Last Podcast On The Left - Episode 583: Aliens Attack Part II - The Falcon Lake Incident & Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
Episode Date: July 26, 2024The boys conclude this two-parter with a pair of infamous "Alien Attacks"! First with the story of Stefahn Mihawlik and The Falcon Lake Incident followed by the notorious tale of the 1955 Kelly-Hopkin...sville "Goblin" Encounter.
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Heh heh.
Why fuck your glaze?
That's when the cannibalism started.
What was that?
Oh, Caudate Putamen.
Caudate Putamen?
The Caudate Putamen is where
psychic abilities
lie inside of the brain. The Caudate Putamen is where psychic abilities lie inside of the brain.
The Caudate Putamen.
And who is telling you that the Caudate Putamen is where the psychic abilities lie in the
brain?
I was reading the preface to the new Louis Elizondo book.
And he talked about the Caudate Putamen.
In what context?
He said that maybe when we're having psychic, how do you put it, like a tet-a-tet with an
alien when you're having psychic communications with an alien because they believe
So lua losando was trained in remote viewing as a part of his way in when he did so because apparently the the hemisphere
We're that the hemisynch
Technology that was given to the CIA by the Monroe Institute
Was taught to a lot of these guys that worked in counterterrorism as a way to apparently he was taught how to be psychic and he says the Cote de Potemin
is where aliens and us meet up.
It's the hotel lobby where aliens and us talk.
So how does this jive with the third eye people with the pineal gland people?
It actually probably is in there but pineal glands at this point are entirely crusted over.
There's plastic in the semen.
They're all calcified because of the fluoride in the water.
It's in the water. That's why we can't be psychics.
How we didn't know what was gonna happen 10 days ago was gonna lead to a democratic surge.
We had no idea because we couldn't activate our codiabotamates.
I think it's great we have plastic in our semen.
Hey, whatever. because we couldn't activate our cardioputamins. I think it's great we have plastic in our semen.
Hey, whatever.
Whatever's strong.
I'm just glad that it's going somewhere.
Yeah, it's going to be sticking around on earth a lot longer.
Welcome to the last podcast on the left, ladies and gentlemen.
My name's Marcus Barks.
I'm here with the heavily plastic semened Henry Zabrowski.
Man, my semen's Teflon.
Yeah, man.
It don't even stick to my wife.
I came a water bottle.
That's Ed Larson.
He came an entire water bottle.
You're like a recycling plant.
That's right. They put it in me and I shoot them out.
Hey, hey, whatever goes in the butt comes out the dick.
That's what I've heard.
Poland Springs.
Hey, just so you know, before we get into today's incredible chapter of Alien Attacks,
I did want to address
something up top.
And I know that it's Colorado, not Wyoming.
Yeah, so good work.
Good work.
Now.
One day we're going to undress something up top and it's going to be so hot.
I always do, but I can yell that for my nipples on YouTube.
But I did some research and I got some great feedback from people.
And one of the big questions that
came back was hot dog penis Phil Schneider how and I got really like a disconcerting
email from a nurse that says apparently and this is just something we all get to look
forward to.
There's a thing called urethral erosion that happens when you have a catheter in too long, which is what Phil Schneider had
I guess if you don't properly I think with a catheter I might be incorrect, but I believe you're supposed to
Like you're supposed to kind of pull it in and out and every once in a while clean it occasionally
I think so it's covered in piss and blood
I don't think you're supposed to leave anything like that in your body for too long a period of time
I don't think so because what it does is it turns your penis into a very, very wicked loaf of bread.
And eventually it eats through the urethral lining and creates a split in the penis
and that's what Phil Schneider was dealing with and the blood that was on the crime scene when they found him
was probably the blood from him yanking the catheter out of his penis.
Oh, in order to kill himself because the pain was so bad.
Yeah. In other words, there was a reason why the cops had told the family, let it go.
Yeah, it wasn't a conspiracy. It's just you're going to throw up.
So you're going to be upset. You're going to want to forget about this? Move on.
So he filleted his own penis to get that out. Yep quite possible
Well, no, but the old-fashioned way rope pulley. Oh, I thought he like cut it up the vein. No, no
Like a lawnmower that was a pilot one of the possibilities at the very least
Hey, and I'm down for any possibility that's out there. Yes, and if you're still listening, thanks for joining us. So our next story of alien attack occurred near Winnipeg, Manitoba in the year 1967.
Although it is debatable as to whether this one was a deliberate attack or some sort of
accident.
Like say, like if a trucker runs over a deer, would you call that an attack?
By the deer? I'd say that an attack? By the deer
I actually feel like this is more of running into an aliens version of the club. Hmm
Interesting. This is all about don't touch your parked UFO
Yeah
But no matter the intention the person involved in what came to be known as the Falcon
Lake Incident was indeed injured by his encounter with a UFO and suffered continuous health
problems as a result of his encounter with the unknown.
Which is very, very common outside of a direct physical attack.
As we know, one of the big things that they are currently researching inside of the world of the anomalous phenomena, all these various new Pentagon programs like OSAP, what they
are trying to look at, one of the big things they're looking at is about how people get
extremely sick when they're around any of this stuff.
And how that will eventually be one kind of a way we could weaponize it.
But it's really more of the disconcerting thing of like, why do you get some form of weird body rash slash pink eye slash cancer from a UFO?
If I saw a UFO, I would have to touch it.
You think so?
I think if I saw if I saw one just sitting outside and it crashed, I'd be like, so we're all gonna like get in there, right?
Yeah, of course. Because we're just trying not to go back to work.
Because we're just trying not to go back to work. Our subject today for this first story is a Polish immigrant named Stefan Mahalik who
settled in Winnipeg with his wife and children following World War II.
An uncomplicated man, Stefan worked as a mechanic at the Inland Cement Company and never had
any interest in UFOs before his encounter.
I like the color gray. in UFOs before his encounter.
Stefan's passion was actually amateur prospecting, and every spring he would head to the forests and mountains of Manitoba to prospect for minerals, silver, or if he
was lucky, gold. Gold! That Canadian gold! Polish gold is copper. Yeah, Polish gold is copper.
I heard that. Believe me, I got turned away from many jewelers with a pile of Polish gold. Those are pennies, sir. Ah! Lincoln, you lied!
And so it was on one of these solo prospecting trips in the spring of 1967
that Stefan had his unfortunate encounter.
I don't mean to insult any other amateur prospectors, but...
Sounds like great fun. I love rock.
I think that this is good for you, but it does feel like it's an extremely sad man's hobby.
I would put it above metal detectors.
Absolutely.
It sounds like he wasn't that above metal detectors.
Like, you know what it is?
Why do I feel like if I had a metal detector,
if I just do it kinda in my neighborhood or close,
like that's kinda like, that's fine, it's cute,
it's an affectation.
But if I travel
to stay in a hotel to metal detect all morning, that's a cry for help.
But he's not metal detecting. I think this is a beautiful thing. I would love to, this is, it's an
excuse to go out into wilderness. It's giving yourself an activity to do as you wander the
God's great beautiful Canadian wilderness. Every rock is a member of the rock family.
That's all I can see you doing each time.
Just being like, and there's a rock.
Ah, igneous.
Another rock.
Set a bet.
I think it's cooler than actual.
I agree with you Marcus, because at least you're going out to nature.
You're going to get it yourself.
You know, when you're metal detecting, you're just looking for other people's shit.
Yeah, dude. Yeah, you're a scrounger.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, on May 19th, Stefan took a bus to Falcon Lake in the White Shell area 80 miles east of Winnipeg and got a motel room.
He took a bus to a motel to go look at rocks?
Yeah. That's fine. No, it's good. It's good.
Yeah, it's great.
You know, it's not a rich man's hobby.
Yeah. He's an. No, it's good. It's great. You know, it's not a rich man's hobby.
He's an uncomplicated man. That's how I describe it. I like the color gray.
He awoke at dawn the next day and left at 5 30 a.m. Definitely, because those rocks get up early.
You gotta make sure you get out there as soon as you can, other people they won't be there around the good rocks Yeah, what's the saying the early worm gets squished by the rod?
