The Goatman | Red Thread
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- Welcome to The Red Thread, a podcast series where three friends (Charlie, Isaiah and Jackson) investigate the peculiar space just beyond reality. Cryptids, Conspiracies, Cults and more are on the investigation board and nothing is off limits. What will they discover? There's only one way to find out...
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This is Episode #1, where we discuss the cryptid known as The Goatman. Originally recorded 11/08/23.
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Charlie - moistcr1tikal
Isaiah - wendigoon8
Jackson - zealotonpc
Writer/Editor/Producer: Jackson Clarke
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Music by: linktr.ee/zayaLT
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I would love this to be a regular thing!
More please. Silly question even.
Spotify is not letting me access it without a patreon sub ?
Your sin level has gone down, you’ve been blessed by the HolyToaster
@@mannypardoacedetective856hopefully that changes
Wendigoon's goatman admiration: "Ever since I was a child, an epic fusion of religious stories and Appalachian folklore."
Charlie's goatman admiration: "Goat. But man."
You guys should 100% talk about the stairs in the woods sometime. I'd love to see Charlie and Jackson's reactions to hearing those stories
True that was a great wendi video
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No that's not in their wheelhouse
Hearing the original backrooms story before it became mainstream and oversaturated with crap would've been awesome. Maybe someday they could read that story and shine a light on what it originally was before roblox and steam got a hold of it
I fell asleep to that video and my dreams where awful 😅
Two and a half years of following Wendigoon and today I found out his name is Isaiah 😂 SO happy he's joined The Official team!
I WAS JUST THIBNING THAT TOO
Who's Isaiah? He's definitely Wendi, Wendy, or Wendi-boy.
@@monkyznblondz Iceberg-Boy**
ok that is such a cool name and it fits so well for a guy like him
Aidan from Lore Lodge name dropped him pretty often because they have a podcast together on Bible stuff.
“Merry-Land” got me every time 🙃😂
Good job though boys, I enjoyed this one!
The man himself in this comment section? Hell yeah.
Maybe you can join and decipher some rare cursed gun sightings around the world who haunt people’s nightmares.
I'd act surprised but I actually first heard of Wendigoon from you in a recent video.
I saw the thumbnail for his Waco video but it stayed in my Watch Later for a while.
Oh cool its mr senator man
Can attest, not many people are very merry here..
The AK Man Cometh
43:13 we did it boys Shane Madej is officially apart of goat man history
HELL YEAH!
in shane madej we trust
SHANE MADEJ MENTIONED ‼️‼️
It was a small but SIGNIFICANT mention, its Shane's bridge now!!
Lets go make graffiti of him tell story’s of him
I've always known that Wendigoon doesn't script his videos (which is already pretty impressive) but seeing his talk about the relations of goats to christian symbolism go for more than 10 minutes nonstop was really cool. He really is the internet's best conspiracy storyteller
there's this youtuber called General Sam, and he had him as a guest on his podcast twice. the podcast is called forehead fables and its usually just The Boys goof'in and gaff'in and Wendi's first episode is mostly just him laughing his ass off at their jokes lol, but the second one is almost entirely just Wendigoon telling a few really long really good stories. he's an AMAZING storyteller and it was really fascinating watching those chud's learn about God lol.
but yeah, TLDR if your looking for more good story teller moments from him, HIGHLY suggest that second episode of forehead fables he was on.
@@grimerime23I'm a fake general sam fan, I should have known this smh 😔
He does have extensive notes though, as shown in the second Hypnogagia video
He has several pages of notes that guide his videos, but not 100% scripted
He used to teach in a sunday school, he knows his stuff about christianity. Watch his interview with the dev of Faith, they go deep into religious topics and nuances.
I absolutely love how Wendigoon is the well read scholar, Charlie's the pop culture expert, and Jackson is the interim with a foot in each realm. Absolutely beautiful blend of characters!!!
you mean the Goatman Expert Charles White.
For the most part.
It all gets real shaky when he starts talking Christian stuff, based on what his pastors have told him I'm guessing.
Because, you know, "satanic cross being an inversion" when the symbol is well documented as being a Christian symbol until the 60's.
It comes from St. Peter being crucified upside down because he refused to be put on the same level as Jesus, it was a humility thing.
Also, the whole unironically believing Satanism was ever really existed and wasn't just something Christians labelled various forms of Paganism/Occultism.
@@llamaczech Yeah he has relatively good biblical knowledge, but it is quite poor when he gets into history of Christianity.
