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Goatman of Lake Worth, Texas
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in McKinney, TX
Mar 18, 2005
 For those of you who do not know this story, it is an old folk lore. Lake Worth is next to Ft.Worth, TX. I use to leave near here. I had heard the stories my self of a half goat, half man creature lurking on a tiny little island in the lake.

But, what doesn't end up in these stories is the fact that Carswell Airforce base is off the same lake, 1/2 mile away. Carswell AFB is one of the locations where the supposed "Rosewell" UFO and ET had ended up. Have anything in common???

Here is a little part of the story:

<b>Lake Worth Monster:</b> <i>This case hit the public consciousness in the summer of 1969. While America was caught up in the moon landing, sightings of this hairy creature were being reported in the Greer Island area of Lake Worth in Fort Worth, Texas. The animal was described as being approximately seven feet tall, weighing in the neighborhood of three hundred pounds, covered with white hair and walked upright like a man. It was seen repeatedly throughout the year and during July the area was packed with locals who had witnessed the beast. At one point it was said to have become annoyed at the onlookers and hurled an automobile wheel and tire at them from the distance of five hundred feet. Needless to say, they leapt into their cars and departed the area post haste.

The last sighting of the creature that year was by Charles Buchanan on November 7. He was sleeping in the open bed of his pickup truck and was awakened when his sleeping bag was suddenly grabbed by a creature and was pulled from the truck. He stuffed a bag of chicken in its mouth and it shuffled off into the water and swam towards Greer Island. </i>
Category: Tall-Tale, UFOs-ETs, Urban-Legend; Replies: 88

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slytown
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 | 09:46 PM
It is neat too here these stories. My great uncle ran the "goat farm" or "wino farm". As a young boy, I traveled to Ft Worth with my grandparents for a visit and my great uncle took me out to the farm for a visit.
Allen in Texas
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 | 01:38 PM
I remember hearing it from my mother alot when i was 8 or 9 that I'm now 34 yrs old that my dad saw the thing that he took a picture of it and police put there finger prints all over it to hide it up and my sister claim to sen it too when she was 8 yrs old (Shes 9 yrs older then me btw but I love to own the book that came out about it,Has the picture of my Dad and sister in the book its kind of more history to me that at lease some of my family show up on the news paper even before I was born I remember in 1987 when the lady was looking for my dad and couldnt find him and my mother told him that he died in 1983 and 5 yrs after he pasted I still have a little info on this story today boy them funny times in 1969
JCKitchens
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 | 09:23 PM
I am from the class of 72 as well...
becky
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 | 09:47 AM
I am trying to do some research on goatpeople or goatmen, half goat and half man. I was having a hard time finding anything until now. I live in Indiana and have heard such creatures in this area, especially Troy, Indiana. It is a small town, less than 200 people. The older generations have spoken words "Watch out for the goatpeople". There is supposedly an occasion where a goatman snatched a little boy up one night and he became missing and was never found.
A guy I know said that there was an old church next to his house, and that one day him and a friend was sitting on the church steps and heard these weird growling muffles. They started to search where the noises were coming from and found a huge hole that went underneath the chuch. They went down inside and it was a big room and out of the corner came out a creature on all fours and raised up on two feet, hairy, horns, and goat feet and hands. Needless to say they got the hell out of there and never went back down there. He said that the old woman across the street said that she seen them take the little boy like a streak of lightning. She had seen them on several occasions and told him not to be walking around at night. I had never heard of them before he told me, but have come across a few people who have seen them also. weird, where did or do they come from, what are they and should we be scared of them harming anyone?
Joe Bob
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 | 11:02 AM
I happen to know for a fact that the goatman is real. As a mater of fact, after being seen locally around Lake Worth, the Goatman later gained fame by regularly appearing on Saturday Night Live. So there.
Rob
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 | 01:59 PM
Of course he's real, he has a myspace page, check it out http://www.myspace.com/lakeworthmonster
Sarah
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 | 10:12 AM
I used to live on Lake Worth off of Love Circle Dr. I was very young, not even in school yet. But I do remember strange things and hearing my brother and parents talk about strange things out there. I remember when we first moved out there the neighbor's kids were playing in the back yard with a gator sunbathing on the shore!! Scared the crap outta my mom...wondered why in the world these people let their kids play that close to a gator. (lady said she fed her that morning and that she was full so she wouldn't mess with them kids!)
Interesting site!
Brandon
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 | 09:36 PM
I may be the only kid left in the town of Lake Worth that actually explores goat island(Greer Island) and Snake Island. It's too bad, I'm one of very few young country boys left in Lake Worth that likes to explore the islands. Where are the mud flaps at though, I would like to look into that. I would like to learn more about Lake Worth's history if anyone would care to email me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Suz
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 | 01:56 PM
There was a paperback book about the Lake Worth Goatman. The only thing I remember about it was a picture with a line drawn to show how far it supposedly threw the wheel.
Katy
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 | 04:13 AM
Wow Brian ! That Carswell Roswell analysis is interesting. I never thought about it, but hey, you could be on to something !
And it's a fact the government ain't gonna tell ya.
hmmm... wonder what else is going on in Lakeworth !
Katy
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 | 04:42 AM
I was born in Lakeworth and lived on Canyon Trail street. My grandmother lived right across from Casino Beach on Surfside Dr. She bought commercial property there and I remember her many rants and raves complaining about the city of Fort Worth (who owned the land adjacent/park area) She called the city all the time, especially if the grass was too high. I had alot of fun there.
I would like to be Mayor of Lakeworth one day and the first thing I'd do is take over that property from Fort Worth. It belongs to Lakeworth.
And then I'd develope a river walk like San Antonio on the Lake ! Maybe a restaraunt on Greer Island ! Or a gas well with lights ? as they are kinda pretty at night.

