Creepy - Anansi's Goatman Story

Episode Date: June 19, 2017

Anansi has a story to tell...***Narrated by John Washington***Presented by Lake Clarity (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lake-clarity/id1207966428?mt=2)***Sound Design by: Pacific Obadiah***Intro/Outro by Joe Stofko***Music by Alex Aldea Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is creepy. A podcast dedicated to sharing the most famous chilling and disturbing creepy pastures and urban legends in the world. Whether these stories truly happened or our simply fabrications is for you to decide. These stories may contain graphic depictions of violence and explicit language. Listener discretion is advised. A Nazi's goat man's story, narrated by John Washington. Saved from 4chan's X thread on Friday, September 28th, 2012 at 131 a.m. Eastern Time. Edited slightly from the original thread to improve grammar and flow.

Here's my story. Be 16. Be black and have a family down in Alabama. They farm and own a huge amount of land down in Huntsville. Uncle owns a big house and a bunch of trailers they put out in the woods for hunting or camping. Down South Cousins suggests we go out there to camp. No, I'm a city kid from Chicago, so they tease the fuck out of me. Collect food, kill a pig, and some chickens, and bring necessities to camp out for a few days. We get to the camp, and it's obvious something is weird.

air has this weird electric smell like right before storm like ozone we think nothing of it and unpack and go down to the little creek to swim for a few hours all of a sudden some older white guy and a white teenager comes out of the bushes he has a shotgun in the crook of his arm and says hello and asks us what we're doing this far back in the woods. Tell him about my uncle who he knows and say we're camping out. He tells us we need to be real careful out there and stick together. There was a big animal in the woods. His son, who is my age, asks if he could stay and hang out with us. He says, okay, I'm going to stop green texting because this story is fairly long and the format is harder to write in.

So we end up playing football. Dicking around with me, there's this white kid, Tanner, five of my cousins and then four of their friends. In total, there was five girls and six boys. We were all around 15 to 17. We ended up just dicking the day away. So we head back to the camp and pulling out some stuff for a campfire. even though the trailers both had kitchen heads.

Tanner says that his family's property sits up against my uncles. He wants to run home and ask his dad if he can come out camping with us. My cousin Rooster says he's going to go with him, since it's going to get dark soon. One of the girls also wants to tag along. It's about 7 o'clock and it's starting to get pretty dark. They take flashlights and take the trail towards Tan's property. The rest of us chill. We make s'mores, drink, and kiss on the girls.

About 30 or 40 minutes later, there's this smell of ozone again. You could smell it over the smell of the fire we had started. This really nasty, coppery smell. Like, right after you had a nosebleed and it stopped. It wasn't exactly like dried blood, but it was that nethered. nasty, metallic back of your throat smell. We immediately think that it's some kind of electrical malfunction or someone left a hot plate on or some shit.

We searched the trailers and nothing is on, and we can all smell it. All of a sudden, we can hear people booking down a path towards us, and rooster, tan, and the girl all come running into the clearing, out of breath. And they don't even break stride. They all run into the trailer. right by where the fire is. We all get the fuck out of there and into the trailers. They end up calming down.

Even roosters crying his fucking eyes out at this point. All the while, the fire is guttering lower and lower. So my other cousins say, fuck it. And are about to go outside to get the generator out of the shed between the two trailers. Tanner goes Fuck no

Lock the front door Ain't nobody else going outside He's been crying too And his eyes are bloodshot And puffy And his pants are dirty as shit He goes on to tell us that

They went up to his house His father said Sure He could go out camping But to make sure they were careful On the way back And that maybe they should take one of the hunting rifles

just in case. Evidently, Tanner had seen something in their yards a few days before. One of their pigs had come up, ripped up, and half eaten. They assumed it was just some big cats or coyotes,

even though they don't usually fuck with live animals. He had gone upstairs and packed his stuff and told his dad they would be okay without the rifle because coyotes avoid people. So, they started walking back toward where we were camping.

So Rooster finally stops crying and shaking. The girl already had, but she was just staring out the window with a dumb look on her face. He says that they had gotten halfway into the woods toward the camp when they started to hear shit in the forest. It was almost pitch black by this time. So they weren't sure at first what the fuck it was. The girl says that she heard something in the bushes right off the trail, and they all beamed their flashlights over there.