They carried a map hammer a compass protective goggles with green lenses paper and pencil and a few snacks
Now around noon Stefan was working some quartz out of the ground when he noticed that some nearby geese had been frightened by something and were fleeing the scene.
When Stefan looked to the sky, he saw two cigar-shaped UFOs descending upon his location. But as they got closer to the ground, the
classic cigar shape described by so many UFO witnesses became more of an oval and both
craft flew together completely coordinated as if they were one ship. But suddenly the
ship farther away stopped its descent as the ship closer to Stefan continued its way to the ground.
It landed on a rock about 50 yards from where Stefan was standing. The other ship, more menacingly, floated over to Stefan and descended until it was only
15 feet above him, and it hovered there for three minutes.
It then ascended, changed color from red to orange to gray, tilted, turned bright orange,
then flew away without ever making a sound.
The other UFO, however, hadn't moved from its landing spot,
although it was shifting colors from red to reddish gray to light gray,
sometimes even glowing with a goldish hue like hot stainless steel.
But the most impressive action the ship took was when it opened at the top
and emitted a purple light so bright it hurt Stefan's eyes.
That's cool. I like the purple light.
It feels like Prince is in it.
Yeah.
Now, as it often happens in situations like this,
Stefan found himself unable to move for some time
and could only stare at the UFO as warm air began
wafting from the open hatch carrying the pungent odor of sulfur.
UFO was farting.
Stefan also heard a sound which he described as
a soft murmur like the whirl of a tiny electric motor paired with the hissing
sound that seemed to be the result of air being sucked into the craft. After a
while Stefan was either allowed to move again or he got over the shock of what
he was looking at because a lot of people freeze when they see UFOs. That is honestly one of the big explanations of why,
which is the major complaint across all the various portals on the internet,
is like if we have these super incredible cameras in our pockets,
and are disposable at all times,
why in the fuck is there not any good primo footage that much?
Which you've seen me, you've seen some examples of very good footage. I've seen examples of footage. I've shown you both some very compelling
UFO shapes
but the idea is that because of the psychic nature because the codepotemum the
UFO and you connect and often times you are held in a moment of awe
Instead of reaching for your phone to take pictures of it because you are now
communing with the eternal.
Dude, I don't even take pictures at birthday parties.
Yeah, I know you have many pictures of my friends.
I'm really bad at all.
Me too.
College in my first five years in New York, I got nothing.
No pictures.
Yo, it's true got nothing. No pictures. So once he was able to move again
Stefan pulled out his paper and pencil so he could take down a sketch of the craft.
Wanting more detail Stefan got brave enough to walk towards the UFO although he had to
be careful to not look directly into the purple light because doing so caused red dots to
appear in his vision. It did sort of like, it is both, it seems like the UFO is both telling him to go
away and come here. Like it's laying on, the idea is that it's laid on a rock in
front of him and ostensibly opened its butthole at him. It's shooting for waves
at him and it but it's also sort of beckoning a little bit it's like a calm
See the buttholes through my butt. Don't you want to be near this butthole?
And so he goes towards it
Was a trap
Classic trap never follow an open butthole anywhere spoiler alert
But once Stefan got closer and closer to the craft, he heard human-like voices, which he
thought sounded American.
So Stefan edged to the craft's opening and called out, quote, OK, Yankee boys, having
trouble?
He was actually Polish. You're a gay, you're gay boy. You're a high trouble now. You're a gay.
You're a gay.
That was of course no answer.
So Stefan tried the same greeting in Russian, German, Italian, French, Ukrainian, and finally
in what I think was a bit of wishful thinking, Polish.
If only.
If only.
But still he got no response.
Man, he knows a lot of languages for a simple mechanic.
Yeah, well he came from Europe after World War II. So I would imagine he came from a point in Poland where a lot of people spoke a lot of languages for a simple mechanic. Yeah, well he came from Europe after World War II.
So I would imagine he came from a point in Poland
where a lot of people spoke a lot of different languages,
at least enough to have conversationally get along.
It was like that in Poland?
I thought Poland was a monoculture.
I don't know for sure.
I'm not really sure about that.
I haven't really discovered anything about our people.
No, no, no, no.
Everything that you do discover,
you're gonna find out it's actually pretty troubling.
Yeah.
Just imagine.
You sort of let the Nazis in.
Yeah, it's lots of vodka and sausage, I imagine.
No, there's some troubling politics as well, but hey, I love eagles.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I would imagine just living in a central European state, you pick up a lot of different
languages.
For sure.
But do you think he wasn't just like, KALO! KALO! KALO! KALO! I mean, I guess I know hello in like four different
languages at least. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he then got a little braver and approached
the open hatch so he could look inside the craft through the opening that was
emitting the purple light. See, Stefan's prospecting goggles had green lenses for
contrast enhancement, which made it easier to spot
subtle color variations in rocks and minerals to find specific ores or gemstone.
And so with that green filter, Stephane found he could look into the purple light.
And when he leaned over and looked into the craft, he saw a maze of lights, direct beams
running in horizontal and diagonal paths that flashed with no discernible pattern
or purpose.
Like Xanadu.
Yeah.
Or ELO.
Yeah, very much like ELO.
Cool.
I wonder if Jeff Lynn was on that.
Has it looked like it?
Him going down and being like, hey man, yeah.
You ever heard my new song, Telephone?
Stefan guessed that the craft walls were about 20 inches thick, but that was the last detail
he noticed. It seemed like someone else had noticed he was taking a peek, because two panels quickly slid
over the hatch opening and a third panel dropped down from above, closing the hatch entirely.
As it has been described again and again, Stefan was amazed to see that the craft had no seams
or soldering after the hatch was
closed giving it the appearance of being a single piece of metal.
How does flying machine work without steam?
How does zeppelin rise?
But this is when the UFO seemingly attacked.
After the hatch closed a screen opened appearing to be a part of some sort of ventilation system
The craft then tilted suddenly and a sharp beam of heat shot from the craft directly at Stefan
Who felt the searing heat in this I know, I know, I try my hardest to like
give this like a little bit of like
legitimacy, give it some
suspense and like give it some mystery
but I remember so much mystery that it
tilted and his beam of heat
shot his chest and his shirt caught
on flame and your fucking dumb ass was like
You made us go to
contact in the desert
Marcus and I didn't ask.
A true artist works his whole life just to let it go.
They tore off his shirt and threw it to the ground.
So he did get caught on fire. Yeah, he got caught on fire.
He got caught on fire and also he did touch it with his hand.
So he went and he touched it with his glove and the first thing that happened is the tips
Of his gloves all fucking melted and he was just like oh gosh
Oh gosh, and then it zapped him with the fart ray and he literally burst into flames
Yeah
But once Stefan was no longer on fire the craft ascended with a rush of air changed color and shape then
disappeared in an instant
in an instant. See that was the time to do it.
Stefan said that the only things left behind were the smell of sulfur and some moss that
had been set aflame, which Stefan quickly stomped out.
He then checked his compass and watched as it spun wildly for several minutes before
it finally righted itself.
Now at this point, Stefan's whole day was just fucking ruined.
I will never find rocks while on fire!
Which is probably naked.
I scare every goose,
I scare every gerbil I see
looking for rock now.
Fully naked here, suit as hell.
Like an ape at the river.
Hahahaha!
Hahahaha!
Hahahaha! He didn't feel much like prospecting anymore, so he started examining the site
where the craft had landed. But as he approached the area, he said he became incredibly nauseated
and he got a headache. But once he stood at the site itself, he said that it looked as
if it had been swept clean with the broom, no debris, no broken branches and no disturbed
rocks. Instead, he said all that remained was a six inch tall mound of dirt about 15
feet in diameter.
Okay. No one could pile, no human can pile dirt like this.
Now Stefan's headache got worse almost immediately, which was followed by weakness and near constant
vomiting.
Man, Polish vomiting is hard too. You see it all over Greenpoint.
I mean, yeah, I've done it.
Yeah, I've seen both of you Polish vomit.
I've seen Polish vomit in Poland.
I'm the only one here who's actually been to Poland.
I know, it's upsetting.
How did you go to the father country and we haven't?
I don't know, but we need to do a pilgrimage at some point.
