GoblinCon UFO and Paranormal Expo – Legendary Mysteries
📅 Dates: October 17–18, 2025
📍 Location: James E. Bruce Convention Center, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
🛎 Venue: Modern convention center hosting immersive panels, workshops, and vendor exhibits
🕰 Duration: Two full days of events marking the 70th anniversary of the Kelly Hopkinsville encounter
🎤 Speakers: Featuring leading UFOlogists, cryptozoologists, authors, and paranormal investigators
🛍 Vendors: 70+ themed vendors offering books, metaphysical tools, paranormal gear, cryptid art, and collectibles
💡 Workshops & Panels: Hands-on investigative sessions, folklore deep-dives, and UFO/cryptid research presentations
🏨 Accommodation: Partnered hotel discount available at Holiday Inn & Suites, Hopkinsville
🎟 Tickets: Available online with early-bird and combo pass options
🌙 When The Night Whispers Secrets Only the Brave Can Hear
In Hopkinsville, October’s velvet cloak drapes the town in shadows that shimmer with stories waiting to be told. The air hums with a magnetic pulse, a cosmic flirtation that draws dreamers and daredevils alike to the GoblinCon UFO and Paranormal Expo. Here, where legend and reality entwine like lovers in a secret dance, the strange stirs beneath the Kentucky sky — inviting you to lean closer, to listen, to lose yourself in the deliciously uncanny.
This year marks the 70th waltz of this otherworldly gathering — two days saturated in mystery, where the GoblinCon invites you to chase lights that flicker just beyond sight and brush against the edges of known reality.
👽 The Kelly–Hopkinsville Encounter: The Night the Goblins Came to Stay
Seventy years ago, under the same Kentucky stars now witnessing GoblinCon’s return, a family’s quiet farmhouse became a theater of cosmic mischief. The night of August 21, 1955, erupted into a bizarre tableau when strange lights flickered, and shadowy, goblin-like creatures reputedly peered through windows and prowled the yard. This encounter, whispered about and debated for decades, birthed an enduring legend — a shimmering thread of mystery woven tight into Hopkinsville’s identity.
The GoblinCon celebration stands as a vibrant, living homage. The town’s streets pulse with reminders: the Kelly Little Green Men Days markers invite visitors to trace the footsteps of that unforgettable event, while panels and workshops at GoblinCon dive deep into what might still lurk just beyond our gaze.
Folklore dances with investigation here. The story of those eerie “green men” lives on in the present, thrumming through the heart of Hopkinsville and drawing fresh generations to the mystery.
🎤 The Minds and Mystics Who Command the Stage
The heartbeat of GoblinCon is amplified by the voices who take its stage — a dazzling constellation of researchers, authors, and adventurers whose work dances between the known and the unknowable. Across two charged days, they speak, they provoke, they invite you into their orbits.
Bryce Johnson, the magnetic host and producer of Expedition Bigfoot on the Discovery Network, strides in with the field-tested energy of a man who has followed legends into the deepest woods and returned with stories that cling to you long after dark.
Tim R. Swartz, Emmy Award-winning TV producer and author of The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla and Big Book of Incredible Alien Encounters, threads history, conspiracy, and wonder into a hypnotic weave — each page of his work a doorway for the daring.
Cyn Shrader Hill — author of Whispers in the Dark and EVP specialist — coaxes voices from the air, each one a souvenir for those who dare to listen.
David Eller, cryptozoologist and chronicler of the historic 1969 Berkshires UFO case, reads the patterns in the world’s strangest footprints, his research unfolding like a field guide for seekers.
Miranda Young, co-owner of The Historic Scott County Jail and creator of Ghost Biker Explorations, rides straight into the haunted and the hidden, her adventures captured in hauntingly addictive video series.
Ronald Murphy, folklorist and cryptid scholar, unfurls the archetypes of the Dogman and other shadow-born creatures in works like On Dogman — part caution, part seduction.
Tyler Strand blends occult research with the surreal art of illusion, his Hellier and The Unbinding credits blurring the line between performance and revelation.
Geraldine Sutton Stith carries living history — her father a direct witness to the 1955 Kelly encounter. In Alien Legacy, The Kelly Green Men, and Hopkinsville Goblins, she captures the night that changed a town forever, offering the definitive reading list for anyone drawn to the case.
