Pope lick kentucky
Pope Lick Monster: Searching for Louisville’s Deadly Legend
The Pope Lick Monster is a legendary part-man, part-goat and part-sheep creature reported to live beneath a railroad trestle bridge over Pope Lick Creek, in the Fisherville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths. The home of the Pope Lick Monster is said to be the trestle bridge on the Norfolk Southern Railway which passes over the Pope Lick Creek in Kentucky. Legend or no, the.
Pope Lick Trestle Bridge
Description:Next I walked down the shoulder of the road to stand beneath the tracks. The December 30th, Louisville Courier-Journal ran a front page article entitled Trestle of Death, in which it records two tragedies. Yet other legends tell that it attacks its victims with a blood-stained ax. In reality this would be very difficult as there are few people that would have the strength to hang on for the 5 to 7 minutes it takes for a long train to clear the foot trestle; in addition, the vibrations from the train are so strong that the ground beneath the trestle shakes as the train passes, making hanging from the trestle to avoid being hit highly improbable. Despite my lawful intentions, I felt like a criminal as I navigated an astonishingly high amount of traffic to take pictures from a nearby bicycle trail.
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