GHOST WITH GOAT'S HEAD

Here's a fairly eerie tale.  In part of Missouri, there supposedly wanders a ghost with the head of a goat.  The story that lies behind it is that a couple of farmers one night thought a mystery creature was stealing from them.  They blasted its head off.  On inspection, they discovered it was no animal, but a human, an old hermit that had lived nearby.  They buried the headless body in the depths of the night.  Those who speak of the goat-headed ghost surmise that it is the spirit of the headless hermit.