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the kelly kentucky ufo goblins

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by charles lear on august 21 1955 there

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was an incident that took place on a

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farm located in the town of kelly

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seven miles north of hopkinsville

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kentucky that reads like it was straight

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out of a 50's sci-fi comic book

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the story has been recounted in many

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books and all over the internet

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but because of its comic book nature

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that it involved real people who were

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deeply affected

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and real people who did earnest and

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laudable investigations tends to be

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overlooked

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in an old farmhouse on a tobacco farm

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along the east side of old madisonville

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road

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a two-lane gravel turnpike 11 people

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eight adults and three children were

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relaxing as evening set in

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the house and farm were owned by glenny

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langford a fifty-year-old widow with

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children from two marriages

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full-time residents of the house were

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glenny her three children from her

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second husband ages seven through twelve

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her twenty-one-year-old son from her

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first marriage j.c

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john charlie sutton and his 27 year old

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wife aileen

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glenny's 25 year old son elmer lucky

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sutton

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his 29 year old wife vera and their

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friends 21 year old billy ray taylor and

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his 18 year old wife june

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have been staying at the house for a

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couple of months eileen's brother o.p

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baker also in the house that night was

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in his thirties and stayed overnight on

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a regular basis

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as it was a convenient place for him to

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be picked up and driven to work

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the taylor and sutton couples were on a

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break from their work with the traveling

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carnival

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according to the witnesses around 7 pm

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billy ray taylor went out to the well in

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the back of the house to get some water

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the people in the house were relaxing in

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the living room which had two beds in it

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one of which was glenny's

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the men had been playing cards and when

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taylor returned he excitedly told

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everyone that he'd seen a silver flying

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saucer with a multi-colored exhaust

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fly silently overhead from the southwest

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stop and then descend into a gully at

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the end of a neighboring farm field

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taylor was not taken seriously and made

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fun of by several in the house

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around 8 p.m the family dog began to

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bark which prompted lucky sutton and

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billy ray taylor to go out the back door

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from the bedroom across a hallway and

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investigate

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as they came out the dog went under the

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house and wouldn't be seen again until

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the next day

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a glow came towards taylor and sutton

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from the field and as it approached they

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saw what seemed to be a small man

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when it was closer they then saw what

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was described as a silver metallic

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creature approximately

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three feet tall with a large round head

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large pointed leathery ears

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large glowing yellow eyes midway between

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the front and side

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a small trunk and short spindly legs and

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no discernible knee joints

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and arms long enough to nearly touch the

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ground with large hands that had talents

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on the fingers

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the creature slowly approached with its

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arms raised and bent slightly at the

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elbows

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sutton and taylor withdrew into the

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house and armed with a 20 gauge shotgun

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and 22 rifle respectively

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prepared to defend their friends and

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families when the creature was within 20

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feet of the house

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sutton and taylor fire which caused the

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creature to flip over backwards and then

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move off into the dark

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the men went across the hall to the

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living room there they saw another

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creature come up to a side window and

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both men

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fired through the screen this creature

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also flipped over and moved out of sight

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sutton and taylor went out the front

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door which was at the west end of the

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hallway

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to see if they'd hit the creature taylor

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went out first and a clawed hand was

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seen to come down from the small roof

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over the door towards the top of

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taylor's head

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and then touch his hair the people

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watching alerted him and they leaned

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sudden grabbed him to pull him back

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inside lucky sudden push pass turned and

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shot at the creature he saw on the roof

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the creature was seemingly knocked over

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the roof to the other side

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taylor spotted a creature on a limb of a

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maple tree alerted sutton and both men

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this creature floated to the ground they

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fired again and the creature moved off

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out of sight

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a creature came around the corner of the

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house in front of sutton and he shot it

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at close range

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he described a sound that was as if he

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had hit a metal bucket and that this

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creature flipped over and moved off like

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the others

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the movement of the creatures was

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described as extremely rapid and they

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seemed to propel themselves with their

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arms while using their legs for balance

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gleny langford stated that no one had

