NEW BETHLEHEM – The Halloween season is a time for ghost stories, but for New Bethlehem and the larger Redbank Valley area, a goat, not ghost, story has spread through the community over the past several weeks.
It started on Wednesday, Oct. 14, when a goat was spotted roaming around downtown New Bethlehem, with police called to Hunter Way where the four-legged animal was spotted behind the Eagles club.
Moments later, an alert came across the 911 scanner that the goat was on the Redbank Valley High School football field.
Despite efforts by the Southern Clarion County Regional Police Department, the goat made a great escape, and was later spotted around Trinity Hall in Alcola before disappearing into the night.
Two days later, and more than eight miles away, the goat made a reappearance at the Eddyville area home of Nancy Stetson.
“When I came home from work at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon [Oct. 16], the goat was looking in my patio door,” Stetson said.
She said that at the time, she did not know about the earlier goat sightings in New Bethlehem, but learned on Oct. 18 that the goat had been spotted in New Bethlehem. Photos indicated that it was the same animal at both locations, despi...