User blog comment:StrangerThanTad/The Scariest Creepypasta You've Ever Read/@comment-4715955-20171003042247/@comment-25148755-20171008141130

@Grim the 'extra person' is just this. The narrator goes out of his way to say there are a certain number of people...in the case of the bratwurst, there are 11. But then they realize that they cooked 12 brats and everyone only had one, showing there was a 12th person in their group that through some means was not acknowledged by the group.

@Mike if I have one criticism of The Goatman it's actually that the creature seems almost benign...it's in their group for long periods of time just basically hanging out. If it was somehow established that it had killed the girl it was impersonating, or even better if she had just disappeared mysteriously rather than leaving on her own, I think that would have gone a long way towards increasing the threat level