A Conversation about the Kentucky Goblins with Rob from Your Most Interesting Story podcast

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Rob from YMIS (Your Most Interesting Story) Podcast drops in to figure out what happened in 1955 in Hopkinsville, KY. We talk about the Kentucky Goblins and what all transpired, plus a few side chats. Listen to find out more.
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Hey, everybody, and welcome to a conversation about the Kentucky Goblins, of all things. I've got Rob from The Most Interesting Story with me here again today. Last time we talked about dogmen or dog people. I don't know. We never did actually go down the path of gendering dogmen. No, we didn't figure out the pluralization either. Yeah, I don't, yeah. I don't know about that. We should have looked up and seen what the Spanish and French people had to say about it. But anyway, this time we're talking about the Kentucky Goblins. And as far as I know, they're totally asexual. But we may find out later. How's it going, Rob? It's going fantastic, Bob. Thanks. Thanks for having me on again. So, you know, this is a really interesting case. It has multiple…multiple names to it, right? So it's also called the Hopkinsville Encounter. It's also called the Kelly Green Men case because the family's last name was Kelly, who had the experience, right? So it goes by many names, and we're going to talk about them as the Kentucky Goblins because it sounds like a sports team, possibly from your alma mater down there in Kentucky. I don't know. That would be a good sports team. I know because I had the new people who went to school there, but there's a place called Murray State in Kentucky. It's in Murray, Kentucky of all places. Their mascot is the Racers. The horses. Murray Racers is what they were. I always thought that was one of the best sports collegenon popular. I don't know what you'd call it. It's not like big 10 or any of that kind of stuff. They're just the regular old school, but Murray racers, I thought was really good. So maybe there's a community college in Kentucky called the goblins. We'll have to look that up. Is Duke in Kentucky. I should know. This is, I think Duke's North Carolina. I knew that. Right. Sorry. All right. I'm glad you do. I thought there was a, there was maybe it's Kentucky. Yeah. It's like the larger Kentucky University. Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. Now, here in St. Louis, there is a private university called St. Louis University, and their mascot is the Billiken, which is a goblin-like creature. Really? Yeah, the Billikens. It's like a little gremlin, gobliny, kind of weird-looking thing. Couldn't he play for the Washington Redskins quarterback? Could be.I'm not sure about that. Oh, is his name Billiken? I think so. Billiken, Billy Kilmore, something like that. Oh, maybe. Well, Billiken's a big thing here in St. Louis with St. Louis University. But again, they're not any kind of big university, like other ones. I don't even know which ones. I don't even follow college sports. I just follow mascots, apparently. Yeah. You got all the flags up and you just stood at the mascot. That's right. There was a movie called Mascots. I have not watched it, but now I feel like I should after all this. Well, you've got to check out Mascots Memories. It's one of the episodes on Your Most Interesting Story, which is actually an interview with a former professional sports team. I actually listened to that. I did. I had listened to that. He was the –Sharky. San Jose Sharks. The Sharks. That's right. I was going to say something else. I'm glad I didn't know. But that was interesting because he came from the ceiling. He came down from the ceiling. That was just crazy. Yeah, he's the one that figured that out and started doing that for Sharky, right? Yeah, for Sharky. And he would eat people or what have you. He would eat their heads. Yeah. That was a good story. I really enjoyed that one. I'm sorry I didn't remember he was with the Sharks off the top of my head. Well, he was also with the 49ers before they had Sourdough Sam, so kind of the nameless mascot, I guess. Yeah. He was just like a bucket. He was a pail. A panning… He was a gold pan. That was what he was. So…So what have you got for us, Rob, on the Kentucky Goblins case? Kentucky Goblins. One correction, though. You mentioned that they were called the Kelly Goblins. That's because the other town that their farm was near was actually called Kelly. So there's two towns, Hopkinsville and Kelly. I thought their last name was Kelly for some reason. No, there's two families involved, the Suttons and the Taylors. Those are the primary families that were involved. Oh, there you go. Look at that. Go figure. Okay. So we can call them the Kelly Goblins, the Hopkinsville Goblins, the Kentucky Goblins. You can have a hob in there if you want to. We can call them Billikens if you want to keep on theme. I think that we might