The Pope Lick Road overpass in Fisherville, a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, has been associated for decades with a mysterious monster commonly referred to as the Goatman.
In order not to be confused with another hero of urban legends - the Goat Man from Maryland, the monster from Kentucky is called by the full name "Goat Man from Pope Lick Road."
A Maryland monster wanders around Beltsville and attacks passing cars with an ax, while a monster from Fisherville lives on a bridge (or under a bridge) on an overpass and, according to legend, it lures random travelers who find themselves near this place to the bridge.
To lure, he uses hypnosis or imitates a person's voice to call to him. And when people find themselves on the bridge, they soon die, shot down to death by a train.
The fact is that often a passing train occupies almost the entire width of the bridge and a person who is in the middle of the bridge, by the time he saw the train, simply has nowhere to hide. He will not have time to reach the edge of the bridge, but to jump down, it will crash to death, since it is very high there, and the river is narrow and shallow.
According to some urban legends, the mysterious creature is a random hybrid of a goat and a man who was thrown from a bridge to kill, but he survived and began to hate people.
And according to other legends, it is a monster captured in the Canadian forests, which in the 1800s was sold to a traveling circus and mistreated there. Once it escaped from there and settled in these places. Getting angry with people, it began to take revenge on them, luring people to the bridge to be run over by a train.
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Legends are legends, but on this flyover people are regularly run over, despite the fact that local residents are constantly issued warnings.
In addition to warnings, all approaches from the ground to the bridge are blocked by a 2.5-meter wire fence, but the teenagers still somehow end up on the bridge. Some people think that the overpass is abandoned, but this is a delusion, since freight trains pass through it 15-25 times a day.
One retired railway employee said that during his time there were 43 collisions with people with injuries or deaths. And in recent years, there have been more deaths due to fans of urban legends.
In 2000, a 19-year-old guy died here, in 2016 a 26-year-old Ohio resident specially came here in search of the Goat Man and also died due to a train collision.
A few days ago, on May 26, 2019, two 15-year-old schoolgirls climbed onto the bridge out of curiosity or something else (the reason was not indicated in the media). One of them named Savannah Bright was hit by a train to death, and her friend Kayleigh miraculously survived, but was injured and is now in the hospital.
In the photo: Savannah with a friend and a memorial cross near the bridge where the girl died.