August 11, 2025 • 35 mins
When Billy Ray shot the glowing creature point-blank, it made a metallic CLANK and somersaulted backward—completely unharmed. For hours, these silver beings with talon claws terrorized a Kentucky farmhouse while eleven witnesses emptied boxes of ammunition. The shots hit their mark every time, but nothing could stop them from coming back.
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Eleven witnesses with identical stories
of being under attackby small, goblin like creatures.
But 70 years later, sciencestill can't explain what terrorized
that Kentucky farmhouse.They're bulletproof.
They glow in the dark.
And they keep coming back.
I'm Carol Ann.
Welcome to The InBetween.
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The night of August 21st,
1955 was a warm one in southwest Kentucky.
After a day in the mid 90s,the temperature was cooling around 7 p.m.,
but not fast enough,especially if you're sitting
in an old two roomfarmhouse with 11 other people.
Maybe that's why Billy RayTaylor volunteered
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Ow ow ow ow ow go outsideto get some water from the well.
The farm belonged to 50 yearold Glennie Lankford
and was locatedbetween Hopkinsville and Kelly, Kentucky.
Glennie, a widow, has been married twice,with children from both marriages
- at least two grown boys
from the first and three youngerchildren from the second.
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I’m not going to throw 11 names at you,but just know that that night,
Glennie’s sons Lucky and J.C.andtheir wives,
J.C.'s brother-in-law and BillyRay and June Taylor
are all there, visiting Glennieand her three younger children for dinner.
That makes 11 people in two roomswith a small loft on the second floor.
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So it's no wonder that even if they'rehaving an awesome time together,
that Billy Ray might jump at the chanceto spend a few minutes
outside where the temperaturesare starting to fall.
Glennie’sgetting dinner ready and needs some water
from thewell about 100 yards from the house.
Billy Ray volunteers,grabs the bucket and heads outside.
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As he's drawing the full bucket up,
his attention is drawn to the sky
where he sees an “egg shaped washtuball lit up like a streak of fire,”
with an exhaust trail that was every colorof the rainbow, fly overhead
from south to north over the farm,stop and hover for a moment,
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and then go down at what he guesses wasthe northern edge of the farm's property.
The idea of UFOs is pretty commonin the 50s,
so Billy Ray runs back to the houseand tells everyone what he saw.
A genuine UFO.
No one believes him.
Not even his wife.
So Billy Ray says. Fine.
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He heads out to the porch,
where he's joined by his friend,Glennie’s oldest son, Lucky.
The two men are on the porchfor about 45 minutes,
when the dog starts going nutsand trying to hide itself under the house.
They look out in the directionthat Billy Ray said the flying saucer
had gone down, and in the treesthey could see a faint glow,
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not like from a flashlightor a lantern, ‘but
brighter than the dark around it.”
It moves up and down between ground leveland about five feet off the ground.
And as it gets closer,they can see that the glowing light is
actually a short, glowing humanoid figuresomewhere between two and a half and four
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feet tall, depending on the witness,with a large round bald head.
It had large yellow glowingeyes spaced really far apart,
but they seem to be small in comparisonto the size of the head.
It had big floppy ears, a cone shaped nose
that ended in a ball, no neck and armsso long that almost reached the ground
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with fingers tipped with talon like claws.
It should be notedthat some of the descriptions vary a bit,
with some saying no nose and some sayingit had antennae, but also with the caveat
that the eyes were so distractingthat some details may be off.
It had a strong upper body with legsthat looked stiff,
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and it walked awkwardlylike it was wading through water.
One witness saysits feet look like suction cups,
but nobody else saw them to be able to sayfor sure.
It's wearing some kind of silver suit,
maybe even made of metal,that shines in the moonlight.
Glennie actually describesit as looking like “a five gallon
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gasoline can,with the hat on top and small legs.
It was shimmering bright metallike on my refrigerator.”
When shown a drawing of the creaturebased on Billy Ray's description,
Glennie saidshe didn't even want to look at it
because it was just so closeto what she saw.
Some of the men disagree a bit,so other sketches
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have been made to accountfor the various descriptions.
As the creature gets closer,it raises its arms as if in surrender,
while making both chirping soundsand these guttural hissing
soundswithout ever moving its lipless mouth.
Lucky and Billy Raysay “Nope,” and run inside the house -
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Lucky grabbing a shotgun,and Billy Ray a .22 rifle,
yelling that there is some kindof being out there.
Everyone just thinks Luckyand Billy Ray are joking around.
In fact, when lucky grabs the guns,Glennie scolds him,
like only a mama can,that his joking has gone too far.
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But then one of the women inside sees it,
and there's no longerany doubt that this is no joke.
Glennie sends the three childrento the bedroom.
Moments later,she screams at what she describes
as a “merciless” facepeeking through an open window.
Lucky fires at it through the screen.
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Based on the loud clanksound like a bullet
hitting a metal bucket, I'd say he hit it.
But the entity somersaults backward,
totally fine, and runs off with a
a “rattling bag of pennies” noise floating
rather than fully touching the ground,using its arms to move.
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Lucky and Billy Ray take up positionsguarding the porch.
Half an hour passesbefore a clawed hand grabs
at BillyRay's hair from the roof overhang.
His wife pulls him inside,but the men go back out
and fire again,knocking the creature off the roof
and watch as it floats down,
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jingles metallicly, and floats away.
They see another one in a tree.
They shoot it out of the tree,
but it floats to earth and floats awaylike the others.
Another one comes from aroundthe corner of the house, with its hands
raised like the first one,only to be shot point blank, which,
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just like the others, sends it rollingbackwards but doesn't seem to hurt it.
By now, the men noticethat the glow that these things all have
going on intensifies when it gets hitor even if they just shout at it.
Interesting. Is it me?
Or does that sound like every force fieldin every sci fi movie ever?
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Best guesses are thatthere are somewhere between 2
and 5 creatures running around the house,avoiding porch lights,
seeminglynot so much to stay hidden, but due
to an actual aversion to the light.
They peek in the windows, tapon the glass, run around on the roof,
but never make any noiseother than those chirps and deep hisses.
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The three children,the first ones to call them “goblins”,
scream at glowing eyes and earslooking in their bedroom window.
A living room window pane shattersfor no discernible reason.
So Lucky opens all the windowsto avoid flying glass coming in,
assuming that these thingsare now trying to enter the house.
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But they never try to get in.
For the next two hours,Lucky and Billy Ray managed to at least
keep these things at bay,emptying entire boxes of ammo.
But after 11 p.m.
or so, things start to die down.
