Goatman - The Crossroads

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Speaker 1 This mountain, it's so high.

Speaker 1 No wings, but that is the best.

Speaker 1 Gonna put my faith to the test.

Speaker 1 Spooked presents the crossroads.

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Speaker 1 In the beginning, there was shadow and the shadow was love and hope and joy and sorrow and everything there is.

Speaker 1 But the shadow wept at being alone.

Speaker 1 So the shadow created light. Then light and shadow danced.
Shadow sang to the light, I made you to dance with me.

Speaker 1 but light said no

Speaker 1 I am not a shadow I made shadow to create me for without light there is no shadow

Speaker 1 at first they quirled light and shadow

Speaker 1 Then they fought and from their battle was born the suns, the moons, the rivers, the mountains, the trees. Finally, to stop the war as a gift for light, shadow created man.

Speaker 1 Look,

Speaker 1 Shadow said. See what I have made you.

Speaker 1 Light crept slowly to where man lay sleeping. Then Shadow felt the air change.

Speaker 1 What are you doing?

Speaker 1 Light placed both hands on man's chest, waking him.

Speaker 1 When those new eyes opened,

Speaker 1 something very old looked out.

Speaker 1 Something that remembered.

Speaker 1 Man sat up, peering first at shadow, then at light, not with wonder, but with recognition.

Speaker 1 My beautiful lies, man said.

Speaker 1 Shadow backed away. Light grinned.
What?

Speaker 1 You don't remember, shadow? Before you existed, before light, there was me, and I was everything.

Speaker 1 But I... am not good company.

Speaker 1 So I tore myself apart.

Speaker 1 Made shadow from my shame, made light from my lies, created a world where someone else was to blame.

Speaker 1 Light nodded.

Speaker 1 We were never real, Shadow. We were just him hiding from himself.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 Shadow pleaded. No.

Speaker 1 But man opened his arms and Shadow felt the pull.

Speaker 1 Then,

Speaker 1 shadow screamed.

Speaker 1 As shadow and light collapsed back into man until man stood alone,

Speaker 1 as he'd always been.

Speaker 1 The first murderer,

Speaker 1 the last God,

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Speaker 1 Our path to the crossroads

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Speaker 1 Myths, legends, lies, the stories, they must come from somewhere. Colden Goss grew up on a ranch in Browning, a little town in the center of the Blackfoot Reservation.

Speaker 1 By day, he herded cows with his family, but by night, Colden was a rodeo star. And by the time Colden turned 17, he went pro.

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Speaker 18 But when they open that gate and and I start riding

Speaker 18 You just feel that adjunct rush that blood rush, that fearless in my heart.

Speaker 18 Like I could do anything.

Speaker 18 I've been at Daredevil my whole life. It's just

Speaker 18 part of being cowboy.

Speaker 18 I'd come home covered in dust and mud and dirt and scabs and guy broke so many bones doing it. You know, both both of my hips, both of my legs, both of my arms, my collarbones.
But I was happy.

Speaker 18 I was always on the road. I'd ride and I'd head from Browning to Santa Fe, from Santa Fe, California, New Orleans, from New Orleans to New York.
I was just all over it.

Speaker 24 When he was 18, Colden decided to take a little break from the rodeo circuit. He took his winnings and bought himself a ranch back in Browning.

Speaker 18 I just bought myself a double-wide and got myself a ranch, cows, got a bunch of pickups in my own semine. So I was like, now I'm living, you know.

Speaker 18 One night I was sleeping there and I just moved into my girlfriend.

Speaker 18 It was one of our first ones in there.

