Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
One evening in August, during a friendly meeting between two families - the Levy family and the Sutton family - the Levy patriarch, Solomon Levy, stepped outside to get a drink of water and saw something strange. A bright object streaked across the sky, looking like a rainbow-lit craft, and seemed to come to ground not far from where he was. He ran inside to tell his family and friends, but they simply laughed it off as a shooting star or a joke by Solomon. They were soon to be proven wrong.
Soon after the "shooting star" incident, the family dog began to bark loudly, seemingly riled up at something outside. Two of the men went outside to investigate, armed with a shotgun and a .22 rifle respectively. What they saw, however, was far from the expected robber or wild animal. It was a small creature, maybe three feet, with thin, atrophied limbs, long, pointed ears, and claw-like hands. Despite its atrophied legs, it seemed to have no problem moving, and in fact seemed to defy gravity to some degree. When it suddenly rushed at the men, they fired instinctively, but instead of managing to kill it, they only heard a strange metallic noise before the creature did a back flip and fled.
When the men went inside, the house came under siege. The creatures started to appear outside windows, tap and scratch at the ceilings, and otherwise harass the inhabitants. An attempt to go out failed when a claw-like hand snatched at someone's hair from the roof of the porch. The families huddled together, the men shooting at the creatures whenever they appeared with no apparent success.
Finally the families were able to make it to a police station and report what had been happening. While the officer that came with them saw nothing of the creatures, he did see some odd lights against the fences and in the woods. In addition, according to reports from the police station, the normally-calm families were nearly hysterical and clearly honestly frightened by what was happening. Even without direct sightings, it was clear to the officers that at least some of what had occurred had been real.
Later investigations failed to find any rational explanation for the events. The families were consistent in their stories, still obviously afraid, and showed no signs of desiring fame or money - indeed, they moved out when the pressure of dealing with trespassers and investigators became too much. Other local stories matched with the sightings of odd lights in the skies, and an Indiana story that had been mostly ignored, about a girl being grabbed by something clawed in the woods after seeing odd lights in the sky, was brought to public attention. While non-paranormal explanations do exist - for example, great horned owls match some of the appearance and behavior of the creatures - nothing seems to explain every aspect of the story perfectly.
The family now mostly refuses interviews, but their story remains unchanged. The "Hopkinsville Goblins" remain a truly inexplicable mystery that has baffled skeptics and parapsychologists alike.
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