GRAPHIC PHOTO: Goat Born With a HUMAN FACE

A GOAT born with a human face has forced a farmer to have to deny some particularly ugly rumours.

The shocked farmer and his family claim that the calf would bring them bad luck, and rushed to bury the animal – that was already dead when it was born.

One of the farmer's neighbours snapped pics of the goat to highlight the excessive use of pesticides in the region of Centro, Argentina.

But supersticious locals decided it was something else altogether, and started spreading rumours that someone connected to the family had been having sex with a goat, producing the mutated offspring.

The farmer's wife Olga Villalba has now been forced into furious denials saying that neither her family or friends had interfered with the goat in any way.

She said: "It was dead when it was born, we just want to get rid of it as quickly as possible so we buried it in a hole in the ground.

"It was clearly a genetic mutation caused by the excessive use of pesticides.

"Another neighbour who was here and was curious took a picture which they unfortunately posted online sparking these ridiculous allegations."

The family added they had been bombarded with extremely aggressive messages on social media from people convinced that it was only through a cross between human and goat that the images could have been taken.

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