CHEATHAM COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Rutherford County had a zebra, Sumner County had a bear, and now, there’s an elk wandering around in Cheatham County.
Melody Dennis spotted the elk around 6 a.m. Tuesday near Frey Street. She was pulling out of her subdivision when she came across the unexpected elk.
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Dennis said she did a double take, explaining she’s seen elk before in Colorado but never in Middle Tennessee.
“Something I wasn’t expecting to see. You know, at six o’clock in the morning in Ashland City, you know, I see deer run across to there all the time. That’s not uncommon. I see them in my backyard, but this is I had to stop and look twice at this and then grab my phone to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. So it was definitely an elk,” said Dennis.
She posted her photos in a local Facebook group, which garnered a lot of attention. Some were skeptical the images were photoshopped or generated by AI, but she promises that’s not the case…