And there was somebody standing in the woods in a little hollow. Rooster said they shouted at him and told him that he was scaring the fuck out of him. And what a dick he was. He says, that's when he was. says that's when he realized the guy was facing away from them. So they keep walking, and they start smelling that nasty, coppery ozone smell. They say that they look off in a forest on the opposite side, and it's a dude standing in a forest, backward, slightly closer to the path. So now they start power walking and Tan keeps going, I should have taken that fucking rifle.

As to tellin the story, the smell is still super strong, even inside the cabin. They say that after they started walking faster, a kind of low gibbering has started coming from both sides of the wood. And as they started booking it back to the trailer, the girl says she had flashed her flashlight over into the wood. to the side of them, and it's seen something jerking itself through the woods. The gibbering just got louder and louder, and when they could see the light from the campfire, something that come out of the woods about 40 yards behind them onto the track. And they had flat out ran as hard as they could to the trailer. So, we're out in the fucking woods, and we're assuming at this point,

at some rednecks or some shit trying to fuck with us. All of a sudden, my other cousin, Jr., starts going on about how he went to school with a native kid that was telling him about the goat man and some shit. We promptly tell him to shut the fuck up because we don't need any spooky talk right now. But he just keeps going on and on about how it's fucking goat man and how it's fucking goat man and how we're in his woods and blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, at the time, I had never heard of this goat man or any of that. But then a couple of years ago, the year before I graduated college,

I had a men arm for a roommate, and I ended up asking him about it. And to sum it up, it's basically a fucking man with the head of a goat. And he can shape-shift and gets among groups of people to, terrorize them. It's also supposed to be kind of like a windigo, and it's bad mojo to even talk about it, and even worse if you see it. Keep in mind, I didn't know this back when I was 16. So my cousin's going, the goat man's going to get in and fucking get us. The girls are all terrified, and my cousins and I are all fucking trying to figure out if it's just some hillbillies or if it's some animal. So all of a sudden, the smell just goes away. Like, to this day, I haven't even

experienced anything like it. Like, usually smells fade away or lessen. It just literally was there one second and then not the next second. So it's after an hour making it around 9 or 10. We stopped shooting bricks enough to go back outside and stoke the fire again. We figure it was just some assholes trying to fuck with us. So we don't go back home, because we think if we do, they'll chase us through the woods or some crazy shit. Nothing else weird happens that night. And we stay another night, and for the main part of the night, nothing happens.

At about one in the morning, we're outside getting drunk and telling ghost stories. As someone is finishing some spooky story, I don't remember what about, the smell comes back. It's so fucking strong that one of the girls literally starts vomiting. I stand up and you can actually feel how clammy the air is. I say we should get inside, and this isn't right. We should have fucking left. We all go back inside, and we're standing around. My cousin just keeps going on about how it's the goat man,

and my cousin, Rooster, tries to shut him to fuck up, and the whole time I'm just feeling that something is wrong, and I can't figure out what the fuck it is. We end up sitting there for a while. The smell is just as strong. and we're terrified and all huddled in this camper. We end up cooking brats for everybody because nobody wants to go outside.

It's one of those packs with four brats. We have a total of three packs. I grill them up on a stove and give everybody a broth. I get mine. After a while, one of my cousins gets up and goes over to the pot to get. get another one. He starts grumbling about how I get two brots and everybody else only gets one. And I look at him like he's fucking stupid. I tell him that everybody only got one because there were

only 12 brots. If he wants more, he should open up a new pack and cook some more. That's when the girl that had been out with Rooster and Tand just starts screaming, oh Jesus, oh Lord, get it out. She's crying and shivering And then it dawns on the cousin standing up What the fuck is wrong? Me and him both glance around the room And then I fill my heart fucking sink

I run the fuck out of the cabin And the girl runs with us The trailer door is banging against the side of the trailer As everybody books it out of the cabin One of my cousin's friends asks us What the fuck was wrong I start counting us. There's only 11 now.

I shit you not my cousin verified. There had been 12 of us in a cabin. But being that everybody didn't really know each other well, nobody had really noticed the whole fucking time that there was an extra person. And then, I realized earlier that I'd kind of noticed something was off. You know how when you're just, sticking around and having a good time, that you don't sweat the smallest shit, and you don't

always keep track of certain stuff? I'm dead sure that someone else had been in a trailer with us, and they had been there at least a fucking day, eating with us. What makes it worse is, I couldn't figure out which one, because I don't think anyone ever actually interacted with the other person, the goat man. The girl kept praying to Jesus and we're all sitting outside. Eventually, we get big-ass sticks and go back in a cabin, but there's nobody in there. We count again, and there's 11 people.