@@llamaczech he knows the satanic cross used to be a christian symbol, he's mentioned it before in a video (I think it was his vid on rejected books of the bible but I can't be totally sure) and that's actually where I first learned about it.
@drkickyoface huh, weird that he knows that but just continues the American Christian rhetoric of the "satanic cross" actually being a thing, then.
Almost like whenever religion turns up he's one of the most unreliable resources out there.
I love the acknowledgement of Shane's claiming of the bridge
came here to comment that. also love the casualness of it. Like, "yeah of course shane madej of formerly buzzfeed unsolved stole the bridge from goatman, we all know this"
I was waiting for that moment of acknowledgment
I’m not personally religious, but I really love the way Wendigoon is able to educate about it in such an entertaining way. I’m so glad he’s a cohost now!
same! it made me want to look into stuff like that more. very interesting stuff!
I wish he was more accurate.
Like a lot of the Satanic imagery we see today that he mentioned is modern.
For example, the pentagram isn't suppose to be just an inversion of a regular star, it has a more detailed history among different cultures and religions.
The upside down cross is originally a Christian symbol of St Peter who felt unworthy of being crucified like Jesus so he requested to be crucified upside down.
His objective and non-biased approach to the subject of religion has kind of fostered a community where people from different religions or people who aren't religious can talk about their beliefs and educate each other without being hostile. That's a crazy feat online.
He’s a Sunday school teacher! It’s literally his job to help others learn about the Bible! Was never really religious myself but through watching his rise from the very beginning (the algorithm blessed me w his 1st ep of the conspiracy iceberg) I’ve found myself to be more curious about the word of the lord and I’m even beginning to seek it out on my own. I find a lot of religious Christian’s to be… um… quite over enthusiastic… I guess would probably be the least offensive way to put it… , myself. So his way of not being pushy and simply connecting stories he hears (whether it be folklore or related to true crime or whatever the case) to what he knows and is comfortable with and not being the type of “you know I think THIS and if you don’t, you’re just dumber than me” Christian most of us encounter is incredibly refreshing! Wendis awesome! I’ve learned so much from him!
he is or was a sunday school teacher
WENDIGOON JUST CALLED IT THE SHANE MADEJ BRIDGE. YES. THANK YOU!
Love you guys. Love watcher. Omg. Best call back ever.
all hail the watcher :))
well this aged poorly😭😭😭
@@gluten1221omg right? Felt like a punch straight to the gut tbh.
Wendigoon is easily the best person for this type of show. Can’t wait to see how far this series goes
Like the comment if wendigoon should do a series with Jidion called seven minutes in heaven where they make out with Charlie Morningstar from Hazbin Hotel. It’s gonna be to good to be true.
Edit: Wow you guys are some freaks thanks for the likes.
Edit: Send this to Jackson and all other hosts, the people have spoken.
It's either wendigoon or Alex from IHE for me (if that was his name lol it's been ages)
😩 reading this gave me happy
Too*
lets be real, ive seen Wendigoon on several different podcasts, was the best guest on all of them.
YOU BETTER NOT BE FUBKIN ME I LOVE WENDIGOOG SM
after listening to the official podcast for damn near 7 years n then hearing Jackson try to do a cold open of a horror story just made me laugh so hard. I love the new direction sm
Wdym he’s experienced at horror stories have you never seen the classic hit GHOST OF HALO
@@daki8131 ah yes his masterpiece and peak of creative genius
The Australian accent always sounds too jovial to be insidious
@@Feral_Bog_Witch yeah jackson has a sense of whimsy about him that can’t be snuffed out
@@Feral_Bog_Witchhe’s holding back laughter the whole time 😂
I think the actual creepy aspect of Anasi's Ghoatman Story is that the campers consisted of two separate groups, who knew the members of their own group but weren't that familiar with the people in the other group. The Goatman would appear in the form of an extra person, hanging around with them and everyone in both groups was under the impression that the person belonged in the other group.
Oh my God that is chilling.
I highly recommend listening to the Roanoke Tales reading of it, he has an awesome delivery
Reminds me of Mandaloregaming's story about Dusty(the second entry in the video "Mandaloregaming - A compilation of Please Stop Talking stories - Part 2")
YES
What I always found weird about it is that Anansi is an African trickster god and that in this story it's just a name, even though the Goatman clearly shows traits of a trickster in the story. I always wondered whether the name was intentional.
Been watching Wendigoon forever it feels like and it's always so fun to just hear him talk about anything because he always seems so passionate while also being super chill. Glad to see him joining up for a podcast like this! Also love that he respected Shane's claim on the bridge.
