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In this episode, Christy and Kathy explore their Cryptid Files and the case of the Deer Lady, a figure from Native American folklore—especially in Oklahoma—known as a spirit of beauty, vengeance, and warning. They describe her appearance (a beautiful woman with hooves, sometimes deer-from-the-waist-down, and occasionally antlers or reflective eyes) and explain a common origin story: a woman assaulted and murdered in the woods, reborn to punish predatory men by luring them away and trampling them. They discuss how multiple tribes share versions of the legend, how tobacco and chanting may banish her in Ojibwe tradition, and how the tale functions as a moral boundary story in societies without formal legal systems. Anecdotal sightings (including tribal police and powwow stories) are weighed against skepticism, misidentification, and lack of verifiab ...