Creature Feature Friday: The Hopkinsville Goblins

It’s time again for Creature Feature Friday, and today we’re heading to rural Kentucky for one of the weirdest alleged home invasions in American history: The Hopkinsville Goblins, also known as The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter.

On August 21, 1955, a farmhouse near Kelly, Kentucky was reportedly besieged by small, glowing, metallic creatures with huge eyes, long arms, and a disturbing resistance to bullets. Were they aliens, goblins, angry owls, or something stranger? Nobody knows — but the story became one of America’s most famous close-encounter cases. Here are 5 key facts about the Hopkinsville Goblins.