crittercompendium:

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.

royallyeric:

Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter of the third kind. 👽✨🔍

cryptid-wendigo:

Newspaper article on the Kelly-Hopkinsville case (also known as the Hopkinsville Goblins). Published Monday, August 22, 1955.

inhumanoid:

The Hobskinville Goblins

The month of August 1955 was a strange one for residents around the small town of Kelly, in Christian County, Kentucky. A number of locals, as well as area law enforcement, had claimed to have been experiencing various odd things of an “alien” variety; in fact, things would end up getting so strange for one group of locals, the Sutton family of nearby Hopkinsville, that their lives would be forever changed in the aftermath.

Things started as Pennsylvania native Billy Ray Taylor, along with Elmer Sutton, went outside to investigate noises coming from the forest nearby on the evening of August 21st, shortly after a series of odd lights had been seen in the distance. Both men, carrying guns, claimed to have witnessed a strange nonhuman entity emerge from the trees, prompting their return to the farmhouse. Soon afterward, the Suttons and Mr. Taylor would begin an evening secured within the home, as these strange “goblins” attacked them from the outside; thus began their nightlong bout with what have forever remained known as the “Hopkinsville Goblins,” an event in American Forteana that remains one of the strangest ever recorded. (x)

Fun fact: The Pokémon Sableye is based on a Hobskinville Goblin.