Lasater Coffee & Tea Hopkinsville Kentucky 2025

I had a nice visit to Lasater Coffee and Tea in Hopkinsville Kentucky!

GoblinCon Hopkinsville Kentucky October 2025

I had a great time at GoblinCon 2025, celebrating the Kelly Encounter/Hopkinsville Goblins that appeared in the area in 1955!

Visiting Kelly Kentucky and the Hopkinsville Goblins 2025

AND, I made a quick visit to the little town of Kelly....  it is small, but it is legendary in folklore and UFO circles!

Pennyroyal Area Museum Hopkinsville Kentucky 2024

Hopkinsville has a great museum, celebrating their local history, even the strange and mysterious moments!

Ferrells Hamburgers Hopkinsville Kentucky 2024

One of my favorite places for a burger on the planet is Ferrell's in Hopkinsville.  The place has been there since the 1930s!

Geraldine Sutton Stith and Kelly Kentucky

I have bumped in to Geraldine Sutton Stith a few times here and there over the years.  Back when the Kelly Green Men Festival was going strong, I was able to chat with her.  I was thrilled to see her again at the recent "Goat Man Festival".

The Kelly Incident is one of my favorite strange tales.  In 1955 a family in Kelly Kentucky claimed that some small beings attacked their home.  There was a UFO sighting, and several hours of encounters.  The family even drove to nearby Hopkinsville asking for the help of the police.

To me, this is one of the more believable strange stories.  None of the family ever wavered from their account.  All described similar creatures.

As a person who grew up a couple of hours (and a few decades) away from this area/event, I can kind of relate to the family.  Me and my cousins would explore the rural woods near our homes.  Country people like this family (and like mine) are observant.  I can think of several times that my cousins and I saw something that confused us- something we couldn't understand.  We would look and investigate, and within seconds, we would know what we were looking at.  This family spend several hours observing, and interacting.  The story, to me, is credible.

Geraldine's dad and other family members were there that night.  She has written a lot about that night.  Any credible documentary on the incident has her involvement.

At the Goat Man Festival, I picked up a couple of books from her.  The Kelly Green Men "Alien Legacy Revisited" and "Where is Kelly Kentucky?"  The first one gives the accounts of the night, and Geraldine's thoughts about it.  She also includes some other strange stories involving her family.

"Where is Kelly Kentucky?" is pretty much a nice collection of newspaper articles about the Kelly Invasion.

Geraldine also sells some stuffed aliens and 3D printed figures of the aliens her family saw that night.
 

Hopkinsville Kentucky

We enjoyed a nice day in Hopkinsville Kentucky!

"Edgar Cayce's Hometown: Hopkinsville Kentucky" by William T. Turner and Chris Gilkey

"Edgar Cayce's Hometown:  Hopkinsville Kentucky" by William T. Turner and Chris Gilkey came out over a decade ago but I just found a copy recently.  This is a really fun book for anyone fascinated with Cayce and/or Hopkinsville.

Hoptown is a really interesting town with a lot of pop that doesn't get the attention it deserves.  There is a lot of interesting and other worldly legends around, not to mention nearby Civil War ties.

But, many people know about Hopkinsville as the hometown of Edgar Cayce.  If you aren't up on Cayce, google him.  He would go in to trances, and give medical advice, along with other thoughts that were new age.

So, Turner and Gilkey have put together a book (similar to the "Images of America" series) that shows various photos of Hopkinsville around the time Cayce would have been around (very late 1800s- through early 1900s).  There are few pictures of Edgar himself, but an impressive collection of pictures the "Sleeping Prophet" took himself, as he was a photographer.

Like I said, Hopkinsville doesn't get the attention it deserves, but it is a fascinating little town, and this is a great book to add to its underrated legacy.

Coffee Connection Hopkinsville KY 2024

We found "Coffee Connections" in Hopkinsville kind of by accident, but we loved the vibe and the spirit of this coffee shop- where NOTHING is charged!

Trail of Tears Commemorative Park and Heritage Center Hopkinsville

You have to check out the Trail of Tears site in Hopkinsville Kentucky!

Hopkinsville Kentucky Visitor Center 2024

When you visit Hopkinsville, make sure you stop by their visitor center.  They have a lot of info on the Hopkinsville Goblins, The Sleeping Prophet, etc.

Postcard: Planters Exclusive Burley Floor Hopkinsville Kentucky

 Found this cool old postcard showing Planters Exclusive Burley Floor in Hopkinsville.  The postcard is unused, but very old.

Kelly Little Green Men Festival

This past weekend the very cool town of Kelly hosted their "Little Green Men Days" Festival.  I was very happy to realize that I would be in the area for the opening day!

This event is very family friendly.  In fact, they started things off with the Pledge of Allegiance, the singing of The Star Spangled Banner, and a prayer.  Gospel singing seemed to be a big part of the festivities too.  In fact, any festival goer could sing during the gospel open mic.

I wasn't at the event on Saturday, but I know local country performer Marty Brown played in the evening, and the alien/UFO influenced band Crashland also played.

