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gnome not so sweet gnome

Autumn 2005 Palmar

, a woman washing dishes after dinner was asked by her daughter to go play in the yard. Minutes later the mother heard a strange noise and looked out the window and saw what she described as a small child like shadow jumping from branch to branch in the trees and quickly disappearing, the mother ran into the garden to bring her daughter in. The woman named Sheila searched for daughter in and around the yard even in and under the house and to this day the daughter has never been seen again and no body has ever been recovered. How can a child playing in the yard with the mother washing dishes at a window that over looked where the young girl was playing, just vanish? what was the child sized form jumping through the trees? her daughter maybe? or something else?. Folklore of pixies,dwarves and elves are found world wide most are told as being friendly but some are depicted as mischievous but in Alaska and Canada native legends tell of a race of little people that are far from friendly. Said to stand around 3ft tall with talons on their hands and feet and dressed in clothes made from animal skins, moss and leaves the Alaskan ice gnome has a reputation for extreme aggression and even today native children are warned not to venture out in the dark. The area is also well known for wolves. Local little people legends have persisted for centuries often around the time of a child's disappearance and it is claimed in networks of caves and tunnels evidence of these little people can be found. It is said tools and even bones can be found, making these creatures almost like miniature cavemen. Are these creatures just a good scapegoat for bad tidings in the local area or may they even be like homo-florensis, the hobbit like humanoid that was recently discovered? Or even a sub-species as yet categorized. 2003 flores Indonesia bones unearthed of a very small humanoid that stood around 3.5ft that it is believed lived amongst humans until around 12,000 years ago, could this be a form or species of ice gnome or are the ice gnomes a continuation of the homo-florensis and the disappearances and tales of their aggression are in-fact the common behavior of what is known as the human hobbits. A local police officer based in Palmer claims to of had a experience of a ice gnome. Officer spradling claims around 8.30pm one Halloween he was on patrol and was looking into a disturbance in a residential area. Armed with a flashlight he heard a log hit the ground behind him, officer spradling span around and claims to of seen a human figure around 3ft tall, spradling has appeared on tv series missing in Alaska about this incident. The officer continues saying the figure threw a rock about 20ft (around 6metres) the officers also alleges that the rock when he investigated was extremely heavy and he could hardly lift it. There is over 600,000sq miles of wilderness in Alaska much of which is still unexplored and creatures of every shape and size could easily hide there. A local Palmer community center worker tells the tale of the little people also, according to her the local children are afraid of the gnomes and believe them to be very real. Children have even reported being chased by the vicious creatures. A local resident known only as N had a tale to tell. Her dog had ran away so the day after her and a unnamed female friend went searching after being tipped off that the dog had been seen. In the area the dog was last seen N and her friend found a long trail of blood, in panic she began to call the dog and it is at this point the two friends claim to begin getting pelted with stones and snowballs. Turning around thinking it was local children N claims she saw a figure dressed in animal skins and moss with a dirty aged face and that the figure stood between 3ft6 and 4ft tall. N and her friend ran and drove off at speed and the dog was never found. So are these sightings actual gnomes or a sub-species of homo-florensis? i very much doubt it although it reads as a great crypto-homonid case the likely explanation is probably far more mundane.


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