The Maryland Goatman: The Axe-Wielding Creature of Prince George’s County Legend
In November nineteen seventy-one, two young men searching near the Penn Central railroad tracks in Old Bowie, Maryland, reportedly found a ten-month-old puppy named Ginger dead, with her head and body separated. Within days, the death was connected in local newspaper coverage to the Goatman: a supposed half-human, half-goat figure said to roam the woods and roads of Prince George’s County.
But the surviving record tells a more complicated story. Months before Ginger disappeared, University of Maryland student George Lizama had collected eight versions of a Goatman legend around Tucker Road in…
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