Macabre Grimoire Chapter 21 Kelly Hopkinsville Encounter, The Goblin “Invasion” of 1955

In the mid-1950s two families in rural Kentucky made headlines across the country when they told police that their home had been approached by small metallic creatures that could not be killed or scared away. The media coverage of the incident helped draw attention to neglected reports of UFO landings and entity encounters and the strange goblin-like creatures excited the public imagination. At the same time however hostile and sensationalized reporting on the incident served to discredit stories of contact with anomalous entities and help direct the veil of ridicule that now surrounds them.