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5 min readA Hunting Trip That Changed Everything
A seventeen-year-old boy agreed to go hunting with his friend Kelvin on a Saturday evening, mostly to escape his cousin's rowdy friends at home. What he encountered in the woods that night—a deer that spoke in a human voice, then shed its skin to reveal a man running beside their truck at eighty miles per hour—left him unable to sleep for three days and reshaped how he understood the stories his grandmother had told him since childhood.
The Setup: An Unusual Invitation
The narrator's friend Kelvin called on a Saturday, insisting that the narrator join him hunting—and only him, not any of the other guys in their friend group. "It has to be you," Kelvin urged. The narrator was suspicious but decided to go anyway. When Kelvin pulled into the driveway seconds after receiving the narrator's text confirming he'd come, it became clear Kelvin had already been on his way. They drove to a dead-end gravel road leading into thick tamarack woods, then walked twenty minutes to Kelvin's deer stand—a makeshift platform built from scrap wood nailed into a dead tree, ten feet off the ground.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:45) **Setup: A Reluctant Hunting Invitation** - The narrator explains why he agreed to a last-minute hunting trip with his friend Kelvin, despite not being a hunter himself.
- 2 (03:31) **Arrival at the Deer Stand** - Kelvin drives them deep into the woods to a makeshift deer stand he built, and they settle in to wait.
- 3 (06:58) **The Herd Scatters, a Lone Deer Appears** - A herd of deer is spooked by their scent, but a single deer lingers in their line of sight.
- 4 (09:28) **The Deer Speaks: "Don't Shoot. It's Me."** - As Kelvin aims, the deer turns its head and speaks in a clear human voice, triggering panic.
- 5 (10:58) **Kelvin's Terror and the Chase Begins** - Kelvin screams in genuine fear as he reaches the truck, and they speed away.
- 6 (12:53) **The Deer Runs Alongside the Truck at 80 MPH** - The creature keeps pace with the speeding truck, then stands on its hind legs to reveal its true form.
- 7 (14:05) **The Sage Bundle Repels the Skinwalker** - The narrator grabs a bundle of sage from the rearview mirror and lights it, causing the creature to let go.
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Skinwalkers are real, I've seen one. Pray to God you never do...
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