I was really excited about meeting Geraldine Sutton Stith at the event.  I had read her book, "Alien Legacy" about her father's confrontation in 1955 with the aliens.  She was extremely polite and happy to talk about the incident, Kelly, etc.  She did about a 30 minute presentation on the Kelly-Hopkins Encounter.

If you are not familiar with the Encounter, I will include some links at the bottom of the page.  In a nutshell, a home was reportedly attacked by small goblin creatures.  Trust me, it is a much more interesting story than that (read Geraldine's book).

Think about 1955 in VERY rural Kentucky.  You had very limited communication ability..... this is a scary tale!

Luckily, the community has fun with their odd notoriety.


Other than Geraldine's presentation, I didn't notice much mention of UFO, ghosts, or other mysterious critters.

We did notice some interesting military aircraft in the area though!  I am sure that the conspiracy theorists felt that the government was keeping a close eye on things.  The fact that a military base is close by had nothing to do with it.

The festival is in a large field in Kelly.  If you are familiar with the town and the incident you know Kelly is very small.  The home where the attack reportedly occurred is literally right up the road from the festival (though I hear the current home occupents aren't thrilled about people coming by to check things out).  There really isn't much to see there anyway, so visiting this festival in August is the best way to celebrate Kelly.

For those of you who like to take road trips to see locations relating to ghosts, legends and the supernatural, this is a GREAT area.  I have mentioned Hopkinsville here before.  The grave of Edgar Cayce is in town as is the Pennyroyal Area Museum- which has interesting displays on the Kelly Encounter, Mr. Cayce, and other local oddities.

Less than an hour away is Adams Tennessee, home to the legendary Bell Witch- also mentioned on this blog many times.

https://www.facebook.com/KellyLittleGreenMen

http://alienlegacy1955.geraldinesutton.com/

http://ufocasebook.com/Kelly-Hopkinsville.html

Jefferson Davis Monument- near Hopkinsville, KY

Jefferson Davis State Historic Site-Fairview, KY

We were able to visit the HUGE monument to Jefferson Davis near Hopkinsville recently!  This one has been on my list for some time.

The monument is very similar to the monument to George in DC, but it is a little smaller at ONLY 351 feet!

I was especially excited about making it to this site, as I was able to see the site of the Confederate President's death while in New Orleans a couple of months earlier.  Also, I do enjoy all of the historic sites we have in Kentucky relating the top guys on both sides of the Civil War.

The site is very close to Hopkinsville, and the drive out out is scenic.  The day we were there, we had the place pretty much to ourselves.  The staff there were great.  The guy who took us to the top of the monument was a vet and a local hunter.  He and my dad talked a lot about that, in addition to the history of the monument.

There was a very friendly lady in the gift shop who knew all about the books they sold, and I believe she had read them all.  I made a couple of purchases based on her recommendations.

I made a stop at the post office next door too.  The very cool postmaster there was happy to postmark my Jefferson Davis stamped items for me.  I was happy to get them marked at the PO built pretty much exactly where Davis was born.

This is another great site that is under appreciated.  I think many people have heard about it, but haven't made the trip out to see it.  I am sure that there are many others who are simply unaware of it, but I am glad I finally made it out to see it!

Trail of Tears Park, Hopkinsville, KY

I was in Hopkinsville recently and drove by the Trail of Tears Park Unit.

I don't get to that area as much as I would like to and I REALLY wanted to visit this particular site.  However, with the government shutdown, I felt pretty certain that this place would be unstaffed, since it is part of the National Park Service.

I was wrong.  When we arrived the museum was open and no barriers were up to prevent us from going in!  The proud person running the museum told us that she was a volunteer, so she was not affected by the government shutdown.

Think about that for a while.  While our government fought it out, and then shut down, the VOLUNTEER at this site still came in to open up ON SCHEDULE.  Some people believe in what they do too much not to show up.


Though the museum here is small, we still spent a couple of hours here.  The staff was amazing, telling us stories about the Trail of Tears and its hardships, and about the people.

This is easily one of my favorite park sites I have visited.  The heritage center here has a nice collection.  It is in an attractive area.  The staff cares about the park and its mission.

Oh, and they do host a Pow Wow in September!  Go to their web site for more details!

http://www.trailoftears.org/

Hopkinsville, KY- Random Photos

Ferrell's Hamburgers- Hopkinsville, KY

My pal Brent recently took me to Ferrell's Hamburgers in Hopkinsville!

Have you been to this place?  Get down there if you haven't!  Great traditional places like this are scarce!

The place has been around for forever (I believe since 1929)!  It is great that some of the bigger chains haven't forced this legendary institution out.

It is small, there is enough space for maybe a handful of people to enjoy their burgers inside.  I did notice a couple of people standing as they enjoyed their burgers.

If you are travelling through Hopkinsville you have no excuse for not stopping here!

Also, little businesses like this deserve your business simply for keeping a local tradition going.  You can get a chain burger anywhere!

Edgar Cayce- Riverside Cemetery, Hopkinsville, KY.

We stopped at Riverside Cemetery to visit the grave of Edgar Cayce.

We noticed some other great looking markers.  Here are some photos!

Edgar Cayce- Pennyroyal area Museum in Hopkinsville, KY

Here are some photos of Edgar Cayce relics from the Pennyroyal Area Museum!