Comments on: The Other Goatman of Texas

By: texascheeseman

texascheeseman — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:30:42 +0000

Additionally, all that cleared land leading up to the bridge…wasn’t. It was thick woods all along the creek back then.

By: texascheeseman

texascheeseman — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:29:55 +0000

The Old Alton Bridge Goatman was a much scarier story and destination when it didn’t have a modern road compromising its shadow. In my youth, the road to the bridge cut off a Farm Road and went down along the creek and the pasture. There was a sharp turn and you were on the single lane bridge. And on the other side there was another sharp turn to continue down the road through dark pastureland as the creek ran away on your other side down toward the lake.

By: HulkSmashNow

HulkSmashNow — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:01:47 +0000

I’ve heard stories growing up in North Texas, in Ellis and Navarro Counties, of the “Goat-Man of Emhouse,” which is roughly fifty-six miles southeast of Dallas, and about ten miles off I-45S. Back in either the ’50s or ’60s, this Goat-Man, a huge, shaggy bipedal creature with goat-like horns, haunches, and hooves, was nearly hit by a car that driving through Emhouse along FM-1126 (which I drive every night to work), and was later seen by a homeowner scooping out and eating corn from a homemade deer feeder in his backyard.

From Emhouse, you can drive an older farm-to-market road to Ennis, Texas, in Ellis County, and cross right over the wooded spot on Chambers Creek, where the infamous “Chambers Creek Monster” was first seen some forty-odd years ago. My father was the first person to see the monster, with a friend, while they were camped out on Chambers Creek and fishing. The site of the giant, hairy creature scared them so badly, they drove backwards all of the way back to Ennis.

I finally visited this spot for the first time nearly ten years ago with my father, and he told me that the road led all of the way to Emhouse. I’ve wondered since then, were the Goat-Man of Emhouse and the Chambers Creek Monster one and the same?