No, I want to go to the Zwieck factory.
No.
Oh, it's beer.
No, I went because my wife wanted to go to Auschwitz and so did I. Hey. I want to go to the Zwick factory. No. Oh, it's beer. Yeah. No, I went because my wife wanted to go to Auschwitz,
and so did I.
Hey.
I want to go to Auschwitz.
Hey.
It's weird to say.
No.
Dude, buy tickets now.
They sell out.
Yeah.
They're crazy, dude.
The laser show at Auschwitz is out of control,
but don't bring a bong in.
They'll kick you out.
Yeah.
But do stop by the snack bar that's just outside the door.
It's all right.
I bought a donut.
Nice.
Nope. The vomiting was strange, because Stefan claimed that he hadn't been sick in 25 years. You stop by the snack bar that's just outside the door. It's all right. I bought a donut.
The vomiting was strange because Stefan claimed that he hadn't been sick in 25 years.
Never sick! It's a true immigrant lifestyle.
But despite this, Stefan said that he couldn't make it more than a few steps before he had
to stop and vomit again and again. Furthermore, the red dots that had previously been caused
only by looking into the purple light began to fill his vision, and large red spots appeared all over his chest where
he'd been burned by what we can only assume was a UFO exhaust port.
It did also kind of seem like one of those alarms, like you're stepping too close to
the vehicle.
Viper, Viper.
Yeah.
Man, why don't they do that anymore?
With cars.
Because they don't work. Car alarms don't work do that anymore? With cars because they don't work car alarms don't work people just ignore them and since people ignore them
It gives the thief plenty of time to disarm them and then just steal the car anyway
They don't work at all beginning to say something like this cars not filled with gold
Viper Viper
Disoriented Stefan finally made it to the highway about a mile from where he entered the forest earlier that day.
From there, he found an RCMP station, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and told the local Mountie his entire story.
The Mountie, of course, didn't believe him, so Stefan was left to deal with it on his own.
Now the RCMP is one of the largest UFO studying bodies in the world. The RCMP actually take UFO sightings extremely
seriously in a Canadian serious fashion where they, you know.
They work on it three hours a day. Oh yeah. Once a month.
And if they see you working on it, they tell you how they could do it better than you.
But then they're not going to do it better than you. They're just going to tell you how
they do it better. They want to go on vacation.
Working for the weekend.
It's a whole country that's working for the weekend.
Yeah, good for him.
Stephane worried that whatever he'd been exposed to might be contagious,
that he'd been irradiated somehow.
So he, unlike Phil Schneider, was hesitant to go back to his motel room.
But since he was exhausted and the only other option was to lay down
and die on the side of the road, he decided to risk it.
Again, this is also super immigranty of the fact that he was set on fire.
Well, his shirt was set on fire.
I mean, that's, I count that as set on fire.
Do you?
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
If I didn't have a shirt anymore, if I burned a hole in my shirt, that's burning all my
shirt.
If there's enough flames to consume my shirt and I'm taking off me, if I'm walking around
no shirt on, I've been set on fire.
It's also covered in red dots, which I assume are burns.
Yeah, they could be.
Radiation burns.
Once he returned to his room, he documented everything he'd just seen and experienced
in his journal.
After that, he went to the Motel restaurant and asked a server if there was a doctor on staff.
She said their local physician wouldn't arrive until July and the nearest doctor was 45 miles away.
Jesus Christ, but they definitely had flapjacks.
No doctor, no police, but there's a diner, which is their courthouse.
But there's a diner, which is their courthouse. And so Stephane returned to his room and called his wife.
He told her that he'd been burned in an accident and needed their son to pick him up at the
Winnipeg bus depot.
She agreed to pass on the message, so Stephane walked to the bus stop and waited a fair distance
from the other passengers so as to not contaminate them as well.
And he's just sitting there, no shirt on, no rocks, his rock-looking material shirt.
He's got a shirt by now.
He went back to the hotel, so he got an extra shirt.
And so you just sit there, you didn't get to see any rocks, you're all fucking rock
blue balled.
He had a rock morning.
I mean, but I don't know if he got too much rocks.
Not too much.
And then once that happens, that ruins the whole rock vibe because you know, the whole
point is to sit out there with the rocks have a couple
Of beers sit more with rocks go back eat a sandwich go back out to the rock sit there for a while
It ruined the whole thing for him now. He's got to take the bus
Yeah, I say don't get mad at the rocks. You can't find be happy about the rocks you see
You're right. It's a good way to live life every day
crack rocks.
Once on the bus, Stefan sat in the back as far away from everyone else as he could get.
I certainly was not just set on fire by Elliot.
If anybody wants to feel bad for a man.
And when his son picked him up in Winnipeg, he was taken to the Misericordia Hospital
to see if someone could figure out how to treat his ailments.
Now it seems like it is on record that Stefan told the doctor who treated his burns that taken to the Misericordia Hospital to see if someone could figure out how to treat his ailments.
It seems like it is on record that Stefan told the doctor who treated his burns that
he was hit by exhaust coming out of an airplane.
Which is just as insane as a UFO.
Yes, but Stefan in his book My Encounter with the UFO.
Can you say it correctly?
My encounter with the UFO.
Thank you.
You're supposed to take the vowel.
My encounter with UFO.
Yeah, never good, always bad.
Hate sharks! Me? The UFO. Thank you. You're supposed to take the vile. Yeah. My encounter with UFO. Yeah, never good, always bad.
Hate shirts.
Me, depends.
Shirt bad, rock good.
By Stefan Mihaila.
Mihaila.
I forgot.
Sinto penguin.
He's-
He just leaves it outside of the zoo.
You published book, penguin.
Hey, I know you penguin. I know you published book. If not, I chuck you to death. Leaves it outside of the zoo
Well, he said in his book that neither he nor the doctor spoke great English. So something was probably lost in translation. Well, he did. He sounded afeard and he came in and he did have a really insane explanation. He was covered in burns.
Yeah, it was all weird.
Fly from your grave.
Now when Stefan woke up the next day, he was in even more pain and still had red dots in his vision,
but he had new symptoms as well. He smelled like sulfur, just as the UFO had, and people said that his breath smelled terrible,
where before it had been just fine.
In fact, what they said, they didn't necessarily say that his breath smelled awful, they said
that his mouth smelled awful.
I know that smell.
You know what I mean?
Every smell a guy who's got bad lips.
Oh yeah, or they got like stomach problems sometimes.
Oh yeah, when it's pure acid.
Yeah.
The smallest mercy was that he'd finally stop throwing up, but only if he didn't eat.
Eventually, the only thing he could keep down was toast, eggs, and milk.
And in the following months, he dropped 20 pounds.
Honestly, that's all I really like to eat anyway.
Toast, egg, milk, milk, water, vodka.
Nauseous all the time and milk was on the list.
Yeah, milk helped. Milk helped. They say shit to my father.
Doctor talks to me, I'm in 2024. When a doctor talks to my father, it's 1924. He says stuff like,
you know, if your father didn't drink five glasses of milk a day,
I don't think he'd still be here.
Or like, you know, if we stopped your father from smoking cigarettes, I don't think he'd
still be here.
It's been like, I feel like both of them things are the reason why he ain't doing great right
now.
Now Staphon wasn't shy about telling people what had happened to him, and eventually word
got to a reporter from the Winnipeg Tribune who arrived at Stefan's home and interviewed
his family.
The subsequent story caught the attention of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization,
APRO, who were probably best known for backing Travis Walton during the Fire in the Sky saga.
And much like Travis Walton, APRO was the first outside organization
to believe Stefan's story.
We're here to believe you.
But just three days after Stefan was allegedly exposed
to UFO exhaust, Barry Thompson at APRO sent him
to the National Atomic Research Center
in Pinnawa, Manitoba for radiation testing.
Three days later. This is considered
this the Falcon Lake incident is considered one of the most heavily documented UFO cases in the
world and out mostly North America but these you know they did a little they ran tests yeah when
looked at a lot he went and told this ridiculous story to several people, but he was covered in radiation. He was
Mmm burns. He was covered in radiation burns not covered in radiation
Yeah, how would he have faked that don't know that's we'll get into some of the explanations later
None hold water as far as I'm concerned. Okay, cool
But while they were waiting for the results, Stefan, Barry Thompson, Dr. Roy Craig of the
University of Colorado, and a reporter from Life Magazine headed out into the woods to
see if they could find the landing site.
