Daily Monster 282: The Hopkinsville Goblins

Region of origin: Hopkinsville, Kentucky

In late August of 1955, a number of individuals on the Sutton farmlands near Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky witnessed a bright object falling to Earth nearby and soon encountered a group of small, spindly humanoid creatures coming out of the woods, walking in a strange swaying gait and holding their hands up as if in a “surrender” gesture. The men fired upon them but their shots were deftly avoided and the creatures returned to the woods. Not long after that, a larger group of them returned and surrounded the house, chittering and peeking in windows. The inhabitants inside continued to try and shoot the figures as they approached but never managed to hit one, until finally an attempt to flee the house and get the Hopkinsville police involved. The police returned to the house with them and, despite finding definite evidence of the gunfire occurring, no evidence of the creatures themselves was recovered.