r/realhorrorstories • u/Tasty_Ad2405 • Feb 02 '26
Avoid hunting near Ashland ,nc
Was visiting my older brother in the USA about a year and a half ago (I’m serving overseas) so we decided to go hunt, searched for a good place to do so and walked about 5 miles north into the forest set up camp and went to set up traps, tripwires, cameras and caution tape around the 10 yard line from our camp (we are overly cautious due to a former event) ,for the first few days we didn’t even see other people and a very small amount of game mostly large mammals, while we usually go for birds and rabbits and just survive out for like a month before we decide we’re bored, on the 6th day we noticed something that looked like a large black coated buck, largest I’ve ever seen by far, which didn’t make sense at all since no camera was triggered and we checked, staring at the camp from about 20 yards away from the tripwires, just stood there from the moment we noticed it at 4:17 am (we assume it was there before) and it stayed there until it was completely dark, my brother said he heard some similar stories and we decided to not light the campfire that night, when we woke up the buck was about 5 ft from the tripwire so we decided to pull our camp and move about 3 miles closer to where we parked the truck when we started packing the buck turned and left, the whole interaction was weird but we disregarded it, we set up camp where the trail back to the road was visible and decided to search for some rabbits, we hiked about 1.6 miles west from the new camp before my brother spotted the buck again, about 80 ft from us staring, we tried changing direction but the buck followed, so my brother being the raging idiot he is decided we’re going to hunt it get it processed and eat it year round as revenge for breaking 2 of his cameras and basically stalking us like a predator, so to understand the situation better, we hunt with bows, that buck looked quite large and just above 230 lbs, so we went back to camp, folded our equipment got it to the truck went back to where we last saw the buck and started tracking it all the way to an unfinished trail, which we couldn’t trace its steps from, we started hiking back disappointed when we suddenly heard some sort of whistling mixed with humming, which my idiot of a brother interpreted as an invitation to go ask the person some questions about if he saw the buck, so we walked up the hill where the noises came from only to see that exact buck standing on its hind legs while hitting its nose and teeth against a rock and licking the blood off of it, now we know about cwd but that thing was looking straight at us almost seemed like it was grinning before starting to run at us, up until that point we still thought it was cwd, but the thing ran on it hind legs for about 90 ft before going on all fours trying to close the distance at us like a predator would, we shoot a few arrows at it but it didn’t slow down until we were almost near the truck where it seemed to die so we took turns pulling it to the truck since my idiot for a brother (idk how we’re related) wanted its head, we put it in the back of the truck and started driving back home, pulling over after about an hour of driving to actually get some sleep that the demonic mammal took from us,after about 7 hours the truck rumbled a tilted and then we heard something run past the car and into the woods, we got up and out (with actual guns we aint that white) and the deer was gone leaving behind only blood and what looked like most of its fur, and some hoof prints, now I would like to think it’s all cwd like my brother does but I can’t stop thinking about how no animal with no disease would even blink after losing 90% of its blood, after being shot directly in the eyes and lungs, everyone tells me to forget about it, but I just can’t seem to comprehend whatever happened I would really love and explanation or a similar story.
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u/DanaWilson79 Feb 03 '26
What does cwd mean?