ok. ill start by saying i am a realist! and i have been an outdoorsman all my life. and i have never experienced anything paranormal in the tract of land i am about to refer to in this story. But i am from a small town in northeast florida. we are country people and we live simple. My father has been a firefighter in town for a long long time, so he hears some stories.
ok, ill get to it... i hunt in a hunting club called Crawford hunting club. We have 13000 acres right outside of town and out land is bordered by county roads 108 and 121. well a man my father knows, has land that backs up to ours on cr 121, and he has an aboveground swimming pool next to his barn (which has a streetlight on it to observe deer at night) at the edge of his property at the woodline. one night he was up in the kitchen getting something to drink at about 2 am and peered (out of habit) through his kitchen window to the streetlight. he was shocked as he immediately noticed someone standing by the poole facing away from the house. it looked as if the "stranger" was reaching into the water doing something. the man ran to his bedroom to get his shotgun (bc around here, if someones in you're yard at night, they will get shot bc they are obviously not supposed to be there). In the comotion, his wife was awakened and after hearing what was going on, followed the man to his back porch to confront the intruder. upon reaching the porch, the man yelled out the screen door to the stranger. at that moment, it stood up completely erect and turned around very slowly and raised one of its hands to give a gesture like "i wouldnt do that, (with his index finger)". then it immediately bounded off back into the woods. The creature was described by both people as tall ( atleast 7 ft.) , with a head that resembled a goat, with horns, and it had a torso and arms of a man, but with very long fingernails. It was said also to have animal legs (whos knee joints bent backwards like a dogs leg) and hooves. this man has now moved over a hundred miles away up into Georgia claiming "i saw Satan that night and im not hanging around to see him again"
ok before you people start calling me silly, a man who had been in a car wreck two weeks prior (which my dad responded to with the fire dept.) had been suffering temporary amnesia and was slowly regaining his memory. The officials at the scene had just assumed he had fallen asleep and hit a telephone pole. well when the man recollected his thoughts, this is what he had to say... " i was driving down cr108 at about 11pm and it was foggy (as it often is in florida) and i approached what i thought was a man standing in the road and he wasnt moving, so in a panic move, i jerked the wheel and got sideways and my bumper clipped a pole" he said. "And i ended up landing the car upside down in the ditch. as i was hanging there in a daze, i heard what sounded like a horse clopping down the road towards me. when i got the strength to look up, my heart almost stopped when i saw what had approached me. it was a something that looked part goat and part man. The only thing i remember was that he had huge horns, and hairy legs with hooves. And that it stood fully erect like a man. I Saw Lucifer!"said the man. " he then ran back into the woods, i guess because of the approaching traffic". this man moved immidiately after he told dad this story to the other side of the state and became a Baptist preacher. that is no lie! He claims now that the Lord let him see Satan in the Flesh to turn him from drinking. i dunno.
like i said, i am a realist, but at the same time, i have been hunting those woods since i was a boy and this has made me think about stuff i hear but never see at night out there. All i know is that these are two men, who didnt know each other, claiming to have seen similar "beasts" in the same month. nothing had ever happened before or after and no sightings have happened since. But the reason i posted this is bc i am curious of other encounters out there. I wanted to put Nassau county on the map!

This isnt a sighting, but Ive got a theory on what these "goatmen" are.

I know the old story about the scientist who worked at some research center and was supposed to have been doing some kind of research with goats. Then something went wrong with the experiments, and the scientist slowly turned into the half-goat, half-human monster we now know. Goatman retreated into the woods where he hides most of the time. The Goatman also devolped an intense hatred of man and other animals.

But, what if these creatures are actual, real life Fauns and Satyrs?
The similarities between them are very odd.

