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5 min readIn late January, a 48-year-old deer hunter in thick woods heard a grunt, then a high-pitched screech. Scanning the ridge, he saw a deer standing on its hind legs a hundred yards downhill. Its legs bent the wrong way. It was abnormally skinny. Its eyes were on the front of its face, and they looked human. When the thing began to smile—a grin that reached its eyes—it yelled, "Help. I need help. Please." The hunter fled, and his side-by-side wouldn't start. This is the kind of encounter that fills an episode of Expanded Perspectives, where hosts Cam Hale and Kyle Fils collect and discuss listener stories of the unexplained: cryptids, UFOs, shadow beings, and the creatures that seem to watch from the treeline.
The Deer-Not-Deer and the Mimic
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:07) **Cold Open & Banter** - Hosts Game Hail and Kyle Fils welcome listeners, discuss 4th of July plans, grilling, and a hippo horror movie called *Hungry*.
- 2 (04:26) **Deer Not Deer Encounter** - A hunter in late January hears a deer grunt and a high-pitched screech, then sees a deer standing on its hind legs with human-like eyes and a horrifying smile.
- 3 (09:06) **Sleep Paralysis & The Old Hag** - A college student in San Francisco experiences poltergeist activity in her apartment, culminating in a sleep paralysis episode where a snake-skinned old woman pulls her off the bed.
- 4 (14:45) **Reptilian Hunters & A Botched Abduction** - A boy in Colorado in 1969 wakes to his dog barking at a landed UFO, from which tall, scaly, lizard-like beings with webbed hands and bow-and-arrow weapons emerge.
- 5 (20:20) **Ghostly Smells & Haunted Hunting Grounds** - A hunter recounts his friend's story about smelling frying bacon in the middle of the woods with no source, and other areas of the lease his friend refuses to enter.
- 6 (27:34) **Teen Camping Scare & Red-Eyed Creature** - A group of teenage boys on a canoe trip in Missouri see a large, waist-high shape with glowing red eyes enter their campsite at night.
- 7 (34:06) **UFOs Over Beverly Hills & The Jimmy Carter Theory** - A listener and her mother witness a classic silver disc hovering in broad daylight near Santa Monica, with the words "U.S. Air Force" clearly visible on its underside.
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Show Notes
This week on Expanded Perspectives, the guys dive deep into a collection of chilling encounters that blur the line between folklore, high strangeness, and the unknown.
The episode begins with a terrifying account from a seasoned hunter who encounters something in the woods that looks like a deer... but behaves like nothing found in nature. Standing upright, grinning with human-like eyes, and even mimicking his own words, the creature leaves him questioning everything he thought he knew about the wilderness. Then, another unsettling experience from Alabama reminds us that sometimes the silence of the forest—and the reactions of animals—can warn us of dangers we cannot yet see.
From there, the conversation shifts skyward as the guys explore some of the most fascinating UFO encounters ever reported. A young boy in Colorado watches reptilian-looking beings emerge from a landed craft in his front yard. Hundreds of motorists witness a mysterious silver disc hovering over Southern California in broad daylight. A Canadian family finds themselves exchanging flashes of light with an unknown craft before their car mysteriously fails on a lonely Minnesota highway. Police officers across Mississippi and Alabama report being pursued by glowing aerial objects that seem to interfere with their patrol vehicles, while a church bus full of terrified witnesses experiences an encounter none of them would ever forget.
The episode also revisits one of the most compelling alleged alien abduction cases from Maine, where two young men lose hours of time after an encounter with an enormous glowing craft, followed by disturbing memories recovered years later through hypnosis.
Finally, the guys take a look back at the event that changed history forever—the famous 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold. What did he actually see near Mount Rainier, and how did one misunderstood newspaper headline give birth to the phrase "flying saucer" and ignite the modern UFO phenomenon?
From impossible creatures lurking in remote forests to unexplained craft that have baffled eyewitnesses for decades, this is another unforgettable journey into the strange, the mysterious, and the unexplained.
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