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The Terrifying Story Of The 1955 Kelly Hopkinsville Goblin Encounter · Mystery Archives Episodes

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In the sleepy farming town of Kelly, Kentucky, nestled within
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rolling hills and thick woods, an ordinary evening in August of
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1955 unraveled into something extraordinary and horrifying.
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A farm stood as a modest haven amidst the rural expanse, it's
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tobacco fields stretching under a cloudless moonlit sky.
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That night, a family gathering had brought laughter and the
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comfort of kinship into a small farmhouse.
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But peace is a fragile thing, and in the quiet of night, it
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was shattered with a scream. I recently had the pleasure of
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interviewing the foremost authority on the Ghost and Me
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podcast, which is my new weekly podcast of what has become known
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as the Kelly Hopkinsville Goblins Case or encounter author
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Geraldine Sutton Stith, the daughter of Cecil Lucky Sutton,
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who was present and intimately involved with the encounter
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itself. I will link the full interview
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in the description as well as at the end of the video because
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it's truly a fascinating one and one that I was honored to be a
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part of along with my Co host Bob.
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With that being said, this video is a deep dive into the story
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itself, pulling from a variety of sources, but mostly Geraldine
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herself. Now let us begin.
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The year was 1955 in a place called Kelly, Kentucky.
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Ellie, a small town by any standards, was especially small
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at that time, boasting about 150 residents or so, with a main
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occupation of them all being farming.
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It was here that Glenny Langford, the grandmother of
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Geraldine and the mother of Cecil, owned a small farm
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measuring about 27 acres in size.
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The family, along with most, were poor but proud farmers.
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They grew tobacco and had several livestock animals.
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There on the farm. Living alongside Glenny was her
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son Jesse and his wife Elaine, who helped run the farm with
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their three children, Mark, age 12, Lonnie, age 10, and Mary,
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who was seven. Jesse had recently came home
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from the Korean War and hadn't been home longer than a year or
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so. Adjusting back to civilian life
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had been hard for him, but working on the farm and looking
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after his family certainly helped.
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The particular weekend that so happened to coincide with the
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visit of Cecil and his first wife Vera, as well as their
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friends Billy Ray in June Taylor, who were stationed in
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Evansville. They worked for a carnival at
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that time and it just so happened to be near enough to
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visit. A break from work sounded nice,
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and who doesn't love some quality time with family and
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friends alongside some home cooking?
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So they would drive to the farm and spend Friday and Saturday
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together, enjoying the weekend that Sunday.
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With Monday and their inevitable return to work incoming, the
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family was doing their best to enjoy the time that they had
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left together. Lenny, who was a very religious
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woman who had gone to a church service earlier in the day, was
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returning home together. The family ate supper and
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started to play cards after they had finished eating.
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The family didn't have plumbing at the farmhouse, so Billy Ray
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had gone out to the well to get some water.
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Stepping outside with pale in hand, he soon hears something
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above him, something strange. There in the sky before him, he
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sees a silver Oval shaped object with what he would later call
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the colors of the rainbow flowing behind it.
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Perplexed, he watches for a few seconds.
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The object, roughly 40 feet in the air or so, goes across the
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sky and then back behind the house itself and into the
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backfield. It then slowly descends and
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lands in the back goalie, going completely out of Billy Ray's
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sight. Not knowing what to make of what
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he had just seen, Billy Ray rushes into the house and starts
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telling everyone about what he had saw.
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Lenny tries to reason with him, telling him that he probably had
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just seen a shooting star, to which he would reply with no, I
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know what a shooting star is and this was not it.
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There had been meteor showers going on earlier in the month,
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but not at this particular time. Cecil, noticing that Billy Ray
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was as wide as a ghost and sweating profusely, ask him to
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come with him back outside and explain to him exactly what he
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had seen with both men now standing outside after Billy Ray
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motions to where the object had been and described it to Cecil,
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or better known as Lucky. Lucky then tells Billy Ray that
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they should go look in the backfield, that whatever it was
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was probably gone and that after they look and see, but they
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should go back inside and enjoy what was left of the evening.
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But to both men shock and amazement as they stepped behind
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the house headed towards the field.
