I Think I Hit A Gremlin

While driving home from work the other day on the Garden State Parkway I heard a loud thwap.  I looked up in time to see the blood trail work its way up my windshield.  I'm not fully sure what I hit but my guess right now is leaning towards a gremlin.  That is a lot of blood and the streak was about six inches from top to bottom.  The creepiest part was that hitting the wipers with windshield wiper fluid did nothing, not even smear it.  Nature is a fucked up thing.