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Rock that's right, Upton. It turns out scientists have discovered the nineteen eighty
four educational film Gremlins is not an actual documentary about gremlins. But certainly they
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there with the phone. Ah. But what creatures? It's a gremlin.
It's a gremlin. We're talking about gremlins today, that's right, with just
a hint of goblin. Oh, because they can't you taste it? Yeah,
they're somewhat related. Well, we'll be uh covering that in a little
bit. We're going to go through what gremlins are, how long they've been
around, What are some encounters that maybe some people are around? Uh,
and maybe some explanations will throw out there troubles with gremlins. Yeah, not
all gremlins come from Chinese old men and chops. No, As a matter
of fact, almost none of them do, right, I can only I
can only think of one time that's where they came from. If I had
to put a pin in it, I think just just the one. Yeah,
yeah, except for that new Batch. Oh yeah, well, I
guess they didn't come from him. No, it was just it was just
a continuance of someone who was irresponsible with their pet. Remember that was the
time when when people thought that two movies were enough and if the second one
didn't cut it, yeah, he stopped. No, or they would just
make one movie and that would be a complete story, as opposed to from
the get go deciding it has to be three in order to be profitable,
right, or you split the third one up into two. Oh man,
welcome to old man rantings. You know what I don't like the new milk
containers. It's hard to find a cardboard container from my milk. Well,
I got that twist cap on the side. It's wasting these movies can do.
It's get off in the lawn kids, A bunch of youths, cranky
old man gremlins. A listener suggested, I believe yeah, this one from
our our listener list o list ours. I went there too, and then
I just stopped myself. I couldn't. So let's talk about some grimlins for
you. I think I'd go so far to say that that gremlins are pretty
misunderstood and people are misinformed because of the pop culture about them. Yeah,
that's right. The media. Sure, you see people who let him in.
You got the liberal media in there. They're gonna they're gonna spend you
around. They're gonna tell you if they just want to let all the gremlins
in, give them jobs, give them homes, give them some sort of
amnesty. It's just a free for all for Krypton's to come in and take
jobs from hard work and people who want those jobs, who need those jobs.
Every time you do this, I can't decide whether it's Rush Limbaugh or
Alex Jones from Info Wars. You are correct, all right, let's get
into let's get into some grim goodness. Yeah, let's just feed this podcast
after midnight and see what happens. Yeah, let's do that. Let's see
what it pops out here. Little pods of casts gremlins humanoid stand between six
and eighteen inches tall, as described by witnesses and also described as being blue
or green in color, usually described as having long, pointy ears, and
it's also been said they wear green trousers, a red jacket, spats,
and sometimes a top hat. What elegant little bastards. Yeah, I don't
know that that many descriptions include that, but there have been enough to have
that information somewhere. They are reported to have large feet, possibly with some
kind of section grips on them, and we'll get to why later. And
apparently there are grimlins of the air and marine grimlins, and the marine variety
are said to have Webb defeat and fins makes sense. They're said to live
in underground burrows at airfields and even that they drink petrol. What little debts
does nothing they do just can't they even just accidentally be noninvasive? I don't
think so. I'm sorry, I'm just really mad about gremlins. Are you
already so furious? They're like little woody woodpeckers. They just they just they
just get in your life and they with your picnic. All you wanted to
do was have a picnic, but no woody woodpecker thinks it's funny if you
don't. Yeah, they drink up all your gasoline. And they're like they're
very technologically sophisticated, and they completely understand the most complicated of equipment, but
it's like a reverse understanding. It's like it's it's the same way a person
can really study a disease because their whole point is to destroy it. Yeah,
yeah, I guess you have to know what you're doing in order to
mess it up effectively destroy it. That's what they told me in music theory
classes. Anyone's right, you need to learn these chords before you can get
out there and do your grunging. Your little bastards. Now, they are
a type of faith folk or fairies. Now, while their origins are not
well known, they could be derivations of goblins or more likely what are called
broonies spelled brownies, which I think probably ninety percent of whoever talks about them
calls them brownies. But yeah, I saw that the pronunciation should be broney,
probably because it's usually said by a Scotsman. That's what I was doing.
Gun Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, Angus, Did you mean brownies?
That's what I said. You have to pissing me. Where does that
niclethe I kind of even smell it. So let's let's break down here a
little bit. Uh, just a quick crash course on goblins and a good
pun crash coursings on goblins. I mean goblins. It's not a pun.
Gremlins would have been a pun, sort of get your fast what's identity?
I was like, this is excessible, this is this is weirder than I
should be right now. So a goblin. The name goes back to the
Greek cobel oi, which means evil spirit. Cobel Oi you might if if
you follow in some of our realms that we delve into with our body parts.
Uh cobald, Yeah, is a popular enemy in such things as D
and D warcraft all that's all that sort of stuff. They don't want you
to take candle, but I go, takey candle the world the warcraft.