I love that he mentioned that, I loved that episode on Buzzfeed Unsolved
when does he start talking? i only heard him giggling for an hour
Anything involving Wendigoon is instantly on my watch list. My favorite person on yt and seems like just an awesome person. Can't wait to see more!
First we get CREEPCAST with Wendi and Papa Meat now we get Red Thread with the official boys! We are truly spoiled for content ❤️
This got uploaded 5 minutes after i started my patreon sub to listen to it early but im glad i subbed you guys r all amazing official podcast brand is growing i love it
Jeez, I hadn’t even heard of the Creepcast yet. Brand new it seems. Wendigoons been putting in work lately I’ve noticed! He’s popping up everywhere all over my feed. Unfortunately I typically don’t have time to watch his specific content because all of it seems very much long form content, but he’s one of the best personalities whenever he does pop up somewhere where I typically watch
I almost can't believe it
He was also on the Unsubscribe podcast a few months back. Really enjoyed that one too
@@hectichive889it's called criminaly stupid
Jackson has to be the writer of the century. The emotional twists and turns as the mc crossed the bridge, and the contrast between the bleating goat and the silent protagonist. Beautiful
Agreed, truly one of the monologues of all time
I truly felt
The thought of a crackhead mugging Goatman is hilarious and also terrifying. Wouldnt want to mess with that guy. 😂
This trio is gold I’m so excited for this series
So true
Nah two of them suck
I love the Goatman's symbolism about the bridge and a crossing train. Either it kills you outright (getting hit by the train) or it compels you to jump (Jumping off the bridge to avoid the train).
Imagine walking by trscks and hearing a perfect impersonation of Obama saying, "bussy." No way you aren't being distracted 😂
@@AzayBaeI haven’t watched the video yet but this is comment is making me laugh so hard
You love that?
😂
43:16 Wendigoon acknowledging the “true” name of the bridge made me smile.
Right? Spent so much time on that bridge as a teenager 🥲
@@goodfortunedj what gets me laughing is that Watcher fans still try to change the name of the bridge on wikipedia from “Goatman’s Bridge” or “Old Alton Bridge” to “Shane and Ryan’s Bridge”. It’s still probably one of the best episodes of Buzzfeed Unsolved.
I listened on Spotify, but I wanted to come comment here. Y’all killed it as usual, I hope to see more cryptids in the future. Moth Man, Frog Man, and the elusive man who is only known as “Huggbees.” Keep it up, the thread may be red, but the aprons shall be blue.
There are certain Eldritch creations that even Wendigoon is too cautious to speak of
Huggbees is the scariest god damn cryptid known to man! He knows the difference between a rinsing machine and a filling machine, baffling scientists.
@@CaucasainAsian “Bulgarians”
@@ratgobbler AHHH
@@ratgobblerFrench "people"
Wendigoon: *Has a very deep and religious connection to this cryptid and its origins, as well as tales as to how it relates to his upbringing*
Charlie: GOATSY!
Charlie’s gonna have a field day when they get to aliens. Hopefully he gets his dad to come on as a guest.
I want him just put his dad into the podcast
That would be amazing!
I live in Maryland, and one time when I was on a hike with my mom, she pointed out the general area of the agricultural research center and just told me “That’s where goatman came from.”
As far as I can tell the science-based goatman legend exists because there were a lot of government experiments going on in Maryland at the time. All the FBI’s experiments with LSD were performed at a now abandoned mental hospital in Maryland called Spring Grove, which is now a popular spot for teenagers to sneak out to at night.
Ive never been myself but I dont live too far and ive heard stories about spring grove, might be cool to go check out sometime
Careful they’ll plaster the surrounding area with no parking signs
Fellow marylander here, are you talking about the research center in Beltsville?
Fellow Marylander! Huzzah!
As a Marylander this is also the general story I heard. Heard that he was the result of a science experiment gone wrong and escaped into the night
I can't believe I get to see some of my favorite creators discussing horror. This channel is going to be used for amazing things.
I cannot even tell you how much joy the coming together of Moist and Wendigoon brings me.
Moistigoon is a very unique creature
So glad wendigoon remembered that the Alton bridge was renamed to the Shane Madej bridge can't have a proper goatman video without at least mentioning the fact Shane embarrassed ol goaty by robbing him of a whole bridge
“If good thing happen why satan” is the most intellectual and hilarious argument I’ve ever heard 😂😂
This was incredible, isaiah's insight was so interesting, Charlie's humorous takes on literally anything and Jacksons charisma and the research he did all really did shine through beautifully, couldn't ask for better chemistry in a podcast like this. This is just *cheffs kiss*
I really like that all of you have very distinct voices. Sometimes when I listen to a podcast and can't tell who is talking bc I'm an idiot 😭
I'm very excited to keep up with this podcast! I love a good spooky story.