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Before their very eyes emerging from that field was a small
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being. But this being is unlike
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anything they've ever seen before, and these were men who
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were very familiar with wildlife, especially around
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Kentucky. It was about 3 1/2 feet tall.
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It had a big roundhead, large glowing eyes, big pointed ears,
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and long gangly arms that almost touched the ground.
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The being itself isn't walking with its legs, but rather it's
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floating above the grass headed towards them.
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Awestruck for a few seconds as the creature approaches them,
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the two then quickly run back to the house and rush inside,
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slamming the door behind them. Seeing the men rush inside
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startles the rest of the family, with most of them asking just
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what was wrong with them two. But as the men try to explain
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the seriousness of the situation, most of them think it
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was just some kind of joke. Considering these were people in
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their late teens and early 20s, most of the adults anyways, it
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wouldn't have been totally out of the realm of possibility or
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someone to pull a prank. However, they would quickly see
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that this was indeed not the case.
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Glenny, deciding that she had heard enough, told everyone that
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the children needed to get to bed.
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A short while later, after laying them down to sleep, she
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sees Cecil standing at the front door next to Billy Ray.
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One has a shotgun and one has a rifle.
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Realizing that this wasn't some kind of prank, Lenny would ask
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Billy Ray just what exactly did you see?
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You would then tell her that. Miss Glenny, I hope it's
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something that you never have to see.
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So she squats down there beside the two.
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It's a quiet night, there's a full moon and it's light is
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illuminating everything surrounding this small
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farmhouse. With this light you can see
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nearly everything and there's an obvious tension.
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Everyone there is certainly on edge, especially Billy Ray, who
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seems to be jumping at every sound made in the shadows.
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While Glenny sits there, hearing the banter between everyone, she
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suddenly sees something that shakes her to her core.
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There, before her very eyes, she sees this small entity rounding
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the corner of the house. Its eyes are massive and
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glowing. As a matter of fact, its whole
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body seems bioluminescent. And as most of us would do, she
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lets out a blood curdling scream, chattering the quiet
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tension that had previously existed within the stillness of
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this strange night. Everybody quickly comes running
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to where she's at. She had been so startled that
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the shock had caused her to fall to the floor.
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Cecil or Lucky quickly helps her up and she frantically tells him
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that I just saw it, there is something out here.
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As Glenny tries to explain what she saw in detail, her
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explanation is soon cut short by the rapturous sound a gun being
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fired. Running to the source they find
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Jesse and he shot one through the window of the house.
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Billy Ray goes rushing out the front door looking for anything
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out of the ordinary that could be a threat.
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As he's standing there below the little stoop over the front
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door, everyone else watching him soon sees a little clawed hand
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descend from the top of the stoop.
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This clawed hand then seems to try and grab his hair as the
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others scream. Before the hand can grab him,
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Lucky runs and grabs Billy Ray and pulls him into the house.
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He then rushes outside with his gun.
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There on top of the stoop is one of these large eyed beings.
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Without hesitation, being a country boy and all, Lucky
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raises his gun and shoots this creature.
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Bizarrely, however, when it's shot, he hears the impact and
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sees the creature roll, but instead of falling off the
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stoop, it slowly floats down to the ground instead.
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Following the shooting of this first creature, someone else
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screams that there's another one in the tree beside him.
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Turning around, Lucky then sees another one of these odd
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entities on one of the large tree's branches.
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He then quickly acts again, and he shoots.
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He hits it, and he hears the impact.
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When he hits it, as with the first one, it makes a pinging
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sound like the bullet has hit something metallic.
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The creature then floats to the ground, rolls and scurries off
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into the nearby brush. They don't know what these
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things are. They're certainly not dying.
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They're getting up and rolling away.
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So what are they to do? What else can they do?
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All of the commotion, of course, woke the children up out of
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their sleep, and all the kids as well have now seen these
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creatures alongside the adults, except for the youngest, June.
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She's absolutely petrified. She refuses to look, she's
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crying, she's screaming and is hiding in the corner of the
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living room with all the children crying.