They all scream that, sure, sure, you know, takey candle.
But uh, coboloid then morphed somehow into goblin, as I guess as it
crossed the continent. We see people. It's a failure of the schools.
And the goblins were said to be small, about three feet tall, and
they were grotesque humanoids, primarily evil and malicious. There's never been a good
goblin, has there? I don't. I don't think there has, unless
there's you know, a special thing in some fantasy book somewhere that's like,
oh the good goblin, And yeah, I've never heard of it. You
know what if you have let us know, correct our ignorance. But primarily
they're they're bad little critters. Yeah, goblins, now brunis. I can't
see it like that unless I do that. Yeah, sorry, these are
our little house spirits. Also around three feet tall. They're humanoids that we
are all brown, which doesn't help the case for calling them Brunei's. And
they're very responsible in tending to house chores and duties as long as you are
respectful of them and reward them with something like a glass of milk, a
bowl of cream. I can with a dairy run into this before those guys.
Those guys are lacto addicted. Bruneis can turn into bog Arts, who
are mischievous and difficult spirits. These start starting to sound like pokemons that like
evolve. Yeah, the final form is a bog art. Bog Arts I
think are in Harry Potter yep. And that's where JK. Rowland got this.
You know, she got a lot of stuff from the lore of the
Aisles there. But bog arts. Think of a bog art sort of along
the same lines as you would think of a poldergeist. Yeah, mischievous spirit
just doing nothing but ucking with your ship. Yeah, and they're they're very
difficult to get rid of if you've got one. So if you piss off
a brooney, it can turn into a bog art and it will just be
a complete nuisance to your life for a long time. For the cup,
for the cost of a cup of cream, you can you can take better
care of your bruney's. They're helping you. Don't don't you know, don't
make them turn on you. They will do your chores and stuff, you
know, anything you don't get to during the day. And they're they're pretty
shy, although they apparently do get attached to humans in the household. Ye.
But yeah, if you are are have bad manners, or or are
lying or cheating some way or another, or if you don't give them their
reward, yeah, they'll they'll turn it on you. Now, gremlins back
back to now that we've laid some foundation. Gremlins may be a type of
bog art associated with tools and machinery, you know, you know. My
theory is that they were just lying quietly because we used to have flying machines
thousands of years ago, and they used to love to tear those apart.
And then we don't have them anymore. So they just like, well,
we'll just take one of our quaint fairy faye folk thousand year naps. What
are you doing? Laura just started miming, brushing out a huge amount of
idiot hair and then okay, I didn't know, Well played you set the
hook. Well you were really efficient in the ancient aliens there. So yeah,
so they the gremlins as we understand them, are remarkably new to the
scene. Yeah yeah, I mean in the form that we kind of know
them as today. Now. Gremlins are nothing if not mischievous. They primarily
cause minor annoyances and occasionally serious trouble with aircraft. Yep. Mostly they'll sabotage
planes to keep them grounded, or they'll fiddle with parts of the plane in
the air, or maybe even cause hallucinations of the crew, like maybe making
the ground just suddenly appear in front of the plane through a cloud, right
and there's the girl side, or or maybe even rearranging the stars so that
they get off course, or they you know, things don't look as familiar.
They're they're justsard. Yeah, they're a little bastards like that. The
things they do, it's not necessarily fatal mischief. Right, Mostly it's inexplicable
mechanical problems and accidents of that nature. Now, they have to get on
the plane when it's on the ground and get off the plane. You know,
when it's on the ground. It's it's not like they just kind of
appear and disappear. So they're not going to do something that that necessarily puts
them in harm's way, right either, you know they're not going to don't
they're not magical and that they can fly magical in that they are fairy folk,
right, and you know, they'll chew through wires, they'll they'll unscrew
now and bolts. They'll really really mess with people. But usually if it
becomes too much, it's a joke to them. So if if the joke
goes too far, it's been said that you can maybe reason with them and
be like listen, as long as you're calm about it, and you're like
listen, uh, we're gonna die, yea, So maybe you want to
kind of, you know, stop what you're doing and fix some of it.
Fighting the arming pins on the ordinance not fun. Yeah, and we
got about ten seconds to fix that, so can we can we have some
help, although it's It's also been said that they could jump off of planes,
and the and the gremlins themselves will do nose dives to the ground.
Their feet would spread to slow their fall like little mini parachutes because they're so
big, I guess, and their top hats would absorb the impact like a
little torpedoes. They're almost like little springhill jacks. They really are. They
are. They're they're little Irish bastards. They're not Irish. Now. The
interesting thing is that so they really gained notoriety there. There's mentions of them
in World War One with the with the very first the advent of aircraft,
and then in World War Two is when they really gained a lot of popularity
as far as being a Fai folk. Something that was discussed and is a
means of given how quickly aircraft were produced, how many people who had no
experience were suddenly flying aircraft or working on aircraft. Right, there were so
many things happening suddenly, and there was so many aircraft in the air and
so many people's lives depending on that that yeah, you're gonna get a lot
of unexplained problems. Sure, and this was a way of expressing that.
