An Exotic Animal Park Once Let A Ghost White Deer Roam Oklahoma Backroads

During college, I worked three summers at Falls Creek near Davis, Oklahoma. To get to Falls Creek, you had two options: the low road or the high road. The low road took you around a mountain of the Arbuckles, while the high road took you over. Both were beautiful routes during the day, but at night, they each had their own frights.

Driving at night on either road was risky due to the lack of street lights. Both roads had their own tricky twists and turns. One wrong turn on the high road could send you over the edge, while taking a corner too fast on the low road could crash you into trees. But if you decided to take the low road at night, you'd have to prepare yourself for one creepy factor the high road didn't have: an albino deer.

An albino deer from the Arbuckle Wilderness haunted the low road to Falls Creek.

The low road to Falls Creek is also the road people would take to visit the now-closed Arbuckle Wilderness. The exotic-animal park was home to zebras, giraffes, camels, and more, and you could drive your car through it to see and sometimes feed the animals. The park was also home to an albino deer that had the uncanny ability to escape at night and scare passengers on the low road.

The low road itself is already creepy at night. It's a tiny, two-lane road with unending twists and turns. Each side of the road is compacted with tall trees, and you only have your headlights to guide you. So when you come across an albino deer glowing bright with red eyes near a church camp, it's only normal that you have a little freak out and think something spiritual is occurring.

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Albino deer sightings on the low road can be mesmerizing and terrifying.

As many times as I have driven the low road at night, I have only come across the albino deer two times. Once when I was driving by myself, I spotted the deer on the side of the road. My headlights caused it to glow, and for a moment, I couldn't tell what it was. It wasn't until I zoomed past that I could make out a white deer with red eyes staring back at me.

The second time I saw the albino deer was actually terrifying. It was standing in the middle of the road when my friends and I were driving on the low road. After a big turn, the car's headlights shined on a bright white figure in the middle of the road with glowing red eyes. The driver hit the breaks, and was luckily able to swerve into the other lane to avoid hitting the deer.

A white deer standing in the middle of a forest

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Is the albino deer from the Arbuckle Wilderness still alive?

It was over 10 years ago that I worked at Falls Creek and had my two run-ins with the albino deer on the low road. The Arbuckle Wilderness is currently closed due to a suspension from the USDA. Whether or not the albino deer is still alive and haunting the low road is uncertain.

But since its been over a decade since I personally saw the albino deer, my assumption would be that the deer has already passed on. So if I was to drive the low road at night today and come across the albino deer, I would assume that it was actually a mystical experience.