Satyrs: Have the legs, ears and tail of a deer and the face and body of a man. The head has small horns. OR The torso of a human with the hindquarters of a goat.It is horned, and may be playing a panpipe.
Pics: http://ewancient.lysator.liu.se/pic/art/n/w/nw/satyr.gif
Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyrs

Fauns: The Fauns, which are asscociated with Satyrs, but are known to be more gentle, are mischievous creatures with the legs, ears and tail of a deer and the face and body of a handsome young man. They follow the god Faunus and can cause nightmares. At times, they can also be quite cheerful.
Pics: http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monsters/IMAGES/faun.gif
Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faun

Goatmen: Half man, half goat. Upper body normaly that of a man's while the lower is a goat. Head with a goat's horns and sometimes shaped as such.
Pics: http://www.kentuckybigfoot.com/pictures/My...KY.-GOATMAN.JPG
Links: http://www.animalx.net/episode109.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatman_(cryptozoology)

I'm more interested to see iffen the guy comes back

Interesting story.
I'm with you on this one RKD.

That, my friend, would be a true miracle. -_-

Who WOULD come back after seeing that thing? O.o , I know I wouldnt

What I find amusing, is how he says "I Saw Lucifer!"......really.....and how many times has the Whorey Lord of the Underworld made personal appearances in NE Fla.? Southbeach MAYBE, but Jacksonville?

For the subtropical climate? The fairly snazzy skyline?

It's for the grapefruits. The king of the underworld loves to squirt them in people's eyes.

Maybe he likes 'em for breakfast? Bearing in mind it gets awfully hot down there, it'd be quite difficult to grow fruits and veg, and they'll still need their 5-a-day, for all their vits!

That's gotta be it...the citrus....beacuse I find it exceedingly difficut to believe that "Big Red" came all the way to NE Fla. to make sure a Ford diddn't make it home in one piece.

I think a strange half human animal is around, not something satanic. Partly because if the whole satan being a powerful evil thing is true, then why would he stay n one place for so long. If something could magically go from one place to another, would it stay in the woods?

If it were being hunted down or looked for everywhere then it might.

That or maybe there are some goats in the woods.
Everyone needs some one, even the goatman.

Maybe it's just some person that get's their kicks out of dressing-up and scaring people....beacuse, as we ALL know, NOBODY like to put video-clips of themselves scaring people on the internet these days.

I'm gonna be of the school of thought that files it away in the "Urban Legend" or "Auld Wife's Tale" drawer. I suppose it's a good excuse to crashing the car though.

Mabey he wanted to go for a swim?

Yeah it must be for the beaches. And the hotter than h - e - double hockey sticks weather. It couldn't be for the citrus now that I think about it because everyone knows that satan has scurvy.

Oof! What a weird story...somewhat way too fictious for me...
That goatman must be careful to those carrying the holy Shishkebab Skewers...

Are we talking about the Maryland Goatman? Just wondering.

I've heard the Goatman in MD. And he's around PG County & several animals have been killed. I haven't done my search again on the half-man.

Maybe Goatman ran into Floridas bigfoot and thought best to make for a quick exit!!!

But what if they met and liked each other? ALOT!. Goatfoot?

I do believe that this theatre of the absurd needs an intermission.

*plays intermission music*

I do believe the Original Poster is nowhere in sight. Maybe he was eaten by Goatman... or maybe he posted here to take the piss... who cares, as long as we're all having a fandabbydosey time, eh?

I think the key question here is: Who is gonna be the last poster before a Mod happens by and puts a gag on "The Goatman"......any takers?

The goatman isn't generally considered much of a crypid...more like an urban legend In fact, if I remember correctly, the origonal 'goat man' legend actually sprung about because of exagerated pet massacres that turned out to be the work of a deranged local.

So uh..If I got a goatee, will that make me the Goatman?

That is a good point, and I don't know what's more shocking....the fact that this thread is STILL not closed, or that an "exaggerated" story that began as an urban legend ACTUALLY became something bigger than it actually was...............that NEVER happens.

Sounds to me like something out of a Warhammer Fantasy Battle game to me (beastmen) even down to the vehement hatred of men and hiding in the woods!

Have there been any recent sightings of "Senior Cabra" lately? or has his hatred for pick-up trucks been curbed. It just sounds to me like isolated incidents of hoaxing, and I can understand if it hasn't happed since an accident was caused by it.........probably scared the idiot(or idiots..they tend to travel in packs) who perpetrated the hoax half to death.

maybe it was man-bear-pig