I was just ab to comment this! Idk if it’s because I already knew what Charlie and Wendigoon sound like, or because they really do have distinct voices (to me, they sound different from each other)
When I was like 9 or 10 years old, I watched a TV show special about the Maryland Goatman, and I became so infatuated with it that when we had to make a poster about something we liked about our country I did mine about Goatman. Now, imagine this, you're a teacher at a Christian school, and in the middle of all of these little presentations about cultural landmarks and historic events, the quite kid in the class then comes up, opens their poster filled with images a demonic goat creature and they start telling stories about families being butchered! 😂 needless to say, the teacher wasn't all too happy lol
The quite kid.
The *quite* kid.
😮💨
He was quite the kid indeed.
24:10 “He just ran out of that cabin and went straight to heaven” had me in stitches 😂
Jackson has really been coming into his own since TOP moved to their own channel, and I just love to see it.
I agree he’s a very entertaining person and he deserves more eyes on him
He’s always been my favourite boy
He's from Australia, the nearest town is 163 miles away, not a whole lot of dating prospects, he's been coming into his own for a long time.
@@LunarLocust i know you're joking but the Sunshine Coast (where Jackson lives) isn't that remote lmao
@_herb when your only options are bogans, abos, or your cousin, you pick your cousin
The biggest knowledge bomb in this video for me is that Wendigoon’s name is ISAIAH. Like, it’s not a surprising name, given his Sunday school background, but that fact that he’s being referred to as Wendigoon second is weird.
I think it suits him
I remember watching wendigoon's conspiracy theory iceberg videos back when he had like 10k subs, seeing him grow over the last few years has been so cool, and seeing him co-hosting this pod kinda blows my mind
I watched him before that but I think that he was at like 100k at that point
And things such as
when he used to end all his videos with stuff like "wow! 80k subs! thanks so much you guys, it really means the most" and the sub count would steadily go up by rising increments every week, you could tell he was struggling with ways to convey his ever increasing gratitude in some way that correlates to the batshit insane amount of growth his channel was experiencing :')
Same I was watching Charlie before wendigoon came around so seeing them come together is so crazy
i dont know why but the description of the mimicry from the 4chan story sounding like a cat meowing words is terrifying to me. not even just in relation to goat man, but that being what it would sound like is so creepy it freaks me out. maybe it's because i have cats and know exactly what that sounds like so to imagine that sound but in the form of "let me in" is so insanely scary
I remember being in year 5 and all these kids in my grade were told to STOP playing bloody Mary because the younger kids who saw this, became too afraid to use the bathrooms. Parents started complaining that their kids were having accidents at school or home (sometimes both) because they were refusing to go near bathrooms.
Honestly bringing wendigoon in to a show segment is the best decision ever he's just such a good personality
I think that by virtue of these cryptids being so well known, so feared, and often times, so often 'seen' by people, it doesn't matter if they're real or not. The cryptids themselves may not be real, but the legacy they create, the fear they cause, and the legends surrounding them, are certainly real enough.
It definitely matters if they're real.
Honestly this. They're not real, but they serve as a fascinating piece of culture and history...and they inspire some really good stories sometimes.
This was really fun to watch - the creepy cryptic talk coupled with the boys’ brand of humor is so solid. Would love to see y’all cover the Ghost Light of Chapel Hill, Tennessee!
This podcast was fucking awesome. I grew up following cryptids and it's a real interesting topic. With someone as knowledgeable as Wendigoon and the comedy of Charlie & Jackson this was a blast, and it seemed like fun for the crew too.
"Oh no, a small knife! My only weakness!" - the Goatman, probably.
i love this. my dad loves cryptids/cryptid lore, too - far more hardcore into the research than i am. i’m just the one holding the popcorn going “ooooh creepy” in morbid appreciation. can’t wait to introduce him to this podcast. you all are awesome!
"I'M STANDING ON YOUR BRIDGE GOATMAN!"
42:41 FUCK YEAH!! 🤘🏻😝🤘🏻 As someone who lives in Denton County, Texas I am so stoked y’all are talking about this. I love this story for 2 reasons........
