{"id":6646,"date":"2014-07-30T17:09:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T23:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2014-07-30T17:09:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T23:09:19","slug":"a-horned-god-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6646","title":{"rendered":"A Horned God in Oklahoma?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting story \u2014 a year old, but I just ran across it \u2014 about “deer men” in the 59,000-acre\u00a0 Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge<\/a> in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe moved to another observation site to the northeast at the base of Mount Scott, the highest point out there,\u201d Heying said. \u201cWe did a U-turn in the parking area and as I made the turn my headlights lighted up a human figure with a head I can not easily describe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The creature didn\u2019t look human. \u201cIt was as though it had the head of a buffalo or an elk, while standing upright with two legs and two arms that were human,\u201d he said. But the eyes were what terrified him. \u201cThe eyes were a dark red.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest \u2014 you will have to scroll down past the so-called UFO sighting.<\/a><\/p>\n

Various explanations are offered in the comments, of course. Land wights, a god, or just a good campfire story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting story \u2014 a year old, but I just ran across it \u2014 about “deer men” in the 59,000-acre\u00a0 Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. \u201cWe moved to another observation site to the northeast at the base of Mount Scott, the highest point out there,\u201d Heying said. \u201cWe did a U-turn in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,238],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animism","tag-oklahoma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1Jc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5646,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5646","url_meta":{"origin":6646,"position":0},"title":"‘Non-Christian’ License Plate Prompts Oklahoma Lawsuit","author":"Chas S. 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