Warning: don't watch this video if you are the type that's prone to phobias or nightmares.  It's especially creepy when the guy screams at the end of the clip........

http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article902014.ece

Perhaps the "roaming gnome" from the Travelocity commercials was taking a vacation in South America.  Then again, the "traveling gnome" prank is well-known.  This might be a variation on the prank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_gnome_prank

Although I'd probably react strongly too if I saw this outside at night.  I don't startle easily, and I wouldn't scream.......but I'd react somehow.......probably try to video more and be ready for fight or flight.

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Yeah, my first reaction to a 2-foot-tall guy in a pointy hat would be to kill him too.

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I wonder if that's an RC doll of some kind -- perhaps created as a joke.  If so, then I'd say that it's a "joke" with serious potential consequences involved.  Do it to the wrong person, and they might keel over dead.

That scream at the end of the video sounded like genuine terror to me.

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Tiny guys in dunce hats are no joke.  I'm totally with you, that gnome needs to take a dirt nap.

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A Gnome ate my baby!

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that creeped me out regardless of if it was fabricated or not...

lol, was that a monkey in a costume?

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I'm with Xeno on this one: a RC doll. The movements are a little too rhythmic.

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Robo Sapien...mayhaps?

I'm scared to look at it...what is it? {hey, it's 6 AM over here, and even ebil Jumpies get creeped out before daylight :laugh:}

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ebil jumpies must have big fingers to miss the v like that!! LOL!!

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>> I'm scared to look at it...what is it?

It's a slightly creepy video a la Blair Witch Project of a bunch of guys sitting around in the dark talking about fishing (and why they're videoing it doesnt make a whole lot of sense, but whatever), when suddenly... from the dark... there's an evil troll with a bum leg sliding towards them... slowly... evilly...

Then there's a sudden SCREAM, and the screen goes black.

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Suicide bombers are scary!  This is just an 'April Fools' joke.
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Looks fake, I could have done better and make it more realistic with my camera phone. 

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Just to be safe, I'm offering $10,000 in Zimbabwean currency bounty for proof of dead garden gnomes.

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Sorry, unless it's Nigerian, I cant be bothered.

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Unfortunately I can't see any video. All I see is a still image and an article.  Looks like  a gummy bear to me :)

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Here's a youtube link if you can't see the gnome video. It sure walks like a monkey with a organ-grinder costume on.

This group of kids might either be in on a hoax, or else they might be the victims of a hoax.  According to the news article, other people in the same neighborhood have reported seeing the "gnome", too.

I agree that it's still a creepy video clip regardless of whether it's faked-up or not.

Heh -- the kid with the cell phone camera should have solved this mystery for us by getting up real close to the subject with his camera that night -- to be sure that he'd gotten better pictures. 

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Quote - Here's a youtube link if you can't see the gnome video. It sure walks like a monkey with a organ-grinder costume on.

LMAO, thanks!

How stupid!  Definitely phoney!

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Heeeere, kitty, kitty.... g

Who cares? God keep me away from bio-engineered plagues, weaponized insects, etc., but what's so scary about an evil gnome anyway?

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I dunno about you - but if they've just come back from fishing... trap the gnome with a bucket! :P
(Or something)
The grainy pic says it's an April Fools joke.

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Definitely weird!

On a similar note, here's a ghostly type thing that was caught on a gas station surveillance camera. This is pretty wild too ....

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I did that on purpose so neener, neener :tt2: :lol:

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Then there's a sudden SCREAM, and the screen goes black.

Oooooo..ok, ya talked me into it..I'm gonna go see...{plus it's daylight now :laugh:}

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Ok, I think it's a monkey..like one from a circus.

I've seen the ghostie one too..can't say what that is..but it's cool no doubt :D

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something else that's creepy IMVHO - "hot pants" for a pre-teen character in freestuff here.
since when is it acceptable to think of a preteen girl as "hot"?

wow... the derail the thread award goes to.......:

dun dun dun
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Thank you, thank you.  I can't take all the credit though, the gnome was in on it with me from the start.

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I don't know about strange phenomenon, but I just hope that's not the real Miss Nancy in her avatar!  :woot:

I must say I love the creepy stuff, the downside is that there's just too many fakes out there.

I'd trust anything published by The Sun about as far as I could throw the Empire State building.  Less, in fact.

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Even the t!ts are false in The Sun!
Well, so I've heard. I've never read it.

