Episode 116 - Spork Hands: The Kelly-Hopkinsville Incident

On August 21, 1955, a quiet night in rural Kentucky turned into one of the strangest alleged alien encounters in American history. After seeing a mysterious object streak across the sky, a group gathered at a farmhouse near Kelly, Kentucky claimed small, metallic-looking creatures began emerging from the woods and approaching the house. What followed was hours of gunfire, terrified witnesses, and a police response, and a story that would eventually become the legend of the Kelly-Hopkinsville “goblins.” This week, we’re breaking down what happened that night, the theories that have tried to explain it, and why we think the truth might be even stranger than the legend.