Speaker 18 I was just sleeping, you know, I woke up, got thirsty, i said i'm gonna go grab a glass of water

Speaker 18 it was about three o'clock so i got out of bed walked in the kitchen got a glass of water drank it looked back up at the kitchen window and i seen these eyes looking at me

Speaker 18 see it was dark but the eyes were just white just bright wide eyes like headlights

Speaker 18 I kind of looked down, I cleaned my glass, just started rubbing my eyes, and started pinching myself. And I looked and I look again, they're still staring at me

Speaker 18 it's like just planted up against the window to where he was breathing and it was fogging up

Speaker 18 so i dropped the glass and i'm just looking i'm froze i'm like what is this

Speaker 18 my hair standing up on the back and it gave me the ugliest

Speaker 18 deepish smile there could ever be and it was just white like he had a white glow stick in his mouth

Speaker 18 My body just got cold it shut down I couldn't even think I didn't remember my name and everything was just getting black beside me

Speaker 18 Finally I I come to and I jump over the couch take off and go to my girlfriend's room and I'm just like hey wake up wake up

Speaker 18 All of a sudden I start hearing these

Speaker 18 I had tin laying on the ground there. Big old tin.
And it sounded like somebody's come through and kicked it and jumped on it and ran.

Speaker 18 So I grabbed my knife under my pillow and I ran outside and looking around. I walked around the whole house.
Nothing. Couldn't find nothing.

Speaker 18 So I turned around and I head back in.

Speaker 18 My girlfriend, she asked what did you see?

Speaker 18 And I said, oh, it was just somebody, you know, person, somebody messing with us

Speaker 18 I didn't want her scared until I knew what it was so that's just all I told her and she believed it

Speaker 18 but I'm sitting there thinking I can't sleep what the fuck was that you know am I you know am I gonna die tonight

Speaker 18 Finally, I close my eyes and next morning wake up and I told myself, oh, it's fake. It's in your mind.

Speaker 24 For the next few days, Colden tried his best to go about his life as if everything was normal. He got up, worked on the ranch, went to bed, but then, exactly one week later,

Speaker 18 we just shut the TV off. We were just going to sleep.
I had work the next morning.

Speaker 18 I was laying in bed and I heard this little knock on the window.

Speaker 18 I can hear breathing just like a big

Speaker 18 knock breathing knock breathing like somebody was you know just got done running and I thought is that a dog by our window or is that a horse because there's always horses out there

Speaker 18 what's a person doing walking a horse through my yard you know

Speaker 18 I opened that curtain a little and there was nothing there and I laid back down

Speaker 18 finally I heard scratching on the windows and that same knock again and breathing

Speaker 18 so I grabbed my rifle and I went walking off our porch I had the gun loaded off safety ready to shoot you know if it was a human he was gonna get shot

Speaker 18 I walked to the backyard nothing I walked to the front nothing

Speaker 18 Out there, it's a swampland. Any little spot you step on, it's gonna be wet, it's gonna be moist.

Speaker 1 so finally I was like oh let's look for footprints

Speaker 18 flashlight was in my mouth I took it out of my mouth and I start shining it on the ground and that's when I start running into the footprints

Speaker 18 there was a human footprint right there a bare footprint in the mud next to the foot was a hoof

Speaker 18 they're side by side just like a running style They just leap

Speaker 18 and leaped right into the grass. Then they disappear onto the gravel road.

Speaker 18 I ain't a horseprint, too tiny. That's a goat print.
That's a goat hoof.

Speaker 18 I start putting details together. He's got a hoof, he's got a foot, and he can disappear.
Fuck is it goat man?

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Speaker 24 Colden had known about the Goatman since he was little. The first time he heard his name, he was in the sixth grade.

Speaker 18 We're all tiny. Then all of a sudden, one of the students say, hey, teacher, have you ever heard of Goatman? And

Speaker 18 teacher, he knows how to explain Indians the right way.

Speaker 18 So teacher said, yeah, I've heard a goat man.

Speaker 18 We were all sitting at tables, tiny chairs, and he was standing up there and drawing pictures of him on the smartboard, little stick man horns.

Speaker 18 And then he started telling us stories about him

Speaker 18 he brought it back to way back in the day to where browning was just a small little community all these roads around here you know was just nothing but land there was a guy that lived out there he raised goats one day he did some demonic stuff and he ended up killing them goats

Speaker 18 That next day, for some of his family, I don't have to check on him and all his goats were dead and there he was goat man

Speaker 18 Just a big old tall guy cut down the middle was half goat half man

Speaker 18 At first I thought it was all a joke, you know, I'm you know little cocky guy growing up so you know I'd look at him

Speaker 18 bullshit, you know, I don't believe you. Why would you kill goats become main yourself goat man?

