For starters we both work at a hospital and work until 1 am. This all happened about 2 weeks ago, We worked a 12 hour shift due to our departments being slightly understaffed for the night. We’re leaving the hospital around 4 am, we usually take the highway but the on ramp was closed due to an accident so we decided we’d just take normal roads home.

It was going well for the first 30 minutes until we get to a part of the trip where the once touching residential houses became nothing but woods. The speed limit was 25 because it was still a “residential”, there was probably one house every 2 miles. My girlfriend and I were talking about the new lil dicky song and having a nice time when I got this awful feeling I’m being watched, I looked into the back seat feeling like I would 100% see a person sitting back there. I start observing the tree line to my right and see nothing.

Then it happens we slam into a deer running from the left side of the road from the woods. My girlfriend screams and I start to look around to see what just happened. I see the back and legs of a deer stumble away before getting distracted by my girlfriend shaking me asking me what the hell just happened. I told her you hit a deer and was then forced outside to see the damage on her car because she was afraid to leave the car. I open the door and go to the front of the car and look at the grill, I can’t see anything due to her headlights still being on, I flick my wrist to signal her to shut her head lights off. I turn my phone light on and turn my head to where the deer ran off to... my girlfriend kills her headlights and perfectly where I was looking I see a set of glowing eyes in the tree line, standing at the height a deers eyes would be.

I look away to see if there is any damage, we were only going 25 so it was just a small piece of the grill was broken off. I give her a thumbs up and I starting walking back to the passenger door, I grab the handle and decide to give the deer one last look and I see the same set of glowing white eyes but now standing about 6 feet, my heart sinks deep and I get in the car. I tell my girlfriend there was minimal damage, and to just drive. She kept asking questions and I wasn’t ready to tell my girlfriend who gets extremely scared very easily that I saw the deer we hit standing and watching us. She asks how the deer was and I said “you were going slow and just lightly tapped it and I saw it walk off and it was fine” I also worked in that there wasn’t any blood on the car or ground.

She finally takes off and I feel 100% safer. Something tells me to look back using the side mirror, I glance into the mirror and slide down the seat so I could see the deer. It was no longer standing in the tree line but in the middle of the road... I see it in her back lights and I can see that it is not a deer. In the red glow I saw a very tall man in very little or very worn clothing. My heart must’ve skipped a beat, It was just staring with its piercing white eyes, looking right at me.

I didn’t say a word to my girlfriend the whole way home and haven’t since. We drive in silent for 30 minutes or so until we got home then she starts saying how lucky we were, I was asking her why she said that, thinking she would know what I just saw, she says it could’ve rolled up the hood and into the windshield, I breathe a sigh of relief, we get out and start looking at the car, the grill had more damage then I remember seeing but it wasn’t too bad. I apparently missed seeing a hand length stick thick as a tube of toothpaste in the grill, my girlfriend takes it out and throws it to the ground like it’s nothing but I’m thinking to myself, why would a deer have a stick on them or how would they is a better question.

We go inside and start making dinner, the image of that things eyes are burned into every thought, I try to stay focused but can’t, I excuse myself to the restroom and I take out my phone, I start looking up its features and compared what happened to me to others stories. I had a hunch that it was a skin walker but being an avid scary story reader/listener I never assume they’re true until that night. I let it go and thanked god my girlfriend and I left unharmed and got home safely. I’m still thinking about it today and feel so unsettled, more so then when scary stuff happens at work, I’m thinking I may share those scary stories too.