Goat Thing of the Day: The Men Who Stare at Goats

A new movie comes out November 6th starring George Clooney (also Kevin Spacey, Ewan MacGregor and Jeff Bridges) called The Men Who Stare at Goats.

It is based on a 2005 nonfiction book by UK journalist Jon Ronson.

From the book's dustjacket: "In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known accepted military practice - and indeed, the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them."

Paranormal? Goats? Conspiracies? A secret wing of the U.S. military called First Earth Battalion? I am SO buying this book!

The movie trailer includes a goat scene. (I wonder if they cast those "fainting goats" for this movie)



Thanks to Israel who blogs on The Elmlish, for finding this on boingboing.

A NatGeo snippet about fainting goats: