fur-covered bipedal creature with wolf-like features and glowing yellow eyes, feeding on a deer, which he describes as a 'werewolf'.

Disturbing Workplace Incidents

• 🍳 A school cafeteria worker describes a tilting kettle incident where boiling stock poured out just as an employee stepped away, narrowly avoiding severe burns, attributed to mechanical failure but with an underlying sense of unease.
• 🔥 Another incident involves a kitchen towel inexplicably burning inside a cold oven, leading to speculation about 'bad spirits' in the old school building.
• 👁️ The worker also recounts seeing glowing eyes in a dark supply closet, experiencing a feeling of being watched, and bringing holy water for protection.
• 🏢 An office cleaner suspects a co-worker, a seemingly friendly consultant, of being a serial killer after witnessing suspicious behavior, dark stains, and a strong smell of cleaning products, but his anonymous tips to the police yield no results.