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These things, these creatures start coming up to the windows
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and doors. The family, although fear
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struck, do notice that if they keep the lights on, the
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creatures seem to stay in the darker shadows outside that
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momentarily seems to keep them away from the house, but they
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seem to still keep coming up. Not knowing exactly what to do
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from here, Lenny suggests to Lucky that, well, if we quit
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shooting, maybe they'll stop coming up to the windows and
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doors. And Lucky replies with Mom.
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I don't know. I don't know what these things
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are, and I'm not about to let them in the house to find out.
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To add to the weirdness of the situation, when these beings
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would come up to the house, they had their little hands up in the
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air, almost as if they were surrendering, like they knew
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what that meant. Lenny even told Lucky that maybe
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something's wrong. They've got their hands up in
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the air, but Lucky would say that I don't care, mom, we're
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not letting them in. We don't know what these are.
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And honestly, who can blame him? As this episode continued, Lucky
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tried to keep everyone calm. He told them we're going to
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Hopkinsville, we're going to try and get help, this is going to
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be OK. As he got them all quiet and
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just as he thought it was the right time to run out the door,
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it would freeze in his tracks. They all them would hear
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something peculiar, what they believed to be one of the
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creatures going across the tin roof.
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As it went across, its nails were clicking and scratching,
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making everyone's skin crawl and their hair stand on end.
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June started screaming again, and then all of the kids began
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crying. Vera asked Lucky, what are we
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going to do? And he would tell her, listen,
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we're going to get out of here. We're going to get help.
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Just calm down. It takes some time but he once
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again manages to calm everyone down yet again.
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He then tells Billy Ray let's go out the back and take a quick
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look. But the two step out into the
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yard which is still glowing with the radiant light of the full
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moon. The two men are looking around,
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guns in hand. Billy Ray then turns around and
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grabs Lucky's arm and says, look, there's one going up the
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side of the house. There before the men was indeed
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one of the oddities climbing up the house headed toward the
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roof. Lucky they named his shotgun and
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pulled the trigger. He was successful in hitting one
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of these things again. It fell to the ground and popped
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up and floated from the back of the house over to a fence post
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about 40 feet away. Lucky then fires and hits this
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one a second time. Seeing this really gave the men
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pause. This thing floated in front of
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them across the yard like it defied the laws of physics.
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Lucky then tells Billy Ray let's get back in the house and let's
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try to get out of here. Just don't tell everyone what
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you saw. And he more than likely was
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saying this is to not further upset the family.
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However when they go back inside, of course everyone
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inside had heard the gunshots. Glenny demanding to know, asks
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what did you just shoot at? With Lucky replying it's OK and
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Billy Ray chiming in as well. We just had to shoot one of them
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off the house. But it's OK, we're OK.
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After the family is settled again, the night seems to get
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quiet. Nothing comes up to the windows
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or the doors. It's almost an eerie stillness.
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Lucky had thought maybe when he shot that one that it had
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finally been injured. When it finally got to the fence
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post, when he had shot it again, it fell off.
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This time it didn't scurry off as quickly as before.
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So he was thinking maybe he had finally got one.
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Feeling like things had calmed down enough, everyone all
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together would rush to their trucks, load up in them, and
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start the trip straight to Hopkinsville, looking nervously
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behind them the whole way. They would make it there to the
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small police station in the middle of the night again.
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The year is 1955. There's just one officer on
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duty, and suddenly 11 people ages 7 to 50 burst in, utterly
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terrified. The officer is just awestruck.
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They're all trying to explain what happened.
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The officer tries to make sense of it all and says, wait a
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minute, you're telling me that you're shooting little men at
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your farm? To which Lucky responds with you
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don't understand what I'm trying to tell you.
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The officer, telling them all to calm down, says that he's going
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to call the chief. He dials on the phone and Soon
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is on the line with Chief Russell Greenwell.
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He tells him call Fort Campbell Army base, which was about 10
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miles from Hopkinsville. Call the newspaper and see if
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you can get every state trooper that's out tonight find them and
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get them to Kelly. We're going to see what's really
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going on. The chief's wife overhears all
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of this too, but she gets up and goes with him.
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They then head to the station as well.
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When they arrive, they see 11 terrified people.
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It's obvious that something has happened.
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The chief and his wife try to calm them.
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Within due time, all the additional authorities would
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arrive. By the time they do, there's
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approximately 25 people, including the police, military
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and reporters. There's soon a caravan of
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vehicles now headed to the small town of Kelly in the dead of
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this strange night. When they all arrive at the
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farm, they step out of their vehicles and immediately feel
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that something is off the place. The overall environment just
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feels creepy. As they search, some of the
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police officers see a glowing substance on the ground around
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the back of the house. It was believed to be the spot
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where Lucky had shot one of the creatures.
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They run back there to look, but when they get close the glow
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disappears. They call Chief Greenwell over
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and he too looks at the spot. He says, well, I don't see any
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glow, but there's evidence that the grass is different in that
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spot than it is around it. They continue searching for
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about two to three hours, but nothing could be found.
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Glennie was beside herself. She was afraid to go back in the
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house. The chief would go up to her and
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say, Miss Glennie, I'm so sorry, but there's nothing here.
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Nothing except for evidence that y'all did some shooting.
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And indeed, rifle and shotgun shells were all over the outside
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of the house and even in the inside of the house.
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The woodwork was shot up, screens were shot through.
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There was nothing there to show what they had shot at.
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So with nothing left to do, the authorities would go ahead and
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leave. Glenny was left there with the
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rest of the family, with nobody else to help if these things
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came back, and she was truly hoping that they wouldn't
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return. Once the family is back inside,
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it does take some time yet again, but the kids eventually
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settle down and finally head back to bed.
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Lucky sits in a rocking chair beside Glenny with a shotgun
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across this lap. They're all exhausted, both
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physically and mentally. Lenny closes her eyes, trying to
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get some rest, but then something, and she's not sure
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what, causes her to open them yet again, there before her, her
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horror. One of these creatures is yet
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again at the window, thinking that she's just tired and
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possibly hallucinating, and then closes her eyes again.
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But when she opens them for a second time and this bang this
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being is still standing there. It's at this time that she
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screams to Lucky that they're back.
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Everyone then jumps up once again.
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They're trying to keep these creatures out of the house, and
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these efforts would continue until around 4:30 or 5:00 AM in
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the morning. But as the family struggled with
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the morning sun starting to come up, the creatures seemingly out
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of nowhere disappeared. In the words of Geraldine's
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sudden stiff. So sure enough, when that bright
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sunshine came up, they disappeared.
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Mom and Dad got the family down and he told them all.
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He says, listen, he says, I heard them last night.
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They were laughing at us. No good can come of this, so
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don't even say another word about it.
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We're just going to have to go on with our lives, forget this
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ever happened. And Vera asked him and says,
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well, well, how are we supposed to forget this?
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He says, I know it's going to be hard.
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I don't know, but we got to forget this happened.
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What followed the events of August 21st of 1955 but
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effectively be a circus of unwanted publicity and tourism.
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A massive amount of people would descend upon the Sutton Farm and
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make this case infamous, for better or for worse.
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And so, you know, work it out. I mean, it was, it'd gotten out.
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It didn't take long at all. Everybody from everywhere was
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coming from everywhere wanting to see the little beans and
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camping out in the yard and wanting to talk to the family.
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And they got no rest, of course. My dad and Billy Ray and the
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girls had to go back to work. They were able to stay another
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day or two, but then they had to leave.
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And my grandmother was going to be left there, you know, her
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three kids and Uncle Jason, Aunt Eiling.
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Would they be able to take care of, you know, these things if
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they were to come back? Because that was the big fear.
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Would they come back? Why were they there in the 1st
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place? And if they didn't get what they
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wanted the first time, would they come back to get it?
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You know, that was a fear in Kelly.
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The people that lived around there had this fear.
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My mom lived in Kelly with her first husband and seven kids at
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the time. And she says it was terrifying.
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Everyone was scared. Well, my grandmother thought the
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best of it, and she sold the farm within two weeks and moved
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into Hopkinsville to an apartment complex.
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So did my uncle JC, and Aunt Eileen got out of there because
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she was afraid. She didn't know what else to do.
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She didn't want to leave her farm.