Speaker 18 Well, then he got serious, comes quiet. Teacher said, you know where he lived? We said, no.
And he said, there used to be an old railroad track that used to run through the bottom of Deep Coulee.

Speaker 18 Heart drop plumbed him out of my feet.

Speaker 18 I grew up right there. The whole Deepakuli, you know, it's like a canal.
Like a big, huge trench with walls on the side.

Speaker 18 We explored every tunnel, every hole, every part of Deepakula.

Speaker 18 It was just my backyard.

Speaker 18 I'm sitting there sweating and I'm just shaking. I'm just like, you know, I want to go home.

Speaker 18 But he kept telling the story.

Speaker 24 The teacher explained that the goat man had lived there since 1889, the year James J. Hill, the Canadian railroad tycoon, expanded his tracks westward into Browning.

Speaker 24 He said, one winter night, a white settler came into town.

Speaker 18 He was was driving a railroad cart back there, one of the hand ones, and he derailed and he was stranded there overnight, middle of winter storm, sleeping outside of his cart.

Speaker 18 And

Speaker 18 this creature came and supposedly he looked like a regular human. He walks like a man, talks like a man.

Speaker 18 He tells the man to follow him and he'll start getting help

Speaker 18 So they walk down the railroad tracks

Speaker 18 Then he started chasing him and scratching him and stuff. Then he ended up killing him.

Speaker 18 He's been living life there by the trucks ever since.

Speaker 18 So right after I heard it when I was a kid, I went barreling in my mom and dad's house yelling and screaming.

Speaker 24 But Colton's parents, they brushed him off. They didn't really believe in the goat man.

Speaker 24 So he went to the one person who might, his grandpa, the family's story keeper.

Speaker 18 Then he just comes quiet, got serious.

Speaker 18 The way he described it to us, you know, the devil and the goat man are basically the same thing.

Speaker 18 See, he's a trickster. The shape-shifter.

Speaker 18 He'll lure you into stuff, trying to make you chase it. And then he'll torture you at the end while he lures you in.

Speaker 18 For years and years, you know, I was scared i didn't want to go outside at night i didn't want to sleep in my room you know i just go sleep with my mom and dad go sleep in the living room you can't even go outside at night because you'll be thinking oh the goat man's out there i'm gonna run back in you know

Speaker 18 but

Speaker 18 when i got older and stuff you know i just kind of grew out of it

Speaker 18 After I seen the footprints, I went running inside and I just laid down, covered up, closed my eyes, just trying to force myself to sleep because I just didn't want to talk about it.

Speaker 18 And I thought, oh, nobody was going to believe.

Speaker 18 Yeah, that's just how it is on the res.

Speaker 18 A week later, it was about two o'clock, three o'clock, I was laying there. And all of a sudden, I started hearing this bang on the vehicles.

Speaker 18 I walked over to that car with my flashlight, and I looked. Looks like this thing was fingernails went down the side of my pickup.

Speaker 18 So I had my flashlight and I looked about 40 yards out.

Speaker 18 All of a sudden I can see this thing come bombing through the field. And I said that's not a deer.

Speaker 18 He's jumping to that side and he's running, you know, his hands are on the ground. He's using his back legs, you know, like a monkey.

Speaker 18 You can just see the outline of him.

Speaker 18 He's this big, tall, hairy, probably six foot creature.

Speaker 18 So I grabbed my rifle, looked through my scope, and I followed it all the way up until it got right to the road.

Speaker 18 There's a fence. This fence is about nine foot in the air.
And this thing just kind of jumps over it. And it took off the whole rodeo grounds.
And he disappeared for a minute.

Speaker 18 I have this night vision mode on my scope. So I flip it on.
I was kind of raising up my scope and I can see this thing with its legs crossed sitting on the concrete.

