The Goat Man, an Urban Legend

Living in Central Texas at one time during the 70's there was a legend about a man who was half goat and half man who lived in a particular area near Killeen/Ft. Hood/Lampasas/Copperas Cove about 50 miles northeast of Austin. Texas.

One night after a few beers and a few games of pool with some friends at the O club (Officers Club on Ft. Hood), my friends Frank and Gary talked me into going with them to check out the area in the woods where the Goatman had been reputedly last seen.  It was very late into the night possibly early in the a.m. but I was interested in going to check this out myself.  I guess I really wasn' t worried because Frank is about 6'6' and a big strong guy and his friend was about the same size.  Plus the fact that Frank had his shotgun on his rack on the truck so I was definately not afraid.

We drove to this secluded picnic area which was so dark you could barely see in front of your hands.  Frank and Gary decided to get out of the truck to venture about to see if they could see or hear anything.  After a little while I could barely see them so I decided to call out to them to please not leave me alone....I was met with complete silence and no longer could see them!!  Oh my gosh, I quickly got back into the truck and locked the doors.  It was so dark out there that there couldn't possibly have been a moon out that night.  More silence as I sat in that truck for what seemed like forever and a day and no keys to the truck and its ignition. 

Apparently Frank had taken the keys with him!  Terror swept within me when I started to think of what I would do if they didn't return as they had both taken off in different locations.  I sat and thank and thank and even cried as I sat there in the blackness of the night.  The only solace I had was the shotgun but that wasn't much solace as I had never even held one much less shot with one!  I was going crazy sitting there until I mustered up enough courage again to get out of the truck and call out to them...nothing...then all of a sudden I heard noises that were odd sounding and wierd at the same time.  I couldn't distinguish what they were so I quickly got back into the truck.

Not long after, running to the truck was Gary and then Frank.  They started blabbering off about having seen something moving out there and that when they had started hearing the odd sounds that I had heard they had gotten freaked out as well and had decided they'd better get back to the truck.  I didn't believe them at first and thought that the whole thing had just been a ruse to scare the dickens out of me but they were serious.  I'd been with Frank when he was driving before but had never seen him haul ass so fast out of anywhere before.

To this day, I still am not sure about the Goat Man and whether he really exists.  Go down to Central Texas and ask around, they'll tell you about him.

What do you think?