"They say the Goatman prowls the woods at night near my home in Maryland. He was once a biologist named Stephen Fletcher at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. That was before the accident with goat DNA transformed him into a half-­human, half-­goat monster who devours victims that he slays with an axe. It's been decades since I first heard of the Goatman."
"Honestly, I'm fairly certain that the carnivorous goat-­human hybrid isn't real. It's hard to prove something doesn't exist, though. There are things you don't believe in because they're at odds with what you're confident is true. Perpetual motion machines and alchemists' stones that turn lead into gold don't exist. If they did, lots of established science would need to be wrong."
Local Maryland folklore tells of a Goatman, once biologist Stephen Fletcher at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, allegedly transformed by goat DNA into a half-human, half-goat axe-wielding monster. Skepticism about such carnivorous hybrids rests on lack of evidence and the difficulty of proving nonexistence. Distinctions appear between outright impossibilities (perpetual motion, philosopher's stone) and creatures that are unlikely but conceivable (Bigfoot, Loch Ness monster), labeled cryptids within cryptozoology. Some theoretical entities from Einstein's general relativity were once treated like cryptids; black holes transitioned from speculative curiosities to accepted entries in astronomy and physics.
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