Thom Reed, author and witness in the Reed Family UFO incident, brings the story behind UFO Monument Park to life, his testimony underscored by his written work and public archives.
Dr. Kristy Sumner, co-owner of The Historic Scott County Jail and co-founder of Soul Sisters Paranormal, leads investigations that have become essential viewing for those fascinated by America’s most haunted places.
Pat Fitzhugh commands the stage with the lore of the Bell Witch, his definitive volume The Bell Witch: The Full Account carrying the same chill as the Tennessee winds that birthed the legend.
Ken Gerhard, cryptozoologist and TV personality known for Missing in Alaska, roams the world’s strangest landscapes, his books on legendary creatures providing a passport into myth and possibility.
Each name is a doorway, and GoblinCon is the key — step through and you’ll find yourself chasing whispers, cradling relics of the extraordinary, and carrying home a mind lit with possibilities you’ll never quite shake.
🛍 Where Curiosity Turns to Treasure
Step onto the vendor floor at GoblinCon, and it’s like crossing into a parallel marketplace where the currency is wonder. The air hums with the scent of old books and polished crystals, mingling with the subtle charge of EMF detectors and freshly printed maps of UFO sightings. Over seventy vendors gather in this shimmering bazaar — booksellers stacked high with titles on the Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, artisans conjuring cryptid art that stares back at you, and craftspeople offering talismans that seem to warm in your hand as if recognising you.
You might find paranormal investigation gear that once lived only on your wishlist, or a rare volume that pulls you in with the same force as a midnight light in the sky. This is a paranormal expo Kentucky knows how to host — tactile, immersive, and thick with stories waiting to be carried home.
🪐 Workshops, Panels, and Theatrical Truths
Beyond the stalls, GoblinCon transforms into a living classroom where the syllabus is equal parts science and sorcery. Panels led by UFO conference veterans unravel sightings from Hopkinsville to the far reaches of the galaxy, while cryptid researchers trace pawprints across folklore and modern testimony alike.
Workshops invite you to slip on the role of investigator — learning to capture EVP recordings that send shivers down your spine, mapping UFO sightings with precision, or unpicking the cultural threads behind centuries-old supernatural tales. The atmosphere is part lecture hall, part séance, and entirely alive with possibility.
By the time you leave these rooms, your notebook will be a trove of techniques, sketches, and questions that hum like static in the back of your mind — seeds only GoblinCon can plant.
🗺 Hopkinsville and the Magnetic Pull of Western Kentucky
To attend GoblinCon is to step into a landscape where history and legend hold hands beneath an endless Kentucky sky. Hopkinsville hosts the UFO conference with an embrace that feels both grounded and otherworldly, its streets carrying the pulse of the Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter in every brick and signpost. The historical markers in nearby Kelly stand like invitations, each one a reminder of that August night in 1955 when the air shimmered with possibility.
A few streets away, the Pennyroyal Area Museum unfolds its treasure of UFO sightings and local artefacts, drawing you deeper into the region’s living mythology. A short drive leads to the Trail of Tears Commemorative Park, a place of stillness and reverence where the land holds stories as powerfully as the stars.
For those who crave open horizons, the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area stretches in wild beauty — forests whispering by day, skies alight with mystery by night. It is the perfect stage for lingering after GoblinCon, gazing upward, and wondering if the same lights that inspired the Expo are still out there, watching in return.
Even the heart of town plays its part. Antique shops hide curiosities behind dusty panes, cafés serve comfort in porcelain cups, and every corner hums with the feeling that you are exactly where the story wants you to be. GoblinCon may draw you here, but Hopkinsville ensures you never truly leave it behind.
✨ Where Legends Wait for You
Under the October sky, GoblinCon becomes an event alive with magic — a living spell cast through the voices of its speakers, the treasures of its vendors, and the electricity of shared curiosity. Two days hold it on the calendar, yet its stories seep into you, tugging at your thoughts long after you’ve left the convention hall. The Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter sparks the flame, and the glow you carry home is entirely your own.
Every glance across the vendor floor, every whispered detail in a workshop, every sidelong look exchanged in a panel session adds another layer to the memory. GoblinCon is where you meet strangers who feel like co-conspirators, where you cross paths with legends and realise they look you right in the eye.
Come to Hopkinsville ready to listen, ready to wonder, ready to step into a current that has been flowing for seventy years. GoblinCon is waiting — and the moment you arrive, the story becomes yours.
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