Not sure if a lot of people know about this guy, but I remember reading about him at a really young age and being terrified. There was a book in old St. Joe's library, that talked all about folk monster's of North America. Things like Mothman, Bigfoot, the D.C. Black Cat, but when I got to the section about Goatman there was a Derek Hess (f'ing badass artist) type illustration of this half-man / half-goat satyr holding an axe on the side of a country road. Anyway this image was seared into my mind and was the inspiration for many nightmares when I was just a little bastard. The most famous sighting story of this little munchkin goes something like this: A couple was parked alone on a country road, they were having a moon lit shag session, when suddenly there was banging on the hood of the car. They saw what appeared to be a goat-like creature pounding it fist's and holding a double edged axe. The goatman then dashed back into the forest, without harming the sinners. In another reported sighting, A women saw a large shadowy creature near the tree line of her yard and the dog was going ape-shit. She was too afraid to go out to see what it was but the next morning she found her dog decapitated. Some of the origins that the intelligent and reasonable people from Prince George's County Maryland believe could be: That he escaped from Glendale hospital (a tuberculosis sanatorium), many years ago and has been living in the wild, or he is the product of a genetic experiment gone wrong at the nearby Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. Some of the assholes even believe that he is an ansestor of "Pan" from greek mythology, so yeah that's actually what he/she probably is.
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