Yeah, it's it's a passing of blame, right there, skate goats.
So the popular etymology of the name gremlins is that it comes from the Old
English term grimmion, which meant to vex So that makes sense. Yeah,
although they are vexed full. Yeah, it's it's not, you know,
completely certain that that's where it came from. But uh, it works.
Right. There's the thought that gremlin's appeared in folklore much like the shoemaker elves.
You remember these things, you heard these things? Uh, they you
know, the little cobblers. They would help the shoemaker out and and uh,
they're almost like brownies in and of themselves. Just say brownies, I
know, right. They could have been the craftsman and inventors of the past.
And I even saw something that says maybe even they helped you know,
the famous Benjamin Franklin with his lightning experiments. Oh but at some point recognition
of their contributions waned, and they became disillusioned and turned against man and decided
to be mischievous instead of helpful. Wow, so it's our fault. Awesome.
Let me tell you something. Gremlins the only person whose behavior you're responsible
for is your own, so just know that you can't blame other people for
your actions. By the way, Gremlins, Um, anything Dave says or
anything that comes out of his mouth is subject to his apartment, but not
the equipment that you were using, because it's mine. I love you.
You'll have your cream if you want it, and as long as we get
this episode out of it. Oh you know, that's that's. I mean,
he can say that all he wants, but we both know that anything
that's said right now is said by blurry photos and its totality in a very
legal binding sense. Gremlins. And I'm calling you out, Gremlins. Can
you tell Dave that, oh man, this is almost as bad as as
the old Jewish demon. Oh that. I was thinking about that too,
and I was gonna just say it right out loud. Yeah you were going
to, but I'm not. But you can't. Yeah, I'm doing that
out of respect for you. I just I just have one of the feelings,
just name one of the feelings stuff, and people are going to get
start getting pissed off because they're because of you. I want to talk about
it and you don't. Because if we have talked about it. That's the
thing. Go back and listen to our ghost Taxonomy episode. I might even
have something in there in the Superstitions episode. But whatever, man, I
don't want to get too far off topic here, but let's get this,
let's get this tack down as we head into this the autumn of the year.
David Flora, Are we at any point going to do an episode about
the divick Box? Oh? God, I'm not probably not? Ah,
all right, all right, um, look it up, people, go
let's see how many episodes we we do now from now on. Yeah.
Oh, let's see how many people were to say or write any email if
they wanted to hear about it. Oh great, Yeah, I see what
you're doing. Yeah, I'm getting I'm getting the people on my side here.
People. If you want good quality episodes going forward, don't say a
damned thing. If you want a bunch of lost audio, go ahead right
in. Who gives a fuck? All right? If you're wondering why we're
arguing, you could listen to our Superstitions episode. If it's not that,
when it's the ghost text on me, which is right beside, it's just
continuing superstitious at this point. Yeah, you're right, so where were away?
Ship gremlins began to be observed in modern times by aviators like we said.
They were alluded to by the British newspaper The Spectator in World War Two,
which said, quote the old Royal Naval Air Service in nineteen seventeen and
the newly commissioned Royal Air Force in nineteen eighteen. A pair who have detected
the existence of a horde of mysterious and malicious sprites whose sole purpose in life
was to bring about as many years possible of the inexplicable mishaps, which in
those days as no trouble in Ammon's life. Spoke to bother excuse it is
an intentably inconvenient water, we having cables snapped in and difficulty of the arm.
Tim, I wonder if you might remove yourself from our wing. I'm
trying to show the old stiff upper lip. At this point you're becoming quite
zaxing. Man. I have to ask you to cease and desist and to
mechanical attempts in my aircraft. I have to get my man to look at
it when't make it on the ground tea biscuit. So that's what the newspaper
said there. The term also may have origins in the slang of the Royal
Air Force in the twenties and thirties. So the stories have been going around
for a while. They just weren't you know that Nobody thought to write them
down because it's it's it's on the on the job talk. You know.
It's like, yeah, who's gonna he's gonna write that down. It's not
interesting. It's just what you say, and people that you work with know
what you're talking about exactly. Gremlin Lore was first published in the April nineteen
forty two issue of the Royal Air Force Journal, along with a poem which
mister Stecco, I believe you have, Yeah, I do, I do?
Can you reveal? It's what the canadied. It's called the Tale of
the Gremlins. It has a little forward too, and just to skip ahead,
PRU stands for a pretty ruddy unlikely. Oh that's how I'm reading it.
I should do it, like, let's do it. This is the
Tale at the Gremlins. Has told Bo to Pru, the incredible Tale at
the Gremlins. But believe me, you slubs, it's true. Slag off.
