Goatman goes enviromentalist

[Laisrean]

http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2006/Nov_06/11112006_07.asp


A report of a mysterious creature near Holy Hill Road on Thursday may spawn stories to rival those of Washington County’s local legend, Goatman.

Or is the Thursday report a continuation of Goatman’s tradition?

According to local lore, Goatman - a half-man/half-goat apparition - is usually spotted in the same town of Erin neighborhood where Steven Krueger, a carcass removal contractor, reportedly sighted a 7-foot-tall creature on Highway 167 and Station Way Thursday.

[_Banbha_]

Pan in America? :hahugh:

[chyrobite_infection]

omg i saw something like that outside at home! don't laught, here's a description of what happened...

me and my friend about 4 or 5 years ago went into the woods in my backyard for a walk. we came onto an old fourwheeler path. we weren't even that far from my house, i could still see it through the trees. if we stood on the path, and stared AWAY from my house, to the woods, there was a meadow only about 4 yards wide, and a darker thicker woods on the opposite side. when we were walking down the road, she stopped, and stared. i asked her what was wrong, and she pointed to the trees, showing me this:

it was 7 or 8 feet tall, BLUE, and from the hips down it was fur, like a GOAT. the top part was man, still blue, with a pair of really little horns from it's head. it had no hair, and it's eyes were a mix of blue and green. it stood halfway behind the tree, one hand reaching around the trunk, to show four really really REALLY long claws that actually went the width of the tree. (big fat tree!) the hoof that was visible had to be about the size of my palm.

[whitewater]

i'm sorry, but whenever i hear "Goatman" i think of Mr. Tumnus, from Narnia, because my friend calls him that all the time. so forgive me if i can't take any of this seriously...

[leaf-shadow]

pan in america? pan kills people? i dont think so. i think it's more like... an onii... lol my asian heritage...
chyrobite's 'goat man' reminded me of malfurion stormrage.... you know, the nightelf from warcraft? lol. it's interesting how all these creature shows up to random people yet i just cant find any. lol >.< i wish i was there with you when you saw that guy. (i hope i was armed... that thing sounded vicious)

[HedwigHarfang]

pan in america? pan kills people? i dont think so. i think it's more like... an onii... lol my asian heritage...
chyrobite's 'goat man' reminded me of malfurion stormrage.... you know, the nightelf from warcraft? lol. it's interesting how all these creature shows up to random people yet i just cant find any. lol >.< i wish i was there with you when you saw that guy. (i hope i was armed... that thing sounded vicious)

Pan is associated with the Devil, but is usually a more benign figure, despite lending his name to the word panic, that is, the leap of fright people had when they saw an apparition of Pan.

It is perhaps like - I don't want to get too political here, but it is the best analogy I can think of - the image of Dubya Bush - to some people he is a rather high-spirited if mischievous presence in his own administration (given what he is reputed to have done at university and in his twenties, it is not too far-fetched to suggest that he might still be so inclined; his primary animal totem is the Rhesus Monkey, a highly playful member of the ape family) and to some people he seems to be the devil incarnate (though looking at his cabinet I can see one or two members who have big black holes where their souls ought to be).

Turning to the UK, the same could be said of former Prime Minister Tony Blair (who was in his youth quite a wild child but not actually particularly malevolent) or current Leader of the Opposition David Cameron (again, a fox spirit come into a human body for the first time). Both have the same high-spirited outlook on life that Pan apparently did, but both in the past have, to me at least, filled me with the sense of panic that the Graeco-Roman seers expressed on sighting Pan.

At least if Goatman has turned environmentalist, though, he might be settling down a bit and his Panic days are over.