Kelly-Hopkinsville Alien Encounter, also known as Hopkinsville Goblins

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So this one's a very well documented
notable case in UFO history. This is

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the Kelly Hopkinsville encounter, is also
known as the Hopkinsville Goblin case. On

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August twenty first, nineteen fifty five, the Sutton that family from Kelly,

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Kentucky reporter being terrorized by small goblin
like creatures that they believed to be extterrestrial

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in origin. It began on a
warm summer night in fifty five when Elmer

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Sutton and Billy Ray Taylor, who
has visiting the Sutton family residents, went

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outside to investigate strange noises they had
heard. According to Sutton and Taylor,

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there fronted by a small creature with
large eyes, a pointed head, and

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long, spindly arms and legs.
The creature was described as standing around three

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feet tall and having a metallic or
reflective skin. Two men panicked and ran

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back into the house, where they
told the other occupants of the house,

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including Sutton's wife and his children,
about the creature. The family quickly locked

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all the doors and windows and armed
themselves with guns, expecting the creature to

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return. However, instead of one
creature, they soon found themselves under attacked

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by multiple creatures upwards of fifteen,
which they describe as being similar in apparents

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to the first they had seen.
The creatures reportedly began banging on the doors

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and windows and making strange noises,
causing the family to fear for their lives.

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They reported the creatures were not human
and had glowing red eyes. They

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also reported that the creatures emitted a
high pitched whining noise. The family held

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out through the night, firing shots
at the creatures, but the bullets had

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no effect. The creatures continued to
bang on the doors and windows, but

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eventually left in the early hours of
the morning. During the encounter, family

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also reported that the creatures had a
distinct smell, described it as a burning

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sulfur smell. They also reported the
creatures had strange, hard skin, seemingly

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there was almost mirror like. The
creatures had long arms, as they said,

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and legs, and they were able
to move quickly and with great agility

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despite their small size. It's worth
noting that the Sutton's family account of the

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incident was consistent and detailed, as
they stuck to their story even under intense

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questioning and skepticism. This, along
with the evidence found by police, leads

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credibility to their claims of an extraordinary
encounter. The next day, Sutton family

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recorded incident to the police. We
went to the residents to investigate. They

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found no evidence of the creatures or
any damage to the doors or windows,

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but they did find evidence of bullets
having been fired from inside the house out

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They also found footprints that they said
were of the size of a child's footprints

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all around the house. Family insisted
that the creatures were not human. The

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incident quickly gained national attention and became
one of the most well known cases of

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alleged alien interaction. Case was investigated
by the military, the FBI, and

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private investigators. No concrete evidence was
turned up to support the family's claims.

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One theory is that the family was
suffering from hallucinations or mass hysteria, but

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this did not explain the showing up
of the footprints. Some people said that

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what they encountered was a screech owl, which can get large and make the

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noise, but once again does not
have the footprints that match that of a

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small human child. Another theory was
that it was mischievous teenagers. They're playing

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a frank on them, but once
again none of them were found. There's

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no evidence of them being shot.
And this was a family of hunters.

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Their aim was usually pretty true.
Until they had passed away, none of

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the family members had ever changed their
story. It remained consistent for the rest

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of their lives, lots unpacked with
this well known story. Like you said,

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great horned owls, that is what
they were always saying. It was

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such a stretch, isn't it.
There were fifteen great horn owls hanging out,

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you know. That's the thing,
right, You see one owl and

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that's kind of just rare occurrence.
Some people have never seen an owl.

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Yeah, I've only seen an owl, like where I could see the whole

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body in the zoo and like I've
seen heard owls in my backyards. They

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sound crazy, like they sound like
some sort of monster. But yeah,

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I've only seen one. Right to
see that many in the whole family beforeting

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the same number, that sounds insane. This is actually it was actually a

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Project blue Book case, wasn't this? Yes, a Project blue Book determined

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that it was not alien. It's
because that's what Project blue Book depths,

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regardless of anything that happens, to
go in there and say it's something.

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Yeah, Uh, this is a
really popular one you are a kidd.