I'm from Argentina so let me add some details to this, first it didn't happend last week, it was almost a moth ago, it appened in a place full of legends where people is very supertitious, and the legend of the gnome is very old, he even has a name "El pitufo Enrique" something like Henry the smurf LOL, so considering this is very easy to understand the horror when they see this "creature", a really very bad taste joke .
Let me tell you we don't have April fools day here, I'm almost shure it's not an RC doll, prefer the monkey :-) but monkey have longer arms and the proportions... well I don't know how they fake the creature but the fear of the guys is true for me, The Sun don't tell that they were near the cementery of the town.
And here is fall, not so cold yet to stay late at night doing nothing for people with nothing to do ;-)
And yes, I know, my English is very bad LOL

I sort of agree with ima and others... the gnome is for sure fake as hell, but the kids sitting there had no idea they were in a prank.. maybe not even the camera guy... probably someone in the group said "hey, why don't you film us here for a while", knowing that would be the key for the other guy to start pulling the prank...
ahh, who knows... I saw the ghost thingie... and it's interesting, but it could be so many things other than a real ghost... I'm thinking some type of reflection caused by something in there...

luckily this is all OT ^_^.. but yeah, that damn gnome creeped me out regardless... I only could watch it once xD

Quote - I'm from Argentina so let me add some details to this, first it didn't happend last week, it was almost a moth ago, it appened in a place full of legends where people is very supertitious, and the legend of the gnome is very old, he even has a name "El pitufo Enrique" something like Henry the smurf LOL, so considering this is very easy to understand the horror when they see this "creature", a really very bad taste joke .
Let me tell you we don't have April fools day here, I'm almost shure it's not an RC doll, prefer the monkey :-) but monkey have longer arms and the proportions... well I don't know how they fake the creature but the fear of the guys is true for me, The Sun don't tell that they were near the cementery of the town.
And here is fall, not so cold yet to stay late at night doing nothing for people with nothing to do ;-)
And yes, I know, my English is very bad LOL

Thank you for the background.

Your English is a whole lot better than my Spanish.

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Quote - I'm from Argentina so let me add some details to this, first it didn't happend last week, it was almost a moth ago, it appened in a place full of legends where people is very supertitious, and the legend of the gnome is very old, he even has a name "El pitufo Enrique" something like Henry the smurf LOL, so considering this is very easy to understand the horror when they see this "creature", a really very bad taste joke .
Let me tell you we don't have April fools day here, I'm almost shure it's not an RC doll, prefer the monkey :-) but monkey have longer arms and the proportions... well I don't know how they fake the creature but the fear of the guys is true for me, The Sun don't tell that they were near the cementery of the town.
And here is fall, not so cold yet to stay late at night doing nothing for people with nothing to do ;-)
And yes, I know, my English is very bad LOL

Yes, thank you very much for the additional information.  That helps to fill the story in. 

Edited to add: -- BTW -- does this legendary gnome eat people, or steal babies, or something like that...........?

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dun dun dun
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I certainly don't mind.  Completely OT threads can be taken wherever posters want to take them (at least by my "rules" -- and within the bounds of the TOS, of course).

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**XENOPHONZ: as far as I know, no, he is just a full, only scare people, he've been see many times even by people considered very credible. There are diferent legends about small people in other places of my country some very beautiful legends, some very evil some very benevolents, but this is not beautiful and do nothing, most people here laugh at it, well after all its funny.
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Awwww, man.......I was hoping that this gnome did something FUN.  Ah, well.......

Thanks for the additional information, ima70.  Many countries have legends about small/big people.  It's interesting to know this about Argentina.

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ok, being a grinch.. the ghost at the gas station? First thing I thought was "hope the bug on the lens moves in time to see the ghost". oops.

It is not creepy at all, it just plain stupid. It looks like a little person, dressed up as a hoax.

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:rolleyes: Now, that's my sort of ghost. And we now know why they move so oddly.

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They need to send in one of those paranormal investigative teams in to check that one out.  You know -- the folks on cable TV who run around in the dark with infrared cameras pointing at their faces  (amazing that they don't bark their shins more often than they do as they stumble about in the dark).

sigh  Nobody seems to like garden gnomes in the night, out in the middle of nowhere.  Next time I see one, I'll tell him that he's not wanted.  He don't scare nobody.  He'll be disappointed: but such is life.

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Well watch this one..kinda freaky. {tagging this for language } Pretty sure it's fake...but still creepy.

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Acadia,

How can you possibly mix up the creepy gnome with the lovable gummy bear ?

Poor garden gnomes just don't get any respect. (Is it just me, or would anyone else have to go in for a closer look at that thing?) brrr.. car crash thing is very well acted.

