'Ghost-like' white stag spotted

An all-white stag has been spotted in the Scottish Highlands.

It's not the same as an 'albino', in that the eyes are normal color.

This BBC link has a pic and a video.

(Unfortunately, the video is from a distance but you can clearly see the animal running with the herd.)

Though one other had been spotted last year, (killed by hunters) I think this is sufficiently interesting to be considered a cryptozoological find. It could be responsible for reports of unicorns and ghosts other similar sightings, showing that all such reports are not necessarily fabrications.


[edit on 11-2-2008 by Badge01]

Cool! It's like The Spirit of the Woods from the first Neverwinter Nights.

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Correction! Killed by poachers! Let's clear that up right now.

Expecto Patronum!!!!

Thats a beautiful stag.
(Wonder who's patronus that is )

I hope this one lives (Poachers suck!!!! )



[edit on 11-2-2008 by Chiiru]

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A frequent character in Japanese anime, including Narnia and a version in Princess Mononoke, and in Celtic, Hungarian and Christian myth, and as Chiiru notes above, in the Harry Potter series..

In Celtic myth it symbolizes the Otherworld is near (whatever that means)

Here's a slightly better pic from a news site:

image source: http://editorial.jpress.co.uk/web/Upload/TS//TH1_10220082deer.jpg


If we can just get a picture of it being chased by white wolves, we'll really have something.



OK, if a white buffalo shows up being chased by a white rabbit, I'll be officially concerned.






[edit on 11-2-2008 by Badge01]

When I was in Scouts, stayed in the woods next to the Nanticoke river in Delaware. I remember being with a friend going to the trading post (shop). On the way back we met up with one of these. It seemed larger than a regular buck (almost moose-sized), snow white and looked like it had fur on the antlers. It was really freaking cool. It just looked at us as we passed by. Very beautiful. Naturally when we got back to camp, everyone had told us how stupid we were for making up stories.

Nanicoke river path:
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Best picture I could find that's like it:
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At our young age, we were wondering if it was a sign, or had some kind of special meaning, being that no one we knew ever saw one. Indeed it did. The sign is it a beautiful animal among many other beautiful animals on the earth.

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white deer conservation park

from this website: www.pwrc.usgs.gov...