Glennie, the calmest one in the room,says, “Now's our chance.
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Let's get out of here.”The group makes a run for it,
pile into their cars and take offfor the Hopkinsville police station.
All 11 people pour into the station,
their fear palpable to the officersbehind the desk,
and startflooding them with their story of terror
at the mercy of these goblinlike creatures.
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The officers can tellthat they're all genuinely freaked.
Billy Ray's pulse is recordedat 140 beats per minute, twice
the average heart rate, with no signsof intoxication from any of them.
Chief Russell Greenwell would later say,
“These are not the kind of peoplewho normally ran to the police.
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Something frightened them.
Something beyond their comprehension.”The police take their story seriously,
and after having all of their statementstaken, 16 officers
escort the family back to their home,where they are then joined by four
military police officers from nearby
Fort Campbellwho reportedly take pictures.
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Funny thing is, no one knowshow the military found out about it,
and none of the photosthey took have ever surfaced.
They find spent shells,
bullet holes,and a luminous patch on grass
near the woods, which only glows if you'relooking at it from the right angle.
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What they don't find is any signsof intruders or any kind of landing site.
But then again, everybody was so freakedout to really look for it that night.
But they didn't find anythingthe next morning either.
In fact,
even the police were so freaked outwhen they're out checking out the yard
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that when one officeraccidentally stepped on a cat's tail,
making the cat wail,everybody pulls their guns.
But other than the damage to the house
created by Lucky and Billy Ray,no one can find anything.
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So somewhere around midnight - 1am,the police leave
and the family settles into try to get some sleep.
But around3:30 a.m., Glennie wakes up to see one
peeking through her window,claws on the screen, hissing.
Lucky and BillyRay take a few more shots and manage
to keep them all at bay until dawn.
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Once that sun comes up,the whole family can't leave fast enough.
A few of them come back every now and thenfor a few weeks to settle affairs,
but no one in Glennie’sfamily ever lives there again.
Unfortunately for everyone,the cat is already out of the bag.
The word gets out about the incidentand the news papers take it from there.
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Hordes of people show upand make themselves at home, hoping
to get a glimpse of the little green menthat they read about in the newspaper.
Fun fact!
Even though not one of the ten witnesses,
and it's only ten because one of the womenadmitted to being so scared,
she closed her eyesand never saw anything.
Not one of them ever describedthe creatures as being green,
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but that's what the paper printed.
And it's because of this case,with the papers calling them green,
that we have the phrase“little green men” today.
The crowds get so out of control,some people thought it was perfectly
okay to just walk right in the houseuninvited.
To try to deter the gathering crowds,the family briefly charges admission,
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but stops as soon as people startaccusing them of hoaxing the whole thing
and just doing all of it for the money.
But if that was their motivation,they do a pretty crappy job.
They never cash in on any movieor book deals.
The only actual insider accountis called “Alien Legacy”,
written in 2007 by GeraldineSutton Stith, Lucky's daughter,
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who gets the scoop from her dadmany years later.
Did he ever talk about it? Not very often.
You're very, very, very luckyif you go and talk.
And me? I didn't want to hear.
It scared me.
And there are, of course,
many people who have offered explanationsover the years, and understandably so.
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This encounter is nuts.
Air Force Major John E Albert suggested
escaped circus monkeyspainted silver, though there is no record
anywhere of circusespainting their monkeys.
Joe Nickell,a prominent paranormal investigator
and skeptic, proposed great horned owlsas the culprit.
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For an owl, they're pretty bigwith ears, glowing eyes, and they're
territorial in late August, making thema little more aggressive than usual.
Two of the police officersreported seeing shooting stars
while they were on their wayto check out the Lankford farm that night,
so BillyRay could have just seen a spectacular
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meteor falling, and his imaginationgrabbed it and ran with it.
Foxfire is a bioluminescent fungus
that's not exactly common in Kentucky,but it's certainly not rare.
Maybe that's where the glowing spotin the grass came from.
And many people have brought up the factthat Billy Ray worked the carnival
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circuit, suggesting that he'd learneda thing or two from his time on the crew
and wanted to cash in on his newhoaxing skills.
And while I'm certainly not going to denythat some of these explanations
could be valid, some of them still havesome pretty serious problems.
The fact that all seven adultsgave matching statements.
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That's pretty hard to do.
UFOlogist Isabel Davisfrom the center for UFO studies
put out a 200 plus page report
on the incident around 1956-1957.
She interviewed all the witnessesand talked about their reliability,
especially Glennie’s.
She points out that the drawings madeby the children matched
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those made by the adults.
But let's cut to the chase.
The leading theory for the skepticsis the great horned owl.
But owls don't take a shotgun blast
at point blank range and just fly away.
Neither dosilver monkeys, for that matter.
I certainly don't claimto know what these things were,
but I know they weren't owls or monkeys.
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But we can speculate all we want becausewe're never going to know for sure.
They never came back. Or did they?
The Hopkinsville goblinsmay be one of the most well known
encounters of goblin like creatures,but it's far from the only one.
They're not even the only onesin Kentucky.
Enter Greg Newkirk,
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a paranormal investigator,co-founder of the Week in Weird website
and formerly of the slightly “less thanprofessional” Ghost Hunters Incorporated.
The only reason I say “lessthan professional”
is because when Greg was still a member,
the group was made up of himselfand some of his high school friends.
They were just a bunch of kidswho seriously loved the paranormal.
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But time moves onand the group kind of fades away.
Except Greg still goes back occasionallyto check the site's email box,
which is still activewhen this story takes place in 2012.
It’s April 22nd.
Greg checks the box and muchto his surprise, there's an email there.
It's from a man who sayshis name is Doctor David Christie,
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and that he and his family movedto the tiny - like less than 200 people
tiny town of Hellierin Pike County, Kentucky only a few months
earlier, seeking the peace and quietpromised with country living.
But now David has a problem.
And he needs some help.
Every night,he and his family are being harassed
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by small, pale creaturesthat he believes are extraterrestrials
coming from an old mine on his property.
He wants help to seal the cave entrance.
Greg is intrigued, but skeptical,
so he replies, telling this guy, hey,I'm a ghost hunting guy.
I have zero experience with aliensor explosives.
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I'll try to help,but you're going to have to give me
a little bit more informationabout what's going on here.
David responds right away, explaininghe got Greg's name
from a friend of a friendnamed Terry Wrist,
and goes on to explain the ordealthat he and his family is going through.
The Christie family had only movedto the area about seven months prior,
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and the first couple of monthswere just fine.