1. I LIVE NEAR IT.
2. It’s the story that got me to “BUZZFEED UNSOLVED!” 🤘🏻😝🤘🏻 I FUCKING LOVE RYAN AND SHANE! They killed it with that episode! 😂👍🏻
loved the video so much!! just one misconception though, the upside down cross was not a traditional Satanist symbol until the media/movies started using it in the 1960s (at least in terms of theistic Satanism that was being discussed). i can’t wait to hear more of the podcast, you guys have so much conversational chemistry!!
holy fuck i'm super glad wendigoon knows about the movie ghost stories. i think it's a hidden gem. i watched it when i was around 14 and it incredibly messed with me. alex lawther is an incredible actor!
FINALLY!!!! Im so happy for all of you, yall came along way i cant wait ti see how far this will go!!!
i cannot be scared by jackson, probably the best one to make horror stories not scary.
Bro cannot scare a fly
Yeah his voice had me giggling not scared lmao
Grew up in Lewisville TX (in denton county) and visited the old bridge many times with friends. The lore of it goes; a cheating husband was caught by his wife and she cut his head off and sewed a goat head in it's place then hung him from the bridge. He later disappeared and was said to show up if you stopped your car on the bridge at night and ran around it three times. On one of these trips with friends we got out and noticed men in KKK robes on the bank of the river walking/dancing around a fire and got so goddamned freaked out we stopped our little ritual and got in the car and immediately drove away as fast as we could.
Yah I grew up in highland village and would go to goatmans every Halloween. The story I’ve heard though is that he was a freed slave abs would post “this way to the goat man’s “ on old Alton which was the main bridge connecting Dallas and Denton. And local’s didn’t like it so they hung him and when they looked over the bridge he was gone. Then they burned his home and family out of fear
I've lived in Denton all my life and still do, And my house is very close so I've been many times to smoke with my friends and fuck around. the story i was told when i was very young was almost exactly like they said except for some other information like the kkk apparently went back to check the body and it was gone, and how the alton bridge was built by the goatman to go from denton to his house. though the story has definitely been mixed up and the bridge is right next to a highschool.
Y'alls chemistry is so good, so glad you're working on this together !!
Great first episode and helped me finish my first job shift rather quickly! A fun start and I will definitely return :3 🐐
Wendigoon and Charlie are the best match up collab ever made! This is awesome!
I know it isn't technically a cryptid but I kinda want to hear Wendigoon tell the official podcast crew about the mystery flesh pit national park
I like the dynamic and show. jackson provides the history, and reports, encounters etc, and his genuine interest and being able to ask good/funny questions and giving responses to wendi. I genuinely enjoy hearing about the input wendi gave with how it relates to the bible and beliefs, very interesting stuff, and charlie is charlie
Throughout the show, i got creeped out or scared, laughed or was caught in moments of deep interest. Great show so far.
I remember learning about goatman on a hike. Our neighbor didn't time when we'd cross a specific covered bridge properly. Rather than crossing it, she had us turn around and take a more complicated trail to cross the river. When we asked why she explained that the goatman shows up on that bridge twice a day in a very short, very specific window, and when she was younger, she tested that out at the night time window and had to hide under the bridge for a handful of minutes while his hooves clopped on the wood above her, pacing the bridge.
I could listen to Wendigoon tell stories all day. He’s such a good storyteller.
Amazing. I'm so glad that you guys decided to make a podecast like this. I'm a big fan of Wendigoon, Charlie, and Jackson in their own bubbles. I couldn't be more excited to watch every episode that you three make about a genre I love and you all are so passionate about. Stay good you guys!
(BTW, super excited for creepcast with big Papameat)
I literally got so happy when I heard Charlie and Jackson where gonna host a podcast with wendigoon. Am I dreaming
i LOVE Anansi's Goatman story, and i'm pretty sure Isaiah got a good chunk of it wrong 😭 imo, it's more well-written than it comes off in his summary. other than that this was pretty fun to listen to, really looking forward to more episodes
edit: actually i think it would've been cool for isaiah to have read an excerpt from the story. if they go over other things like the stairs in the woods, it'd be cool if everyone read a bit of their favorite story about the concept. :) (edit 2: I KNEW IT. 3 cheers for creepcast)
That’s the one thing about wendigoon, sometimes he gets stuff wrong, idk how he does his research but it’s too bad cause he’s a good content creator otherwise.
@@idkhahahahaI think it’s to be expected since he doesn’t use a script.
@@JustSomeWeirdo i think i get what you mean about not having a script because then he doesn't have anything memorized which allows for errors, but having thorough research/notes should balance that out. he did say he hadn't read the story in a long time, so it makes sense he summarized it badly. mostly i just wanted to point it out because Anansi's Goatman story is a favorite of mine and i hope people don't take the summary at face value!
