Ok, I remember reading this book about the paranormal as a little kid and reading a story about a monster seen in Maryland called the goatman. So I did some searching and came up with this Link. Sounds like he'd be a good character for a slasher flick huh? hehe

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My dad told me a story about how he was driving way up in the woods and he swears out of the corner of his eye he saw a man running along the side of his truck but the man had the head of a goat! Umm, not like the 'goat man" described on this post but still.....its a goat man. Just thought I'd add that. Who knows if he was telling the truth.


Mandy

I havent hear dof this "Goatman" before I'll check up on him!



Thank God for the internet

the Goatman is some seriously scary stuff. he supposedly carries an axe and kills small animals or eats roadkill. some people think he is a government experiment, others an aberration of nature. there are a lot of Goatman links on the net, most of them dealing with the Maryland Goatman:

http://azaz.essortment.com/goatmanlegend_rhcn.htm

http://netjunk.com/users/sideshowlew/goatm...anmaryland.html (cheesy pic)

http://www.washcp.com/archives/cover/1998/.../cover0918.html (a good article)

there are also Texas Goatmen and Oklahoma Goatmen but i found a lot dead links or useless information on those.

Ok now Im freaked out.

Are there any known accounts of Goat-Man killing People. On Animal X, a show I watched, it said something about this couple in a parked car in a abonded road in Maryland. The boy gets out when he sees something in the bushes. He doens't comeback.

The girl sees a man-thing walking around, she gets very very scared. Later in the morning, the police come and tell her not to look up, but she does, and the hanging head of her boyfriend is above the car. Pretty scary huh?

P.S. has anyone every photographed goat man?

Im not coming baco to this post im freaked out bye

Nope. Really imo to, I think most likely the goatman was probably a serial killer that was around at the time of the sightings. Just anyone that ever saw him didn't get a good enough view of the goatman because it was so dark, and that in turn kinda made his image distorted. Also could been a guy in a devil type costume or mask, and ppl's minds automatically slapped the goat legs on him.

I live 30min from these places...being a paranormal reasearcher I'm sure to check this out...today!

The "boyfriend hanging from a branch on top of the car" is an urban legend I've heard several times, though never connected to the goatman. Yeah, one of the spookier stories out there nevertheless.

Satyrs, were the wild spirits of the forest, they appeared as goat-like creatures with puck noses, bristling hair, budding horns, goats ears, tails and hooves. They were portrayed as being wanton and crafty, they frolicked in the forests, chased after nymphs and played impish tricks on men.

(Just a peice from a Mythology book I have, I thought it may be of some value since Satyrs are Goat-like-men.)

Mandy

There's been a lot of goatman sightings in West Virginia along with all the other strange stuff that happens there. All I know is that they eat other animals.

I remember reading about the goatman a long time ago. It's very interesting. I think that they should do a movie about him. If the can make movies about vampires, werewolves, leprachauns(sp?) and the lochness monster than they should be able to do a movie about the goatman!

You guys have got it all wrong! Goatman is a friend of my dad's. He lives in Florida and owns an orange grove. He's only called Goatman because of his beard. Shame on you people for making these outrageous stories about him!

i cant get the link to work. ohh and i like that willy wonka quote thats fantastic

This is a Satyr As you can tell, it is the same thing as a faun.

I've read once on the net that the dark druids (?) in England, once very common in human sacrifice rituals, were led by a man on a robe with a goat mask during the ceremony. Might this be the origin of the people slaying goatman?

If a goat man could be born. It would hafta happen down here in the south hehe you hear stories...........

Hey! The Welsh are supposedly friendly with the sheep too...

Just a joke, ya'll don't get excited.....

Actually I don't think there's any such thing as a goatman whatsoever. Maybe a man wandering around with a skin of a goat on him but that's about it....

Can Goatman be just an unknown primate? Maybe it's a little inteligent cause it can use an ax as a weapon.

Yeah sure, why not? I don't see why not. Let's go with this. All in favor? Well, good. That's what the goatman is then, an unknown primate that is a little bit intelligent because it can use an axe as a weapon.

does goatman = jersey devil = satyre?

If the Satyrs are actually The Jersey Devil and goatmen...well...that just plain boring. We should have call the creature: The Jersey Satyr.

Sounds Broadway to me.

AND Aberdonians, I understand

RKD

Well I guess that's more likely to produce Sheepman than Goatman tho....

He's a psycho tramp/hobo/bum/vagrant/vagabond with a goat skin on and an axe, who is so hungry he eats roadkill and kills things with his axe and eats them.

Oh bugger! I'm never going to Maryland!




Hey, stranger things have happened...

RKD

I think the chupacabra would own him. (goatsucker, goatman )

Or date him....

or s... wait a minute, there's kids on this site

RKD

I can prolly infer what you were gonna say.....

I know, I know, a bit rude, but hey, mentioning of sheep-mating (to put it politely) earlier on did lower the tone considerably, so this seemed a logical step.

RKD

isn't a gaot man really called a faun or something like that.

Too true. It was a conclusion that was to be drawn eventually.