They couldn't.
Likewise, the RCMP and the RCAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force, they both had trouble
finding the site Stefan described.
Meanwhile, Stefan's
health problems got worse and they got weirder. By week three, his chest started itching and
blisters appeared in a V-shaped rash in the center of his chest that ran to his ears.
Yeah, he was all covered. Yeah, full V dog. Scarlet letter.
For what? What's the scarlet letter for? Very hairy.
I'd say vodka.
Vodka.
No explanation could be found.
And the best answer doctors had was that it might have been an allergic reaction.
And so they gave him an ointment.
What are you? Put cream on me? What am I? Some kind of potato? This does not do.
I was attacked by alien fart.
You gave me some kind of gook. I by alien fart you gave me some kind of good
I'm supposed to cover myself with some kind of some crumbs for what for burns fish and burns
very hairy bad UFO man came he sprayed me with fart you give me cream it's alright, he'll be dead in a couple days. I heard you!
I heard you!
A couple weeks later though,
Stefan was contacted by a man named
Gerald Hart. It was somewhat of
a mysterious figure in this story.
We have no idea who exactly Gerald Hart
was or where he came from.
But we do know that he was
somewhat of a bad influence on Stefan.
Well, one of the worst, I'd say, byproducts of ufology and something like this happened to you is that
legitimately weirdo show up.
And so Gerard Hart, Gerald Hart was this guy that like, it's funny. This is a funny relationship.
It is. Gerald, or Jerry as he insisted he be called,
With a G. Was loud, boisterous, and had a dirty mouth no matter who was around. Cock! Relationship it is yeah Gerald or Jerry is he insisted he be called with the G was loud
Boisterous and had a dirty mouth no matter who was around
Don't want to be crass around that whore I'm hungry as a cunt, let's get out of here.
I can only eat a pile of shit.
I'm gonna shit myself over to the fuck house.
I like this guy. This guy gets it.
But Gerald Hart was genuinely interested in helping out with Stefan's UFO mystery.
But where Stefan had failed before to find the site of the landing, after six hours of wandering the woods with Jerry, they found the remains
of Stefan's burned shirt and the tape measure he dropped. They also found pieces of metal and submitted them to Caprow the Canadian version of a pro
Canadian aerial phenomena research organization. It's the it's the dishonest
version of the UFO group because the one that is super honest is the no cap bro. Oh
Very nice. That was a real long road to walk. Yeah, it's called trying to understand the youth
Trying to understand the zoomers trying to get on their level
Thank you.
Indeed.
Well they found pieces of metal, submitted them to Caprow.
No such luck, it's just metal.
Now Stefan's rash would disappear and reappear continuously over the next five months, but
in September things only got worse.
He was suddenly struck by a burning sensation on his chest and neck
which only got more intense as it spread throughout his torso.
Before long, his entire body began swelling up and it turned purple,
reaching such a size that he couldn't get his shirt back on.
What am I some kind of fucking Willy Wonka child?
I turn into grape!
I'm sick of this fucking shit!
All of these guys come and
turn me you know Gerald you taught me a way to fucking express myself that makes me really feel
like Kingfuck. His vision then failed he got dizzy and he said he felt as if he was levitating. I am
some kind of top. But after being taken to the hospital he fully and mysteriously recovered a
few hours later and doctors had no explanation
as to why any of this should have happened other than that he must have come in contact
with a substance that caused some sort of extreme allergic reaction.
Couldn't tell him what though.
Pine cones.
Yes, pine cones.
Now, during all of Stephans up and downs to this health, he became closer friends with
Jerry Hart, but since Jerry was a bit of a foul-mouth bastard, Stefan's wife
believed that his influence was destroying Stefan's relationship with the RCMP, who were
still in charge of the open investigation.
Stefan, how about we get the fuck out of this fucking bullshit, right? Leave your bitch
at the house and go fuck with some pigs. Come on, let's go fuck with the RCMP. All right?
They call them Mounties for a reason. They want to get mounted like a bunch of bareback fucking animals out there
I should bring your cock to this cunt filled diner and get some fucking pancakes
See after hanging out with Jerry Stefan would curse a lot more amongst other bad habits picked up from Jerry another like
Stefan thought he was so cool. He wanted to be just like him.
He's got cool guy, cool body, and Jerry.
Only hangs out with rocks.
This is the biggest addition to his social calendar that has ever happened to Stefan.
Jerry Hart was a capital D, capital P difficult person. And eventually under Jerry's influence, Stefan stopped cooperating with the RCMP heart.
He's one of the he believed that taxation was theft.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
And therefore refused to pay his taxes, thinking that if I just say
I don't have to pay taxes, that the government has to accept that.
And was as a result arrested twice for tax evasion.
Listen here, officer, but fuck, I got gotta let you know, I'm a sovereign ass citizen and
I will not be detained. I'm a living fucking soul. I am not your corporate entity. You
motherfucking dick sucking piece of shit. Arrest me. Oh, I dare you. I need a lawyer.
Jerry also like calling the Internal Revenue Service the Infernal Revenue Service.
And he called Civil Service Snivel Service.
Pretty soon, Stefan was also saying, Infernal Revenue Service.
The bastard fuck from hell.
We come and take invisible money, huh?
Ha ha ha ha.
Playing on Stefan's prospecting hobby,
Jerry even roped Stefan into spending serious time
hunting for untapped nickel and silver claims
outside of Winnipeg.
And this is in 1967.
This is kind of sad.
Jerry's monetizing his hobby.
Yeah, I know. It really sucks.
Did Jerry... Come on, you're pushing it.
He's just one of those guys.
That's about the time that Stefan's wife stepped in and told Jerry to stay away.
Although Jerry did continue to call the house and stop by uninvited.
As Stefan's son remembered it, Jerry would stop by every six months or so for years afterwards,
but then one day just fucking disappeared
Sorry guys. I gotta go fucking die by suicide
I'm fucking off to shit cock fuck land up in the goddamn fucking shit sky.
Bye, Jenny.
Do you think he had Tourette's?
No.
And she was just hating on this man.
He's just like a perfectly normal, nice man.
Well, in the end, Jerry only hurts Stefan's investigation because Jerry's
status as a subversive individual in the eyes of the RCMP made them suspicious of Stefan's
whole story. But in 1968, after shaking off Jerry Hart, Stefan and a new more reliable
friend named Marty McGregor returned to the UFO site with a Geiger counter and found a spot that
was emitting a significant amount of radiation, but just one spot. After chipping away at the rock,
they found a piece of metal that seemed to have once been molten. Stefan and Marty dug up two
five-inch pieces of zigzagged pieces of metal, which they only half-jokingly pegged as UFO droppings. That is funny. That's funny, Stefan.
I have a friend, I used to have a friend, but it was very vulgar,
but they called these UFO periods.
They fell out of the big hanging pussies of the UFOs.
And now I think on how he thought.
And I think Jerry all fucked up.
Oh yeah, that sounds about right.
Oh Jerry, oh I know Jerry.
Oh foul mouth Jerry, yeah I know him.
My mom dated him for a couple of months back in 1959.
Yeah, there's a bunch of things he called me as a boy that I won't repeat out here.
And I don't want to get these squirrels offended.
The material, however, instead of being the sort of exotic material that Jacques Vallee
has, you know, Jacques Vallee loved showing things like, we have no idea what this metal is.
And the arts parts famously.
Yeah, yeah.
This turned out to be nothing more special than silver. But it's interesting because now we know more metallurgically
that a lot of times these metals that are left behind, because UFO, quote unquote, droppings
are way more kind of prevalent than we kind of talk about. Like there's very little actual
physical evidence of a UFO, but every once in a while you will see like molten metal
seems to drip off
one of these objects and then pile up and a lot of times when they go and get
them tested they will be earthbound metals just normal metals but it's the
way they are compiled they're either too pure like that's like one of the things
that came out I forgot what one of the cases we just did or it's like it was
aluminum but it was like pure aluminum so you you would have to buy it. You'd have to buy, you'd
have to assemble it and make it. So it's weird.
