I would ask you accept this one statement at face value: the world is a strange place.
I would, however, suggest you apply a greater degree of critical thinking to what follows.
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Numerous Indian tribes in western United States and Canada have legends about “little men” who come to specific lakes and rivers for water year after year; these places have been avoided by the Indians and regarded as sacred. In Mexico there are extensive legends about the “Wachoqs,” little people who visited Mexican streams and lakes in the distant past, walking underwater in glittering “diving suits.”
The Irish have always told us of “little men” in tight-fitting green or brown costumes who frequent lakes and rivers on the old sod. While most of us tend to dismiss the Leprechaun lore of Ireland as folk tales and myth, there are a number of impressive and well-documented books relating the numerous appearances of tiny, elusive beings. In many of these accounts the witnesses allegedly encountered Leprechauns on the banks of a stream or lake where they were filling a receptacle with water. Like most of our UFOnauts, the Leprechaun is supposed to be skittish and flees from human beings. And, alos like our UFOnauts and monsters, the Leprechauns are supposed to be capable of leaping great distances and disappearing into thin air.
In Sweden and Denmark we hear about trolls – gnome-like beings who live in the earth and who are physically deformed. The Leprechauns are supposed to lie underground, too, and woe to anyone who tries to find their hiding places. From time to time they are said to kidnap children and whisk them away forever. In UFO lore we have the “Deros” (detrimental robots) who are supposed to live underground in secret caves, or even in the hollowed-out center of the earth. Variations on this underground dweller theme can be found in ancient Oriental legends going back thousands of years.
Not all of the “little people” mythology is baseless. Archaeological evidence of a sort does exist. The ruins of ancient cities in South America have been found honeycombed with tiny tunnels, staircases, and passageways so small that normal men have to traverse them on their hands and knees. Who built these things and why? Even in the United States, in New Salem, New Hampshire, not far from Exeter, site of a UFO “flap” in 1965, there is an ancient construction of tunnels and tiny chambers built long before the Indians arrived. They say “the little men” constructed the place. Another elaborate system of tiny tunnels lies outside of Cusco, Peru, home of many intense saucer “flaps.” A large number of people reported seeing two luminous dwarfs get out of a disk near Cusco on August 20, 1965. And the Lt. Governor of Santa Barbara, Peru, solemnly declared that he encountered two tiny humanoids walking in the snows near Lake Ceulacocha on September 12, 1965. They disappeared, he said, in the midst of a “deafening noise.”
- The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings, John A. Keel, TOR (2002 Reprint), pgs. 163-164.
The Sun (UK) has run an intriguing story titled ‘Creepy gnome’ terrorises town.
Apparently a midget creature walking in a strange “distinctive sideways walk” (bizarrely reminiscent of a crab) has been terrorising residents of General Guemes, Salta, Argentina.
I would encourage you read the article and watch the accompanying video, shot with a camera phone, and make your own judgments.
On the one hand I am very impressed and intrigued by the fluid motion of the object in the movie. And, yet, on the other hand, the “distinctive sideways walk” reminds me of a wind up toy.
And, finally, Barbara from Snopes.com offers us the Snopes Verdict on the subject.
What do YOU think? I’d love to know.
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