Beltsville
Census-designated place in MarylandWikipedia
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Nov 3, 2026
Jim HolcombHOST
He is.
Jim HolcombHOST
And he is the namesake of our training facility out in Beltsville, Maryland.
Jim HolcombHOST
And so he's over in the West Wing and somebody comes in, staffer, a White House staffer, and says, hey, they're trying to kill the president.
Jim HolcombHOST
And Rowley says, get me my Tommy gun.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Despite the gun lobby's best efforts, our waiting period law will continue to save lives, and we expect and hope that it will continue to be upheld.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's flagship research facility in Beltsville, Maryland, will remain open for now after a California federal judge halted the Trump administration's plans to shutter it.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Administration officials announced plans to close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in summer of 2025. as part of a broader move to restructure the Department of Agriculture by closing offices and relocating employees.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Prince George's County Executive Aisha Braveboy said the court's decision saves about 1,000 jobs and, for the time being, prevents the loss of about $450 million in gross domestic product for Maryland.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Prince George's County was part of a coalition that included federal employee labor unions, local governments, and non-profits that sued the Department of Agriculture to stop its restructuring and the closure of BARC.
IanGUEST
That's the way that everybody goes.
IanGUEST
One of the ways that everybody goes to get to 70 and go on down into the Beltsville area, down further down outside of Washington to avoid the Baltimore Beltway and all that mess.
IanGUEST
So that's a lot of people go down those two roads to do that.
IanGUEST
And that was all... really rural.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I love you.
JenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Goatman is most closely associated with Prince George's County, especially the wooded areas around Bowie, Beltsville, Clinton, and Fletchertown Road.
JenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He is generally described as a large, hairy creature that walks upright and combines human and goat-like features.
JenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But there is no single official version of him.
JenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And sometimes he's carrying an axe.
AverySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Terrifying.
JenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The best-known origin story connects him to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.
JenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
According to the legend, a researcher experimented on goats.
JenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I love you.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Goatman is most closely associated with Prince George's County, especially the wooded areas around Bowie, Beltsville, Clinton, and Fletchertown Road.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He is generally described as a large, hairy creature that walks upright and combines human and goat-like features.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But there is no single official version of him.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And sometimes he's carrying an axe.
JenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Terrifying.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The best known origin story connects him to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
According to the legend, a researcher experimented on goats.
AshleyHOST
When I nodded, he just shook his head and said, so you met the goat man.
AshleyHOST
According to Carl, folks around Bowie and the old Beltsville farms have whispered about him for decades, not as a lab escapee, but as something far older.
AshleyHOST
He said his grandmother, who is native, told stories of a walker between worlds, a spirit with hooves who could cross from one place to another when the air went still, usually at the edge of a clearing or where two creeks meet.
AshleyHOST
Carl swore he had seen it himself years before my encounter.
9 MINS LATER
AshleyHOST
Luzima's paper was then archived in the Maryland Folklore Archives, where it remained relatively obscure until October of 1971.
AshleyHOST
And at that time, reporter Karen Holster discovered the paper and published an article in the Prince George's County News, which brought the Goatman legend to a wider audience.
AshleyHOST
Holster's report suggested that the origins of the Goatman might be linked to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, which added a layer of intrigue to the tale.
AshleyHOST
Now, following the publication of Holzler's article, the Goatman legend gained significant traction in the local community.
JenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I love you.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Goatman is most closely associated with Prince George's County, especially the wooded areas around Bowie, Beltsville, Clinton, and Fletchertown Road.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He is generally described as a large, hairy creature that walks upright and combines human and goat-like features.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But there is no single official version of him.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And sometimes he's carrying an axe.
AverySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Terrifying.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The best known origin story connects him to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
According to the legend, a researcher experimented on goats.
JenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I love you.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Goatman is most closely associated with Prince George's County, especially the wooded areas around Bowie, Beltsville, Clinton, and Fletchertown Road.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He is generally described as a large, hairy creature that walks upright and combines human and goat-like features.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But there is no single official version of him.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And sometimes he's carrying an axe.
AverySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Terrifying.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The best known origin story connects him to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
According to the legend, a researcher experimented on goats.
JenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I love you.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Goatman is most closely associated with Prince George's County, especially the wooded areas around Bowie, Beltsville, Clinton, and Fletchertown Road.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He is generally described as a large, hairy creature that walks upright and combines human and goat-like features.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But there is no single official version of him.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And sometimes he's carrying an axe.
AverySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Terrifying.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The best known origin story connects him to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.
KellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
According to the legend, a researcher experimented on goats.
Karl SternHOST
States.
Karl SternHOST
According to an urban legend, the Goat Man is an axe-wielding, half-animal, half-man creature that was once a scientist who worked in the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.
Karl SternHOST
The tale holds that he was experimenting on goats.
Karl SternHOST
The experiment went awry, and he began attacking cars with an axe and roaming the back roads of Beltsville, Maryland.
Karl SternHOST
A variation of the legend tells of Goatman as an old hermit who lives in the woods, seen walking alone at night along Fletchertown Road.
Karl SternHOST
The story seems to originate with an alleged sighting in 1957.
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