When you're seven miles up in avans, and that's a hell of a
lonely spot. And it's fifty degrees below zero, which isn't exactly hot.
When you're frozen blue like your spitfire, and you're scared a mosquito pink,
when you're thousands of miles from nowhere and it's nothing below but the drink,
it's pretty nice. It's then you will see the gremlins, green and gambols
and gold, male and female and nuda gremlin's both young and old. That's
neither here nowdays. It it's no good trying to dodge them. The lessons
you learned on the link will help you try to evade a gremlin though you're
boosting your dive and you think white ones will wiggle your wingtips. The male
ones will muddle your maps, the green ones will guzzle your glycol and females
will flood your flaps or it gets his taste. The pink ones will perch
on your perspects and dance purouets on your prop as a spherical middle aged gremlin
who spin on your stick like a top. They'll freeze up your camera shutters.
They'll bite your a leron wires. Now bend in now, break in
now, batter and now and set toasting folks in your tires. That is
the tailor the Gremlins as Tolbot the pru pretty Rodyo. Unlikely to many,
but in fact nonetheless to the few to right right, what's all this?
And I boy, Yeah, that's pretty awesome. That's great, that's a
that's a really fun poem there, Yeah, really really fun and apparently Yeah,
that was one of the first print references to to Gremlins that we have
that we know about anyway, Yeah, and it was. It was really
an RF thing. Yeah, they're considered fairies, like we said, but
they're they're still able to work with metals like iron. Iron and fairies don't
mix, never have. I think we mentioned that on our Irish Legends podcast
probably, but if we didn't, Yeah, iron fairies, no go,
but these guys can. So After World War Two the reports of them died
out. That makes sense. The military brass started strongly discouraging talk of Grimlin's
or the Grimlin Effect, and of course that made them drop off even more,
and today the term is applied to more malicious creatures due to pop culture
and other sources. Although before we got the wonderful m Spielberg produced classic now
the classic, Yeah, I think. I think the thing that really kept
it especially alive in the American kind of nomenclature was the Twilight Zone episode Oh
my gosh, yeah, Terror at twenty thousand feet and that was terrifying and
it was it was one of the one of their most popular episodes. I
mean, it featured the greatest actor will know in our life. And I
am not saying that sarcastically whatsoever, one mister William Shatner. This someone of
the wings um thing on the way of the plane. I I just love
that episode. I love the Twilight Zone in general. It's such a great
show. Um. And a fun fact about the Twilight Zone is the reason
why it has this all the actors have that same Chattnarian vibe to them is
when they were when they were filming this show in Hollywood, it was it
was a low budget thing. It was hard to sell them like, no,
these are tales of the bizarre, and think about the time area that
the show came out. That was a tough sell and so they couldn't get
a list or B list actors. They would just go around to smaller theaters
and just get these kind of local theater actors to do it. And so
for them this was like their their big moment, this was their break.
And so that's why everything is stop talking, debate. I can't take it.
Everything is like, so, come on, Johnny, this is your
moment. Why aren't you taking Johnny, Johnny, listen to me. It's
it's it's just like it's such an accidental but really consistent style of acting that
I really enjoy. Yeah. No, I can't read without my classes exactly.
So that's a little love letter to Twilight Zone. But that was a
hugely popular episode and it's something that everyone iconic. Yeah, and that that
that show functionally has never gone off the air. No, so everyone sees
that everyone is aware of of of Gremlin's from that and the parodies that have
resulted from that, even though just one episode. Yeah, there's a great
Simpsons one on the bus, Yeah, the tarre at six and a half
feet or something. Yeah, yeah, Treehouse of Horror episode. Uh,
now see this time. Uh this is again super big deal in the RAF
during the war. Uh. And an RAF pilot crashed in Libya by the
name of Rold Dahl ever heard of him. You know. Again, he
was like ruddy greml. But they sony things off my plane. But he
he turned. He tried to make some lemonade out of that. So he
wrote a story and in which male gremlins were called gremlins and females were called
fifinella's and child gremlins were called widgets. And he wrote a story about a
family of gremlins, and he showed it to one of his commanding officers who
thought it was interesting. And one way or another it makes its way to
Walt Disney, who buys the rights to it. It's just just like everything
else does, right, So he uh, they were The plan was they
were going to make a feature length of movie out of this um. So
they worked on it. They worked on it. The problem is they couldn't
find a way to make creatures who crashed airplanes lovable. That was a problem
for them. I don't know why. Yeah, And then they were going
to make an animated short. There was a book that was published under the
Disney imprint about the the Gremlins, And during the war, Disney even had
some of his artists to make a nose art for bombers that that featured Fief
and Ella. So then it was it got scaled back to just a short,
and then they were like, we just can't we just can't do It's
not gonna happen. But the book was popular. Um, it was a
again it kind of forwarded this idea of the Gremlins. Warner Brothers. Um.