PS I went with my Uncle around the lake to see that goatman years ago, it was on the news and everything, we only saw a bunch of people and alot of cars, it was the entertainment for the evening.
The ONE
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 | 04:54 PM
Go After Midnight to perform Your Rituals summon up thee let fear aside be one and never fear.
Robert
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 | 02:06 AM
Oh the old Goatman. I was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. My family use to go to Lake Worth all the time. In fact, we had a friend that owned the "Castle" for a short period of time back in the 70's before it burnt. I believe it actually burnt in the mid or late 80's.

I believe that the place that someone was refering to earlier about a building that over looked the lake, wasn't the "Castle" but may have been one of two places. One was right off of Robert's Cut off and overlooked Carswell. The other was just inside the Animal Refuge north of HWY80. I do not know if these places still exist, it's been probably 18 years since I've been through that area.

This site brought back many great memories of the good times I had with my family. It also reminds me of many of the tales that I had heard every since I was a small boy. Even some of the adventures we had as a family, and one story that actually made it to the Star-Telegram which gave us a big laugh.

I will say, that we did see a big gator in Lake Worth while we were out in the canoe one weekend. We also had something large lift our canoe while rowing along Greer Island that actually turned the canoe nearly 180 degrees. We were in the middle of the water way.

Now one of my fondest memories of being with my brother and dad was being in the back seat of my brother's VW when all of a sudden out of the woods jumps this hairy creature that ran across the road. My brother slammed on the breaks, and my dad jumped out of the car screaming "Get the gun!" Of course, we didn't have a gun. But the reaction we got was rememberable, to say the least. Two headlights suddenly came on as a car came tearing out of the gravel path. The poor guy in the gorilla custom chasing behind. They took off without the poor sap. I remember seeing him yelling back "Don't shoot!" and started ripping off the gorilla mask. We just got back in the car laughing our butts off.

Another story I'd like to share is that we would canoe across to Greer Island and one summer we ended up building a little shelter out of logs and tree limbs. My siblings and father ended up spending a couple of weekends out on Greer Island fishing and camping out that summer. Later that same summer, there was an article in the Star-Telegram about some hikers finding what appeard to be the home of Goatman with a photo of what we had built. We let it go just to let the legend continue on. This would have been in or around '78.