It's aroundDecember that the problems start.
It starts with strange tracksin the snow, human like,
but without the heel part, which Davidjust chalks up to either a lone animal
or some local kidshazing the new people in town.
His dog barks herself hoarseif left outside after dark.
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Shed doors open on their own.
His kids’ toys vanish.
Stuff in their yardis moved all over the place.
They call the police.
But that goes aboutas far as you can imagine.
In January, with the whole familysitting around at the table eating
breakfast, David's five year old daughterstarts talking about watching the kids
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without hair playing in the yardthe night before.
His wife says,can you describe these kids without hair?
To which their daughterreplies, “they were bald like grandpa
and weren't wearing any clothes.”That very same day, David finds a wreath
that's usually hanging inside the backporch stuffed in the mailbox.
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By the next day, he had motionfloodlights installed on the house
and the kidswithout hair stopped coming around.
Things are quiet for a few weeksuntil the end of February.
David wakes up to his daughterscreaming and running out of her room.
The kids without hair are back.
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She tells Davidthat they're trying to look in her window,
but they're too short,so they just started tapping on the glass.
She never sleeps in that room again.
David says that's enoughand calls the police for a second time.
Police send a trooper who spots disturbed
ground under the daughter's window,but says it's just animals.
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Better call the game commission.
Every day for a week after that,David sees signs of activity in his yard.
Smudges on the windows, sidewalks stones
moved to the other side of the yard,torn screens.
On March 7th, around 1:30 a.m.,the dog wakes up David to go outside.
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As David groggily pads to the back
door, he sees the floodlights are on.
He takes a cautious peek out the window
to see shadows dancing on the lawn,two figures
making guttural chirpingnoises like a skunk.
Then he sees something else- a pale, hairless humanoid
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about four feet tall,standing in the flower bed.
It has sickly pale skin, large, round,birdlike eyes,
no nose, and just a tiny slit for a mouth.
It hops out to join its friends,
at least five of them,and they all scramble off into the woods.
Not long after that, the dog vanishes.
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And while out walking to look for the dog,
David finds a bunch of his kids’ toyslying around in front of the opening
to an old abandoned mineshaft entrancenear the edge of his property,
which is why he thinks that that'swhere they are coming from every night.
After a couple of monthswith no more word from David.
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Greg starts to wonder if he's in the wind,but another email comes in.
It's David apologizing for the lack ofcommunication, but explaining that things
were getting so bad at the housethat he and his family decided to leave.
So he's had his hands fullfor a little while.
However, he and his brother-in-lawwent back to the house
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for a couple of daysto pack up some things.
When they get there, there are littlethree toed tracks everywhere
leading down to the streamnext to the mine entrance.
But that night the creatures came back.
This timeDavid gets what Greg has been asking for.
Pictures.
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Attached to the email areimages of three toed footprints in the mud
that are so clear and perfectthat you can actually see dermal ridges
and creases in the skinfrom the bottom of the foot.
In another image,you can see where the mud stuck
to the foot and lifted out of the print.
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But there's something else.
An image that,according to David, is the creature itself
peeking out from behind a tree.
The image was taken at night froma distance, so course it's pretty grainy.
At first glance, it looks just likesome light splotches in the dark.
But David also sent a second versionof that
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image with the outline of the creaturedrawn on it.
To helpyou make sense of what you're seeing.
I gotta say, it's pretty intriguing.
Greg shows the prints to animal printexperts who tell him, “I have no idea.”
Greg is kind of excitedat the thought of investigating this
craziness, and starts making plansin his head for a trip down there
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from where he lives in Cincinnati.
But he never hears from David again.
Fast forward a couple of years,and despite not hearing back from David
for years at this point, Gregnever stopped thinking about it.
So he and his wife, Dana, head down therewith three other paranormal investigators
to try to get to the bottomof everything in documentary style.
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Long story short,they can't find the house.
They can't find any record of DavidChristie owning land in Pike County.
And they can't find a single soulthat's even ever heard of him.
Only then do they learnthat they can track David's emails
by his email IP address.
Everyone's heart stopswhen the IP on the email
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comes up as originatingfrom Ajax, Ontario, not Hellier, Kentucky.
Imagine all five of them sittingin an Airbnb in Kentucky for a hoax?
However, the friendthat was helping them with the trace
also let them know that for peopleconcerned with anonymity, such as Doctor
Christie, he was most likely using a VPN,
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which means the IPtrace means exactly squat.
On a more positive note, as they’rechatting with any local residents
they could find and showing themthe pictures of the tracks, one resident
made a comment that the mudthat the track was in looks like slurry.
Slurry is a mixture of waterand fine coal particles,
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a byproduct of the mining process.
It's kind of a toxic mess.
That mixture is sometimesinjected back into old mines for storage,
but if that mine collapses or something,
the slurry can sometimes find its wayback to the surface and spill out.
Hellier is an old coal mining townwith just as many old mines as old caves.
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So the fact that someonewho has seen slurry his whole life
can identify the substance in whichthe print was made as being slurry,
certainly goes a long way toward placingthat footprint in the Hellier area.
Now, I have seen the first seasonof their,
what turned out to be a documentaryseries, called Hellier
that you can see either on Prime Videoor YouTube.
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The documentary goes waydeeper than just looking for
either David Christyor the goblins attacking him.
This thing spreads out fartherthan the Kentucky cave system itself.
And if you've ever been to Mammoth Cave,you know that’s saying something.
By the time everything is said and done,Greg and his team uncover some majorly
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crazy connections to John Keel,the writer of “The Mothman Prophecies,”
Indrid Cold and alien assassins.
So if you need a new rabbit holeto go down, I highly recommend it.
However, it's waytoo wide for me to tackle right now, so
suffice to say they have not, to this
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day, heard from David Christie again.
Is it all a hoax? Maybe.
But those pictures are pretty compelling.
But the fact that this guy was all in
and then totally ghostedGreg, is a bit suspicious.
But then again,now that he had moved away,
maybe he just wanted to forgetthe entire nightmare.
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And here's another one of thosecrazy theories right out of my own head.
Okay, not out of my head, because I knowa lot of you are thinking the same thing.
We need to take a seriouslook at the cave system.
Kentucky is riddled with them.
Hopkinsville is in a decent areaas far as number of caves.
So what if these beings are just migrating
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back and forth from cave to cave?
The Hellier areadoesn't have a ton of caves, but it does
have a ton of coal mines.
What's the difference to a goblinneeding a place to hide?
Now, don't think for a secondthat these two incidents,
60 years apart, are the only encounterspeople have had with goblins,
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both inside Kentucky and outside,
including the one country to avoid,if you want to steer clear of goblins.
Take, for example,the curious story of Donald Patton.
Donald was 14 years oldthat summer of 1990,
somewhere in Kentucky, and his hobbyeach night was to go outside after dinner,
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as the air's cooling down to throw rocksin a pond on their land.
Interesting hobby.
But then again, he's a 14 year old boy,so not really all that strange.
So this night he's out by the pondand it's starting to get dark,
and he hears his dad come out the door,
knowing his dad is going to tell himto come inside.
Sure enough,he hears his dad yell, “Donald!
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Eric, come on in.
It's getting darkand I want to go to bed.” Donald stalls,
not ready to go in yet.
His dad,walking a little closer, yells again.
“Donald!
Eric, you boys get in here now!”Eric is Donald's nine year old nephew.
Just so you know, Eric'sbest friend is Matt.
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Donald stands up and yells back.
“Eric's not here.
He's in his room.
It's just me.” Donald's dad keeps walkingcloser and asks him, “Well, who
the people you were talkingto?” In moment,
a look of fear crosses his dad's face
as he asks Donald one more time,
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“Are you sure Eric and Mattaren't out here with you?”
“No, Matt's not even here tonight.”
Donald's dad tells him that he saw someonestanding behind him.
But Donald hadn't seen anyone.
His dad startssearching the property, finds nothing.
They go in the house, count heads,and sure enough, everyone else is inside.
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Donald's brother even takes a crackat searching the yard.
Nothing.
That look of frightstays on his dad's face
the rest of the night,and he's pretty quiet.
The next morning,he tells everyone the whole story.
He says he saw two little people,about three and a half to four feet tall,
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dressed in white,standing right behind Donald.
He didn't seeDonald sitting on the ground.
He thought it was just Donald and Eric.
When he shouted for the boysto come inside, the little people ran
around the pondand disappeared behind an outbuilding.
It's important to note, by the way,that the way that Donald's yard is laid
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out and fenced off, it would be impossiblefor anyone to run around
that pond and behind that outbuildingwithout Donald seeing them.
But he didn't.
Donald's dad is so freaked
he doesn't leave the house at nightwithout being armed for months.
But fear really doesn't hit Donalduntil his dad tells him that these people
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were right behind him, close enough
to stare right down his shirt collar.
Now, Donald wonders where he would beif his dad hadn't come out to get him?
Or how many other nightsthey may have been standing
right behind him,staring down his shirt collar?
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Now, not all encountersare this dramatic, but
it doesn't make them any less chilling.
Take the encountera Reddit user, Frankieglz66.
In the late 90s, Frankie shareda two bedroom apartment with a couple.
He doesn't name
the couple, but for clarity sake,let's just call them Danny and Sandy.
One night, Frankieand Danny are on the couch watching TV.
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And in this apartment,when you're watching the TV,
you can see down the hall.
You can see the two bedroom doorsand the bathroom door in front of you.
So as the two guys are sitting onthe couch, Sandy comes out of their room,
tells the guys, “Hey,
I'm going to take a shower,” and goesin the bathroom and closes the door.
As soon as the bathroom door shuts,this weird, skinny,
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thin skinned, albino lookingcreature, roughly 3.5ft
tall, comes out of Danny and Sandy's room
and starts creeping toward the bathroom.
It stops, looks around,
sees Frankie and Dannylooking right at it, (Busted!)
turns right back around and disappearsback into the bedroom.
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Danny and Frankie look at each other
and fly off the couch into the bedroomafter it.
They open the door. There's nothing there.
They search the entire apartment.
Nothing. It's just gone.
But, as freakyas all of those encounters are,
they all kind of pale in comparisonto the hijinks and happenings in Zimbabwe.
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Now, to be fair, the goblins of Zimbabweseem to be manifesting
themselves a little differentlythan the ones we have talked about so far.
Truth be told,I read a headline about things
happening in Zimbabwethat was dated just last year,
so I thought it would bea great addition to this episode.
So I just kind of parked it in my brainuntil I was ready to add it to the script.
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But then I went to take anotherlook at the information
and was a little astoundedat what I was seeing.
I quickly figured out that in Zimbabwethey see goblins
more like we, in the West,see demons, as spiritual entities
that can be conjured up using witchcraftand are well known
to cause torment and destructionwherever they are encountered.
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These goblins ain't playing.
Multiple recent storieshave been published of these creatures
being responsiblefor everything from the destruction
of cropsto the killing of cattle to murder.
In 2021,a clinic in Umzingwane was temporarily
shut down due to its staffbeing repeatedly assaulted.
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In Bulawayo, a family with three children
claims it has been terrorized by a goblinthat attacks the children
with horrifying tactics,like shaving their heads while they sleep,
and even stabbing one of the childrenin the leg.
In 2019, goblins were blamed
for the deaths of ten membersof one family.
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In that particular case, after the familyhad mysteriously lost its 10th member,
the family left their house and camped outon the doorstep, asking for the help
of their local Madzibaba, which is liketheir local spiritual leader.
The Madzibaba went to the family's hometo investigate and found a goblin statue,
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a lance, a knobkerrie,which is like a wooden club,
that had a hyena tail tied to it,and a clay pot with blood in it
and a piece of paper with the namesof family members written on it.
And if 2019 isn't recent enough,
headlines were made just last yearabout a new police station in Bulilima
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that is now abandonedbecause the police officers staying
there had been continually harassed,with personal assaults,
doors opening and closing on their own,and things crawling on the roof.
Now I realize that these Zimbabwe goblinsare little different
than the ones we talked about in Kentucky.
But if my research for this episodehas taught me anything,
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it's that everyone'sdefinition of a goblin is different.
From the little white people to green,scaly miniature ogre-looking things
to tiny ten inch beingscrawling on the bedroom wall.
Who's to say which definition is correct?
The only thing I know for sure is thatsomething is out there
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lurking in the shadows,trying really hard not to be seen.
And if you do see one, well,
for your sake, I hope they don't see you.
And between you and me,
that whole encounter around Hellierjust totally creeps me out.
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I think it's just the unbelievablybrazen behavior.
I would have Nope’d my wayout of the house long before they did.
I do recommend the documentary series“Hellier,”
if you want to go deeper on this one.
And trust me, it goes deep.
It would not be surprisedif you hear more about that
insanity on this channel in the future.
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But until then,if I've left you in the mood
for even more stories of white, gangly,humanoid creatures
lurking around your yard, clickright here.
Be careful out there.
And I will see youhere again, on The InBetween.
Eleven witnesses with identical stories
of being under attackby small, goblin like creatures.
But 70 years later, sciencestill can't explain what terrorized
that Kentucky farmhouse.They're bulletproof.
They glow in the dark.
And they keep coming back.
I'm Carol Ann.
Welcome to The InBetween.
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The night of August 21st,
1955 was a warm one in southwest Kentucky.
After a day in the mid 90s,the temperature was cooling around 7 p.m.,
but not fast enough,especially if you're sitting
in an old two roomfarmhouse with 11 other people.
Maybe that's why Billy RayTaylor volunteered
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Ow ow ow ow ow go outsideto get some water from the well.
The farm belonged to 50 yearold Glennie Lankford
and was locatedbetween Hopkinsville and Kelly, Kentucky.
Glennie, a widow, has been married twice,with children from both marriages
- at least two grown boys
from the first and three youngerchildren from the second.
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I’m not going to throw 11 names at you,but just know that that night,
Glennie’s sons Lucky and J.C.andtheir wives,
J.C.'s brother-in-law and BillyRay and June Taylor
are all there, visiting Glennieand her three younger children for dinner.
That makes 11 people in two roomswith a small loft on the second floor.
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So it's no wonder that even if they'rehaving an awesome time together,
that Billy Ray might jump at the chanceto spend a few minutes
outside where the temperaturesare starting to fall.
Glennie’sgetting dinner ready and needs some water
from thewell about 100 yards from the house.
Billy Ray volunteers,grabs the bucket and heads outside.
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As he's drawing the full bucket up,
his attention is drawn to the sky
where he sees an “egg shaped washtuball lit up like a streak of fire,”
with an exhaust trail that was every colorof the rainbow, fly overhead
from south to north over the farm,stop and hover for a moment,
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and then go down at what he guesses wasthe northern edge of the farm's property.
The idea of UFOs is pretty commonin the 50s,
so Billy Ray runs back to the houseand tells everyone what he saw.
A genuine UFO.
No one believes him.
Not even his wife.
So Billy Ray says. Fine.
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He heads out to the porch,
where he's joined by his friend,Glennie’s oldest son, Lucky.
The two men are on the porchfor about 45 minutes,
when the dog starts going nutsand trying to hide itself under the house.
They look out in the directionthat Billy Ray said the flying saucer
had gone down, and in the treesthey could see a faint glow,
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not like from a flashlightor a lantern, ‘but
brighter than the dark around it.”
It moves up and down between ground leveland about five feet off the ground.
And as it gets closer,they can see that the glowing light is
actually a short, glowing humanoid figuresomewhere between two and a half and four
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feet tall, depending on the witness,with a large round bald head.
It had large yellow glowingeyes spaced really far apart,
but they seem to be small in comparisonto the size of the head.
It had big floppy ears, a cone shaped nose
that ended in a ball, no neck and armsso long that almost reached the ground
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with fingers tipped with talon like claws.
It should be notedthat some of the descriptions vary a bit,
with some saying no nose and some sayingit had antennae, but also with the caveat
that the eyes were so distractingthat some details may be off.
It had a strong upper body with legsthat looked stiff,
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and it walked awkwardlylike it was wading through water.
One witness saysits feet look like suction cups,
but nobody else saw them to be able to sayfor sure.
It's wearing some kind of silver suit,
maybe even made of metal,that shines in the moonlight.
Glennie actually describesit as looking like “a five gallon
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gasoline can,with the hat on top and small legs.
It was shimmering bright metallike on my refrigerator.”
When shown a drawing of the creaturebased on Billy Ray's description,
Glennie saidshe didn't even want to look at it
because it was just so closeto what she saw.
Some of the men disagree a bit,so other sketches
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have been made to accountfor the various descriptions.
As the creature gets closer,it raises its arms as if in surrender,
while making both chirping soundsand these guttural hissing
soundswithout ever moving its lipless mouth.
Lucky and Billy Raysay “Nope,” and run inside the house -
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Lucky grabbing a shotgun,and Billy Ray a .22 rifle,
yelling that there is some kindof being out there.
Everyone just thinks Luckyand Billy Ray are joking around.
In fact, when lucky grabs the guns,Glennie scolds him,
like only a mama can,that his joking has gone too far.
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But then one of the women inside sees it,
and there's no longerany doubt that this is no joke.
Glennie sends the three childrento the bedroom.
Moments later,she screams at what she describes
as a “merciless” facepeeking through an open window.
Lucky fires at it through the screen.
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Based on the loud clanksound like a bullet
hitting a metal bucket, I'd say he hit it.
But the entity somersaults backward,
totally fine, and runs off with a
a “rattling bag of pennies” noise floating
rather than fully touching the ground,using its arms to move.
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Lucky and Billy Ray take up positionsguarding the porch.
Half an hour passesbefore a clawed hand grabs
at BillyRay's hair from the roof overhang.
His wife pulls him inside,but the men go back out
and fire again,knocking the creature off the roof
and watch as it floats down,
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jingles metallicly, and floats away.
They see another one in a tree.
They shoot it out of the tree,
but it floats to earth and floats awaylike the others.
Another one comes from aroundthe corner of the house, with its hands
raised like the first one,only to be shot point blank, which,
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just like the others, sends it rollingbackwards but doesn't seem to hurt it.
By now, the men noticethat the glow that these things all have
going on intensifies when it gets hitor even if they just shout at it.
Interesting. Is it me?
Or does that sound like every force fieldin every sci fi movie ever?
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Best guesses are thatthere are somewhere between 2
and 5 creatures running around the house,avoiding porch lights,
seeminglynot so much to stay hidden, but due
to an actual aversion to the light.
They peek in the windows, tapon the glass, run around on the roof,
but never make any noiseother than those chirps and deep hisses.
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The three children,the first ones to call them “goblins”,
scream at glowing eyes and earslooking in their bedroom window.
A living room window pane shattersfor no discernible reason.
So Lucky opens all the windowsto avoid flying glass coming in,
assuming that these thingsare now trying to enter the house.
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But they never try to get in.
For the next two hours,Lucky and Billy Ray managed to at least
keep these things at bay,emptying entire boxes of ammo.
But after 11 p.m.
or so, things start to die down.
Glennie, the calmest one in the room,says, “Now's our chance.
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Let's get out of here.”The group makes a run for it,
pile into their cars and take offfor the Hopkinsville police station.
All 11 people pour into the station,
their fear palpable to the officersbehind the desk,
and startflooding them with their story of terror
at the mercy of these goblinlike creatures.
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The officers can tellthat they're all genuinely freaked.
Billy Ray's pulse is recordedat 140 beats per minute, twice
the average heart rate, with no signsof intoxication from any of them.
Chief Russell Greenwell would later say,
“These are not the kind of peoplewho normally ran to the police.
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Something frightened them.
Something beyond their comprehension.”The police take their story seriously,
and after having all of their statementstaken, 16 officers
escort the family back to their home,where they are then joined by four
military police officers from nearby
Fort Campbellwho reportedly take pictures.
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Funny thing is, no one knowshow the military found out about it,
and none of the photosthey took have ever surfaced.
They find spent shells,
bullet holes,and a luminous patch on grass
near the woods, which only glows if you'relooking at it from the right angle.
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What they don't find is any signsof intruders or any kind of landing site.
But then again, everybody was so freakedout to really look for it that night.
But they didn't find anythingthe next morning either.
In fact,
even the police were so freaked outwhen they're out checking out the yard
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that when one officeraccidentally stepped on a cat's tail,
making the cat wail,everybody pulls their guns.
But other than the damage to the house
created by Lucky and Billy Ray,no one can find anything.
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So somewhere around midnight - 1am,the police leave
and the family settles into try to get some sleep.
But around3:30 a.m., Glennie wakes up to see one
peeking through her window,claws on the screen, hissing.
Lucky and BillyRay take a few more shots and manage
to keep them all at bay until dawn.
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Once that sun comes up,the whole family can't leave fast enough.
A few of them come back every now and thenfor a few weeks to settle affairs,
but no one in Glennie’sfamily ever lives there again.
Unfortunately for everyone,the cat is already out of the bag.
The word gets out about the incidentand the news papers take it from there.
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Hordes of people show upand make themselves at home, hoping
to get a glimpse of the little green menthat they read about in the newspaper.
Fun fact!
Even though not one of the ten witnesses,
and it's only ten because one of the womenadmitted to being so scared,
she closed her eyesand never saw anything.
Not one of them ever describedthe creatures as being green,
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but that's what the paper printed.
And it's because of this case,with the papers calling them green,
that we have the phrase“little green men” today.
The crowds get so out of control,some people thought it was perfectly
okay to just walk right in the houseuninvited.
To try to deter the gathering crowds,the family briefly charges admission,
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but stops as soon as people startaccusing them of hoaxing the whole thing
and just doing all of it for the money.
But if that was their motivation,they do a pretty crappy job.
They never cash in on any movieor book deals.
The only actual insider accountis called “Alien Legacy”,
written in 2007 by GeraldineSutton Stith, Lucky's daughter,
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who gets the scoop from her dadmany years later.
Did he ever talk about it? Not very often.
You're very, very, very luckyif you go and talk.
And me? I didn't want to hear.
It scared me.
And there are, of course,
many people who have offered explanationsover the years, and understandably so.
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This encounter is nuts.
Air Force Major John E Albert suggested
escaped circus monkeyspainted silver, though there is no record
anywhere of circusespainting their monkeys.
Joe Nickell,a prominent paranormal investigator
and skeptic, proposed great horned owlsas the culprit.
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For an owl, they're pretty bigwith ears, glowing eyes, and they're
territorial in late August, making thema little more aggressive than usual.
Two of the police officersreported seeing shooting stars
while they were on their wayto check out the Lankford farm that night,
so BillyRay could have just seen a spectacular
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meteor falling, and his imaginationgrabbed it and ran with it.
Foxfire is a bioluminescent fungus
that's not exactly common in Kentucky,but it's certainly not rare.
Maybe that's where the glowing spotin the grass came from.
And many people have brought up the factthat Billy Ray worked the carnival
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circuit, suggesting that he'd learneda thing or two from his time on the crew
and wanted to cash in on his newhoaxing skills.
And while I'm certainly not going to denythat some of these explanations
could be valid, some of them still havesome pretty serious problems.
The fact that all seven adultsgave matching statements.
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That's pretty hard to do.
UFOlogist Isabel Davisfrom the center for UFO studies
put out a 200 plus page report
on the incident around 1956-1957.
She interviewed all the witnessesand talked about their reliability,
especially Glennie’s.
She points out that the drawings madeby the children matched
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those made by the adults.
But let's cut to the chase.
The leading theory for the skepticsis the great horned owl.
But owls don't take a shotgun blast
at point blank range and just fly away.
Neither dosilver monkeys, for that matter.
I certainly don't claimto know what these things were,
but I know they weren't owls or monkeys.
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But we can speculate all we want becausewe're never going to know for sure.
They never came back. Or did they?
The Hopkinsville goblinsmay be one of the most well known
encounters of goblin like creatures,but it's far from the only one.
They're not even the only onesin Kentucky.
Enter Greg Newkirk,
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a paranormal investigator,co-founder of the Week in Weird website
and formerly of the slightly “less thanprofessional” Ghost Hunters Incorporated.
The only reason I say “lessthan professional”
is because when Greg was still a member,
the group was made up of himselfand some of his high school friends.
They were just a bunch of kidswho seriously loved the paranormal.
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But time moves onand the group kind of fades away.
Except Greg still goes back occasionallyto check the site's email box,
which is still activewhen this story takes place in 2012.
It’s April 22nd.
Greg checks the box and muchto his surprise, there's an email there.
It's from a man who sayshis name is Doctor David Christie,
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and that he and his family movedto the tiny - like less than 200 people
tiny town of Hellierin Pike County, Kentucky only a few months
earlier, seeking the peace and quietpromised with country living.
But now David has a problem.
And he needs some help.
Every night,he and his family are being harassed
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by small, pale creaturesthat he believes are extraterrestrials
coming from an old mine on his property.
He wants help to seal the cave entrance.
Greg is intrigued, but skeptical,
so he replies, telling this guy, hey,I'm a ghost hunting guy.
I have zero experience with aliensor explosives.
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I'll try to help,but you're going to have to give me
a little bit more informationabout what's going on here.
David responds right away, explaininghe got Greg's name
from a friend of a friendnamed Terry Wrist,
and goes on to explain the ordealthat he and his family is going through.
The Christie family had only movedto the area about seven months prior,
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and the first couple of monthswere just fine.
It's aroundDecember that the problems start.
It starts with strange tracksin the snow, human like,
but without the heel part, which Davidjust chalks up to either a lone animal
or some local kidshazing the new people in town.
His dog barks herself hoarseif left outside after dark.
