GHOST ELK

A spectral beast seen by the Laird of  Ardblair, Scotland. in modern times.  His wife also had a sighting.  His first impression was that it was like an American moose - actually the European elk is identical with the American moose and is known to have roamed Scotland until about the year 1300.  Could there be a few surviving?  He also entertained the impression that it could have been a Great Irish Elk - an extinct creature which was in fact no elk but a deer and whose range as far from confined to Ireland.  To add to the confusion, in America the term elk is applied to the wapiti.