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((Short description|Urban legend))
((more citations needed|date=March 2018))
[[File:Popelick2.jpg|thumb|The railroad trestle over Pope Lick Creek in Louisville, Kentucky, which is the home of the Pope Lick Monster, according to legend]]
The '''Pope Lick Monster''' (more commonly, colloquially, the '''Goat Man''') is a [[legend]]ary part-man, part-[[goat]]<ref name="encylou">((cite encyclopedia |last=Kleber |first=John E |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Louisville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXbYITw4ZesC&q=%22Pope+Lick+Monster%22&pg=PA713 |title=Pope Lick Monster |edition=1 |year=2000 |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |isbn=0813121000 ))</ref> and part-[[sheep]]<ref name="Tangonan">((cite news |last=Tangonan |first=Shannon |title=Man, 19, dies after falling from trestle |work=The Courier-Journal |date=November 7, 2000 |url=http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2000/0011/07/001107obit_jewell.html |access-date=January 20, 2007|url-access=subscription ))((dead link|date=August 2023|bot=medic))((cbignore|bot=medic)) [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/111012076/ Alt URL]</ref> creature reported to live beneath a railroad [[trestle bridge]] over Pope Lick Creek, in the [[Fisherville, Louisville|Fisherville]] neighborhood of [[Louisville, Kentucky]], United States.<ref name="Tangonan" /><ref>((cite web|last1=Blackburn|first1=Lyle|title=Monstro Bizarro: Monsters & Mysteries in America|url=http://rue-morgue.com/2013/03/monstro-bizarro-monsters-mysteries-in-america/|publisher=Rue Morgue|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501221904/http://rue-morgue.com/2013/03/monstro-bizarro-monsters-mysteries-in-america/|archive-date=May 1, 2013|access-date=February 23, 2014))</ref>

Numerous [[urban legend]]s exist about the creature's origins and the methods it employs to claim its victims. According to some accounts, the creature uses either [[hypnosis]]<ref name="encylou" /> or voice mimicry to lure [[trespass]]ers onto the [[Trestle bridge|trestle]] to meet their death before an oncoming train.<ref>((cite journal|last=Holland|first=Jeffrey Scott|title=Three Louisville-area monster legends for Halloween|url=http://www.louisville.com/content/three-louisville-area-monster-legends-halloween-halloween|journal=[[Louisville (magazine)|Louisville Magazine]]|date=October 24, 2010|volume=83|pages=51–54|doi=10.4169/002557010X485111|s2cid=218543143|access-date=September 20, 2016|archive-date=June 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603162643/https://www.louisville.com/content/three-louisville-area-monster-legends-halloween-halloween|url-status=dead))</ref> Other stories claim the monster jumps down from the trestle onto the roofs of cars passing beneath it. Yet other legends tell that it attacks its victims with a blood-stained [[axe]] and that the very sight of the creature is so unsettling that those who see it while walking across the high trestle are driven to leap off.

Other legends hold that the monster is a human-goat hybrid, and that it was a [[Freak show|circus freak]] who vowed revenge after being mistreated. In one version, it is said the monster escaped after a train derailed on the trestle. Another version commonly told by locals of the area claims that the monster is really the twisted [[reincarnation|reincarnated]] form of a farmer who sacrificed goats in exchange for [[Satanism|Satanic]] powers.((citation needed|date=January 2015))

The legends have turned the area into a site for [[legend tripping]]. There have been a number of deaths and accidents at the trestle since its construction, despite the presence of an ((Convert|8|ft|adj=on)) fence to keep thrill-seekers out.<ref name="Tangonan" />

There is a common misconception that the trestle is abandoned and no longer used; in reality, the bridge carries a major rail artery into Louisville. Heavy freight trains cross the bridge several times daily, so it is easy for someone to get caught atop it while an oncoming train barrels down on them. Norfolk Southern Railway urged citizens not to climb the trestle, saying if caught they would be arrested.<ref name="WDRB">((cite web|title=Legend of the Pope Lick Monster|url=http://www.wdrb.com/story/23678253/legend-of-the-pope-lick-monster|website=wdrb.com|date=13 October 2013 |publisher=[[WDRB]] TV|access-date=April 17, 2016))</ref>