He definitely left out the most absolutely terrifying part where the thing disguises itself as one of them and is in the cabin with them while they're all sleeping and only one guy notices, he watches it all night while it does this weird convulsive silent laughter.
@@idkhahahahairks me that he thinks wendigos shapeshift💀 he really is named after it and probably thinks they have antlers lmao
Absolutely incredible first episode! It was fascinating to hear everyone's take and stories on Goatman, especially Isiah's knowledge of both cryptid and religious. Followed you boys on Spotify, have been listening there as well, you got a 5 star rating from me!🔥🤘
I grew up within walking distance to pope lick trestle bridge. I’ve walked across it. Hell one of my wife’s first dates was on that bridge. I’ve lived in the rural woods of Kentucky all my life. There is no goat man, and no one here believes there is one. Yknow what’s right next to the bridge? A public park, giant gas station, and houses. It’s not even in a small town or rural area. Might as well be apart of Louisville it’s so close. It’s so surreal seeing giant TH-camrs discuss a silly little half forgotten town mascot as if there’s a possibility of it’s existence. People on the internet remember this thing more than the people who live 2 doors down from it. I’d walk across it on FaceTime with you guys if you wanted.
This series is so perfect for Wendigoon, I can’t wait to see what’s in store
I so thoroughly enjoyed this. Wendigoon is so great and insightful. The G.O.A.T.... man. I love the knowledge and the religious angle he can help bring to these discussions. Jackson was also great for organizing this and bringing it together and Charlie seemed so invested in this and the last episode of the Official Podcast. This is great and I love the content that is coming with this new channel. Keep it up! :)
i was deadass wishing last week we had a consistent wendigoon and charlie podcast, adding jackson in and making the topic cryptids is maybe the best thing i couldve gotten out of that ask
fantastic content, thank you so much boys
Being from Bowie Maryland myself, learning about Goatman was one of the most harrowing memories I had as a kid
I like how contrasting MoistCritical and Wendigoon are in terms of their beliefs but have very likable personalities at the same time as creators.
I'm from Texas and there's a lot of goatman legends across the state, but the one I know the best is from the town I grew up in. Nearby there's a creek, road, and bridge that all go by the name 'Old Foamy', due to there at one point in time being a lot of foam on the creek. It's surrounded by heavy brush and tree coverage. Going back as far as the 1960s, like the other instances talked about in the video, legend says that goatman could be summoned if you stop your car nearby, turn off the lights, and honk the horn 3 times. After doing that, goatman will charge out of the brush and throw dead animals, rocks, and other debris at your car, before jumping on and scratching it up. It used to be a sort of hazing initiation to take the local high school freshman out and make them walk the road at night. The things that make the legend more interesting is that the area is also associated with death and the occult in general. Often times murdered bodies are found washed up around the bridge, lots of car accidents resulting in deaths occur on the road, the remains of missing pets are often found around the bridge, signs of cult ritualistic sacrifices have been found by the creek, and even reported demonic possessions in the RV park next to Old Foamy have all surrounded this stretch of road for almost a century. I remember driving the road before I knew the lore surrounding it. It always left me unsettled even then and I hated driving it alone. As far as confirmable occurrences, I can only confirm some of the deaths by car, the reported possessions, and the cult activity, as some of my family members came across the sacrifices and remains while a family friend was supposedly at one of the exorcisms of one of the possessed. Might try to dig and see if I can confirm any of the other bodies found.
It was fascinating to see the connections the legends in my hometown have with the ones across the nation, and all in all was just a great podcast to listen to. Can't wait to see what y'all cover next!
Awesome!! Let us know if there’s any more you find.
Yesss the bridge. I want to say there was a paranormal show that had actually went and tried to "summon" him, and the wife of someone on the show supposedly started getting a bunch of awful symptoms.
I remember looking it up and it wasn't too far from where I grew up. It's a small world!
Demonic possession in the trailer park? You sure that ain't just meth?
This was a super good podcast, and the three of you have such a good energy as “Jackson, Question leader and story writer Isaiah, Christianity expert and resident Appalachian boy and Charlie, silly guy and cryptid enthusiast.” 😅 I’m excited for the next episode!
