J. Nathan Couch was born in the foothills of Georgia's Blue Ridge mountains. He grew up in an environment rich with folklore. Upon moving to Milwaukee in the 2007, he developed a passion Wisconsin's formidable history of strange and unexplained phenomena.In 2012 he published his first book, Washington County Paranormal, which examined ghost stories and monster sightings in the Kettle Moraine. His 2014 book Goatman: Flesh or Folklore? centered around the author's attempt to make since of bizarre satyr-like creatures infrequently encountered across the United States.