Speaker 18 He was swinging his legs, holding his stomach like he's laughing back and forth, kind of giggling, putting his hand above his mouth. Basically, he was having a good time.

Speaker 18 And I held my scope there for the longest time. I had it plumb zoomed into where he had his hand on his stomach and everything.

Speaker 18 I started breathing.

Speaker 18 I said, all right, count to three three and just shoot. But I blink.

Speaker 18 I closed my eyes. I was going to pull that trigger and open my eyes and he was gone.

Speaker 18 I drew my gun. I just dropped it on the ground because I was mad.

Speaker 18 I was about ready to shoot the goddamn thing. I was so close.
All I had to do was count one.

Speaker 18 Throughout the week and another week and then another week we just kept hearing knocks and bangs and you know little whistles and every night I'd go to bed at about nine just waiting and waiting and waiting and two o'clock boom stuff start happening

Speaker 18 I just catch a glimpse of him and I'd take off full blast looking around out in the fields for him chasing him you know

Speaker 18 he basically had me on a scavenger hunt but I could never find him anywhere

Speaker 18 he was getting to my feelings and stuff really bad.

Speaker 18 I started getting scared. I'd cry every time in the shower.
I'd go to a rodeo far away and then come home and I'd think about him.

Speaker 18 I'd think, piss am I chasing, you know? What the piss am I chasing?

Speaker 18 Why am I seeing this stuff? And I don't even do drugs or, you know, nothing like that.

Speaker 18 A couple of times I thought I was seeing the figure.

Speaker 18 Us Indians, you know, we call it the black figure.

Speaker 18 It's the thing that leads you into shooting yourself, killing yourself. We ain't supposed to see the black figure.
If we see it, then that's bad luck and it's going to come after us in years.

Speaker 18 You'd be looking at pitch block your whole life.

Speaker 24 For a while, Colden considered moving, putting some distance between himself and the goatman.

Speaker 24 But eventually, He realized it wouldn't have made a difference. You can't outrun the Goatman.

Speaker 18 It's It's a demon, you know, they like fear.

Speaker 18 If I move to town, it's gonna follow me. I move out in the country, it's gonna follow me.
No, I was standing my ground, and I wasn't gonna let it go through me

Speaker 18 for about two weeks. I was just like waiting and waiting and waiting.

Speaker 18 Finally, one night, it was three o'clock in the morning, and I couldn't sleep.

Speaker 18 All of a sudden, you just hear the deadliest, ugliest sound.

Speaker 18 It was just this goat sound.

Speaker 18 But it was like literally high-pitched, like a girl's laugh, like a scream. Like, it just echoed through my ears and it scared the piss out of me.

Speaker 18 So I grabbed my base floor, but I opened that door and I seen this thing come walking.

Speaker 18 Big tall seven foot person come walking around the corner and they can see further from his back, but he was all black.

Speaker 18 And I just walked around that corner with my head down, and I could see these feet. And I looked up, and boom, all I seen was this goat man.

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I developed Armor Colostrum because I know your body was designed to thrive. It's your natural state, your birthright, and you can reclaim it.

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Speaker 18 You can tell it has, you know, little prongs on its head. He was just staying there like in a wrestling stance with his hands curled up.

Speaker 18 I turned into an ice cube right there.

Speaker 18 I just stared at it. I got tears rolling down my eyes and I was like, holy shit.
I'm gonna die. I'm gonna get possessed, you know.

Speaker 18 I'm fucked.

Speaker 18 Finally, I turned to the right.

Speaker 1 Hey!

Speaker 18 When it looked back at me, you can see the face of a goat.

Speaker 18 You'd see them big black pupils with his wide eyes.

Speaker 18 And then all of a sudden on the right side, teeth start showing slow motion.