get sued if we call them the Billikens. It's a very wealthy university in St. Louis that is there. Isn't there a Milliken? I don't know. There is a Milliken University in Decatur where I'm from.Is there a mascot that Billikens? Big Blue. I don't know what that refers to. Maybe we don't want to know. Have you seen a picture of Big Blue? I don't remember. I lived there for quite a long time. I grew up there and everything. And actually, my wife was going to that university when we met. But I don't remember what. I think it's just like a guy wearing blue as far as I know. Well, he's got the proper name then. Yeah, I'll have to look it up. Oh, he seemed big to me. But again, this is a private school. It's for more wealthy people than me. They didn't spend a lot of time on the… I did, actually. I spent time on campus there, even though I didn't go to school there, only because I was apparently looking for women. It worked, right? It worked. I mean, if…Just a piece of advice to any youngsters out there. Go to one of the best schools in your area and hang out until you find somebody. There you go. That's wise. I mean, it can't hurt. Better than peeing at the welfare line or unemployment line, I suppose. I don't know. Drop a line in the water and see if you get any bites. Yeah. I mean, that's a whole other story. Maybe we don't want to go down that one, but… But we did, yeah. And I think they just were called Big Blue. Now you got me thinking I should look it up. Because the Milliken Billikens would be a lot of fun to say over and over again. I don't think… No, they definitely weren't the Billikens. Let's see what it says here. Pelicans? The Pelicans? No. Billiken? No. He's a trademark name. A private college in…Which is weird in and of itself. Oh, okay. It's got this… He looks like a monster. He's called Big Blue. Now, this was definitely not the mascot whenever I was there. Is he goblin-esque? No, he's more like Bigfoot-esque. Okay. But he's on all fours. He looks very, you know, kind of primate, ape-like. But he's got large teeth and red eyes. Oh, okay. And it's called Big Blue. There we go. But that incarnation was definitely not around when I was around. I would have remembered that and locked that into my head. Yeah, you probably still have some clothing, some athletic wear. Could be. Now, it looks like an older version of Big Blue was a bird-like creature. But now they've got the cooler. Shapeshifter, maybe? Yeah. The Millican Skinwalkers.No, it looks like they just changed it to make it look cooler than like a big bird. So he looked kind of like a bit of a kind of, you know, diseased blue bird but now he looks like a nice big monster, which is even better. Maybe he was a diseased phoenix and then he rose from the ashes and became what you described Definitely not a Phoenix. I mean, he literally looks like a Muppet reject in this picture. It's like Jim Henson probably said, who made this? They're fired and threw the costume in the person right out the door. And they probably got it on sale. It could be. But I do love mascot. But yeah, the new one, the picture of the new one is definitely much, they didn't show a picture of like a person wearing a suit, but if they got a suit of this,This would be pretty good. I'm glad to see that some areas of our country are making forward progress. That's fantastic. Yeah, it's definitely very cryptid looking, for sure. The bird looked very, like, not very good at all. But this new one, definitely. It's another step in the right direction. Yeah, and they call them Big Blue. So I was right with at least the name. Big Blue. Yeah. You might have been inspired by Bigfoot. Bigfoot was taken, and so they went with Big Blue instead. Could be. Could be. i'll have to, this may be a whole nother show. We probably should get back to goblins. We should get back to the kentucky kelly and or hopkinsville goblins and you uh you know i read through some stuff and i swear that kelly was the last name of the family. So I've already been corrected. Apparently I'm the dumb guy in this duo for this topic right here. Well, and i'm relying as much.i mentioned in previous episodes on AI, so there you know the hallucination that ai does, so perhaps they screwed something up and all my sources are just giving me the wrong information, but i i think i've heard it in a couple of different places so no no i pulled up uh the wiki, which of course is, you know, solid as a rock, and they do say sutton and taylor are the two names of the families, so yeah. So the whole thing starts because billy ray Taylor, who is apparently a family friend, I think, of the Suttons. Yeah, Billy Ray, yeah. He sees a silvery object shooting through the sky on the Suttons while he's at the Suttons' farm. I think that's how the whole thing starts, the story, more or less. And then he goes back to the farmhouse, right, and the Suttons are there, including Lucky. Lucky's one of the Suttons. That's a very good name. It is....