East Texas Goatman - THE STRANGE

This was sent in by Anonymous:

I am a 24 year old man now in the Navy. I grew up in a small town in East Texas called Marshall. Just like the teenagers in Maryland, we also had a folk legend about a creature that was half man half goat. The first story I ever heard was from my father. In 1972, he and some friends had went out
hunting in some woods located in a rural part of the county. The land they were hunting on was a swampy area of what we like to call "bottom land." The excursion had taken place in the late afternoon around 3:30pm or so. As the afternoon had turned into evening, the rest of the hunting party had returned to the spot where they had parked the truck. All of his his friends had returned except one. The other three of them waited until just after the sun set. They finally decided to load into the truck and drive down to where he was hunting. En route, they heard three shots fired. When finally reaching the end of the dirt road, they saw their friend standing in the middle of the road with a blank stare on his face and he was as white as a sheet. They stopped the truck and he entered and began telling them what he had seen. He said that he was heading back to the truck and kept hearing something rustling through the leaves maybe ten yards behind him.
He turned around a couple of times and it stopped. This continued and finally he turned around and shined his spotlight toward where the rustling was taking place. At that moment, something leaped out of the bushes and just stood there staring him down. He described the creature as having the upper torso of a man and the lower legs of a goat. He then raised his rifle and fired three shots at it at very close range. The creature didn't even flinch. It finally ran into the woods when hearing the truck coming up the road. The one thing he said he would never forget was the creatures bright red eyes.
Of course growing up in my hometown, high school students would return to the area off Blackjack road looking for a glimpse of the creature. I myself have never seen anything but have heard other stories about the creature that haunts the river bottoms outside of Marshall. I just thought this
story might help in someway to show how each town has there own version of this urban myth.
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