Wasn't that cut up shit?
Yeah, it's just weird. It's stuff like that where it's like, you know, they are the, they
are chemically, the rocks sometimes are like chemically organized in a way that we don't
normally see.
Do we think it could have been a meteorite maybe?
Possibly.
Yeah. Now over a year after his encounter with the UFO, Stefan was still fainting on a regular
basis.
His burns and rashes still came and went and he was still having headaches.
So he was taken to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
The Mayo Clinic found nothing physically wrong with him.
So thinking that it might be psychosomatic, Stefan was also psychologically evaluated.
At the Mustard Clinic.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Stupid.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'll go with you.
No, no, no, no.
I liked it.
I liked it.
Take your seat again.
And it was determined that he both believed his story
and it was a mentally healthy individual.
That he was not considered to be lying or disturbed.
They were like, this guy's fine.
There's something weird going on
with him. We just don't don't know
what the fuck it is.
Now, after Stefan told his story,
a lot of people took advantage and
a lot of people did their best to
discredit him.
In the former category, the Canadian
version of APRO, that's Capro,
they agreed to publish Stefan's book,
Mayenkampounter with UFO.
But Stefan never saw any of the profits.
When it came to people who didn't believe him though, most went with the old Canadian
standby of saying that he got drunk out in the woods by himself and imagined the whole
thing.
The problem with that though is that the RCMP investigation specifically said that Stefan
had not been drinking that day.
This rumor apparently came from a local bartender who said that he'd served Stefan four or five
beers the night before the encounter.
Hey man!
That's not really an amount of note the night before.
I had three last night. He's not
drunk anymore. No, no, no. I think four or five the night before you get some
sleep especially when you're Polish that's nothing. Yeah that's literally how
else that's called medicine to a Polish person. But there was also an RCMP officer
named Paul Byski who said that it was proven that Stefan consumed
alcoholic beverages quote to some considerable extent. Biskey said that
when he tried to get Stefan's story straight on the night of the encounter
after the initial interview he'd found Stefan at the Falcon Lake Motel bar.
Where the hell else is you're gonna go after you got fucking set on fire by a
UFO? If I get blasted by a UFO, I'm getting hammered.
Yeah.
When asked about the encounter again, Bisky said that Stefan shrugged his shoulders and
laughed it off.
Hey, you know, everybody farts, but that shit happens, I saw Rocky, you know, a lot of weird
stuff man.
Don't bother me dude, I'll be, I'll we're Caroline on the floor.
As such, Biskie's hypothesis was that Stefan had been drinking and barbecuing and had suffered
some sort of grill accident that had burned his chest.
Embarrassed, Stefan made up the UFO story to cover his own drunken misadventure.
It does feel like though, I mean like it's not like he was there to be a police officer
investigating a homicide.
He's going rock looking. I think that if he had burnt himself on a barbecue will hammered he would have laughed about it in a way
First of all, it's not a little fucking nowhere. Yeah, he's rock peeping. He's not bringing a barbecue set up
No, no, he's not barbecuing and the burn on his body was really interesting
It was a series of circles like you will you see the picture of him laying on it's a really
weird specific burn could be Coles well Coles I actually would push against
because you know Coles like they are they form like a mound and you push them
all together they're not individual fully identical circles and they look
like they're in a pattern like grid on his belly oh it was like they were all
every burn was the same you should look at it looks like they're in a pattern like grid on his belly. Oh, it was like they were all, every burn was the same?
You should look at it. It looks like a connect four game board.
Like a, you know, exhaust port.
OK. Now, bisque aside, there are a few points to the story
that might point towards hoax. Sure. Maybe.
For one, the site showed normal levels of radiation,
where in many UFO landing sites, the Geiger counters show a significant height
in the readings throughout the site
But it depends on how far it was since the landing was and when they tested for radiation
Mm-hmm as far as other witnesses go
There was a forest ranger tower close to the landing site that had a perfect view of a clearing and the Ranger on duty made
No report of a UFO or any other strange occurrence
That's right
also got your ass in a fucking corner right because UFOs appear to people in different ways and different things and multiple people have seen the same UFO once but have all seen
Something different but have seen the shape in the sky
We actually noticed that when we went to Stevenville to do our a for mention never released pilot thing
I don't know where the fuck's gonna happen with that
But you listen to truly one of the largest seen at one time UFO sighting of all time and they're all saying oh it looked like
something else so it's very interesting that way. There was also a golf course
just a mile away and from Stefan's description of the UFOs takeoff angle it
would have flown directly over the course where many a Canadian were
enjoying a day on the links. That being said, there were 20 reports of
similar UFOs in the Falcon Lake area around the same time as Stephane's encounter, and
just because no one reported seeing a UFO doesn't mean they didn't actually see one.
And when Stephane mentioned it, he said that it changed shape and color multiple times.
Oh yes, and also the reason why people don't like it, there's so many things you could
say like, oh, especially if you're a Canadian, there's so many things that you could say like oh, especially if you're Canadian
There's so many things you're like. Oh, I don't care that could be whatever. Oh, I'm kind of funny looking bird
You know me mostly you're just trying not to interrupt the golf day. Yeah
Yeah, they really don't like to interrupt their day do that. Oh, no, no, no, sir
But no matter what other people said Stefan maintained the same story about his UFO encounter for over 30 years until the day he died in 1999.
And as a cute little nod to his story, the Royal Canadian Mint actually issued a commemorative Falcon Lake UFO coin in 2018, showing Stefan Mahalik standing before a UFO.
It's cool. I like that because it really was extremely documented.
Several people, there was a lot of research that went into this.
The RCMP really does take UFOs seriously.
There's something about, they are supposedly under orders.
That they, if you say anything about seeing a UFO,
they have to take a report and submit it.
But if he was soaked with radiation,
he probably wouldn't have lived another 30 years. Ah, but that's the thing. He was not soaking radiation
Oh, yeah, even his like lymphocyte levels, which should have been like, you know off the charts were normal
Everything was normal
Well, it could have just been a burn or could have been something that we don't understand what it was
Is that happened to him or is it a thing that you get hit with it once?
I don't know and I don't know why his body kept reproducing it again and again
Now it's debatable as to whether or not that last story was an attack or an accident
Although one could say that the UFO burns to fawn on purpose to get him away from their craft like honking a horn
Yeah, no that was a that was an anti UFO theft
Machine or he fell asleep on a water heater.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or he was airing out his butt.
I also, you know I like that stuff where the UFO itself is the alien.
Yeah, and the UFO has no actual idea that you're even there.
None! Oh yeah, none.
Or doesn't care.
I will largely say that the phenomena does not care about us.
Yeah.
Well likewise, there could be debate on this final story as to if the aliens were indeed the
attackers.
But no one can argue that the humans involved believed an attack was taking place when the
goblins descended upon a farm between Hopkinsville and Kelly, Kentucky in the mid 50s. We do need some bluegrass.
We should get some bluegrass guitar.
Because it's like, it's also be super cute.
They get some kind of like bunch of goblins on a porch
playing the wash basin, playing the tub,
do the boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
That'd be cool to have.
Yeah, I'm sure somebody out there
is in the bluegrass like,
out there are some goblins
Down in 53
Some goblins they live up on
They live up here to be
Country goblin jamboree
That's what we need
So are goblins aliens?
Well goblins are kind of what they talked about
Little monsters and little creatures
All follow into the world
Of the anomalous phenomena.
And there's many species of these things that we could meet.
These are very similar to greys, but they have ears.
Now while Kelly, Kentucky is a small village of only about 300 people, Hopkinsville is
the self-proclaimed batter capital of the world. They produce 2 million pounds of flour
a day in addition to brownie mix, pancake mix, cracker barrel biscuit mix, and up until
recently this was where red lobster cheddar biscuits were made.
They're still making them. You can buy a box once.
Really?
Oh yeah, you can buy the box ones. They know that. That's just flour.
Good for Hopkinsville.
Also one of the extremely huge center for baby batter.
Yeah.
Oh hubby, you're going to the farm
and making your batter again?