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Shed doors open on their own.
His kids’ toys vanish.
Stuff in their yardis moved all over the place.
They call the police.
But that goes aboutas far as you can imagine.
In January, with the whole familysitting around at the table eating
breakfast, David's five year old daughterstarts talking about watching the kids
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without hair playing in the yardthe night before.
His wife says,can you describe these kids without hair?
To which their daughterreplies, “they were bald like grandpa
and weren't wearing any clothes.”That very same day, David finds a wreath
that's usually hanging inside the backporch stuffed in the mailbox.
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By the next day, he had motionfloodlights installed on the house
and the kidswithout hair stopped coming around.
Things are quiet for a few weeksuntil the end of February.
David wakes up to his daughterscreaming and running out of her room.
The kids without hair are back.
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She tells Davidthat they're trying to look in her window,
but they're too short,so they just started tapping on the glass.
She never sleeps in that room again.
David says that's enoughand calls the police for a second time.
Police send a trooper who spots disturbed
ground under the daughter's window,but says it's just animals.
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Better call the game commission.
Every day for a week after that,David sees signs of activity in his yard.
Smudges on the windows, sidewalks stones
moved to the other side of the yard,torn screens.
On March 7th, around 1:30 a.m.,the dog wakes up David to go outside.
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As David groggily pads to the back
door, he sees the floodlights are on.
He takes a cautious peek out the window
to see shadows dancing on the lawn,two figures
making guttural chirpingnoises like a skunk.
Then he sees something else- a pale, hairless humanoid
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about four feet tall,standing in the flower bed.
It has sickly pale skin, large, round,birdlike eyes,
no nose, and just a tiny slit for a mouth.
It hops out to join its friends,
at least five of them,and they all scramble off into the woods.
Not long after that, the dog vanishes.
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And while out walking to look for the dog,
David finds a bunch of his kids’ toyslying around in front of the opening
to an old abandoned mineshaft entrancenear the edge of his property,
which is why he thinks that that'swhere they are coming from every night.
After a couple of monthswith no more word from David.
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Greg starts to wonder if he's in the wind,but another email comes in.
It's David apologizing for the lack ofcommunication, but explaining that things
were getting so bad at the housethat he and his family decided to leave.
So he's had his hands fullfor a little while.
However, he and his brother-in-lawwent back to the house
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for a couple of daysto pack up some things.
When they get there, there are littlethree toed tracks everywhere
leading down to the streamnext to the mine entrance.
But that night the creatures came back.
This timeDavid gets what Greg has been asking for.
Pictures.
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Attached to the email areimages of three toed footprints in the mud
that are so clear and perfectthat you can actually see dermal ridges
and creases in the skinfrom the bottom of the foot.
In another image,you can see where the mud stuck
to the foot and lifted out of the print.
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But there's something else.
An image that,according to David, is the creature itself
peeking out from behind a tree.
The image was taken at night froma distance, so course it's pretty grainy.
At first glance, it looks just likesome light splotches in the dark.
But David also sent a second versionof that
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image with the outline of the creaturedrawn on it.
To helpyou make sense of what you're seeing.
I gotta say, it's pretty intriguing.
Greg shows the prints to animal printexperts who tell him, “I have no idea.”
Greg is kind of excitedat the thought of investigating this
craziness, and starts making plansin his head for a trip down there
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from where he lives in Cincinnati.
But he never hears from David again.
Fast forward a couple of years,and despite not hearing back from David
for years at this point, Gregnever stopped thinking about it.
So he and his wife, Dana, head down therewith three other paranormal investigators
to try to get to the bottomof everything in documentary style.
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Long story short,they can't find the house.
They can't find any record of DavidChristie owning land in Pike County.
And they can't find a single soulthat's even ever heard of him.
Only then do they learnthat they can track David's emails
by his email IP address.
Everyone's heart stopswhen the IP on the email
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comes up as originatingfrom Ajax, Ontario, not Hellier, Kentucky.
Imagine all five of them sittingin an Airbnb in Kentucky for a hoax?
However, the friendthat was helping them with the trace
also let them know that for peopleconcerned with anonymity, such as Doctor
Christie, he was most likely using a VPN,
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which means the IPtrace means exactly squat.
On a more positive note, as they’rechatting with any local residents
they could find and showing themthe pictures of the tracks, one resident
made a comment that the mudthat the track was in looks like slurry.
Slurry is a mixture of waterand fine coal particles,
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a byproduct of the mining process.
It's kind of a toxic mess.
That mixture is sometimesinjected back into old mines for storage,
but if that mine collapses or something,
the slurry can sometimes find its wayback to the surface and spill out.
Hellier is an old coal mining townwith just as many old mines as old caves.
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So the fact that someonewho has seen slurry his whole life
can identify the substance in whichthe print was made as being slurry,
certainly goes a long way toward placingthat footprint in the Hellier area.
Now, I have seen the first seasonof their,
what turned out to be a documentaryseries, called Hellier
that you can see either on Prime Videoor YouTube.
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The documentary goes waydeeper than just looking for
either David Christyor the goblins attacking him.
This thing spreads out fartherthan the Kentucky cave system itself.
And if you've ever been to Mammoth Cave,you know that’s saying something.
By the time everything is said and done,Greg and his team uncover some majorly
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crazy connections to John Keel,the writer of “The Mothman Prophecies,”
Indrid Cold and alien assassins.
So if you need a new rabbit holeto go down, I highly recommend it.
However, it's waytoo wide for me to tackle right now, so
suffice to say they have not, to this
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day, heard from David Christie again.
Is it all a hoax? Maybe.
But those pictures are pretty compelling.
But the fact that this guy was all in
and then totally ghostedGreg, is a bit suspicious.
But then again,now that he had moved away,
maybe he just wanted to forgetthe entire nightmare.
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And here's another one of thosecrazy theories right out of my own head.
Okay, not out of my head, because I knowa lot of you are thinking the same thing.
We need to take a seriouslook at the cave system.
Kentucky is riddled with them.
Hopkinsville is in a decent areaas far as number of caves.
So what if these beings are just migrating
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back and forth from cave to cave?
The Hellier areadoesn't have a ton of caves, but it does
have a ton of coal mines.
What's the difference to a goblinneeding a place to hide?
Now, don't think for a secondthat these two incidents,
60 years apart, are the only encounterspeople have had with goblins,
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both inside Kentucky and outside,
including the one country to avoid,if you want to steer clear of goblins.
Take, for example,the curious story of Donald Patton.
