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5 min readThe narrator, a young man with Indigenous heritage, agrees to a last-minute hunting trip with his friend Kelvin. He is initially suspicious—Kelvin insisted on him specifically, and the narrator senses something off—but he goes anyway to escape his cousin’s rowdy friends. They hike to a makeshift deer stand Kelvin built from scrap wood nailed into a dead tree. As dusk falls, they finish a twelve-pack of beer. A herd of deer appears, catches their scent, and scatters. Then a lone deer wanders into view. Kelvin raises his rifle. The narrator waits for the shot.
Instead, the deer turns its head toward them and speaks: “Don’t shoot. It’s me.”
The encounter
The voice was clear as day. The deer’s mouth opened and closed as the words left its throat. The narrator jumps down from the stand, grabs Kelvin’s coat, and drags him toward the truck. Kelvin laughs at his fear. The narrator realizes then that Kelvin does not respect him or his culture—he thinks it is a joke. So the narrator lets go and sprints ahead alone. He reaches the truck. Then he hears Kelvin scream.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:36) **Story Setup: The Reluctant Hunter** - The narrator explains he needs to share a story that haunts him daily, and introduces his friend Kelvin who unexpectedly asked him on a hunting trip.
- 2 (05:18) **Arrival at the Deer Stand** - Kelvin leads the narrator deep into a thicket of tamaracks to a makeshift deer stand he built from scrap wood.
- 3 (06:34) **The Strange Deer Appears** - The herd disperses after catching their scent, but a lone deer wanders into view, and Kelvin becomes intensely focused.
- 4 (08:45) **The Deer Speaks** - Just as the narrator expects a gunshot, the deer turns its head and speaks in a clear human voice: "Don't shoot. It's me."
- 5 (09:57) **The Chase Begins** - The narrator reaches the truck, but then hears Kelvin scream in genuine terror as he runs to join him.
- 6 (10:31) **The Skinwalker Reveals Itself** - The narrator sees the deer running alongside the truck at 80 miles per hour, and then watches in the rearview mirror as it stands on its hind legs and sheds its deer skin.
- 7 (11:55) **The Sage Defense** - The narrator grabs a bundle of sage hanging from the rearview mirror and lights it with his lighter.
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Skinwalkers are real, I've seen one. Pray to God you never do...
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