There's a train bridge in Kentucky that is, for real, extremely dangerous.

And to make matters worse, there's an alluring urban legend of a goat man creature that

lures legend trippers to the area.

To toss back a couple of forties and see what happens.

It might sound like the stuff of campy sea movies, but unfortunately, it has become the

stuff of reality.

The goat man of Pope lick bridge is coming up right now on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The goat man of Pope lick bridge.

First of all, before we get one more word into this episode, let me be clear.

I know means do I suspect that a single Skeptoid listener out there has any speck of belief

that a goat human hybrid lives on, under or around, the Pope lick creek trestle bridge

in Kentucky.

And that there is therefore a legend of some kind that needs to be debunked.

Now, there are other much better reasons to talk about this quasi-famous urban legend.

All that most such legends themselves are not what's interesting about them.

It's the how and why they exist, and the often surprising lessons we take from that.

Second, before we get any further into this, I want to acknowledge that young people

have lost their lives on this bridge, who were allegedly or anecdotally there because

of the legend of this creature.

That is true, and it's happened multiple times in recent years, and it is a horrible tragedy

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