Yep.
It's time to sow what I've ripped.
Oh God, I'm gonna come on this piece of corn.
You're going to Hopkinsville,
don't forget to put the chains on the tires,
the roads are slick.
Real slick.
Slick.
Slick.
Well, you know, if you're gonna have biscuits,
you gotta have gravy.
We're not getting better at the show.
You know what I mean?
Like we're not getting better at it.
I am not getting better at the show.
We've been doing it for 13 years.
Die from your grave.
But if you're not in the batter business,
then you probably know the name Hopkinsville
more for the off-told tale
of the Kelly Hopkinsville Goblins.
Who's in the batter business?
I mean, how many people do you think are involved
in ordering Cracker Barrel Biscuit Mix
to all the various Crer barrels across America?
Aunt Jemima?
Is Aunt Jemima like the fucking like the head of the like the Capistrano family?
Like is Aunt Jemima like the head godfather of batter?
Well Aunt Jemima is not a real person.
No.
Never?
Not like Uncle Ben. They're just people who they yeah
It's just a racist caricature, but they never kissed
No, no, that's a fucking sad thing. I mean that would be delicious
Going over there for dinner
Watching Rob make notes to cut it.
Cracker Barrel employs 77,000 people.
Oh, okay.
Well, that's not the batter business.
I mean, it kind of is the batter business.
No, that's the breakfast business.
There's lots of biscuits.
There's a lot.
If I go to Cracker Barrel, I eat the biscuits.
That's what I eat at Cracker Barrel.
Yeah, of course. But I like, I like the country fried pork chop. And what do you think that's covered in batter?
Yeah, buddy. Man. I'm like you supporting batter. You are you are better boy
Yeah, I don't think you realize how much batter plays in your everyday life. Oh, no, I do
Well the Kelly Hopkinsville Goblin attack involved a number of alien-like creatures
terrorizing an isolated house full of tobacco farmers. This story would actually inspire
one of my favorite horror movie franchises, the Hopkinsville Goblins. This is the inspiration
for Critters.
Oh, okay. Awesome.
And it's also inspirational to one of my favorite non-fiction paranormal long-form web series,
Hellier.
Oh yeah!
Now while the goblins get all the press, this wasn't the first time that this area of Kentucky
had been visited by something extraterrestrial.
In June of 1808, a family traveling west saw an unidentified object in the sky, which they
took as an ominous sign from God.
But as it goes in many UFO encounters,
a spot near where the object was seen,
possibly the spot where it landed,
remained a barren circle where no vegetation
would grow for decades after.
One day, we will do a series about visions of Mary
and Catholic visions as connected to UFOs
because like the Virgin of Guadalupe,
all those things where they see a version
of some like religious entity, it's always a UFO.
It's awesome.
Mary could have been an alien.
Oh yeah, dog, that pussy.
She don't make losers.
More than a century after that sighting, in 1952, 75 eyewitnesses at a nearby
lake saw an oval-shaped spacecraft which hovered over the water for 30 minutes before taking
off at an incredible speed. But that was merely an appetizer for what happened on August 20,
1955. See, at around 6.30 that evening, a state policeman, a state trooper, an investigator
at nearby Fort Campbell Army Base, and a nearby farmer all saw huge balls of fire in the sky
all at the same time, and they only reported their sightings later on. This fire was also seen by a
man named Billy Ray Taylor, who worked at at tobacco farm right in between the towns of
Hopkinsville and Kelly. Do you think the tobacco farmers are like the punks of batter town?
This is a flower batter town. It's about making they're making tobacco
So do you think when it comes down to it there's there a thorn in the side of the old batter industry? I'd say the batter, they're the odd ones out. I think the batter people are surrounded by tobacco
people. Oh, wow. Also, you know, everyone who works in the kitchen needs a smoke break. Oh, yeah, yeah,
you got to smoke cigarettes. Got to miss it. Well, Billy Ray Taylor described the fireballs in
greater detail. According to Billy Ray, there were three balls of different colors.
Blue ball in the front, pink ball in the middle, red ball bringing up the rear.
The property where Billy Ray lived was home to a fair amount of Kentuckians.
There was Glennie Langford and her three children, as well as her two sons from a previous marriage,
that was Charlie and Elmer Sutton. Elmer, he was also
called Lucky because of his uncanny ability to win rigged carnival games. The kids, you gotta go
through the back. There was also their wives Vera and Aileen, as well as Aileen's brother,
O.P. Baker, and Lucky Sutton's friend Billy Ray Taylor and his wife. All but four of
these people were between the ages of 18 and 30 and all were present the night
the goblins attacked. This is my one question is it one household? Yes. Wow.
Busy. Very busy household. Busy people. Now in Billy Ray... That's where the batters
going. Yeah because as far as I can tell, there's, you know, you got Glennie,
who's the mother who had Charlie and Elmer with the man whose name was Sutton.
And then Mr. I think Mr. Sutton died and then she remarried and had three more
children from another guy. He also died. And then, uh,
one of Lucky's friends, Billy Ray Taylor moved in and also Aileen's brother, after she married Lucky, he also moved into the house.
So you just got a bunch of people all working this tobacco farm.
Yeah, hey, that's good.
It takes a lot of labor.
Oh, I get it.
Absolutely.
And Lucky was just happy that he had an open bed.
And in Kentucky, you can have a child of 10.
You can.
You're totally allowed.
Now, when Billy Ray saw the lights in the sky, he ran back to the house to tell everyone
what he'd seen.
Hey everybody, there's globes.
They at first suggested that he might have just seen a bird, but Billy Ray said it wasn't
a goddamn bird.
I know birds.
I know what a goddamn bird looks like.
I know what a goddamn bird looks like.
It's got four feet, it's got two heads.
I know what a god damn bird looks like. It's got four feet, it's got two heads. I know what a bird does. A bird is something that go down the swamp, it's got webbed toes,
and it jumps up and down. Lucky to ask him if he'd gone crazy. No, if I'd gone crazy, I would've said,
oh ding dong, I'm Napoleon. Billy replied that he knew what he'd seen.
I know what I saw.
That is to say he knew what he saw.
I know what I saw.
And he was sure that what he saw was one of them flying saucers,
what they'd been talking about in the papers.
I knew Zimbug City Yankee flying machines.
But just as they were talking it through
and Lucky was starting to admit that maybe it was just the heat
playing tricks with his eyes,
Lucky and Billy Ray looked in the woods behind the house and saw a glowing silver figure with two huge yellow eyes with its arms in the air as if to surrender.
Like Freddy Freaker?
Yeah, it's a lot like Freddy Freaker.
Yeah.
Its legs were dangling, but while the legs weren't moving,
the creature was still floating towards the house.
Ah.
This is my favorite.
I love shit.
This is my favorite type of alien movement and phenomena.
I like it when it's in the cartoony realm.
Yeah.
Very, very strange, because in one way,
you could say the more ridiculous, oh, maybe they're
making it up. But I I actually it's so hard.
I'm on the other side of it man. The more ridiculous it is, the more I believe it.
Because it's hard. You know what it is. And I don't mean it. Yes, obviously there's imagination everywhere.
I know we've all watched Reading Rainbow. So I know that there's imagination everywhere. But.
Do you think it might have been a butterfly in the sky? I maybe ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Yeah, I mean they saw something a few years earlier. Yeah It's not crazy. No people see stuff
Yeah, there's stuff out there and when it comes to like it the more ridiculous it is the more I'm apt to believe it
there is there is a line of
Credulity there where if it feels like it is being made ridiculous on purpose then you can always tell
Well, yes, there's always these because there's always these sorts of things about these stories
that are so strange that they make it idiosyncratic.
That's the word for it.
It's idiosyncratic and it sort of makes you feel uncomfortable when you think about it
and they are uncomfortable talking about it.
Very much so.
For some reason, this very much will freak them all out.
Once Lucky and Billy Ray saw this creature, they began preparing for battle,
collecting as much ammunition as they could find for their.22 rifle and their 12 gauge shotgun.
Now if I've never seen a floating Russian before, I'm seeing one now. How slow was it coming towards
them? That they were like running to the barn and loading guns and coming back outside? Pretty slow.
