Comments on: Satyrs

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:51:24 +0000

Great spooky story, but until further evidence comes forth I don’t feel these apparitions are good candidates for actual biological entities. Lots of spooky places have their own stories of things that go bump in the night. As it is now, it sounds like paranormal phenomena to me, ghouls from straight out of the goblin universe.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:34:56 +0000

kinda makes me wonder if some one is playing “God” with dna like the movie “Island of Dr. Moreau”. Although I will admit I saw a cute little one last night at the night club in the costume contest. Not sure what to think about this subject. I know every legend and myth has its beginnings, but most can be explained easily once you find the origins–ie: geographical area, the people who told the story, etc…
It is kinda creepy that they know people’s names and can even speak.

By: cor2879

cor2879 — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:51:18 +0000

For anyone interested I decided to do just a bit of digging on satyr’s and imp like beings through history. It’s not as easy a search as one would think. There’s a lot of crap to wade through. But check this out from an online Wiki:

“The demons mentioned in the Hebrew Bible are of two classes, the se’irim and the shedim. The se’irim (“hairy beings”), to which some Israelites offered sacrifices in the open fields, are satyr-like creatures, described as dancing in the wilderness (Isaiah 13:21, 34:14), and which are identical with the jinn, such as Dantalion, the 71st spirit of Solomon. (But compare the completely European woodwose.) Possibly to the same class belongs Azazel, the goat-like demons of the wilderness (Leviticus 16:10ff), probably the chief of the se’irim, and Lilith (Isaiah 34:14). Possibly “the roes and hinds of the field”, by which Shulamit conjures the daughters of Jerusalem to bring her back to her lover (Canticles 2:7, 3:5), are faunlike spirits similar to the se’irim, though of a harmless nature.”

Any of that sound familiar?

By: MrInspector

MrInspector — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:12:30 +0000

I forgot! Thank you Mr. Coleman for throwing this out here. You always have the best critters here.

By: MrInspector

MrInspector — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:09:10 +0000

Thank you, and no need to appologize. What you have is what you have. I’m familiar with the area. I grew up on a farm in Cheerokee not far from there.
Thanks again.

By: KnockOut

KnockOut — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:01:50 +0000

We had several different directions given to us about where Booger Mountain was, so we started in Cumming, made our way to Canton, and originally wound up in the outskirts of what I believe was Pickens County. I wish I could be more specific but the fact is we were a bunch of bored kids looking for something to do and weren’ conducting any kind of serious investigation. It wasn’t until a few years later that these subjects began to really stir my interest. The best detail I can give is that it was near Burnt Mountain, but that’s about all I remember. Sorry.

By: MrInspector

MrInspector — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:45:26 +0000

Ray Soliday Says, “Rather reminds me of the “devil’s hoof prints” found in the fresh-fallen snow, in England, 1800’s.”
This was my first thought as well.

KnockOut, I would very much like to hear more about your story. I too, am in Georgia, and I haven’t heard of this Goatman. What town/county was this in? I don’t suppose you got the officer’s, who related these tales, name by any chance? The clerk’s name in the Store?
I would very much like to look into this .

By: lorelady

lorelady — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:37:05 +0000

Recently a woman originally from NYC with a doctorate in history and several published books overheard me talking about strange creatures at a “normal” writer’s conference and confided to me that she had seen a satyr in the woods near her N. Michigan home. I asked why she called it a satyr and she said, well, it appeared half human and half animal. I had a copy of Weird Michigan with me, and showed her my drawing of the “indigenous dogman.” She blanched and exclaimed that it was exactly what she saw. No horns, just the pointy ears and the canid legs, fur, bipedal, long muzzle. Not a Bigfoot. Smaller versions, perhaps “pups” of these creatures have also been reported.

Linda Godfrey

By: U.T. Raptor

U.T. Raptor — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:07:14 +0000

Those encounters sound more paranormal than cryptozoological.

By: Ray Soliday

Ray Soliday — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:51:58 +0000

Rather reminds me of the “devil’s hoof prints” found in the fresh-fallen snow, in England, 1800′s. In Jerome Clark’s book, I forget the name, Loren Coleman is referenced or a co-author of it; it has an entry on the Devil’s hoof prints, but I don’t recall a mention of a satyr in the article.