Kentucky

Hopkinsville

The Goblins of Hopkinsville

On the evening of August 21, 1955, at their farmhouse in the hamlet of Kelly close to Hopkinsville, Kentucky,

the Suttons (seven adults and three children) were entertaining a visitor, a local friend called Billy Ray Taylor.

At around 8 pm, Taylor stepped outside to fetch some water from the well in the backyard, where he observed

a silver object skim across the farmhouse and land about 100 meters further away in a gully hidden by trees.

When he told the Suttons about this, they were amused but not convinced. Shortly afterwards, however, their

dog, which was outside, began barking to such a frantic, hysterical manner that Taylor and one of the Suttons'

sons, Elmer, went out to investigate. They were greatly shocked to see a glowing goblin-like creature floating

towards them. They were carrying rifles, so both men shot the entity, but instead of falling to the ground it

simply flipped backwards and scurried away.

It was soon back, and this time it was accompanied by at least one other of it's kind. During the next 3-4

hours, the Suttons were besieged by these macabre "space goblins", which appeared in nearby trees,

scrambled over the farmhouse and peered in at them through their windows. One of the creatures even leaned

down from the porch roof, and with a taloned hand grabbed the hair of Taylor, who was standing underneath.

According to descriptions given by the Suttons, the goblins stood about 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 feet tall, was principally bipedal and glowed silver. They
had a domed shaped heads, bore two short antenna like structures, pointed elephant-like ears, and a big, bulbous, laterally slitted eyes which
glowed yellow, and an extremely wide mouth's upper lip was tucked underneath the lower lip.

Merely to be confronted by such entities would be alarming enough, but the most unnerving aspect of the Suttons' prolonged encounter with
the goblins was that these extraordinary beings appear to be totally immune to bullets. The Suttons scored several successful hits, but on
each occasion the goblin simply flipped backwards. Eventually the Suttons and Taylor became so frightened that they ran out of the house,
jumped into two cars and fled at top speed to the police station at Hopkinsville. Obviously the police did not believe the Suttons' incredible
story, but were struck by their genuine terror. The police escorted them back to their home but there was no evidence of the beings or what
had happened.

Wilder

Bobby Mackey's Music World

Malevolent spirits roam this 1850's building, now a popular nightclub. At one time, the structure was a slaughterhouse, and a deep well was
dug in the basement to collect animal blood and body fluids. When the slaughterhouse closed, Satanists used the well of blood for rituals. In
1896, two devil worshippers beheaded a woman named Pearl Bryan and used her head in their ceremonies. Before they were hanged, the men
were offered life sentences in exchange for disclosing the whereabouts of the missing head, but both refused, claiming that to do so would
bring down the wrath of the devil himself. The cursed building was a speakeasy in the 1920's, and several unsolved mob murders added more
violence to the already diabolic ambiance. So far, twenty nine witnesses have signed affidavits testifying to ghostly phenomena at the
nightclub, and a recent exorcism on the premises has failed to halt the harrowing activity. In September 1994, a customer was assaulted in
the men's restroom by a ghost wearing a cowboy hat. The injured customer is suing Bobby Mackey for not getting rid of the ghost in his
establishment. Douglas Hensley investigated the case and published his account in the 1994 book entitled Hell's Gate.

Bibliography: Hauck, Dennis. Haunted Places: Ghost abodes, sacred sites, UFO landings, and other supernatural locations. New York:
Penguin Book, 1994.