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The Kelly-Hopkinsville goblins

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

On an August night in 1955 a farm family near Kelly said they were besieged for hours by small silver goblins with big eyes and clawed hands that floated up to the windows and shrugged off shotgun blasts. The family fled to the police in real terror, and the case became one of the most documented and strangest close-encounter reports on record. The town throws a Little Green Men festival for it now. Told as the folklore it became.

The ground it haunts

Kelly, near Hopkinsville (Christian County, KY). Source: A famous, well-documented 1955 encounter report. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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