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Today at expeedia.com.uk slash visit Scotland. I'm 24 now, but this happened when I was 22, and I still have a hard time talking about it

without feeling stupid.

Not because I think I imagined it.

That would honestly make this easier.

I feel stupid because every time I say it out loud, it sounds like some campfire story somebody

made up after drinking too much,

and I know exactly how I would react if someone told me the same thing. I would probably nod

along and think they saw an animal, got scared, and filled in the rest later. I get that. I used

to be that person. I didn't believe in skin walkers or curses or anything like that,

and I still don't know what I believe.

I just know that for one night,

while I was house sitting at a property outside Farmington, New Mexico,

something stood on the back porch and knocked on the door,

and when I looked through the peephole,

I saw a deer standing there like a person.

The house belonged to my mom's friend, a woman named Carla, who had known my family since I was in middle school.

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