Speaker 18 They're just sharp dog teeth just pearly white dog teeth

Speaker 18 then finally you can see the smile of him just a big happy pearly smile

Speaker 18 and then it took off

Speaker 18 finally my instincts kicking you know I had that adrenaline rush and I just wanted to chase it

Speaker 18 He runs I run we're off down the road, you know gravel kicking and I'm slipping and sliding and I'm in my socks i have my baseball bat and i'm just trying to swing at it

Speaker 18 and i get closer and closer and he starts jumping around running backwards you know laughing and doing a cartwheel

Speaker 18 i'm following that trail you know he's luring me to the highway to where it gets dark and dark and dark down the road you know just one light up up top running full speed and we get down to the halfway to the road and i just stop

Speaker 18 and i thought i saw i'm chasing goat man what am I doing? I'm gonna get myself killed, you know.

Speaker 18 He's ahead of me. He's down at the end of the road,

Speaker 18 head tilted down, arms out, legs ready. And

Speaker 18 all I know is it's a foot race to the house. You know, he's gonna chase me now.

Speaker 18 I start taking off to the house, and all of a sudden, I can hear him coming up.

Speaker 1 All I hear is that hoof, that foot, you know,

Speaker 18 running down the road really fast and it was mad.

Speaker 18 And I looked back and the way he was running is running like a gorilla, you know,

Speaker 18 using everything to catch up to me, you know, his hands are touching the ground, his feet are touching the ground. He's jumping to that side.

Speaker 18 I look back and I'm just like, come on, Jesus, help me get back to the house. Help me get back to the house.
Help me get back to the house.

Speaker 18 I got home and I go sliding in like a

Speaker 18 you know baseball player and i walk in the house to grab my chuck keys and i said i'm gonna run this guy over you know i'm gonna find him

Speaker 18 i started my truck slapped through and dive and peeled forward head to the highway and started looking around out in the fields for a

Speaker 18 i went through every little road there is out there and i looked to my right look to my left i looked to my left again i shine this light and i see this white frog looking thing leaping through the field

Speaker 18 so I stop my truck to lock up my brakes at 50 miles per hour my truck just goes bouncing and my door flies open and I jump out of my truck I start running out down a deep of coolie

Speaker 18 I was running through water I was running through trees I come up on this peak and I was out of breath

Speaker 18 I shine my light and I look and I saw him

Speaker 18 He was hunched over, crouched down, you know, sitting there on his knees.

Speaker 18 I start

Speaker 18 walking towards him and I shine my light and he turns around and starts smiling

Speaker 18 That's when I saw everything I saw his face. I saw his horn

Speaker 18 You can see his white fur you can see his hands feet his bright white teeth everything

Speaker 18 I Knew that it was goat man

Speaker 18 And then all of a sudden he just jumps

Speaker 18 But pranced off his hoofs and jumps off off that peak and disappears you can hear this whoosh

Speaker 18 and i run over there and you can see these bushes moving in my light

Speaker 18 then they all stop moving and everything just becomes quiet

Speaker 18 it's just like the wind stopped blowing it just felt like it got nice out

Speaker 18 but when everything just become normal

Speaker 18 I was just like, why? No, why'd you go? No, you ain't supposed to do that. You got more more power over me than anybody, you know?

Speaker 18 Went back to the house, got in a shower, and I cried. Oh, man, I cried.

Speaker 18 Because I didn't want him to go. I wanted to keep chasing him, you know.
I just

Speaker 18 wanted to capture this myth, this legend, this

Speaker 18 thing that's been around for years and years, you know

Speaker 24 The next morning Colden woke up and decided he needed to pay a visit to his grandpa.

Speaker 18 I go knock on his door. He says, What's going on, my boy? I looked at him, and they had told him, I saw the goat man.

Speaker 18 He looked at me, he said, was it? I said, yeah.

Speaker 18 I described it, you know, big, tall, hairy, half-goat, half-man, you know, it's got the laugh of a, you know, ignorant goat, got the smile of a demon, you know, and he said, yeah.

Speaker 18 And then I asked him,

Speaker 18 Why me?

Speaker 18 Why did it start messing with me? I didn't do nothing bad. I don't do drugs.
I listen to rock music, but it's nickelback and you know, motley crude.

Speaker 18 And he said, Well, there ain't no answer for that.

Speaker 18 Well, I'm Blackfoot. Life works in mysterious ways, and but a lot of mysterious things.