About a month ago, I told someone " if witchcraft is real, why are you broke and depressed". Great to see these thoughts making the rounds
Only 48 seconds in and Charlie is wheeze-laughing! 🤣🤣🤣
Wendigoon is seriously such a sweet and heartfelt guy, he always does an amazing job at communicating with other creators AND his audience. You can tell he always really wants everyone to be comfortable and understand how much he appreciates his opportunities
Now this is a podcast ill actually listen too every week. This is an unexpected treat
I grew up in Appalachia as well, and there are so many stories and cryptids from the region. My great grandmother (also born and raised in Appalachia) hand wrote a book of all the ones she'd ever heard and it was eventually passed to me. I read from it every Halloween.
Fantastic episode. Red Thread is a gem. ❤
Would highly recommend transcribing that for a digital copy! Would love to read it.
WOAH that sounds freaking amazing. how special it is that your family kept such a treasure from your great grandmother and passed it on to you. oral traditions, passed on in the same fashion or transcribed to paper, are precious gems. and this collection of tales from your great grandmother must be one hell of a creepy precious gem. very cool!!
@@thedenmeister6414 I'm working on it! I'll come back to this thread and post a link. It may take some time as I have to edit as I go. My poor gran's education level was about 3rd grade, so many spelling/grammatical errors. Also there are very personal stories weaved in that I know she wouldn't want me to share.
@@bloodybrittanyart it is indeed a treasure. I'm working on making a digital version to share. (:
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Should give It to a local museum eventually. It may not seem significant, but books like that, especially ones written by uneducated people (the vast majority of people then) can be incredibly insightful. Gives a glimpse into their lives that would otherwise be lost.
Growing up in southern maryland, my cousins and I used to walk through the woods in search of Goatman. The story I was always told was that Goatman was a human + animal science experiment gone wrong and broke out of the lab
Sad that there won’t be anymore goatman stories since there won’t be anymore woods soon
God, I'm so hyped for future episodes. You guys are awesome
For some reason, up until they put up the artist rendition, I imagined goatman wearing jeans and standing straight up at all times
never in my wildest dream i ever imagine Wendigoon and Charlie make a podcast together.
but now here we are.
1) "mary-land" I live about 20 min from beltsville and people definitely take goatman seriously. 2) for a future episode i think you guys should cover some old civil war stories, as common as they are. The one that i can bring to mind is the Legore bridge in Fredrick, Maryland.
also how i heard about goatman was when i was about 8 or 9 i watched a youtube video that mentioned it. One of my best ways of coping with scary things at the time was thinking about how far these things are from me and how they could never reach me. Naturally I looked up goatmans bridge location, and saw that not only did i live nearby, I had crossed the bridge before. I barely slept the next 3 nights.
Wait wait wait, Goat-man in a suit... Running for office... Business man... Schlatt??
Now that I think about it, the stories of goatman sound remarkably similar to what "Schlatt" did in 1999...
me realizing wendigoon is not in fact his actual legal name
I love how out of no where you hear Charlie wheeze 0:45
This was so good, can’t wait for more episodes!
Now we need these guys to do a show like mountain monsters, Now that’s a million dollar idea.
Believe it or not, I've actually had two encounters in the woods at night with creatures very similar to the goat man.
The first had the head of a goat and the body also of a goat.
The other was the head of a man and the body also of a man.
Both were harrowing experiences for me.
Wow, that's crazy, you outta send a report to the media!
Hearing Wendigoon talk about why satanists would sacrifice goats makes me wonder if it could be that that was an inversion of what he was talking about earlier where goats would symbolically take sins upon them and then be driven out. If that's the idea, then what happens to those sins in a symbolic sense when you slaughter a goat? Symbolically you're rejecting being relieved of your sins. What then? You would be symbolically making the choice to remain in sin.
I love that Wendigoon acknowledged the REAL name of the Texas goatman’s bridge. Shane Madej’s bridge
Jackson's my favorite official podcast member, real happy he's one of the hosts on the red thread
Charlie is better >:(
Charlie really just listening along with us I love it
Yeah no idea why he's even on here except to sell the podcast to his audience. He didn't contribute shit. They should make Papa Meat the third host and just had Charlie on as a guest since he has an interest in the topic.
Wendigoon is the greatest co-host you guys could’ve have gotten for this. His knowledge on cryptids along with his ties to Christianity make this such a good watch. I’m not even religious but I love hearing how it ties in to these legends.
As an atheist/spiritualist i really love wendigoon, he’s so open to everything even tho he’s religious, i wish everybody would be like this. happy to giggle and chat about things that are absolutely opposite to religion.
Goatman posing like the cover of that one limp bizkit album
Should have added Shane and Ryan to this episode since they are experts on the goat man
Steve Goatman.