It was, they were like floating. They were ready to defend their home from whatever it was that had come to
earth with those balls of fire.
I heard the British are coming back with flashlights for eyes so they could see
in the dark.
The British are coming back. They're not going to Kentucky.
They're coming back to get our beloved land.
Lucky covered the front door and Billy Ray took the back while the rest of the
family thought that both of them had lost their damn minds.
But while they were in the middle of making fun of their defenders, another floating three foot tall creature appeared with its arms raised in the air outside the back door.
This time Billy Ray got a much better look and saw that the creature was silver skinned with long thin clawed
hands and webbed fingers. Oh my god it's a New Yorker! Its head was large, its ears
were big and pointed and its yellow glowing eyes were more on the side of
its head rather than facing front. Yeah see I don't want to shoot an alien but a
goblin gets shot. This is what they're saying. You know what I mean? At that point the elder in the room, 50 year old Glennie Lankford, screamed and fell to
the floor.
As the creature floated towards them, Billy Ray fired his rifle through the screen door
which brought Lucky and the rest of the crew to the back door to see what had happened.
Just that movement of the guys going...
Yeah, be sure to show the movement on the podcast.
Hey man, hey, patreon.com slash podcast on the left.
You can actually see me do that act out joke.
Once they got there to find Billy Ray on the back porch, everyone watched as a clawed hand
came down from the roof to touch Billy Ray's hair
Alien grabbed Billy Ray and pulled him back into the house while Billy right you get back here right now
While lucky ran outside and fired the shotgun through the roof the alien pulled Billy back into the alien
back into the house? No, Aileen. Aileen! His wife. Aileen. His wife is not an Aileen, that's Aileen. And the creature apparently hit, rolled off the roof, floated to the ground, then
scampered back into the woods. Or I would say more retreated into the woods. They didn't
really scamper, they floated. Sorry. Because as it moved away the Kentuckyans got a better look
at how it moved. It glided without moving its dangly legs, drifting forward using what
appeared to be a strange motion with its hips. See that's a visual exercise you also can't
see. Marcus was doing a sultry goblin twerk. I would say I was I was sissying the walk a little bit. Oh, yes. You're sissying the walk. I put some bass in that.
Oh yeah.
He did those.
Now, Glenny had the young children hide under their beds while the other women found their own hiding places throughout the house,
while she and the men discussed what they should do next.
But it seemed like every time the family calmed down enough to get their heads on straight, the creatures would reappear, although there was never any sign that the goblins were there to
attack, nor did they ever counter-attack against the Kentuckians. For example, when Billy Ray
fired at another creature that came up to the window, showing his big glowing eyes,
it just flipped backwards and disappeared. They's cool. This is my favorite.
I love it.
They also noticed that the creatures glowed brighter when they were yelled or shot at.
But that's the thing.
It didn't really seem to make much of a difference.
If you yelled at it or shot at it, it kind of reacted the same way.
Well, it didn't know how we were attacking it.
But also this is the key, I think, to the concept of indifference.
At one point though, Lucky and Billy Ray went out into the front yard to take the fight to the goblins.
We don't go out there. We can't be in the Marines. We're gonna fight for our home.
And when someone yelled at them to look up in the maple tree, they saw one of the goblins sitting on the branches.
Sitting up here, hi hello!
Look at my nuts you fucker!
Jerry!
Lucky and Billy Ray opened fire and again the creature just fell out of the tree and floated away.
Bye bye!
Lucky soon hit another creature and he said that the sound that it made when they actually hit one with the bullet,
they could tell that they hit it because it sounded like a metal bucket being shot.
Like a ping!
So it was like a shield they had on themselves.
Something was weird. They also said that when they shot the gun the guns would
not make clear gun noises that they would go like, ba-bang!
Ba-bam!
And on and on it went with Billy Ray or Lucky shooting a goblin, the goblin
running away then returning again seemingly unhurt. The only thing that had
any effect it seemed was turning on the
lights which at least caused the creatures to flinch. By this point in the evening everyone
agreed that they were dealing with either goblins or demons.
Is there a difference Glennie? Glennie suggested they're probably goblins.
Yeah they gotta be goblins. I should know. My second husband was half goblin. She said they weren't dangerous, they might not be dangerous.
After all they're coming to us with their hands in their air and maybe if we stopped
shooting them they'd go away.
Billy Ray, have you tried high fiving them?
Lucky disagreed because even when they didn't shoot the creatures kept coming towards the
house and he wasn't going to find out what happened if one of them got inside or touch someone. I just feel like it
would have been like giving him a million dollars.
That's when Lucky decided, there's no way we can let these aliens in this house.
And I should know, I'm the luckiest man here. I was born with 11 toes.
Ed McMahon after drinking a bunch of barium.
Yeah.
I've got a test in the morning for colon cancer.
It's like the old kids in the hall sketch, like somebody's going to get a thousand dollars.
Who's going to get a thousand dollars?
And then you got to wait and you get a thousand dollars and the next person gets punched in
the face.
Yes.
Now eventually they did decide that if things stayed quiet for a bit,
they'd all race to their trucks and speed to town.
And after Lucky shot one more goblin off the roof,
everyone scrambled to their trucks and drove to Hopkinsville at 11 p.m.
They'd been fighting the goblins, or whatever they were,
for three straight hours.
Now the family pretty much stormed the local police department,
telling them that they'd been fighting little men all night.
But after a fair amount of condescending questions, the sergeant on duty called up the police
chief, Russell Greenwell.
Greenwell had remembered the incident at the Kentucky Lake just a few years earlier where
75 people had seen the UFO, so he listened to the family's story with all seriousness
before calling the state police.
He then, for some reason,
also called the local paper. Pretty soon, the area was awash with cops, reporters, and looky-loos.
Because this man wanted to arrest an alien in Kentucky. The first state to arrest an alien.
He did. I could feel his pride being being like we're burning them all in
Yeah, get the eyeballs here
Yeah, I want it now I want them strung up because if we don't set president now
Eventually, there will be a goblin in the House of Representatives
Now the cop said that there was no sign of goblins when they arrived
The cops said that there was no sign of goblins when they arrived, but they did find a lot of empty shotgun shell cases and a lot of holes were shot through the screens of the
house, including chunks of wood that had been blasted off the window frames.
No matter what was out there, these fucking dudes had spent all night long firing bullets.
Yeah, they turned their house into Swiss cheese.
They had holes in the ceiling, holes in the windows, holes in the walls. And so whatever they did, they turned their house into Swiss cheese. They had holes in the ceiling holes in the windows holes in the walls
And so whatever they did they were shooting at they were just shooting at something. I think they all accidentally ate mushrooms
Now lucky and Billy Ray estimated that there could have been up to 15 creatures outside the house that night
But they also did admit that it could have just been the same two little bastards showing up again and again.
Honestly, I counted every digit I have as soon as I saw one and there was exactly 13.
As it was, their nightmare wasn't quite over.
And this goes against the drug hypothesis.
The next night, Glenny woke up to find another goblin hanging around outside her window.
She woke up Lucky and again tried to get him to not shoot the damn thing, but Lucky just
said quote,
No, mama, I'm going to shoot that little man.
And that's when Billy Ray also woke up, grabbed his rifle and the two of them started blasting
away again.
They were just happy.
Only to get the same result of the creatures flipping, floating to the ground, running
off and coming back.
Hi, bye.
Hello. result of the creatures flipping, floating to the ground, running off and coming back. Hi, bye, hello.
This went on until 5 a.m.
That's when the creatures disappeared for good, which was just as well because Billy and Lucky had just run out of ammunition.
Convenient.
Yes, very convenient.
In the days that followed, everyone who'd been involved in the Goblin incident gave consistent accounts of what happened
and what the creatures looked like to the authorities and reporters.
If it was some sort of poisoning or drugging or anything, everyone would have seen and
experienced something different.
Pretty soon though, as it in every one of these,
where this is the human factor
of where people start talking about like,
oh, you know, they do this for the fame or the money,
or they do this, they want to tell a story.
And so-
Prove it.
Yes, but this thing is like,
but it does create looky-loos like me.
I show up at your home.