I don't know if it was a tex Avery or not, but Warner
Brothers did create a Gremlin cartoon. It was an animated short and it was
Bugs Bunny versus the Gremlin, and the Gremlin whooped Bugs Bunny's ass up and
down an airplane. Yea, it was called Falling Hair. Yeah, it
was the name of it. You came Aster Bunny. That was the best
part. It was like the weirdest little nerd that could not be defeated.
Yeah. Yeah, it's worth googling. Can do it. Yeah, it's
on YouTube. You can find a ton of of that cartoon. It's like
eight minutes long, pretty silly man. Bugs Bunny gets real pissed by this
Grimlin. Yeah. I'll say this. Everybody likes Bugs Bunny, but it's
kind of nice to see them get his ass kicked from Yeah. Yeah,
it's just Gremlins. They're just one step ahead of you. Yeah, you
can't beat them. They're little fairies. There. There was also I did
see one thing that said maybe they have a touch of psychic power in that
sense, knowing what the pilots are going to do before they do it,
so that they can up with their ship. Yeah, so they can more
accurately make them miserable. Right, you know, you gotta be good at
what you do people. Sure, so, so that's that's your gremlin for
you, and then you get too obviously, I think everybody knows the well,
I think most everybody knows. You know, the eighties movie Gremlins,
Oh yeah, and uh and the spinoff, Cereal Gremlins Cereal and the and
the everything merchandise. Oh yeah, that was a that was a ridiculously merchandized
movie. Yeah, that was Gremlin's everything for a while. Of course,
there's there's Gremlins that that show up in pop culture and all kinds of different
things these days, including like we said, Harry Potter, yep, they're
in there World of Warcraft. Oh world, I mean, any any any
fan fantasy thing, Lord of the Rings video games use goblins like crazy.
You can you can actually be goblins and World of Warcraft. You true,
you can. You can go ahead and say that's who I choose. Uh,
Willow hates goblins through an apcorn at one. Yeah, And like we
said, goblins gremlins, they're not exactly the same thing, but they're they're
close enough in the fantasy world, I think. Yeah, if someone says
goblins and gremlins interchangeably, in your head, you'll know that that person's crazy,
because why are they talking about goblins and gremlins that much? You'll know
that you should probably only see them during daylight and in crowded areas, right,
that's what you should take. Maybe a burger king, Yeah, gives
yourself a whopper while you're at it, exactly burger king spots or but you'll
know when your head maybe you know what the difference is. But let's talk
about a certain encounter that some folks had. Oh yeah, speaking of goblin
grilles, a little Flora County flavor. Here, we're gonna be talking about
the Kelly Hopkinsville Goblins. Now, this happened between the small town of Kelly
and the town of Hopkinsville in Christian County, Kentucky in the fall of nineteen
fifty five two families on a rural farm reported a very strange encounter, very
strange indeed, and very prolonged. Yeah, yeah, very detailed as well.
There were I think a total of seven people that claim to see creatures
that resembled Grimlins one night. Now it's since been renamed, you know,
a number of different derivations of the Kelly Hopkinsville Goblins, but for our intents
and purposes, they're described very much like how our description of Gremlins went.
Yep. And I think they're using gremlin goblin interchangeably as well with and you'll
see that if if you look this up online, a lot of people will
also refer to it as the Kelly Hopkins Alien incident. There's a lot of
this is one of the things that no one really knew what happened. And
yeah, some people say, whoever reads it puts their own stamp on it.
Yeah, you could, I think even conceivably say that the descriptions of
these things and the drawings that they made sort of gray esque a little bit,
or the at least sort of like little green Men from Mars kind of
kind of dahio h. Yeah, this definitely takes takes a dip into the
old Ufo pool and cools off a little bit. It's warm so with no
running water at the at the farmhouse, a visitor named Billy Ray Taylor,
visitor of the family that was living there, went outside in the evening for
a drink water. They had an old fashioned pump. He went out to
get a pump of water. I saw some strange lights in the sky and
what he described as some kind of craft, a disc with lights of all
colors of the rainbow. So he says, well, he goes inside and
tells everybody. Nobody believes him. Of course, course why would you idiot.
Also, you know Smoonshine country. You don't know if he's sober.
And it turns out he was sober the whole time, but at this time
no one knew. About an hour later, strange noises started coming from outside,
and then the family dog began to bark. After it had barked a
little bit, it hid under the house, and the patriarch of the family,
Elmer Lucky Sutton, and Billy Ray went out with guns like you do
in every Elmer and Billy Ray have guns. Yeah, they saw a creature
emerge from the trees is about a three foot tall creature with upright pointed ears,
thin limbs, claw like hands, and it was silvery in color,
or at least wearing something that was metallic. They said. It seemed to
float above the ground and move with a swaying motion of its hips, almost
as if it were wading through water. As it got closer, the men
did what any Kentuckian would probably do. Let them up. They opened fire
on it. These colors don't run, mother, I ask it what it
is? Okay, it don't answer, They said. There was a metal
sound, almost as a piece of metal rolling around in a metal drum,
and then the creature flipped backwards and fled into the woods. So they think
they hit it and flipped it, but then it just took off. So
they went to follow it, you know, to see if they had wounded
it, or if they needed to finish it off or whatever. And as
they got off the porch, they looked up and they saw one on the
awning of the porch. Was there all along sillies. Hey, what are
y'all shooting? Man? Oh, that's my brother. Stop it. Yeah,
don't hurt it. Rundale's barn. Run, Thank your friends, so
Dave, what do you think they did? Then? Oh, you turn
around and opened fire again. They shot it, yeah, and they got
similar results, although this one when it flipped off the edge of the awning,
it kind of floated to the ground m and then it took off.
They went inside. Clearly, can't day feather fall with mel on itself.
That's one of the mine where Canada. And it was still a hat a
few action points left in the round. Obviously Sudden was lucky for a reason
because he rolled a nitiative although man, luck Elmer, your shotgun, while
devastating at close distances, was not meant for long range sniper fire. Jesus,
I'm not going to do that again. I'm not going to do that
again. I mean, we're obviously not making fun of people like that,
because we know how else would I know that I am that person. So
they ran inside and then a couple of minutes later somebody saw one of them
peering in through a window mothman style. So what do they do it?
What they do? Open fire through the window. They shot it. They
shot it. I just watch someone because it's like someone in the house's job
that didn't They didn't have enough guns to do around and their job was to
just go lit them up. There it is, there's one, I'm sure
it was. There was some loud scurrying that was heard on the roof,
and then over the next few hours, the families said that the creatures would
approach the home or or maybe pop up at a window and then what did
they do? They got shot, Yeah, but the shots didn't seem to
hurt them, and a great big game intergalactic whack them all. It seems
like, according to the accounts, that it was almost like the creatures started
playing a game with them, right like, oh, look, can you
can you shoot me? Here? Go up on the roof, Bob.
I'm starting to get the impression that they's just toning with us now. They
were unsure how many creatures there were. Uh. Some claims say they were
twelve to fifteen of them, although apparently only two were ever seen at one
time together, so who knows. But yeah, like we said, when
when they were shot from a high place like the roof, they would float
to the ground. Otherwise they just kind of spin backwards and then take off,
yeah, which is kind of weird. So the family, after being
terrorized for a few hours, they decided to get in their old cars and
head on down to the police. So they did. They all piled in
a couple of cars and shot off to the to the police station, and
apparently they came back with about twenty last came back with a small army of
local county and National Guard. No military police. Yeah, there was some
from the army base one they like, they came back. State troopers may
have been with them. Yeah, neighborhood watch. There was some hobo that
was hitching a ride. There's just an old fashion looking I'm going to bat
them with my bendle. So when they got back, there not a thing
inside. The authorities observed that there was damage that had been done and there
was plenty of spent AMMO, and the family was clearly terrified. Something had
happened to spook them pretty bad. But nobody saw anything. Nobody was there.
So the authorities left after a while. Yeah, two in the morning.
They final leaders like, well, nothing we can do, and that's
and that was the end of it. That was there was nothing else except
what the creatures came back. Yeah, like real bastards and they saw your
friends, and we don't think they believe you, but we come back.
We're coming back. We're gonna show you we were you. We're gonna stay
till about dawn. We're gonna head out here when there's some light. So
that's that's that was their whole night space, the thing skittering around on the
roof. Yeah, and they they came back. They stayed till till about
the break of dawn, and then they were never seen again. Uh.
And people people believe them, but then they they how do you believe a
story like that? Right? But it ended up that the family that lived
there had to pack up and move. I think they moved to Indiana because
they couldn't take you know, the lookers right coming in and being like,
hey, what happened here? Is this where you shot damn things? Yeah?
I heard y'all have all night stand off with forces you barely couldn't understand.
Is that it? Y'all? Charge admission? And then like this the
story gets twisted. Hey, y'all, I heard that the circus was in
town, but that they fought you guys because you guys don't want them,
because they wanted to believe in devil? Is that what happened? I heard
that a bunch of democrats came in here, tried to fornicate with you,
and you fought them off with with just sticks and boards. Is just where
you got that piece of that mold on them all looks like Jesus. It
just got so bad nothing made sense after a while, y'all Thaithaylor's yea,
y'all got that piece of toast that has Apostle Paul on it. Here's the
here's the silly part. According to you know, whichever source you look at,
the neighbors are said to have corroborated the noises and the sights, the
gunfire and uh lights, seeing lights in the sky, you know, weird
stuff like that. But there's also sources that say the neighbors didn't hear hardly
anything. They heard maybe a few shots and thought it was like firecrackers or
something, but didn't see any any weird anomalous sights. H So that kind
of has has gotten bastardized over the years. You know that nobody's quite sure
what happened. It's probably for the best if the neighbors didn't hear anything,
because maybe what if they'd come over, They're like, well, I don't
know, just go knock on the door or look in a window. So
if they're okay, don't forget your hats. Uh, you might want to
wear this this real reflective gray stuff. You don't want to not be seen.
