Other / Unknown · Louisiana · 2025
Why it's on Wait… what now?: An elongated deer-like creature with a sunflower-like ring of hair and a circular head is a strange hybrid.
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Apr 2025to the month
- Where
- Louisianato state level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator and his friend encountered an elongated deer-like creature with a small circular head, bulging eyes, and a ring of black hair resembling a sunflower, which made deafening noises before fleeing after being shot at.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Louisiana, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words - When
- Apr 2025
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 15, 2026
- Case id
- case-9e12f27138
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- My encounter with a cryptid (The Sunflower Deer)
Reddit · 2026-06-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - My encounter with a cryptid (The Sunflower Deer)
Reddit · 2026-06-16
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.