/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>renovating a guy's hunting cabin down in southern Vermont
>nice place, out in the middle of the woods on a private drive, situated on about 5 acres of land leading down to a creek
>I'm there by myself, just fixing things up and cleaning before the renters arrive for the summer
>getting paid well and I get to sleep for free in the cabin as long as I'm working there
>it's around dusk on one of my last nights there
>I've finished working for the day and am enjoying a beer out back, facing downhill towards the creek and the tree line
>hear something moving through the woods
>see antlers
>nice big rack too, get bummed that the seasons over
>hold on
>the shape is all wrong
>I see a deer's head, but where's the body?
>the thing comes up to the edge of the creek and stops and looks up at the house
>it has a man's body, but dark grey/brown and way too tall to be a man
>and a deer's head, with big antlers
>it stares up the hill at me
>I slowly reach for the lever rifle I bring with me in case a bear or a yote or a big cat gets too close
>slowly pick it up
>it stands and stares for a minute or two and then just sort of melts back into the woods
>hear it walking around in the woods all night
>told the owner about it when I got back home
>he told me not to worry about it