Hmmmm.......looks like it isn't impossible for a real human being to be that size, fully grown:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/06/ntiny106.xml

I've never heard of achondroplasia.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/06/ntiny106.xml

I've never heard of achondroplasia.

Possibly he's a misplaced pygmy from Afica? ;=D
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How can you possibly mix up the creepy gnome with the lovable gummy bear ?

Wonderful! Now I have something to inflict on my officemates!!! Heh heh heh........

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Like ima70 I am from Argentina too and we have looooads of legends and myths.

One of the most know is the "luz mala" which translates to bad light. It is also know as "el farol de mandinga" which is "the devils lantern". This legends is better known in Europe and the US as Will-o'-the-wisp.

The legend goes that where this light is seen where there is buried treasure and the light is the ghost of the owner thrying to keep away thieves. But anyone wating to unearth these treasures must beware as they are likely to be cursed.

Tradition states that on the 24th of August these lights are more visible because its St Bartholomew's day and the devil is free from the gaze of angels and can tempt greedy souls to these cursed treasures.

Now about the clip, I think is definitely staged, first of all the kids are filming themselves doing nothing, which is not uncommon with kids these days, but unlikely. Mobile phone contracts are  expensive in Argentina, more so outside the capital. So no one would waste it filming nothing. Second, the kids are not talking about anything in particular (though I am not an authority on country youth slang), and they do seem to be preparing for something. They are speaking almost on queue.

If you are interested on more argentine lore, I can tell you about the Yaciyarete and the Lobizon later.

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Quote - I've never heard of achondroplasia.

I take it you don't watch "Little People, Big World?"

Achondroplasia is a type of dwarfism. Character traits are short stature, large head and disproportionately short legs and arms and a large prominent foreheard..

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I take it you don't watch "Little People, Big World?"

Achondroplasia is a type of dwarfism. Character traits are short stature, large head and disproportionately short legs and arms and a large prominent foreheard..

Yes, I gathered that it was a type of dwarfism -- as stated in the article.  ;-)  No, I don't watch "Little People, Big World", although my wife does sometimes.

The teenage girl in that article doesn't look like most of the dwarfs that I've seen.  Based upon the images in that article, her proportions seem to be no more than scaled-down from the proportions of an average person, with the head perhaps a bit bigger in proportion to the rest of her body.  She really is tiny, and in a way that I've never seen before.  If I were to meet her in person, then my first reaction would likely be to think that she was an infant, or else a small toddler.  Certainly not a teenage girl.

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Please do.  It's fascinating stuff.

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If you are all siting comfortably, I will start....

In the North of Argentina, there is a place called El Chaco, near the border with Paraguay. This region suffers from extreme weather conditons, and can be a harsh environment to live in, the yaciyarete is a story from that region.

The yaciyatere is a small child aged 2 to 6 years, sometimes older. He has been seen with blonde hair, long and short, and bright blue eyes but has no ears, and smells terrible. Sometimes it is said he wears numerous keys around his neck, and uses a cane, that may be the source of his power. When he walks he only leaves a left footprint, you can't see the right. He lives deep in the jungle, lives on eggs, honey and fruit, and (as it is common with these creatures) he is known to guard a large treasure in his lair.

He likes to enchant and steal children who are left alone, mainly in the time of siesta. He plays with them and licks their forehead to take away the mark of the baptism. Once he is bored with them he would leave tied in vines around the forest, where the kids will stay silent, enchanted. The children that are found, every year on the anniversary of their kidnap, will suffer strange epileptic like convulsions. To cure this they must be baptized again. 

There is a bird, with the same name, that whistles at dawn and dusk a sound similar to the name. 

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Sounds like a great storyline for a horror movie...

lol. That is great.

Every see this Disney horror trailer . It gives me the heebie jeebies.
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In the North of Argentina, there is a place called El Chaco, near the border with Paraguay. This region suffers from extreme weather conditons, and can be a harsh environment to live in, the yaciyarete is a story from that region.

The yaciyatere is a small child aged 2 to 6 years, sometimes older. He has been seen with blonde hair, long and short, and bright blue eyes but has no ears, and smells terrible. Sometimes it is said he wears numerous keys around his neck, and uses a cane, that may be the source of his power. When he walks he only leaves a left footprint, you can't see the right. He lives deep in the jungle, lives on eggs, honey and fruit, and (as it is common with these creatures) he is known to guard a large treasure in his lair.

He likes to enchant and steal children who are left alone, mainly in the time of siesta. He plays with them and licks their forehead to take away the mark of the baptism. Once he is bored with them he would leave tied in vines around the forest, where the kids will stay silent, enchanted. The children that are found, every year on the anniversary of their kidnap, will suffer strange epileptic like convulsions. To cure this they must be baptized again. 