==Media==
The monster was the subject of a 1988 film by Louisville filmmaker Ron Schildknecht called ''The Legend of the Pope Lick Monster''.<ref name=FN>((cite web|last=Burkart|first=Gregory|title=The Bizarre Legend of Louisville KY's 'Pope Lick Monster'|url=http://www.fearnet.com/news/news-article/bizarre-legend-louisville-kys-pope-lick-monster|publisher=Fearnet|date=October 16, 2013|access-date=February 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140609044915/http://www.fearnet.com/news/news-article/bizarre-legend-louisville-kys-pope-lick-monster|archive-date=June 9, 2014))</ref> The 16-minute, $6,000 film premiered on December 29, 1988, at the Uptown Theater. Most of the film was shot at the Pope Lick Trestle, but scenes showing the characters up on the trestle were shot at another, safer location.

[[Norfolk Southern Railway]] officials were very upset about the film, as they thought it would encourage teenagers to visit the trestles. They found one scene in particular dangerously misleading. In the scene, the main character, a high school student, narrowly escapes an approaching train by hanging off the side of the trestle. In reality, few people would have the strength to hang on for the 5 to 7 minutes it takes for a long train to clear the ((Convert|772|ft|adj=on)) trestle; in addition, the vibrations from the train are so strong that the ground beneath the trestle shakes as the train passes.((citation needed|date=April 2013))

Because railroad officials were worried that the film would add to the death toll, Norfolk Southern issued a statement, read at the premiere, which warned of the trestle's dangers and informed the audience that anyone caught on the trestle could be prosecuted for trespassing.<ref name=FN />

The story of the monster was featured in an episode of [[Destination America]]'s ''[[Monsters and Mysteries in America]]'' titled "Ozarks".

==Deaths==

Several people have died on or near the train trestle at Pope Creek in pursuit of the Pope Lick Monster legend.
In 1988, a 17 year old young man, Jack “J.C.” Charles Bahm II, was hit and killed by a train and another young man was injured while trying to cross the trestle. In 1994, a man was killed by a train after his ATV overturned on the trestle, trapping him on the track.<ref name=wave3>((cite news |last=Mattingly |first=David |title=Stay off the tracks: Officials warn of deadly history of Pope Lick train trestle |url=https://www.wave3.com/2019/05/30/stay-off-tracks-officials-warn-residents-about-pope-lick-train-trestle |work=[[WAVE (TV)]] |date=April 24, 2016 |access-date=May 29, 2019))</ref> In 2000, a 19-year-old fell to his death after encountering a train.<ref name=wave3/> On April 23, 2016, a 26-year-old tourist, Roquel Bain, from Ohio died after being hit by a train while searching for the monster. Her boyfriend survived by hanging on the side of the trestle.<ref>((cite news |last=Warren |first=Beth |title=Tourist dies on search for Pope Lick monster |url=http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2016/04/24/tourist-dies-search-pope-lick-monster/83470646/ |work=[[The Courier-Journal]] |date=April 24, 2016 |access-date=April 26, 2016))</ref>

On May 26, 2019, Savanna Bright, 15, was pronounced dead at the scene after she and another teenage girl were on the train tracks near the Pope Lick trestle. Bright's unidentified companion was taken to University of Louisville Hospital.<ref>((cite news |last=Ladd |first=Sarah |title=15-year-old girl dies in yet another train accident on the Pope Lick trestle |url=https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2019/05/28/pope-lick-trestle-train-accident-kills-15-year-old-girl/1256313001/ |work=[[The Courier-Journal]] |date=May 28, 2019 |access-date=May 30, 2019))</ref>

==See also==
* [[History of Louisville, Kentucky]]
* [[Goatman (urban legend)]]
* [[Baphomet]]
* [[Satyr]]/[[Faun]]

==References==
((Reflist))

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[[Category:Satyrs]]
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