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The Lake Worth Monster with Lyle Blackburn

The Lake Worth Monster with Lyle Blackburn

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On the night of July 10, 1969, John Reichart was fishing near
Greer Island on the shores of Lake Worth, about ten miles from
Fort Worth, Texas, while his wife Linda sat in their car reading
a book. Moments after John finally hooked a large catfish,
he heard his wife screaming in terror and turned to see something
moving around on top of the car. As he raced to help, this thing
was now on the ground and next to the passenger window, appearing
to try to get at Linda. John instinctively lunged at this
creature, shoving it away from the car while getting a good look
at it. He described it as massive and standing on two legs, horns
on its head, covered with white hair and what seemed like shiny
fish scales; some kind of human-animal hybrid he said was "half
man, half goat." The Reicharts weren't the only witnesses to this
scary scuffle as two other couples parked nearby also saw the
entire horrifying incident. Almost forty people claimed to have
seen the same beast the next night, with sightings continuing for
months afterward, generating news coverage and a police
investigation. Our friend, author, musician, and intrepid cryptid
hunter, Lyle Blackburn, once again deftly and comprehensively
investigates one of the strangest and most disturbing creature
encounters in Texas and U.S. history in his latest book, Lake
Worth Monster: The True Story of the Greer Island Goatman. Please
join us as we welcome Lyle to discuss the particulars of a brute
so bizarre it makes a plain old Bigfoot seem ordinary by
comparison.

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