We go back into the trailer and lock the door. We explain what the fuck happened, and the girl says that she realized too, and that when she was about to say something, the person sitting next to her had grabbed her leg hard and leaned over toward her and said something she couldn't understand. So, we are pretty much scared as fuck as we huddle together, and I fall asleep. When I wake up, the sun is just coming up,

and half the people are asleep, and the other half are packing our shit up. We all want to walk back home But like four people want to stay until the sun is all the way up And some people think that We're just fucking around and still want to stay at the trailers I just want to get the fuck out of the woods The girl's name was Kiera

The one that the goat man had touched Anyway, I asked her if she really thinks it was something bad And she says she just She just wants to go home, and she doesn't want to be out in the woods alone for another night. So, we decide to split up. The four that want to go can go. But I have to stay because I have the keys to the cabin, and it's my uncles, and I have to lock up. I'm super pissed at this point because I feel like people aren't taking this shit seriously,

and I definitely didn't want to be out in the woods for another night. I spend the rest of the day trying to convince the rest of the people. Now, four girls and four guys, to get the fuck out of Dodge. Tanner leaves with them to go get a rifle and says he's going to be back. So there are just seven of us left by 4 p.m. At around 5 p.m., he hasn't made it back yet, and we're getting extremely fucking antsy. and the only reason I stopped begging them to go back was because he went to get a gun.

It's about 5.30 p.m. or so when the one cousin that did stay says that the girl Kiera is outside. We all look outside and sure enough, she's standing out by the fire pit with her back to the cabin. I'm thinking to myself, if she was so fucking scared, why the hell would she come back? and then I get this nasty feeling in my gut keep in mind the whole time the coppery smell has been gone now I realize I could smell just a twinge of it I say this to the rest of them and these are the people who wanted to stay in the fucking woods

after we had the goat man in our midst and everybody is laughing at me asking if I set this up to scare them I'm looking at them like I'm not fucking bullshitting you at all right now. I asked them why the fuck would I play like that? So one of the girls goes outside to get Kiera. She gets halfway to her and stops. Cold. Kiera starts heaving. I don't know how the fuck to describe it, sort of like if someone with their back turn was laughing without actually making any sound. It was this fact that

made me realize there was not a fucking sound in the whole woods. It was dead silent. This was like later in September, so it was still fairly hot at the time, but it was super chilly some days too. And you could usually hear big-ass geese honking or some kind of birds or squirrels chit-chat. So I step out the door and tell her to come back. and the fucking trailer right God damn now.

She backs up into the trailer and we lock the fucking door. We pull down all the shades except one and put a guy there in a chair to watch her. She stands there for another 20 minutes or so. The guy

turns to say she's still there and then there's a huge fucking bang at the door. We all jump the up and scramble around the living room of the trailer. The banging is super fucking loud. So now my cousin is holding one of the girls. And the other two were kind of giggling with nervous laughter.

And me and the other two guys are shitting bricks. Then we hear Tan. He's screaming. Let me the fuck in. Stop fucking playing. So we go over to the door and open it. And he stumbles in with a rifle. There's nobody else outside. Evidently, he had walked up to the campsite.

Nothing weird happened in a forest, but he had seen a girl. Mind you, he said it was not Chiara standing there. When he had gotten to the edge of the clearing, she had turned toward him with this slack-jawed look and just stared him down, slowly tracking him as he walked around the outside of the clearing towards the camp. He said it wasn't till he was almost halfway to the trailer. He had realized that she was getting closer to him. She had started off by the fire and without him even seeing her move, she had been turning, inching closer.

He said he just ran the rest of the way. way back to the cabin, thinking it would open, and when he got to the door, it was locked. He turned and it was about half the distance to the door. He looks around to the room, and then he gets super pale. He pulls me to the side and whispers in my ear. You know, there are only seven of us in here, right? I get that feeling when your stomach drops to your nuts. It had been back inside the trailer while we were sorting out who was going where.