Like if things are gonna, things happen like that,
and I can get to it. I'm there
I'm asking questions. I'm eating food and throwing the wrappers on the floor. I'm fucking dumping my Starbucks the ends of it
I'm just throwing it on the street. I'm ruining the neighborhood. Mm-hmm. All right, there's a lot of shit goes on
Yeah, the house didn't have locks. So people just walked inside grilled the family for details stole their shit
Generally acted a fool
The family called the state troopers to keep people away
But all that did was keep the looky-loos outside of a perimeter until the cops left
Then after the cops left for the night they'd return to the house pretty much just to make fun of Billy Ray and look
Finally the family figured that if they were going to go through all this shit, they might as well charge admission.
So they tried charging 50 cents to enter the house, a dollar to hear the story, and 10 dollars to take pictures.
But since there were so many people, the whole system fell apart immediately,
and the simple act of them asking for money made a lot of people think that they'd made up the whole story for profit.
I mean, I don't know. It's a bad fucking investment. They shot up their entire house, spent who knows how much money on shotgun shells and fucking rifle bullets.
Yeah. For what? You got to get that back. I think that this family was very Kentucky.
Yeah. Yeah. Now some say that they do believe that the family
believes that they were attacked by little silver men and it's important to
say that they were little silver men and not little green men because you could
get lucky and Billy Ray pretty fucking riled up if you called him little green
Don't you dare misgender them. I know what they were. Goblins are green. Well, this is the thing. The green goblin is
green. The green goblin is green. Hobgoblin is more brown. They were gray. So they were
way more gray, slightly metallic. He's the hobgoblin. What do you expect? But yes, they
were silvery gray. But some people say it was just cats. Cats?
I just think you'd find a lot of dead...
Fucking cats?
Yeah.
You'd find a lot of dead cats.
Yeah.
Also, a bunch of bulletproof floating cats
is a hell of a story on its own.
Honestly, that's even worse than aliens.
Way worse.
I mean, yeah, a lot of cats.
But that was...
That's what they said, is that like,
if it was fucking cats, we would have grazed at least a lot of cats. But that's what they said. Is that like, if it was fucking cats,
we would have grazed at least a couple of them.
You would have seen fur somewhere around the property.
I mean, these are farmers.
They know how to shoot animals.
But also, that's just as mysterious as aliens.
Yeah, a bunch of cats.
An abnormal amount of cats.
If dozens of cats attack your house,
what's happening in there?
If you're not dog president? Sleepwalkers. Oh yeah, that movie. That's happening in there? Yeah, if you're not dog president sleepwalkers
Oh, yeah, that movie. That's right
That was a good one
There was also a theory that it could have been monkeys because there was a traveling carnival nearby that might have lost some monkeys around
This time but again, there would have been dead monkeys or at least monkey fur. I've been the case
I feel like they know it was monkeys.
Yeah.
I know they had very long arms.
Yes, they did have very long arms.
Yes.
The final theory was that it was owls, specifically the eagle owl.
Owls are very, that's a common imagery with alien abductions.
Yeah.
Eagle owls can get as big as three feet tall, they can appear to float,
and their eyes do glow in the dark.
These owls are also highly protective of their young
So if someone and fuck with some baby owls mom owl might come calling
But if it was an owl it should have left behind the biggest amount of evidence
Yeah, because shooting a huge owl with a 12-gauge shotgun at close range
It's gonna leave a lot of fucking feathers behind
And there was no evidence of owls despite the fact that there was lots of evidence of
hundreds of bullets being fired that night.
By the next year, the entire family had moved away because they'd gotten nothing but bad
attention, but both Hopkinsville and nearby Kelly, Kentucky had both dabbled in their
own cryptid days.
Kelly, Kentucky had the Little Green Men Days Festival, which is a bit of a kick in the teeth
to the memory of the victims, if you ask me.
It is.
But they're not even listening.
I also like the idea of-
They obviously didn't do the reading.
They did not, but I also, you know,
I like a goblin festival.
I wanna go.
We never get to go, Marcus.
No, we don't ever get to go.
We have to fucking work all the time.
I know, I wanna go so bad.
I wanna do that one with Mothman Festival, real bad.
Yeah.
We gotta turn it into work and then we can go. Yeah, you show up at a Goblin festival
It could be a blowjob festival. Whoa
Goblin festival, but two things that that's the little green men festival started in 2011 abruptly ended in 2017
I bet you there was some kind of financial issues going on. Yeah, I would imagine so
Hopkinsville however is hosting an alien invasion day this coming August 21st
We should all be careful about wishing for that though. Mm-hmm Watkinsville, however, is hosting an alien invasion day this coming August 21st.
We should all be careful about wishing for that though.
It's got food trucks, face painting, a dunk tank, a costume contest.
You know, alien shit.
Yeah.
Yeah, what aliens like.
And an ominous sounding special surprise that will only be revealed at a later date.
Our sheriff, our very own sheriff Tom Luton
Is an alien?
Couple asks out no one said yes
Special guest I think that you know what we just did part ourselves in the running to be that special surprise
Oh, yeah, I'm telling you right now Hopkinsvilleville, if you can get us a range to get down there in
time. Oh no, we're in Australia.
We're looking at the we're looking at the poster right now, the flyer for it.
They've got a batter walk.
Whoa, that's so funny, Marcus.
It's aliens and batter.
It's crusties and aliens.
This is the weirdest combo of things I have ever
seen. What the fuck? What combines pancakes and aliens other than Hopkinsville? I gotta
go. I love pancakes. I love waffles. I barely eat them because of the carbs. But I'm looking
at this and if I was watching an alien dunk tank going on with the girl with no bra on and I'm eating a pancake, that's the funnest time I'm going to have.
That's August 21st, 2024 from 4pm to 10pm.
Are you going to have a wet alien contest?
Because you should.
Honestly, you guys should do that.
How wet can you get this alien?
It seems to be pretty wet.
And that's...
Aliens attack.
Now I wonder, why did they attack?
They didn't attack.
Yeah, that's the thing.
Why did they approach?
What was it, do you think, obviously in the most...
How do you put this?
This is a hazy world of the more adventurous side of ufology.
Why are they approaching the cabin?
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Fucking all they needed was a pack of Newports
Space invaders was the one with the little Martians right? No, is that called little much? No spaced invaders was the one with the stone ones. Yeah
The one with the little Martian guys. Yeah, but they weren't the stone ones
The cool oh, they were cool. That's right was Paul. Yeah. Oh Paul was bad. I didn't watch Paul
Just based invaders isn't great now either. No, I imagine it might not hold up but it was on UFO Wow
I love this movie dude critters. However, love critters. Oh critters the oppers wrote it or the op
Critters however love critters. Oh critters the oppers wrote it or the opp one of the kids I grew up with his uncle wrote it Oh, that's awesome. A giant critters poster in his house. Oh, yeah
Poster yeah, my uncle. Yeah critters too is like my first favorite horror movie
Like I watched it over and over and over again critters ball. Oh, man. I mean the critters balls
Yeah, fucking awesome. Oh shit the guy the amazing character actor royal
Dano was one of the aliens in space invaders. No, there you go. So we just like
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So, you know, some scheduling little things.
So we're gonna have next week, we're gonna have our first one of these special episodes with you Eddie.
Yes.
Before we go to the landananda.
And then we're going to be doing some kind of interesting episodes while we're in Australia.
We are going to do some, we are doing proper episodes.
But I'm super excited because we're gonna get a little spoke. I mm-hmm
We're gonna get spoke. I would you never done in Australia. No, we actually have we've only ever done true cry
Yeah, we did with let him yeah, we did a lot of me
Yeah, but it's like but now we're gonna do another big case
We're gonna be doing like that's more interesting and we hope we get to meet some of the people involved and be nice
It's very cool. We'll see but hey
It's been fun. Hasn't it? Hasn't it? It has been. I'm just so glad my penis is intact still
Yeah for another couple hours. Yeah, do you go home and make too much batter and fuck your wrist up again?
When in Hopkinsville
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Okay, hell fucking Jerry
Fuck you you motherfucking shit fuck nobody fucking hails me. I fucking hell
I don't fucking hell nothing and nothing hails me you fucking
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