There is a bird, with the same name, that whistles at dawn and dusk a sound similar to the name. 

Interesting.  I'm always curious about local mythology and folk tales.

As for primal childhood fears -- many children are afraid of clowns.....and of dolls.

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I believe that's a part of the reason why some people don't like 3D.  It's artificial enough not to be real: and yet it can be "real" enough to be creepy to them.  Images of humans that are on the edge of real bother some people.

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I personally don't mind clowns...altho some of the more real looking dolls do bother me to this day.

When I was a kid, my brother took my lifesize walking doll {the ones that actually took walking steps when you held her hands and pulled her along} and scared the crap out of me with it.

Anyone remember the movie "GARGOYLES" from 1972?

Yea,....... where the creature comes up at the end of the bed?...guess what my brother did to my doll :glare:

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Clowns are creepy, dolls are evil. No dolls allowed in my house. No Chucky things, no puppet things. :scared:

Hate to spoil anyones fun, but I found this today : http://www.snopes.com/photos/odd/gnome.asp incase anyone was wondering.

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Quote - Hate to spoil anyones fun, but I found this today : http://www.snopes.com/photos/odd/gnome.asp incase anyone was wondering.

I'm still sticking with my 'Misplaced African Pygmy' theory. ;=D
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OK -- who'd believe anything published on a website called "snopes", anyway?  Sounds a lot like "snipe".  Anyone ever heard of "snipe hunting"?  So you've got to question anything that they say.

I bet that the part about the locals being amused over the publicity that this prank has received is a myth.........more likely, all of this is a government cover-up to keep us from learning the real truth.  Just like the government's covering up of what everyone knows actually happened at Area 51.

Without a doubt, the Illuminati are behind this conspiracy.  And they'll get away with it, just like they always do.

sigh

Gnomes are real, I tell ya.  And they are going to take over the world.

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I've taken a few people out Snipe hunting....oddly they never caught a thing. They probably weren't holding the bag properly or something...:laugh:

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When I was in scouts we took some of the younger girls out on one. We had some of them convinced that we had captured one.

Later when I was in high school we took friends camping with us and actually convinced a junior and senior in high school to do this (for those in other countries they were about 17 and 18) That was a blast

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One of the best pranks I've ever witnessed was pulled on a class I was teaching, about a dozen years ago. As was customary then the senior year students went on a week long foreign trip accompanied by a couple of teachers. That year, it was a survival week in the hills of the Ardennes (Belgium).
First night we organized a night dropping. The students had to find their way back to the camping site in the dark, using flashlights, compasses and a detailed map. The teachers (I was one of them) went along with them, just in case.
At one point, the group had to cross a creek. As we were wading through the (cold!) water, one of the girls started screaming and pointed at something in the water.
A shark dorsal fin, moving towards us. A fairly big one too.

Of course, it was a scuba diver who had strapped a fake dorsal fin to his back. But none of the students realised that sharks don't live in freshwater creeks...

I almost busted my gut laughing.

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It was the last gnome not hired by Travelocity. He hoped the video would get him a job, LOL!

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svdl, that's hilarious :lol:

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Hello NukedBug!! your english is way better than mine to tell about our best creatures, one thing to note, if the person that did the video wanted to add realism he should have used a Yaciyateré or Pombero (another local gnome) like creature, not an imported Irish-stolen-from-a-bad-movie-garden-gnome like dwarf LOL , my father in law is from Paraguay and he allways tell me about Taciyateré, about El Pombero, an small ugly very hairy man that come at evening, and he better find Caña (an strong drink) and cigars, specially if there are young beautiful ladies specially the single ones, if he feel unsatisfy by the offer of the drink and cigars he could impregnate the lady (hummm!!, what a convenient excuse), El Pombero must never be named after the sun is gone, this creature live in Paraguay and in the norther states of my country.
We have El Lobizón (our werewolf) El Yaguarete aba (a weretiger),  La Mulánima (a woman-mule) and the popular Solapa, that come at siesta time after the song of an small dove with a charateristic and (for us used be scared for our mothers) ugly song. And a lot more, but too much english for me.**
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Has anyone seen the horror movie "Don't Look Now" (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) ? .....If you have, and you saw the chilling final moments of the film, it will remind you of the weird gnome in the Youtube video ...

Crap, i'm so desensitized that it didn't phase me one bit. However I can show you a video about 600 times more terrifying that will guarantee you a panic attack LAWL.