Yeah, make sure they can see you. Try getting up on the
roof. Here were your yellow glasses. I know how you get with the
flashlights over them. Don't don't hurt your feet. Now walk real side to
shim me through. Just sash on up now. Apparently the best explanation that
that people have, if if you don't want to go for gremlins or aliens,
is that Billy Ray saw a shooting star, exaggerated that, and then
they were attacked all night by great horned owls. That they great horn owls.
That's entirely plausible, because it's it's it's established that sometimes they'll just harass
a house all night, and that they are impervious to shotgun blasts and not
scared of the sound either, not at all. No, um, at
least it wasn't in the Sandhill crane. That's the best I can say about
that. Bunk ass theory. Bullstein theory, that is a bull stone owls,
right, really owls. They're curious they're they're flying cats. Really those
owls are you know if and people have been well the great horned owl hunts
between six and seven p m. At night. Well, yeah, that
would explain why they kept coming back at them when they were getting shot at
and looking in the windows and scattering on the roof and coming back after the
police had gotten there. That explains all that. Of course, owls,
I mean effect box it up with the Ark of the Covenant and let's let's
just move on. Crystal skulls. Now, hey, you guys like Crystal
skulls. And the other thing is this, these guys they live in the
country. There is no critter that they haven't seen. They don't they don't
get spooked when something runs across their ports. They're actually far less inclined to
panic than we are now. Probably I saw an opossum once outside of my
apartment here, and it was it skeemed me out like nothing else. Those
people don't care about that. They've seen all the animals that live in the
area. They don't get hysterical about it. Yeah, and that's a thing
too, Like it was, it was pretty clearly observed that they were terrified
and all. Yeah, and an owl would have gotten shot. That multiple
owls would have gotten shot, you were, and there would be al carcasses,
And yeah, they would have gotten at least one. Right, unless
they're future owls, so glad in liquid metal flying through the ages to harass
hillbillies. That's why that's where America is going. That's I mean, as
stupid as Ockham's razor theory even says that these things are aliens. You know
that is true. That is true. I think it's it's more plausible to
have aliens than it would be to have killer owls that just can't stop attacking
in our impervious to bullets. But what I like is that they they still
are referred to as goblins. They're they're referred to as goblins, thus their
inclusion here, and sometimes grimlins. But I like that that they were by
hearing the story, sounds pretty alieny to me, right, But these people
were like, no, no, no, people are gonna say we're crazy
if we say aliens attacked us goblins. Wait wait, wait, y'all goblins
goblins. You feel bad for them because something something right, scaring the terrified,
And people say they weren't the type of people to make it up.
They didn't get any financial gain out of it. You know, they even
packed up and moved, like I said, because they wanted to get away
from it. You know. Yeah, it's just, uh, it's definitely
weird. And and there's no connection necessarily between the dude saying he saw you
know, the disc with the lights, and then these things just so happened
that they happened within the same timeframe. But who's to say, you know,
people say, again, well, maybe there was a meteor shower going
on, or there's some kind of shooting star that was just pretty bright at
the time or something, and then Al's attacked them. Yeah, oh gosh,
Well it's it's a fun story. That's a good that's a good Kentucky
campfire story. Yeah, we should have saved that for another episode. In
retrospect, In terms of explanations of Gremlin's what did you find much? I
did? I did, and I and this it makes good sense Again I
mentioned this earlier. So many people were suddenly flying, and aircraft were being
produced in the United States at the same rate as automobiles. I mean,
they were just flying off assembly lines. I get it. Not to mention
people who answered the draft you know, they're they're trained. Now, now
you're an airplane mechanic, so there's going to be a lot of problems.
There's going to be a lot of unexpected things. No one has experience,
neither the pilots nor the mechanics in doing this. So so you're going to
get all these weird things that no one can explain. And you know,
rather than than sit there like every day just beat themselves up about not knowing
what they're doing, you say, gremlins did it, and then everyone can
laugh and move on and get their job done. Um. Not to mention
the fact that these aircraft were not pressurized. Sure they were flying, Yeah,
they were flying at very high altitudes, very thin air. Um.
These guys flew very long missions. Um. The US government would issue them
aphetamines, pet pills, they called them to keep pilots alert, in awake,
and as a matter of fact, to this day, they still do.