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But you know, she was terrified. Geraldine herself goes in depth
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not only of the encounter itself, but lots of additional
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details surrounding it as well as the circus that followed.
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In my interview with her on the Ghost and Me podcast, which I'll
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link here as well as in the description below, I would
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further explain the details, but she just adds so much herself
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that it would be an injustice not to let you hear it from the
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horse's mouth, so to speak. What is ultimately important to
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remember is that this was a family.
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They didn't ask for this to happen.
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They didn't seek financial compensation or try to make a
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spectacle in order to profit in any way.
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They simply were overwhelmed by what they were experiencing
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together and sought help through appropriate means.
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A publicity or potential publicity would have been an
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afterthought. Again, Geraldine very much goes
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in depth on this is well as how the night affected her father as
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well as other members of her family.
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In our interview and between the interview, as well as diving
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into some of Geraldine's books surrounding the case and doing
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my own research online, I did find another case that is eerily
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similar in some respects, albeit not in Appalachia.
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I wanted to share it with you before giving my thoughts on the
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case as a whole. In July of 1692, amidst the
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turmoil of the Salem Witch Trials, the town of Gloucester,
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MA experienced a series of mysterious events that left its
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residents both alarmed and perplexed.
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For approximately 2 weeks, the town was reportedly besieged by
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enigmatic figures, believed to be the spectral apparitions of
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indigenous people and Frenchmen emerging from the swamps and
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cornfields. These entities approached the
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local Garrison, often in groups. Attempts to defend against them
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proved futile. Firearms frequently misfired and
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when they did discharge, old seemed to have no effect.
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The intruders spoke in an unfamiliar language and while
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they carried functional weapons, or so it seemed, evident later
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by bullets found later embedded in trees, it caused no physical
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harm to the townspeople. The situation escalated to the
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point where Major Samuel Appleton of Ipswich dispatched
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approximately 60 men on July 18th to assist Glaucaster during
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these inexplicable disturbances. Reverend John Emerson of
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Glaucaster documented these occurrences in a letter to
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Cotton Mather, suggesting that the town's afflictions were the
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work of the devil and his agents, appearing as small
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creatures with large eyes and big ears rather than tangible
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French and indigenous attackers. Mather, in his work Magnolia
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Christie Americana, noted that even a decade later, respected
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individuals in the region believed these events were a
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significant manifestation of the unseen world.
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This account, among others, indicates the pervasive
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atmosphere of fear and superstition that characterized
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the period, leading communities to interpret unexplained
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phenomena as supernatural threats.
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Other than the apparitions appearing as the alleged people,
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others described the beings as small devils with large eyes and
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large ears, a glaring similarity to the Kelly Hopkinsville case
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that I've covered here today. Albeit not completely the same,
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I did find it noteworthy enough to mention.
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I also don't believe that the creatures experienced by
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Geraldine's family members wielded any sort of weapons, at
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least from what we know. While I'm leaving many details
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to Geraldine herself, and for good reason, including myths and
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misconceptions about the case, all of which again, we have
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covered on the Ghost to Me podcast episode with her, as
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well as in her books, which I'll tell you about here shortly, I
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did want to share my thoughts on the case as a whole, in no
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particular order. I remember hearing about the
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case from my good friend Bob, as well as watching the show
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Hellyer, and coincidentally when we were visiting the area
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together about two years ago. For reasons that were unrelated
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to the case itself. We did end up finding the
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coordinates of where the farm was located, and albeit it was
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at night, we did find ourselves at the exact location where the
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goblin encounter took place, which was surreal to say the
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least. I'm sure lots has changed since
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1955, but they're in the flesh and to try to put yourself in
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the shoes of the family who endured the event, it really
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just adds another layer to this incredible story that I can't
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truly put into words. And even with much development
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taking place over the decades, the area of where the farm is
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located is still extremely rural, with one having to take
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several back roads to even find its location.
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Something that I noticed in Geraldine's recounting of the
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story was the metallic sound or pinging of the bullets as they
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hit the creatures, or as most refer to them now, as goblins.
