>>1835983>solo camping in Allegheny national forest>on a pleasant night hike, looking for a spot deep innawoods to post up and set up my hammock>feel like I'm being watched all night, figure it's just primal paranoia from walking in the darkness>3 hours into hike, suddenly get hit by a rush of adrenaline and fear >realize the forest has gone completely silent, no rustling, no crickets, no wind >see 2 glowing dots right on the outskirts of my mag-lite's cone of light, figure it's a deer>aim light directly at it, realize both eyes are clearly mounted on top of its head like a predator>head is elongated and carrot shaped like downwards cone>otherwise completely featureless face, no mouth, no ears, just 2 forward mounted eyes>standing on 2 stick legs with a hunch, no torso or front legsI only got a clear view of it for a split second before I got spooked and ran. It definitely had a humanoid shape aside from it basically looking like a long head on top of 2 slender legs. The best I can come up with is that a deer got its front legs caught in some branches or wire, giving it a standing appearance. What fucks me up is the fact that its head was completely blank aside from the eyes. I could see how some scavengers could have bitten the snout and ears off but I don't see why they wouldn't touch the rest of the animal. It also didn't seem like it was dead or decomposed at all.
