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It’s A Goat, See?

October 14th, 2009 7:33 pm by Jonathan

I am slowly finding myself drawn to bild.de as the source for all of my international news. This site is to the (now defunct) Weekly World News what The Weekly World News was to The New York Times.

A couple of weeks ago, there was a small article circulating around the web about a still-born cryptid. I'm not talking about an alien hybrid or some sort of sasquatch. What the article reported was something of mythic proportions! It was a Pan, a satyr, or whatever you would like to call a creature that appears to be half-man and half-goat. The village of Maboleni in Zimbabwe was shaken when one of their goats gave birth to this:

As I have discussed in previous posts, humans are very rational beings when faced with the unknown. Some study what they do not understand. Some appeal to a higher authority when confronted with notions or tangible things that challenge existing scientific axioms and social beliefs. Others give in to more primal reactions.

Instead of destroying this creature on sight, the villagers called in government officials to study the dead animal and get some sort of official ruling as to what it was. After what I am certain was a thorough autopsy, the official declaration by Governor Jason Machaya was that (to quote the article), “The head belonged to a human but the body belonged to a goat!”

The miscarriage (of both goat and science) has since been cremated, leaving those who witnessed the creature with theories and speculations ranging from witchcraft to secret government experiments. I am, admittedly, not a scientist. I do not practice sorcery. I don't even have clearance of any sort to confirm or deny what biological programs any government agency has in play. However, I am intrigued by abnormalities and the prospect of hybrids and cryptids. I did a little (VERY little) research, and looked back on things I witnessed growing up on a farm, and was able to find a couple of images. When you look at the following pictures, I want you to ask yourselves the following series of questions:

1. Is this a goat or a person?

2. Is this not a goat? Explain.

3. Is this not a person? Explain.

4. Is there a rational explanation for its existence?

Do you have your answers? Then let's move on.

This is fairly easy when approached with an analytical mind, isn't it?

And finally:

Close your books and pass your responses to the front of the class.

Now that you have finished, feel free to post your answers or share your own experiences with animal oddities, cryptids, or anything else you fancy.