The Horrors of Our Mind [COMPLETED]

Chewing Metal

For years on end, the government had been dumping radioactive material in Lake Tilawakimaoh, not caring about the harmful effects it would have on the local animals and plants around. Many of the townspeople started getting severely ill and were dropping dead in the streets, this was happening for years.

Over time they noticed that the plants would be abnormally large compared to what they used to be. A dandelion fluff would be the size of a tennis ball, local crops doubled in size, but were highly toxic. The local animals were being affected as well. It was survival of the fittest when it came to the animals. The ones who were weak died off, while the stronger ones thrived on and produced offspring. Since the animals were being exposed to the harmful waste, they started having defects, two heads, more than two eyes, an extra limb here and there.

One day, a small brown pygmy goat was drinking from the lake when it fell in, being directly exposed to the radioactive water. The goat bleated out in fear and pain as it struggled getting back in shore. Eventually it was able to make its way back onto dry land, but the horned creature was quite shaken up. The goat looked back at the water then quickly treaded off back home to the farm in which it lived in.

That night, while the goat was sleeping, it started going under transformations. Its muscles knotted and twisted while its bones snapped and became disfigured, this caused the goat to wake up and scream, alerting the farmer who lived in a house next to the farm. The farmer grabbed his lantern and quickly ran over to the farm, thinking a coyote had snuck in and was mauling his animals.

But the farmer was wrong, the only monster in the farm was the goat itself who looked more man than goat, it stood on its hind legs and had a human like torso and arms, but still attaining its goat face. it bleated out once more and charged the farmer, digging its hooves into the soil as it did so. The farmer dodged the goats attack, but the goat kept going, escaping the barn and running out into the surrounding fields, destroying whatever what was in its path.

That night, many crops were destroyed as well as the fields themselves. A goat humanoid was running rapid through the small town, destroying anything that came its way. Tractors, cars,  mail boxes. Nothing was safe from this beast.

That is how the legendary "Goat Man" came to be.