And then when we all went outside to talk earlier in the day, it just slipped right back in. We looked out the window and there's nobody there. So we recount everyone and then basically I go over and ask everyone how many people were here earlier. And everybody says eight. I say, well, how many people are here now? They all do the count. And then realize there are only now

seven people in the cabin. So Tan had brought back a couple of boxes of ammo in his rifle. And he had told his dad that there was some kind of animal in the forest because he didn't think his dad would believe him if he said it was the goat man. He says that his cousin is supposed to be coming down in a few hours, and that in the morning we can all go back to his place,

and his cousin will drive us home. Now I'm really fucking terrified, but I at least feel better because we can be American and shoot the fuck out of whatever it is if it comes back. But then my cousin gets into this huge argument with one of the girls because she thinks that I'm trying to be funny and prank them, and that she's getting really scared and that I'm not funny. He keeps telling her, I'm not that kind of person.

And she says, well, how do we know the girl wasn't just Tanner in a wig? Or if it's really the goat man? How do we know that this is the real Tanner and that the goat man just didn't kill Tanner in the woods and take his gun? so we fucking get into a huge argument about this where me and tan are like we could seriously be in danger because at the very least someone has been sneaking themselves into our fucking trailer

without us knowing and mingling with us and at worst something bad is in the forest fucking with us one of the girls is crying and saying she wants to go right now. And we're trying to tell her we shouldn't because none of us are walking through the woods in the middle of the night. At this point, the sun is starting to go down,

and it's getting a little cloudy out. We eat something and turn on a radio for a while, but we can't really get a station out there. So we turn it off about the time a tan's cousin shows up. He was like 19, I think. At this point, the sun is just barely over the horizon, and he has one of those heavy-duty lanterns

and another rifle. He walks up to the trailer, and we whisper to Tan asking if he's sure that's his cousin. And he says yes. The guy looks behind him and all around the camp, then walks in. He kind of glances at all of us and looks a little confused.

He says, where's your other little buddy at? I figured she would meet me up at the cabin. Is she a little slow or something? He also asked whether we had been cooking blood in a cabin because it smelled like blood and hot pans all the way up the trail.

We are all of the trail. like fucking nope. But we ask him what the fuck he's talking about with the girl he saw. He had come down the same trail Tan had been using. He had come up on one of y'all's buddies, standing in the middle of the trail, looking at him slack-jawed.

He had asked her a bunch of questions, but all she did was just look at him. Then she smiled. at him and he said he kept walking she couldn't seem to keep up with him and kept lagging a little behind him he said he asked her if she was hurt or something and if she needed any help but she had continued to stare eventually he followed a bend in a trail but when he stopped and when he stopped and what went back to see if she was okay, the trail was empty. He assumed she had taken a shortcut through the woods to our trailer. We tell him the whole story of what's going on. I half expected him to say we were full of shit,

but he just listened and sat down on the couch and living room. Tanner's cousin gets back to the girl. He says When she kept lagging behind him It kind of weirded him the fuck out So He tried to keep her in front of him But no matter how slowly he walked

She was always lagging a little bit behind And he smelled that nasty smell And it got stronger as he got closer to the camp She said something really low that he didn't catch. And when he turned around, she had been right the fuck up on him. And he stepped back from her.

It was at this point. He asked her if she was okay. And if she wasn't, he'd carry her back the rest of the way. She just kept staring. He said he reached out for her, as if to grab her on her shoulder. but he must have misjudged the distance because because she was off to the side of where he had put his hand, like she had moved while he was looking dead at her.

So, at this point, we know this shit's real, unless Tan is playing a joke, which we can tell he's not because he's almost pissing his pants. So, so they load up their rifles. We eat some more, and we just kind of sit around until about 11. To this fucking day, every time I think about this, I really pray to God that it's some huge prank that my cousin played on me, and just never revealed so I could shit for the rest of my life. At around 11, the stink of copper turns in.

into an actual nasty, gross, blood-like smell, like cooking blood and cinched hair. Tan and his cousin, Reese, get the fuck up instantly and grab the rifles. There's like a half knocking, half clawing at the door. And I shit you not, there's this voice. And it sounds like when you see those you two. cat and dogs whose owners teach them how to talk. It says in this halting, weirdly toned voice, let me the fucking stop fucking playing.

