Night of the Goats (Part II)
At about 11:30, the buses rolled back into the camp from the Peter, Paul and Mary concert at Saratoga. Unfortunately, they pulled up right across the road from the nature shack, where until that point, the three goats had been sleeping peacefully. The formidable bus noise awakened the goats, who began bleating in panic at ear-splitting volume. The nature counselor rushed up to the shack, but there was no consoling the goats, even after the empty buses pulled away. The bleating continued relentlessly, and eventually it woke up the youngest campers, whose bunks happened to be located just a few yards away from the bearded beasts. This created a horrible cacophony of goats, bleating antiphonally with screaming seven, eight, and nine year olds. I have always regretted that it was not recorded. It could have been used in the soundtracks of countless horror films – even outpacing the famed “Wilhelm Scream.”
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