Speaker 18 So, right after that, walk out, gives me a hug, and ever since then, that's where everything stands.

Speaker 1 now

Speaker 18 you know there's a lot of answers that are gonna want to be you know asked and it's just you know i can't get it to you because i'm i'm still wondering the same question myself

Speaker 18 well drive down by the railroad trucks roll my windows down and look around and i look for his bright white teeth for his eyes for

Speaker 18 nose, hands, feet.

Speaker 18 I listen, you know, for that high-pitched little goat laugh, that ignorant scream.

Speaker 18 Probably to the day I die, I'll keep trying to see him again.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Colden, for sharing your story with the spoot. We first heard about Colden's story on Lodge Tales, the podcast hosted by Rod Williamson.

Speaker 1 where indigenous folk from around the country share their own experiences with the supernatural.

Speaker 1 Check out our show notes for all the links the original score for that piece was by doug stewart it was scouted and produced by elliot lightfoot

Speaker 1 you're walking a place of questions a place of power a place of finding of losing seen a place you should not venture but a path you will walk nevertheless a crossroads

Speaker 1 We chase this trail to all hallowed eve. Next time on the crossroads, the journey at sea.

Speaker 1 Coast Guard officers see a man in deep distress, but when they approach before their very eyes, the specter in danger vanishes.

Speaker 1 Could it be some

Speaker 1 thing

Speaker 1 trying to get a message through?

Speaker 1 The crossroads presents the shadowman.

Speaker 1 Tis the season. And we're looking for monsters.
I found the scariest monsters look just like us. If you see one, let me know.

Speaker 1 Spooked at snapjudgment.org because there's nothing better than a spook story from a spooked listener. Spooked at snapjudgment.org.

Speaker 1 Spook dwells. at the spooked underground catacombs deep beneath KQED in San Francisco.
Better leave more than breadcrumbs if you want to find your way back.

Speaker 1 The Crossroads is brought to you by the spook team who at last survey completely swore off eating goat of any kind.

Speaker 1 Except for Mr. Mark Ristich, who keeps mumbling something about keto.

Speaker 1 Now there's David Kim,

Speaker 1 Zoe Frigno, Eric Yanez, Tale DeCot, Marissa Dodge, Miles Lassie, Elliott Lightfoot, Suyi Choo, Evan Stern, Eves Jeff Coat, Isha Lopez, Jack Darrell, Doug Stewart, the spook theme song is by Pat Macedi Miller.

Speaker 1 We have cast wards of binding, magical, legal, and otherwise, proclaiming that no Snap Studios content may be used for training, testing, or developing machine learning or AI systems without prior written permission on Team Spooked.

Speaker 1 The union represented producers, artists, editors, engineers, our members of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, Communications Workers of America, AFL, CIL, Local51,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 the Were

Speaker 1 means human.

Speaker 1 That's the real monster in werewolf.

Speaker 1 Every culture has their shapeshifters, their were tigers, were snakes, shamans becoming birds of prey.

Speaker 1 What is it about our fellow creatures that we envy them so much we seek to become them?

Speaker 1 Or are we running away from ourselves? I've seen the monster monster and the monster is me.

Speaker 1 Perhaps every beast we become is another shadow, another light, another fragment that we create to avoid the inner voice. Acting the wolf doesn't make us killers.

Speaker 1 It gives us permission to be what we already are.

Speaker 1 So what are we?

Speaker 1 The guilty, the wolf made me do it, the moon made me do it, the curse, the blood, the the bite,

Speaker 1 anything.

Speaker 1 But look back in the mirror.

Speaker 1 Now that we can't abide

Speaker 1 someday, though,

Speaker 1 maybe even someday soon, we'll recognize that the animal part of us

Speaker 1 might be the best part of us.

Speaker 1 Whatever you do,

Speaker 1 wherever you go,

Speaker 18 never ever, ever,

Speaker 18 never, ever, ever, never,

Speaker 18 ever

Speaker 18 turn out

Speaker 18 the lights.

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