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This is like at a time too
where that was really that kind of stuff

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is really starting to pop off.
Yeah, yeah, like fifties, really

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big time. It was the fifties, right, yeah, nineteen fifty five.

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A lot of people are commenting that
people they actually started firing at them,

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which is actually I remember them saying
that, like their house was full

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of bullet holes and stuff. Yeah, they fired their guns, that's them.

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Yet really sudden him ell or sudden
and the guy who was visiting definitely

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did, and I blew the wife
also fired at them. Some people just

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say they're intoxicated them. They tried
to write it off as that, so

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that the police that investigated didn't come
to that conclusion though I don't think if

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I remember, they did not.
And also the kids also reported seeing these

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things as well. How does mass
hysteria work? Mass hysteria is a very

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un It exists so like someone could
say they saw something and then suddenly someone

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who is susceptible to will also see
it. It normally is some people who

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are sick or under some sort of
duress already will will experience it. It

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is unusual, though, for it
to happen so fast and with people of

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such varying. Like I said,
this happened to the adults and the children.

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Wasn't just one or the other.
They really try to write them off.

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There's meteor showers going on that night, there was metaar Owls have yellow

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eyes, right, that's the thing, Like they said, meteor shower.

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Why do you bring up meteor showers
if you're so sure it was the owls?

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But they always do, They always
bring up both things. It's like,

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why would media showers lead them to
believe that there was a metallic creature

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with long spin ling arms and legs
that was three feet tall? You know

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this doesn't make sense. Let me
ask you this, how do you think

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this would be handled today? Knowing
that the last oh, I don't know,

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five years, four years, three
years has been pretty much more have

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come out about this, right,
Yeah, you see a lot of declassified

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Navy UFO sightings and stuff like that. Now where it becomes like, hmm,

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what how have we all been seeing
this whole time? And why is

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it that you have all this classified
information on it? Yeah? I would

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think that today, I don't know, maybe they wouldn't be written off so

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quickly. I don't. Yeah,
I agree with that. How would you

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handle this situation if that's happening to
you, would you be firing thorous too?

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Oh yeah. If I see a
bunch of these thing smashing against my

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window, yeah, I want to
over fire. Same here. I don't

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even it's an owl. I want
to shoot an owl that's like smashing into

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my doors. Yeah, like smacking
my door. There's fifteen of them,

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fifteen freaking ours. I've only seen
two or three probably in my life.

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Yeah, that's just being in the
woods at night. My daddy just made

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me go hunting. So guy had
a joke about it. It's like,

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how many times do you have to
see something that is kind of normal before

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you start to get terrified? And
it's like, yeah, you see an

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owl, that's like, oh,
that's kind of it's alling out today.

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You start to see two or three
ols, then you call your mom and

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start selling to prey. Right.
Yeah, see yeah normal? Yeah,

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man, I just I wonder how
close the nearest by house was. The

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nearest house was, you know,
I didn't look that up. I should

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have. I should have seen how
close our neighbors were, because I'm sure

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it's documented somewhere. Yeah, it's
definitely a strange phenomenon that I don't know.

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I don't know what I do if
I experienced it, because it's just

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such an odd ball thing. It's
truly, uh man, it's just crazy

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and mesori see. I think it's
kind of like the It has that like

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black dog effect, right, like
you don't really know you saw the dog,

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didn't you the black dog. I've
heard truckers talk about it on the

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yard to say it comes to take
everything away from it, and it did.

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It took everything away from those people. People probably thought they were crazy

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forever. Did you see them playing
with the cards in the background this stuff?

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I had these cards here, but
it seems like people were jerked towards

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those people. They did. Yeah, but you know that was the fifties,

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right, you had to cover if
there was something going on. They

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had to cover it up because you
know, it was the Cold War and

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things were crazy. You didn't want, uh, there to be talk of

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monsters and you know, look stupid
from the communists. You know, it

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was that. That's what it was
like, you know aliens, the big

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eyes. Yeah, oh, just
the black dog. Yeah. Someone said

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that they see fifteen hours that are
calling fifteen owls. They're calling Max Headroom.

