Little Green Men - Kelly Hopkins Goblin Case True Story

The Kelly Hopkinsville encounter, also known as the Hopkinsville Goblins Case, or the Kelly Green Men Case is a scary true story of a claimed encounter with extraterrestrial beings in 1955 near Kelly and Hopkinsville in Christian County, Kentucky. 

On the evening of August 21, 1955, five adults arrived at the Hopkinsville police station claiming that small unknown creatures from a spacecraft were attacking their farmhouse and they had been holding them off with gunfire for about four hours. Two of the adults claimed they had been shooting at "twelve to fifteen" short, dark figures who repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows.

For the next few hours, the witnesses said that the creatures, named Hopkinsville Goblin, repeatedly approached the home, either popping up at the doorway or at windows in an almost playful manner, only to be shot at each time they did. To this day no one knows exactly what John Charley Sutton, and his Kentucky family, went through.

In the following days, after radio stations and newspapers, including The New York Times, reported the incident, hundreds of curiosity seekers descended on the farm, often ridiculing the Suttons as ignorant or fraudulent. When “No Trespassing” signs proved useless at discouraging them, the family tried charging admission: 50 cents for entering the grounds, $1 for information, $10 for taking pictures. After that, skeptics blasted them as fortune-seeking fabulists.

As the Kelly story spread into the world, it took on a life of its own. The number of “little men” grew to a dozen or more. A few years later, the little metallic men were conflated with an Eastern Kentucky woman’s report of a flying saucer and a six-foot-tall man in green, helping launch the myth of little green men.

The day after the incident, police investigators returned to the farmhouse, searching for evidence of a saucer landing, footprints, blood trails, or scratch marks on the roof. They didn't find anything. Bud Ledwith, a local radio station employee, interviewed the adult eyewitnesses and made drawings based on their descriptions.

In the following days, after radio stations and newspapers (including The New York Times) reported the incident, hundreds of curiosity seekers descended on the farm, often ridiculing the Suttons as ignorant or fraudulent. When “No Trespassing” signs proved useless at discouraging them, the family tried charging admission: 50 cents for entering the grounds, $1 for information, $10 for taking pictures. After that, skeptics blasted them as fortune-seeking fabulists.

As the Kelly story spread into the world, it took on a life of its own. The number of “little men” grew to a dozen or more. A few years later, the little metallic men were conflated with an Eastern Kentucky woman’s report of a flying saucer and a six-foot-tall man in green, helping launch the myth of little green men.

Were these mysterious creatures, a.k.a. goblins, aliens? Or, something more similar, like an owl?

After radio stations and newspapers, including The New York Times, reported the incident, hundreds of seekers descended on the farm, often making fun of the Suttons as ignorant and dirt bike rider hicks. When No Trespassing signs proved useless at discouraging them, the family tried charging admission: 50 cents for entering the grounds, $1 for information, $10 for taking pictures. After that, skeptics blasted them as fortune-seeking fabulists.

As the Kelly story spread into the world, it took on a life of its own. The number of “little men” grew to a dozen or more. A few years later, the little metallic men were conflated with an Eastern Kentucky woman’s report of a flying saucer and a six-foot-tall man in green, helping launch the myth of little green men.

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