Craig Wells sent us this photo, the best we've received of the white deer.

We've had a few photos submitted to seMissourian.com with images of this deer, running with a pack of your typical, brown colored white-tail deer we see all of the time in Southeast Missouri. Some think the odd deer is an albino, some think it's a white deer.

After doing a little research, I believe we have a white deer on our hands, not an albino. I Googled "white deer" and found several images of the creatures, as well as some interesting stories, like this one from CBS News done in 2006 about the white deer at the Seneca Army Depot in New York. The story says these are regular deer, not albino, that are white because of a recessive gene.

Apparently they're fairly rare, so this Cape Girardeau find is quite remarkable.

Their rareness also made white deer sacred to some Native American tribes, according to this legend.

The white deer has captivated our attention so much that we're on the lookout for it. The Southeast Missourian would like nothing more than to capture some nice images of this creature. So if you've seen the white deer, please let us know the area you saw it in (as specific as possible). Just leave your comments here.