Tourist killed by train while stalking legendary ‘Goatman’ monster on Kentucky railroad bridge

[Katashi_itto]

An Ohio woman was struck and killed by a train while looking for a mythical creature that, according to legend, tricks people into climbing onto a railroad trestle.

Roquel Bain died of multiple blunt-force trauma injures about 7:30 p.m. Saturday when she was struck and then knocked from the trestle in Kentucky, reported WHAS-TV.


The Dayton woman and her boyfriend had been visiting Louisville to take a ghost tour of the disused Waverly Hills Sanitorium, but the couple first decided to investigate the “Pope Lick Monster” urban legend.

“It’s been around for years, even my nieces and nephews used to go and come out here,” said Denise Harris, who lives nearby. “The Goatman, when they climb up on the trestles and they cross it — he’s supposed to come out when they cross it.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/tourist-killed-by-train-while-stalking-legendary-goatman-monster-on-kentucky-railroad-bridge/

[jberryhill]

1. sounds like a story they made up to keep people off the trestle

[cwydro]

2. ...and having the opposite effect!

I wanna make some kind of comment about Darwin awards and such, but dayum, how can people not hear a durn train coming?

[COLGATE4]

3. I would guess (without seeing or knowing the trestle in question) that

a person could be about mid-point and just not have enough time to reach either end. But just me speculating without the benefit of any specific knowledge about this case).

[cwydro]

4. Yeah, that makes sense.

Gah!

[Cartoonist]

6. An approaching train can be low volume

That's why they're required to sound the horn before crossings.

[In_The_Wind]

5. The Goatman wins again.

[nolabear]

7. Chalk up another one for Goatman.

You never think it'll be you.

[malaise]

8. Darwin sent

The Goatman