"I came out and it had gotten my goat. It tore the ear off the goat, messed her other ear up and her mouth," said Cox.

Then, not long after, there was another attack off that same stretch of road.

"They were torn to pieces," said Teresa Parker, whose animals were attacked.

Something attacked all five of Parker's pet goats so badly, she had to put them down.

"Their faces were gone from their eyes down, their ears had been ripped off," said Parker.

The incidents are just a couple of the half dozen reported by people who say they've heard something, been chased by something or seen evidence that's something has viciously struck.

Concerns about all of it brought more than 100 community members out to a community meeting Monday night.

No one knows exactly what it is, but investigators told the crowd they have a pretty good idea.

"Pretty much everybody's on the same page that it's going to be a domestic dog or dogs," said Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Sgt. Doug Detherage.

Detherage said that's because of its tracks and the fact that it actually hasn't killed any of its prey.