Those were the good ole' days. As for Goat Man being real. Of all the nights and days that I spent out and round Lake Worth, I never saw any sign or evidence of one. And I'm pretty sure that some of the stories had been disproved. :lol:
Toronto Condo
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 | 12:29 PM
"It was not bobcat nor was it a sheep skin. It wasn't a person dressed in a Halloween costume. It was really the terrorizing monster. It stood on its hind feet and ran like a man. It had white hair over most of its body and scales, too. It was a goat-fish-man. I'm sure it stood about six feet and nine inches tall and was undressed (It didn't have any clothes on). It looked like it weighed 250 or 260 pounds," she wrote. "It was the most pathetic sound I have ever heard. It went Grrrrrr, Brrr, Yeeeepe, Yuuuuuuuuuuu, and sounded almost as if it would cry any minute from the great pain it was in."

One boy opined that it was from space. Clarke quoted the boy as saying that the monster "said he was chased down here from the moon by the astronauts, and as he fell through space it became so hot until he caught fire; but it landed in the lake and was saved. Now it is wandering around as puzzled about us as we are about it." It seemed as reasonable as any theory, although it was to be 10 more days before the astronauts would land on the moon. Clarke cited reports of sheep being horribly mangled.

"They had their necks and heads crushed. Their chins were laying in the middle of their backs. It looked like something had just ripped them apart," she wrote.

Nature Center Director Wayne Clark said he's not aware of any recent sightings, but questions about it do arise regularly. "We still have little kids on occasion who say they heard about the Lake Worth Monster or ask, 'Is there a goat man out here?'" he said last week. "I remember when all that was going on. There were a number of old parking lots, and the kids used to throw keg parties. They were a pretty well-behaved group but they would party.
kız oyunları
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 | 02:36 AM
It is neat too here these stories. My great uncle ran the "goat farm" or "wino farm". As a young boy, I traveled to Ft Worth with my grandparents for a visit and my great uncle took me out to the farm for a visit.
Dr. Jannay Valdez
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 | 09:39 AM
Many "goatman" stories are true. It is/was merely a sasquatch, an animal, not a monster, as the sensationalists exclaim. Of course, there were some pranksters, always will be as long as there are high school kids, fun-loving young adults, and beer. The Benbrook Lake and Lake Worth Lake bigfoot stories are related, and true. To the disbelievers I suggest---get your heads out of the sand, stop being cynnical and skeptical, open your closed minds, and approach it academically and factually. I'll see you at the Lake Worth festival. It's a TRUE story.
Michelle
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 | 09:40 PM
Hey I'm from Azle, TX (just on the other side of the Lake Worth bridge, to the west). My aunt lives in Azle, but on the lake and you can see the island easily from her house. It is called Goatman Island (or somepeople call it Goat Island, but more people call it Goatman Island). Also, my sister had a friend that lived on the other side of the lake and her cousin (which was a good friend of mine) showed me an area where someone/thing had stayed in the middle of the woods, and he said he saw glimpses of the Goatman in that area. I never heard of "greer island" when I was told about him, but I guess it just depends on what area of the Ft Worth metroplex you from. (Not everyone in TX or Dallas for that matter has heard the story)
loser
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 | 01:32 PM
hey dudes!!!!!!! i bet you guys look like the goat man
suz
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 | 12:37 PM
Authority on Lake Worth Monster dies.