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I don't know if he'd help you
or or or there's another person says

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they would call Jean the Kodiak bear
guy. Oh, geen Mo, he'd

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take care of it. You with
their alliance, he would take care of

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Yeah, with his bare hands.
Yeah, he punched the bear and ended

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its life. Yeah, that's crazy. That's still the craziest thing we've talked

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about on here. And he still
has the bear hanging up. Just think

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if they could have got their hands
on one of these aliens, they could

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still have the alien hanging up.
Yeah, and gm MO stuff to the

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alien for them. Yeah, tags
the germy that thing. That's a well

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known one. You're right, that's
a super popular one. It's a good

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one. Though. It is freaky. It's creepy. It's like, I

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know that things could happen where people
would still like could all they're at the

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house, start thinking they were imagining
it. But that's like a large scale

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thing. Yeah, it's not like
this was like a fifteen minute thing too,

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Like they are terrorized these creatures all
night. Yeah, it was hours,

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and I wondered, like if they
had called the cops, how quick

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they got there, like I wonder
and all that, you know, So

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they left their Oh what I remember
reading is they left their house about three

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point thirty and went to town.
And so it was like three thirty in

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the morning. They went to town
right after the creature stopped attacking the house,

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and then shortly after people showed up
sheriff station or whatever. They probably

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couldn't call, could they. Yeah, this is you know, fifty five.

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There's no way to call, especially
the out boonies like that. They're

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probably no even landlines. Just try
to hunt her down for the night,

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then try to get help the next
day. Yeah, hope you don't run

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at bullets you think about that.
Yeah, nineteen fifty five, probably no

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landline out to there, and it
was I don't know what the technology is

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even like then, but this is
a rule of Kentucky, right So yeah,

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so like you take the current level
and you drop it down peg and

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yeah, they probably still don't have
landlines there. Poor people anyway, Uh,

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just kidding people of Kentucky. I
love you. No one would believe

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you though. There's like nothing you
could say to make anybody believe you that

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happen to you, not at all
makes you wonder how many people had things

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happen to them They just don't say
anything because they're like, nobody would ever

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believe me. Probably a lot until
the anomymous nature of the internet came out.

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But you can just like say,
hey, this happened to me,

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and then you don't have to be
like having your name attached to it so

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they can't make fun of you.
Shitt. I will say one thing,

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there's so many more cameras and stuff
these days to make sure you wonder why

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there's not something completely viral if something
captured, that's fair. I guess you

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see a lot of bigfoot stuff too, though, but yeah, see lots

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of lights in the sky and stuff
like that. Yeah, UFOs are still

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captured, and there's some things where
the air, like the Congress and the

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governments recognize that they have no explanation
for something, right, But yeah,

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still thought makes you wonter w if
somebody hasn't got one of these little black

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creatures on camera. Yeah, that's
a good point. Them gray horned owls

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really stick together. They had the
old population there in that Yeah property,

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I heard of them. Yeah,
I heard of owls. It's kind of

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terrifying in its own right, Yeah, tacking your house. Man, if

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that had heard of owls attacking my
house, I'd be fired through the Waltz

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too. Yeah, I understand completely. Okay, let's see what somebody.

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I'll sit here. Even smaller stories
people don't believe. Bill Murray walked up

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to someone's table and ate their fries
and said, no one will believe you.

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Who knows how this story is real? Yeah, I guess it's true,

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right, I mean, don't know. It's a funny. But the

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one thing about this particular story,
though it was a mainstream I think,

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like just like any other story,
though it changed over time where eventually it

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was like little green monsters, right, even though they weren't described like that

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at all. Yeah, but this
story made national attention. Yeah. I

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mean this was like, you know, right after Roswell happened, you know,

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not too long after it so like
people were on guard for alien stuff

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and this pops up and it's it's
big news. Jeff Townsend. Media sees

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you good night, and the question
is do I stay here? Will you

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be back? Oh you gonna come
back? Will you be back? Are

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you coming back