Kentucky – The Pope Lick Monster
The legend says that in the 1930’s a traveling circus performer found a deformed half man/half goat baby with nubby little horns while the circus was stopped in Maryland. The head of the circus, seeing an abandoned and deformed child, decided to build a freak show as part of the circus, starring “Baby Goatman.”
Shockingly, spending most of your life chained in a cage doesn’t lead to a kind disposition, and the goat baby grew into a large, angry, goatman. One night, the circus train was on its was to Louisville, Kentucky, when it crashed just before Pope Lick Creek, and justifiably angry, goat man was freed!
In an act that surprised absolutely no one, angry goat man ripped the survivors of the crash to shreds, and in the years since, there have been a number of deaths, missing persons, and animal mutilations enough to to make the reasonable assumption that angry goat man, now the Pope Lick Monster, still lives in a cave nearby.
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)