In 1955, eleven people showed up at the police station in Hopkinsville, Kentucky with a wild story about strange visitors to their family farm. Years later, a separate family in a different town had a similar story. What’s going on?! Were there really aliens running around rural Kentucky? 

(We originally covered this story as our second episode of the podcast. For some of our earlier episodes, we’re going back and redoing the stories both for sound quality as well as just because we think we can do a better job on them now.)

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Sources:  

https://weekinweird.com/2015/10/03/return-of-the-kentucky-goblins-new-leads-in-a-case-of-strange-creatures-crashed-ufos-and-the-men-in-black/

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/01/the-kentucky-alien-invasion-putting-to-bed-the-myths-and-mysteries/

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/01/guns-and-goblins-the-real-story-of-the-kentucky-alien-invasion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HeYrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qmUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2838,3341366

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BukrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yAUGAAAAIBAJ&pg=5121,4091659&hl=en

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/matauryn/2019/01/22/the-mysterious-goblins-of-appalachia/

https://alampintheunderworld.com/thoughts/hidden-in-plain-sight-the-goblins-of-hellier/

https://mcccagora.com/2021/02/24/cryptid-corner-the-hopkinsville-goblins/

https://weirdnwildcreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Hopkinsville_Goblins

https://www.countryliving.com/life/a44064/eclipseville-hopkinsville-ky-history/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/monster-of-the-month-the-hopkinsville-goblins

https://ket.org/the-kelly-little-green-men/

https://ket.org/program/kentucky-life/little-green-men/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/21/tales-from-the-path-of-totality-62-years-ago-today-they-say-little-green-men-invaded-this-kentucky-farm-town/

https://dailyyonder.com/legend-of-little-green-men-invading-kelly-kentucky-continues/2021/10/22/

https://www.courierpress.com/story/life/columnists/2017/08/21/history-lesson-goblins-hopkinsville/104796526/

https://wbkr.com/aliens-in-kentucky/#google_vignette 

https://www.history.com/news/little-green-men-origins-aliens-hopkinsville-kelly

https://www.native-languages.org/memegwesi.htm

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