Donald was 14 years oldthat summer of 1990,
somewhere in Kentucky, and his hobbyeach night was to go outside after dinner,
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as the air's cooling down to throw rocksin a pond on their land.
Interesting hobby.
But then again, he's a 14 year old boy,so not really all that strange.
So this night he's out by the pondand it's starting to get dark,
and he hears his dad come out the door,
knowing his dad is going to tell himto come inside.
Sure enough,he hears his dad yell, “Donald!
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Eric, come on in.
It's getting darkand I want to go to bed.” Donald stalls,
not ready to go in yet.
His dad,walking a little closer, yells again.
“Donald!
Eric, you boys get in here now!”Eric is Donald's nine year old nephew.
Just so you know, Eric'sbest friend is Matt.
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Donald stands up and yells back.
“Eric's not here.
He's in his room.
It's just me.” Donald's dad keeps walkingcloser and asks him, “Well, who
the people you were talkingto?” In moment,
a look of fear crosses his dad's face
as he asks Donald one more time,
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“Are you sure Eric and Mattaren't out here with you?”
“No, Matt's not even here tonight.”
Donald's dad tells him that he saw someonestanding behind him.
But Donald hadn't seen anyone.
His dad startssearching the property, finds nothing.
They go in the house, count heads,and sure enough, everyone else is inside.
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Donald's brother even takes a crackat searching the yard.
Nothing.
That look of frightstays on his dad's face
the rest of the night,and he's pretty quiet.
The next morning,he tells everyone the whole story.
He says he saw two little people,about three and a half to four feet tall,
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dressed in white,standing right behind Donald.
He didn't seeDonald sitting on the ground.
He thought it was just Donald and Eric.
When he shouted for the boysto come inside, the little people ran
around the pondand disappeared behind an outbuilding.
It's important to note, by the way,that the way that Donald's yard is laid
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out and fenced off, it would be impossiblefor anyone to run around
that pond and behind that outbuildingwithout Donald seeing them.
But he didn't.
Donald's dad is so freaked
he doesn't leave the house at nightwithout being armed for months.
But fear really doesn't hit Donalduntil his dad tells him that these people
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were right behind him, close enough
to stare right down his shirt collar.
Now, Donald wonders where he would beif his dad hadn't come out to get him?
Or how many other nightsthey may have been standing
right behind him,staring down his shirt collar?
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Now, not all encountersare this dramatic, but
it doesn't make them any less chilling.
Take the encountera Reddit user, Frankieglz66.
In the late 90s, Frankie shareda two bedroom apartment with a couple.
He doesn't name
the couple, but for clarity sake,let's just call them Danny and Sandy.
One night, Frankieand Danny are on the couch watching TV.
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And in this apartment,when you're watching the TV,
you can see down the hall.
You can see the two bedroom doorsand the bathroom door in front of you.
So as the two guys are sitting onthe couch, Sandy comes out of their room,
tells the guys, “Hey,
I'm going to take a shower,” and goesin the bathroom and closes the door.
As soon as the bathroom door shuts,this weird, skinny,
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thin skinned, albino lookingcreature, roughly 3.5ft
tall, comes out of Danny and Sandy's room
and starts creeping toward the bathroom.
It stops, looks around,
sees Frankie and Dannylooking right at it, (Busted!)
turns right back around and disappearsback into the bedroom.
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Danny and Frankie look at each other
and fly off the couch into the bedroomafter it.
They open the door. There's nothing there.
They search the entire apartment.
Nothing. It's just gone.
But, as freakyas all of those encounters are,
they all kind of pale in comparisonto the hijinks and happenings in Zimbabwe.
(31:26):
Now, to be fair, the goblins of Zimbabweseem to be manifesting
themselves a little differentlythan the ones we have talked about so far.
Truth be told,I read a headline about things
happening in Zimbabwethat was dated just last year,
so I thought it would bea great addition to this episode.
So I just kind of parked it in my brainuntil I was ready to add it to the script.
(31:50):
But then I went to take anotherlook at the information
and was a little astoundedat what I was seeing.
I quickly figured out that in Zimbabwethey see goblins
more like we, in the West,see demons, as spiritual entities
that can be conjured up using witchcraftand are well known
to cause torment and destructionwherever they are encountered.
(32:14):
These goblins ain't playing.
Multiple recent storieshave been published of these creatures
being responsiblefor everything from the destruction
of cropsto the killing of cattle to murder.
In 2021,a clinic in Umzingwane was temporarily
shut down due to its staffbeing repeatedly assaulted.
(32:34):
In Bulawayo, a family with three children
claims it has been terrorized by a goblinthat attacks the children
with horrifying tactics,like shaving their heads while they sleep,
and even stabbing one of the childrenin the leg.
In 2019, goblins were blamed
for the deaths of ten membersof one family.
(32:56):
In that particular case, after the familyhad mysteriously lost its 10th member,
the family left their house and camped outon the doorstep, asking for the help
of their local Madzibaba, which is liketheir local spiritual leader.
The Madzibaba went to the family's hometo investigate and found a goblin statue,
(33:17):
a lance, a knobkerrie,which is like a wooden club,
that had a hyena tail tied to it,and a clay pot with blood in it
and a piece of paper with the namesof family members written on it.
And if 2019 isn't recent enough,
headlines were made just last yearabout a new police station in Bulilima
(33:39):
that is now abandonedbecause the police officers staying
there had been continually harassed,with personal assaults,
doors opening and closing on their own,and things crawling on the roof.
Now I realize that these Zimbabwe goblinsare little different
than the ones we talked about in Kentucky.
But if my research for this episodehas taught me anything,
(34:01):
it's that everyone'sdefinition of a goblin is different.
From the little white people to green,scaly miniature ogre-looking things
to tiny ten inch beingscrawling on the bedroom wall.
Who's to say which definition is correct?
The only thing I know for sure is thatsomething is out there
(34:22):
lurking in the shadows,trying really hard not to be seen.
And if you do see one, well,
for your sake, I hope they don't see you.
And between you and me,
that whole encounter around Hellierjust totally creeps me out.
(34:42):
I think it's just the unbelievablybrazen behavior.
I would have Nope’d my wayout of the house long before they did.
I do recommend the documentary series“Hellier,”
if you want to go deeper on this one.
And trust me, it goes deep.
It would not be surprisedif you hear more about that
insanity on this channel in the future.
(35:04):
But until then,if I've left you in the mood
for even more stories of white, gangly,humanoid creatures
lurking around your yard, clickright here.
Be careful out there.
And I will see youhere again, on The InBetween.
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