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Was this perhaps due to some kind of force field or armor
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they had? That's where my mind tends to
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wander. And if this was the case, did
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they perhaps have that armor weakened as a result of multiple
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shots, as with Lucky shooting the other goblin for a second
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time near the post? They did also mention that these
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things were bioluminescent, that they seemed to have a sort of
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glow about them. But if perhaps they weren't
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truly glowing, did they maybe have had metallic skin or armor
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on? Perhaps this metallic coating or
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what have you could have been reflecting the glow of the full
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moonlight that night. It would explain the pinging
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sounds. However, I tend to lean into it
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could have been a bit of both because during the research with
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the authorities, several cops saw a glowing residue near where
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the goblin had been shot near the post for the second time.
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That leads me to believe that maybe they could have had
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glowing blood, although that's just mere speculation on my
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part. I mean, if they were
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bioluminescent, but only makes sense, right?
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And with the concept of a force field fresh in our minds, did
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these goblins have some sort of telekinetic abilities?
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I mean, they were floating instead of falling, as if they
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defied the laws of physics themselves.
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Was this perhaps due to acute mental abilities or was it the
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result of foreign technology that we're just not aware of
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yet? When the creatures initially hid
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after their arrival and then hid after the first interaction and
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then after. I asked Geraldine if there were
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or are any caves where the farm is, and albeit she didn't know,
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there have been rumors of people finding goblin like beings in
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the caves throughout Appalachia, which is a terrifying prospect
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indeed, to think that these things could ultimately perhaps
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be interconnected. With that being said, are these
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goblins, these entities, a manifestation of what we call
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the phenomenon, for a lack of a better term, the mysterious
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supernatural force that seems to present itself just beyond the
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veil of our conscious minds, only seeping through for a brief
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time. That very said veil is thinner
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than normal. Are they interdimensional
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creatures coming from another plane of existence?
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Or are they, as many believe them to be, given the
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unidentified flying object that Billy Ray saw, extraterrestrial
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in nature, Are they from another planet?
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All interesting thoughts to ponder, no doubt, as we've let
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our minds run wild and be immersed in this perplexing
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case. I wonder why the goblins
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approached the family as if they were surrendering, but then
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ultimately would end up scaling the house and then trying to
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grab Billy Ray from the stoop above the porch.
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Did they need help? Were they trying to convey this
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via their hands up signaling or were they trying to lure the
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family into a false sense of security?
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Also, I do have to say the thought of the little clawed
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hand and then the clanking of one on top of the roof, both of
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those instances are so creepy to me.
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Now the authorities did do a thorough search that very
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morning using both men on the ground as well as I believe
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helicopters doing grid searches, but they didn't find any
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creatures themselves, albeit allegedly they found evidence of
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their existence, which ties into a whole other alien conspiracy
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rabbit hole. Geraldine goes extensively into
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this in several of her books, but most recently in the Kelly
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Green Men Alien Legacy Revisited, where she adds
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numerous details as well as photos of the alleged footprints
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found of the creatures. I can't stress that there's only
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so much I can add without mentioning both my interview
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with Geraldine as well as her books.
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She truly is the foremost authority on the case itself,
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and I find it very admirable how much effort she puts into
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keeping what has become local Kentucky folklore, now very much
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alive for not only the folklore aspect, but her family's
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history. In conclusion, remember that
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this was a family they didn't ask for what happened to them.
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Now I wanted to quickly mention that Geraldine has a new book
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with a lot more information and historical references coming out
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very soon and it should be available on Amazon as well as
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most if not all main book selling platforms.
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She also will be selling it via her Etsy shop, which is Aliens
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and Goblins and that'll be for autographed copies.
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Now following our interview, I actually ordered my own goblin
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from her store and I just so happened to get it today, which
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is also when I happened to finish the script and recorded
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it for you folks. Now, mine's name is Lucky, which
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is very cool because that was Geraldine's dad's nickname, as
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you guys know from the story itself, and she included a copy
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of her book for me as well. So I know I've already reached
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out to you personally, but if you're watching this, thank you
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very much, Geraldine, for your time and your effort and for
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this little guy, as well as the book and photograph.
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I really and truly appreciate it.
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I don't want to sound like a broken record, but definitely go
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