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The Pope Lick Monster (more commonly, colloquially, the Goat Man) is a legendary part-man, part-goat [1] and part-sheep [2] creature reported to live beneath a railroad trestle bridge over Pope Lick Creek, in the Fisherville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. [2] [3]
Goatman (urban legend), a legendary creature from Prince George's County, Maryland, United States; Goatman (Kentucky), also known as the Pope Lick Monster, a legendary creature of Louisville, Kentucky, United States; Goatman (Texas), also known as the Lake Worth monster, a legendary creature from Lake Worth, Texas, United States
An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture
While Goatman stories originated in the early 1970s, some of its legends are set in the late 1930s, within Prince George's County, following the disappearances and/or deaths of multiple dogs, which were later attributed to the creature. However, given the condition of the remains, the deaths may more likely have been the result of passing ...
A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when their undersized thoroughbred racehorse qualifies for the Kentucky Derby. Based on the inspiring true story of Mine That Bird, the cowboys face a series of mishaps on their way to Churchill Downs, becoming the ultimate underdogs in a final showdown with the world's racing elite.
George Scott's sketch of Gef the talking mongoose, from 1936 A 1932 article that suggested trickery and ventriloquism from Voirrey Irving was the cause of the Gef phenomena Gef ( / ˈ dʒ ɛ f / JEF ), also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook , was an allegedly talking mongoose which inhabited a farmhouse owned by the Irving ...
Urban Legend is a 1998 slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks, written by Silvio Horta, and starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, and Michael Rosenbaum, and is the first installment in the Urban Legend film series.
The character originated in Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden", published in volume five of Barker's six-volume Books of Blood anthology collection. The story was partially inspired by a cautionary tale Barker's grandmother told him when he was six to teach him to be careful of strangers, about a hook-handed man who cut off a boy's genitals.