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THE GOATMAN

The Goatman is the result of a horrible science experiment gone wrong, the mistake of a top-secret CIA laboratory. He is half man, half goat, and he carries an ax that he uses to attack teenagers who go out to woods alone at night.
This is an urban legend that my aunts and uncles heard about when they were growing up in Maryland in the ’70s, and I heard about it as a teenager. The Goatman is a vicious monster, but his situation elicits sympathy- he was driven insane by the fear and shame of what was done to him. The story plays on fears of technology (which were very widespread in the ’70s!) and of heartless scientists. It also gives you a legitimate reason to be afraid of the woods at night or serves as a morality tale for teens who get the urge to experiment.
As I understand it, this urban legend developed in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Several teenagers reported that they were alone in the woods at night, usually in a car kissing their boyfriend or girlfriend, when a man dressed up in a pink rabbit suit jumped onto their car and smashed the windows with a small ax. Yes, you read that correctly. There are even newspaper articles confirming witness reports of this strange string of attacks. The “Rabbit Man” never actually hurt anyone, but it is said that his image evolved into the urban legends of the Goatman.
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