http://www.star-telegram.com/obituaries/story/1743694.html
C.W.E.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 | 12:53 PM
It was just a starving homeless guy with a ratty fur coat attacking another homeless guy with a truck, a sleeping bag, and, for some reason, a bag of chicken.
One of them also had a bag or two of crack.
Anyone reading this might as well just go ahead and believe me because I'm as credible as anything on this site.
liseli kızlar
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 | 06:49 AM
merci mnogo.
curtis
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 | 05:34 PM
goatman was a burned up gorilla 300 lbs 6 feet tall and able to throw a car tire a long way big buddy I believe was his name he was an attraction at casino beach around 1940 a fire destroyed casino beach at lake worth , he was badly burned and was able to escape to a nearby island about a thousand feet from where he was being held. when the fire came you could here him scream for 3 miles away the owners of casino beach boardwalk ballroom claimed he burned up in the fire but truth be told not a trace was ever found just lots of ashes
Obe7
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 | 04:33 PM
I believe in the goatman
Brandon
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 | 07:13 AM
Michelle, the island you see is Greer island from Azle. Goat island is on the other side of the lake beside Willow/Snake island. Most people in Lake WOrth call it goat island though, not goatman island. But yeah, there are three islands, the one closet to Azle is greer island, and I believe you can drive onto it somehow. You definitely can drive onto goat island or snake island unless we are in a heavy drought, and this crappy lake basically disappears again.
vance
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 | 12:11 AM
i live in golden bc and encountered the goat man that is described, he had white fur and was about 6 or 7 feet tall, and walked like a human. i was walking in an old abandoned house that was being devoured by the small creak beside it. when i was inside i was walking down the hallway and when i turned the cornner there was a door that was oppen just a crack and i saw the goatmans eyes looking right at me from the creak of the door. neadless to say i ran the hell out of there, i could sware he or it tryed chasing me but it sounded like the door was in the way. i ran untill it hurt my lungs and i kept running till i ran to the nearest house. i have looked all around the internet looking for a white goatman and this is the one site i found. the only thing is im in golden in the rocky mountains and these storys are in texas lol
kat
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 | 02:15 AM
i saw big hoof print too big for a elk or mail deer. and they looked scary. this was before i even heard of such a thing as goatman. im sure i saw its print. prints dont lie wish i could of gotten a pic.summer 2010
Chris
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 | 06:00 PM
Maybe he is of Scottish origin, no wait that is the Highland Sheepman
Don
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 | 12:45 PM
I grew up in Azle, TX. Which is only about 6 miles from Lake Worth. And I remember "The Goat Man" very well!:) I heard the story about him throwing a Car Tire and Wheel too, when I was in High School. I knew one guy at Azle High, who claimed that he was the Goat Man! He said that he dressed up in a "Goat Head Suit" (not to be confused with the Album titled "Goat Head Soup";). He was tall, over 6ft. But I never believed that he was strong enough to throw a Car Tire and Wheel at anyone (as he claimed he did). I can't remember who that guy was now... But, I use to take my girl friend to the area to "Park";) It was very thrilling and sometimes a little Scary Parking in a car there at night!:O But, it was allot of fun:) Goat Island (Greer Island was the official name of the Island). Back then you could drive a car out on to the Island. There was and I imagine still is a Land Bridge going out there. It's very close to the Shore. And back in 1973 or so... You could drive on it, out to Goat Island. I believe there may have been a gate on it even back then. But, one evening, just before Dark. Me and my girl, were driving around on the winding roads in the area. I use to like to see just how fast I could take the winding curves in my 64 Chevelle. My Chevelle had a 350 engine, that I had put in it. But no Power Steering or Power Breaks and one of those small Custom Steering Wheels!:O Anyway, the little Land Bridge to Goat Island was narrow, but my Chevelle just fit. By the time we got to the middle of the Island, it was almost dark and feeling kind of Creepy out there. What we found, was a bit of a surprise. Instead of a Goat House, Den or anything like that... We found a Stone Circle, with a Camp Fire in the Middle. And it had been used Recently. Now, the thing that was creepy about this, was that it looked just like the kin of Stone Circle that I had seen in a Movie about Satan Worshipers!:O It was a Documentary that I had seen at the Clown Drive Inn, back when I was only 12 years old. I still remember that movie to this day! It showed a Human Sacrifice of a Woman. And it looked so Real! That I still wonder if it was, real!:( So, after seeing what looked like a Satanic Ritual Setting, on Goat Island. I was more worried about who ever set that up, coming back! Than a Goat Man. I never went out on to Goat Island again!!!

Don
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