"What we saw was 7-8 feet tall, bipedal, spindly legs, gaunt, with protruding rib cage. It/they would lean out from behind a tree in the forest behind our house."
I received the following account:
"My daughter and I have regularly and reliably seen a "hide behind" from my kitchen window. This eventually led to us learning the truth about this midwestern mythical creature.
What we saw was 7-8 feet tall, bipedal, spindly legs, gaunt, with protruding rib cage. It/they would lean out from behind a tree in the forest behind our house. If you moved about, it would pop back behind the tree.
We never saw more than one at a time, but there seemed to be more than one, as height varied. We sometimes saw it multiple times a day, but the behavior was always the same. It seemed wary of us, but if we stayed out of sight, it would lean out into view for a few seconds at a time.
When we sent the dog out, it would run off into the forest after it, but never chased it into view, so that told us nothing.
I viewed it through a rifle scope and got a good long look at it silhouetted against the snow behind the trees, it was really creepy, like a Slenderman or something, I could determine height by going out and measuring the trees we saw it next to. I of course did not shoot it, since you should not shoot what you cannot identify, and the only large bipeds hereabouts are people, though nothing human is that tall, or narrow.
We knew the local legends (Eastern Iowa), and this matched the description and behavior.
We dug out our trail camera but solved the mystery before we got a chance to set it up. Sorry to disappoint folks, but we solved the mystery, as I'm sure many have before us.
As winter sets in the deer like to stand on their hind legs to eat the tips of pine tree branches. They are scared of people, and will always do it behind trees. But every so often one that is sick, starving, had twins, or gave birth too late in the season, will be desperate. The desperate ones will lean out to get the untouched branches given the house, but if they sense movement, they duck away." P
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