I love their Goatman video. Especially when they explore the surrounding woods looking for goatman cultists lol
Glad Isaiah properly identified the Alton bridge as Shane Madej's bridge
This is my goatman experience. Disclaimer: I went to Humboldt State, where the incident occurred, sooooo... Some friends and I got bored with our incessant Mario Kart playing (this was like 2003, so late night activities for nerds was somewhat limited). We decide to hike the redwood forest at like 2am, as one does. As a troupe of morons, things progress as one would imagine. However, we get to this canyon that has a remarkable delayed echo. We play with this, shouting, "boobies!" or "anal!" This was all well and good. Then my roommate screams, "DIE!" and it seems that the strange acoustics of the canyon hurl her epithet back at us in much more of an ominous way than anticipated. We decide to hightail it out of there. All the forest noises have disappeared, and we're doing an excellent job of freaking the fuck out, as one would expect of nerds hiking the redwoods around 3am. We stop for a second so that one of our party can piss. Then my roommate grabs me in a hushed panic and stage whispers, "What the fuck is that?? Tell me you see it!" I'm too chickenshit to look, but others in my party (I guess we're D&D now?) do, and great panic ensues. We fly down the canyon, huffing out moisture in the cold night. Because apparently, whatever was seen had horns and was standing upright on two feet. It was dark out, but its eyes gleamed with chatoyance. It may have skulked, I don't really know. We make it back to the dorms and promptly play Mario Kart until the sun comes out.
About a year later, and I know it wasn't related, really. But... I had graduated and got my first big girl job. I lived alone in a small house in Grover Beach CA. I dreamed that I was in the forest again, standing in a dilapidated cabin, staring at the even more dilapidated front door. My dread was off the charts. I open the door, and I guess I see goatman. He's like almost pearlescent, glowing chatoyant eyes, horns. And he skulks in this weird uncanny way, like old clymation. I wake up before it can enter. And I'm so freaked out, my mouth is bone dry and I'm shaking. Worse news is, there is no Mario Kart to salve my battered soul. The End.
That must have been a fun night. I haven't looked much into goatman, mostly only sasquatch and dogman, but I've heard a few stories. Like a few other cryptids, they seem to hang around cemeteries, they also seem to be more paranormal than flesh and blood, but I do remember one story in particular about a guy who claimed his property was terrorized by them. He said they'd be seen in the trees and eventually he shot a couple of them. Actual goats like to climb up into trees, but I can't imagine seeing bipedal human-ish goats sitting in trees. Haha, that would give me a heart attack.
People have claimed to have seen basically every creature you can think of walking around on two legs. From lizards, goats, wolves, cats, baboons..the Egyptians were obsessed with these chimera type creatures, which kinda makes ya wonder why. If monkeys can evolve into us, maybe at some point in Earth's long history other animals evolved into something similar..or it's all been made up.
I wish I had Chatoyant eyes. I also wish I knew what that meant. Good story though! You guys might have really lucked out that night. My party always had Cat Man sightings. Like a Bigfoot but way lankier and sinewy. We saw that nerd probably 5 times over the course of 3 years. Was always more afraid of him than of kidnappers or tangible animals.
@floydbaker2240 chatoyant eyes in this context I assume would mean bright/glowing.
Cool story bro.....
Go huff more moisture in the cold night😂
@@ChristopherDwiggins Well, like I said... This *did* happen at Humboldt, so.... I mean, I don't remember anything illicit that night, but there still is a 3/10 chance that this was all some sort of wild fever dream.
I absolutely love Wendi's uncontrollable laughter at times, especially the fact he's comfortable with his own beliefs that he can laugh like a child at "If good thing happen then why satan?"
As someone who went to school in Maryland, its interesting to hear them talk about goatman and the legends of him in the state, because its actually really well known over here. My first introduction to goatman was actually in the 8th grade. It was tradition in our middle school that on one of the last days of 8th grade, one of our old ass history teachers (who had been at the school forever) would get us all together in the library to dramatically tell us the story of goatman. It went kinda similar to what they mentioned in the video; that a couple drove to a remote area by a bridge to make out, but were getting tormented by the sound of hooves around their car. Where it deviates however, is that the man actually leaves the car to go check what the noise is, and while the girl is hiding in the car she hears violent banging on the top of the car. She is too scared to leave, and in the morning the police come and rescue her, but tell her not to look back at the car... however she does, only to see that goatman had killed her boyfriend and left him hanging by a tree above their car.... So, in Maryland legend, goatman is actually pretty violent and this story scared me for years lmao