Talk:Goatman (Maryland)

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WTF? "Arrested"?

"Never killed anyone"

then later

"impaled the policemen involved"

WTF?

It killed a little squirrel too. How sick is this thing?

Contents 1 NPOV 2 Removal of some uncited text 3 Lake Worth 4 OK 5 Swamp Thing influence?

[edit] NPOV

Article used to end with, "He is still at large." This is, to me, definitely not a neutral pov. If something is not real, how could it be, "at large"? I changed the text to read, "No substantial physical evidence of the Goatman's existence has been found."

[edit] Removal of some uncited text

I removed the following from the article:

There have been stories of a government cover-up.

Another sighting occurred in Mountain Home, Arkansas near the Sonic in the back alley. He had a hatchet and a person's leg. A waitress saw him and tried to talk to him. He ran off through the bushes never to be seen again.

This info was added by anons who have a history of vandalising this article and several others. I would say that at worst it is made up and at best a campfire horror story. I know this whole article is basically an urban (or rural) legend, but at least most of it is sourced. I almost took out the part about the scientist with the goat human hybrid, but I figured at least it was in the right county, and was likely to be part of the local legend. --Joelmills 22:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

In the case of urban legends, it's often best to add things as being part of the legend and to source the legend itself rather than the individual parts of it. This way, you're saying that the legend is real, and not the events in it.

There are of course limits to this, particularl in cases like this were there are multiple legends with embelishments. In tese cases, the embelishments should be weeded out until the core elements of the legend are left.

perfectblue 07:02, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lake Worth

The Lake Worth bigfoot differs too much from the goatman (it has huma feet and scales, the goatman has goats feet and does not have scales. Besides, it already has its own page Lake Worth monster. All Lake Worth monster details should go there instead.

perfectblue 17:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

the lake worth monster is mentioned in this article and is called "goatman" locally because of horns etc... greer island aka goatman island pretty much qualifies it as applicable. im not local to maryland so i dont pretend to know about the local legends other than what i read; i am local to lake worth and familiar with the legend having lived on the lake and been to the island several times since i was a kid. i think it stays. if you want to remove it, rename this article "maryland goatman" so as to be exclusive to that legend.

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The Lake Worth bigfoot has its own page, regardless of what this article is named, all Lake Worth monster/goatman text belongs there, otherwise what would be the point of having a seperate page?

The Texas monster might be called a goatman on occasion, but it has scales and homonid feet (Hence the 'Bigfoot' tag), while the Maryland creature has goat's feet and does not have scales.

It wouldn't be a good idea to rename this article as it is a re-direct from a disambiguation page, so instead I am altering the disambiguation catagory.

perfectblue 07:44, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OK

So if you were to take a goatman, who is part goat, part man, and put him in a cage with an el chupa, what would happen?

I'm not certain, but the FCC would probably stop you from showing it during prime time

perfectblue 12:02, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Swamp Thing influence?

In one version, the Goatman is a mutated scientist per Daniel Cohen's Monsters, Giants, Little Men from Mars. Was this verison around before the Swamp Thing debuted in 1971?

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I doubt that it was influenced specifically by Swamp Thing, but there is a real Hollywood ring to the mutated scientist version, isn't there. That kind of story has been a part of US popular culture for decades in comics and B-movies.

perfectblue 08:19, 9 December 2006 (UTC)