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Hello, this is the part of the Cat Monsters podcast where we we normally do a scary intro to help set the tone.

But this week we're doing things a little differently because, frankly, we're in a rush.

We had a great second episode about the Hopkinsville Goblins all ready to go,

but some of the feedback we received after last week's episode was just, well, it rendered it obsolete.

These listener contributions are just too good, too strange, too important not to share with you right away.

So here it is Tuesday uh, Tuesday night.

And we're recording this now and giving Nick all of Wednesday to rush and get the episode ready to drop by Thursday.

I'll call it just in time podcasting.

You'll polish it up nice, Nick, right?

Make it sound good?

Of course. Oh, and if you didn't catch the previous show the first hopkinsville

goblins episode i'd highly recommend that you stop here and listen to that one first in fact even if you did

hear that episode last week you might want to give it another listen now for reasons that will become clear as we get into this.

Anyway, this all started for us last Saturday, just two days after the first Goblins episode dropped.

We already had another episode about the Hopkinsville Goblins all recorded and ready to go.

But then we got an email in our podcast at

rei.com mailbox from one Lucinda, who's from where else, but Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Lucinda writes,

Dear Camp Monsters, thank you for doing your wonderful show. I listen to the episodes regularly.

Thank you, Lucinda. She goes on.

I happen to be the niece of the officer Leroy Ryle that you wrote about in your last show in the Hopkinsville Goblins.

And I'd like to tell you that after the incident in 1955 that you made the episode about, Uncle Rao made a full recovery. He was

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