American Goblins — Part 1

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🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In August of 1955, a farm family in Kentucky found their home under attack by strange goblin-like monsters. In the years since the attack, the case has retained a perplexing endurance. What happened that night in Kentucky? Were aliens to blame? Underworld monsters? Misidentified natural causes? This is part one of our discussion of what has become known as The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter. Read the episide notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:04.0	I considered a lot of different ways to try to start this story.
0:08.0	Finally, I decided to just read straight from what many people consider to be the definitive
0:12.0	ride-up of the subject matter for
0:14.1	this episode. What follows is a brief excerpt from Close Encounter at Kelly by
0:20.0	Isabel Davis.
0:23.0	Late in August 1955, newspapers and radios all over the country carried a UFO story which is still
0:28.4	one of the most bizarre incidents on record, the alleged landing of the little green men of Hopkinsville.
0:35.1	The description was far from accurate.
0:37.0	They were not green.
0:38.4	They were certainly not men, and they were seen not at Hopkinsville, but some seven miles
0:42.0	north at Kelly, Kentucky.
0:43.4	The stories were approximately as follows.
0:47.0	Shortly after sunset on the evening of Sunday, August 21st, a saucer landed in a field
0:51.6	behind a farmhouse occupied by a family named Sutton and
0:55.2	soon thereafter a group of little men in some newspapers an army of little men approached
1:00.6	the farmhouse the creatures were about three feet tall with oversized heads, huge
1:06.2	luminous yellow eyes, big ears, long arms, and big hands ending in talons. They glowed all over with the silvery
1:15.9	luminescence and they seemed to float rather than walk. For three or four hours
1:21.4	they besieged the farmhouse.
1:23.0	Shotgun and rifles fired at them had no effect.
1:26.0	About 11 o'clock, the terrified family fled the farmhouse
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