Any direction a deer knee is supposed to go, her knees don’t.” I notice that all of her knees are bent backwards. However, she turns and looks me in the eyes. My natural reaction is to stop because I’ve seen does out here before and I just want to take a minute to look at her, don’t want to spook her.
I’m walking around the woods like the cryptid I am, when a few yards ahead of me I see a doe. In the video, the user relates that “I was out at my grandparent’s house here hiking. (If anyone familiar with TikTok knows of an older video, please contact me.) On the Trail of the Not DeerĪfter an hour of searching through every result for #NotDeer on TikTok, filtering those results by relevance, then checking the upload date for each video (apparently TikTok doesn’t have the functionality to allow you to simply sort videos from oldest to newest), the oldest video I could find was from the user dated May 11, 2020. Even in the absence of such evidence, a serious scientific investigation is still possible. Likewise, I have not seen photographic evidence on either Reddit or Tumblr of alleged Not Deer, though of course some may surface in the future. Many are either users sharing stories about Not Deer or duetting with the few videos that are of alleged sightings. Alleged sightings of Not Deer have been reported mostly within Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Connecticut, with some reported sightings as far away as Texas and Norway.ĭespite millions of views associated with the hashtag #notdeer, there are few videos on TikTok of alleged sightings. Not Deer are variously described as looking like a deer but with there being something “wrong” with them, such as having the forward-facing eyes of a predator or eyes that are judged to be too close together, a neck that’s too long, a head that’s misshapen, or legs that are judged to be too short and are jointed or move in unnatural ways. Unlike other cryptids, the Not Deer is characterized not as a distinctly unknown animal, but rather how it appears or behaves in contrast to a known animal-a deer (Cervidae). To that list we may add more recent reported sightings of what’s referred to as the “Not Deer.” Although websites such as 4chan, Reddit, and Tumblr are host to discussions of alleged Not Deer sightings, it’s on the video-sharing social media platform TikTok where the phenomena has really taken off, with the hashtag #notdeer currently at 34.8 million views. The Appalachian region of the United States is allegedly home to several well-known cryptids including Mothman, the Appalachian Chupacabra, the Pennsylvanian White Bigfoot, and many others.
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