It made my fucking nuts creep up against my body. And one of the girls just starts crying and calling on Jesus. It was so fucking obviously not a person talking. It didn't have the right cadence. and that's some shit that I never realized until that moment but all people have a certain cadence when they talk no matter what language

all people have a certain kind of rhythm to talking this shit didn't have any kind of cadence or rhythm one of those YouTube cats that's what the fuck it sounded like outside the door so now I'm in full terror mode. We keep yelling outside. Who is it? Stop fucking around, man. And it just keeps saying,

In. Let me in. In. Let me the fuck in. For almost 15 minutes. It sounded like this, almost. Just not funny. Sorry for being on a tangent, but if you can't imagine how fucked up this shit sounded, then you can't imagine how fucked up the whole situation was. So then the smell goes away for a while. And for the next hour or so, you can hear someone basically creeping around in the woods and shit. Every couple of minutes it'll come back to the door and say something. Finally, when the smell fades away, it's around two in the morning. Reese says, man, fuck this, and opens the door and walks outside with the rifle.

He fires a shot into the air and says something to the effect of, In the name of Jesus Christ, go away! He fires two more times, and then from the woods right up against the river across from the trailer, it sounds like something is slowly jivering and hooting. Then it starts screaming, and it's... It sounds almost like a woman and a cat in a bag screaming together. Like, I seriously have never heard any shit like that. And you can hear the brush over that way start to shake.

Reese fires over into the tree line and then starts backing into the house. We lock the door and we can hear this shit keening and screaming. Rees says something had come out of the bushes super low to the ground. crawling toward the cabin. He had shot at it. Pretty much that was how the rest of the night went.

It was literally screaming constantly for the next two hours and we could hear shit moving into the tree line. But it never came back up to the cabin until everyone had fallen asleep. Tan had been sitting

in a chair watching the door with his rifle. Nobody else heard or saw this. And he told me two days later after the whole thing was over. He said he had been nodding off after the screaming and noises finally stopped. And he had been almost asleep

when he saw someone come out of the bathroom and then lay in the middle of the floor and go to sleep. He assumed it was just one of us and he had nodded off. Then he said he kind of realized something was wrong. And while pretending he was sleeping, he counted us. There were nine people in the cabin.

He basically didn't want to try to shoot at the fucking thing in the cabin, and then have it kill us all thin and there. Or have Reese wake up and start shooting and then we kill ourselves. So he just stayed awake all night, pretending to be asleep. He said sometimes it would stand up and kind of do this weird jittery thing, or heave like it was laughing. But then it would lay back down. The story closes pretty weak, because from my perspective, nothing happened. We woke up and I noticed that tan was a little jittery. and that he was avoiding looking at all of us. But we ate some breakfast, packed up, and started walking to his house.

He stayed last in the cabin and said he'd lock up and bring me my uncle's keys. To just start walking and he'd catch up, which I didn't really want to fucking do. We got a little bit up the path, and when he came running up, basically, we just jogged back up his house. His cousin took us home. There was a window in a bathroom. Tann had gone back to lock up and looked in there. We were too stupid to lock a screenless window. The window was fucking up when he went in there. I'm guessing it had been doing that all along, waiting for us to fall asleep or slip up and then getting in among us. It walked with us. It walked with us. It walked with us all the goddamn way back to his house.

And then he said it lagged to the back of the group and looked him dead in the eyes before walking into the woods. This episode of Creepie is presented by late clarity. And here we are. Listeners, what we see before us is an extremely dilapidated summer camp. Only problem is, it's locked. After much painstaking labor, we were unable to break into the headmaster's cabin until... Until we found the unlocked tool shed.

All thanks to All thanks to Allie, of course, there wasn't any keys lying around, but Ali found a... A crowbar. Yeah, crowbar. If we're breaking in anyway, why don't we just use a rock? Please, we're classier than a rock. Come on, let's open this thing up. I want to test out my new crowbar. Oh, your crowbar, huh? Right, five, four, three.

So it's 2.42 a.m. and everyone is asleep, and I swore I heard something outside. Is that a light? We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. Now please take me back to camp. Lake Clarity Season 1 Supercut is available now. Listen to the full uninterrupted story of Seth, Allie, Mike, Aaron, and Brandon at Lake Clear. com. For more information, including pictures and videos of the stories told on this podcast, or to suggest stories for future episodes, please visit us at Creepypod on Twitter,

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