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The Maryland Goatman of Prince Georges County, Maryland has been  sighted since the 1950s, and is probably the best-known and most  persistent variation on the goatman story in the United States. Like  many other urban legends, the Goatman is fond of lovers lanes, where he  is often spotted by teenage couples. The Maryland Goatman is most  frequently associated with stretches of Fletchertown Road and Lottsford  Road in Prince Georges County—areas that were once sparsely populated,  but nowadays have as many houses and malls as forested stretches for the  goatman to lurk. 

A favorite account claims that the Maryland Goatman was once a  scientist named Stephen Fletcher who worked at the nearby Beltsville  Agricultural Research Center conducting DNA experiments on goats, until a  tragic accident led to him becoming part-goat himself. The Center  doesn’t put much stock into the legends, though, at least according to  spokesperson Kim Kaplan, who was quoted in Modern Farmer as saying, “I  mean it’s so silly, it’s not even something that’s joked about.” But of  course, if the Center was indirectly responsible for the creation of the  goatman, they’d certainly have reason to deny their involvement. 

After all, no matter what their suppositions about his origins, the  stories almost all agree that the Maryland Goatman is bloodthirsty. He  is said to roam the back roads, attacking cars with a bloody axe.  According to one source, the Maryland Goatman was blamed for the brutal  murders of 14 hikers in 1962, their bodies chopped to pieces while the  goatman emitted “screams that only the devil himself would make.”