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seen more than one creature at a time

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because of the reported ability to move

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rapidly researcher isabelle davis

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speculated that this might have caused

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the perception that many creatures were

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being seen

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while only one or a few were actually

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present lucky sutton would later state

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that the creatures approached the house

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six times

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during a quiet interval at around 11 pm

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everyone in the house piled into two

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with one child carried screaming in fear

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and they sped towards the hopkinsville

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police station

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all of them entered the station and

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related the night's events to the desk

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sergeant

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who was impressed enough by what he

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considered the genuine fear

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that he called chief of police russell

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greenwell greenwell was at home in bed

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when he answered and was convinced to

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come to the station

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the state police in madisonville were

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called and they called officers in cars

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and instructed them to meet at the

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station in hopkinsville

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from there many officers and many cars

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would leave for the sutton farm

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in addition the christian county

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sheriff's office in the same building as

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the city police

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sent a deputy sheriff and alerted a

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staff photographer of the kentucky new

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era with the suttons taylors and

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langford's leading the way

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the police four mps from nearby fort

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photographer and his wife

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and some interested onlookers all headed

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for the farm

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once there the families refused to enter

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the house until it was thoroughly

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as the investigators went through the

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house and yard they kept the lookout for

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liquor bottles

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none were found and glenny langford

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known to be a religious churchgoer

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would later state in an interview taped

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for radio broadcast

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that she didn't allow liquor in the

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house the investigators tramped all over

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located shotgun shells noted the damage

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to the screens and shotgun pellets

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lodged in the window frame

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but failed to find any concrete evidence

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of the creatures

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chief greenwill and several men did see

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a luminous spot in the grass where one

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of the creatures was reportedly

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shot but it was only visible from a

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certain angle and not detectable when

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highly disorganized

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and at one point an officer stepped on a

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cat's tail prompting a yao

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and several officers to draw their guns

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at around 2 am the police and others

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promising to return and do a daylight

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search as the families attempted to get

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some sleep the creatures returned and

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the cycles of sightings and shootings

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until the last creature was seen at

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half an hour before sunrise it was now

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monday and the families were up early

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having had little or no sleep

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lucky and j.c sutton along with o.p

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baker drove to evansville indiana on an

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while billy ray taylor went hunting with

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a neighbor leaving the women and

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children alone

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the story was first broadcast over radio

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station whop

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at 7 15 am and repeated throughout the

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the publicity from the broadcasts and

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then newspaper stories

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caused hundreds of curiosity seekers to

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descend on the farm

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and by the time the men returned from

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indiana where they were found and had

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their picture taken by the evansville

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they were forced to park far away from

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the property people were all over the

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yard and in the house

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some of them reportedly taking items

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with them as souvenirs

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and in the midst of this investigators

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and reporters were peppering the

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witnesses with questions

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some hoping to catch them in the lie the

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crowd showed up on a daily basis and the

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police were called several times to

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clear them off

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but they kept returning lucky and what

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davis speculated was an attempt at crowd

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control

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made up a sign saying they were charging

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admission interview and photo fees

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ranging from fifty cents for admission

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one dollar for information

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to ten dollars for a picture they had

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tried no trespassing signs which proved

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ineffectual

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and the sign with the fees initially

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proved to be as well

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the trauma experienced by the families

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during the human onslaught was reported

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to be comparable to the trauma

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experienced during the onslaught of the

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strange creatures

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the fact that they had a sign announcing

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they were charging fees

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caused many to believe that the story

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was a hoax and the fact that the taylor

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and sutton couples were carnival workers

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was brought up to support this theory as

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doubts grew the crowd shrank

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and it could be said that the sign had

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though it cost the witnesses their

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reputations the witnesses became bitter

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and reclusive and gleny sold the farm

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and moved the family to hopkinsville

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j.c sutton would lose several jobs

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because of his association with the

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story

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and he eventually refused to talk about

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it a lot of details would have been lost

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forever

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were it not for two investigators who

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were able to interview members of the

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family

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and people on the periphery of the event