And so uh, it's it's a recipe for hallucination. Yeah. And
some of these pilots, what's what swear? They like? They would say,
I know, I saw the cable with tooth marks in it. I
heard gremlin's talking to each other. There was a dude with a top hat
on my propeller, right, you know that these they would they would say
these things, you know, they and so exhaustion, fear, lack of
oxygen. There's all I mean there was. It was it was a recipe
for hallucination. Yeah, and and also something that helped them unload some of
the the already thorough burden of responsibility that they had. Sure, yeah,
I mean obviously that that's a great explanation for why some of this is going
on. And something we haven't touched on before, I don't think, but
goes right in line with this are the Food Fighters, which we'll probably get
to in a future episode. I think we've we've talked about it behind the
scenes, the phenomenon, not the band, right, I mean literally,
Unfortunately, we've come to appoints where I have to say that. I mean,
I like David Girl. I think he's a cool guy, but I
don't I never gets him confused players with one other band. I can't even
think of the other band's Probably it's probably the Google Dolls. That's the one.
Really, Yeah, I was making a joke that's I think that's the
one, and I think it's Foo and Goo I think that'll do it.
Well, anyway, that'll go go do it. Um. So yeah,
it's scientifically. You can probably look at the concoction for hallucination, the hallucined
action that's going on, or the pots just making stuff up, you know,
to take the pressure off themselves and the workers. Or could be fairies
yeah, or could be gremlins, could be actual gremlins. And you know
what, we will we will eventually get to a faith folk episode and maybe
we'll talk some more. Next time I talked to Ken Hite, I'll ask
him if the Germans also had gremlins. That's I saw a little something about
that. They thought, well, maybe it's something that the enemy is doing.
This is what the Royal Air Force was saying. Maybe it's something the
enemy is doing to us. But then they heard or talked to that,
you know, enemy forces, and it's like, no, it's happening to
them too. They're getting a lot of malfunctions and a lot of bullshits,
So apparently it was happening too to the other stuff. But I mean not
to say we can't talk to Ken hide about Oh no, no, you
answered it now, We won't all right, Sorry, Ken, Maybe next
time so there we go. So that's it, man, that's uh,
that's Gremlins and with a little taste a little sidecar goblins aliens in there.
Yeah, kind of covered a lot of ground on that. Yep, we
sure did. Um what a what a fun suggestion? Yeah, I was
into it. No, we've actually already unloaded our our our listener mail bag
for this week. We have we have with with our our story filled supplemental
hoop. You let get booking, buddy. So, uh, since we
don't have a mailbag to unload, don't we unload a punbag? All right,
let's get some puns going here, David Flora, I I optioned to
you. Would you like to start it? Would you like me to?
I'll do it? Okay, go for it because I'm magnanimous. Oh all
right, this one. This one's for our our Squatch lovers out there.
Oh yeah, if you're not a medium fan of Squatch, you might not
get this one. But I'm gonna go on and throw it out there anyway
because my my option see is is pretty bad. Okay. I've got a
shaky video that shows a mischievous spirit in the wild. Although it may be
just a short guy in a suit. It's called the Patterson Grimlin film.
Oh nice, I like that. I've got one for you. Okay.
I don't know if in your research you found that in nineteen fifty five in
rural Oklahoma, a family was terror all night by the visitor that they didn't
know. Um, and it was a genial British actor. Uh. And
it was the Anthony Hopkins incident. Yeah, oh really yeah, yeah,
it was all night long. He just kept popping up at windows. They
tried to shoot him to no effect, imbervious, and when the bullets hit
him, they just heard the sound exactly nice. All right, all right,
all right, I've got we have to have to set this one up
by saying again, okay, all right, I've got a friend who you
know who makes those tasteless jokes, you know, the one that's like he's
making a joke just after nine to eleven, he's making the joke after the
Boston bombing. Yeah, it's it's it's that friend. Yeah, you just
and you can't seem to get rid of him, no, you know,
no matter how hard you try. Uh, it's the too soony. Oh
god, he does haunt you with his terrible jokes there's a further version of
the gremlin. Yeah. Uh. And their job is actually, it's interesting,
just as much of a nuisance. However, their job is to hold
things together. They don't they don't destroy, They keep everything together. And
I don't know if you've ever been in this situation where you're you're with a
lady. Nope, nope, you've already lost me. Sometimes it's really difficult
to unfasten a bra or unbuckle some hants. And that's because of Femlin's.
They just hold it together. Femlin's they're they're they're there to vex you by
holding broad class. And I'm gonna I'm gonna punch every one of them in
every last face. I should have should have led with that and ended with
the Anthony Hopkins encounter. Oh them's puns, them's puns up in your grail,
send us yours. Yeah, you can come up with something better than
that. Yeah. Now, oh wait, I've got a call to arms.
Oh goodness, it's true. Yeah, go for it. Yeah,
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