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If you don’t believe in gnomes, elves and trolls, it’s not at all means that they are not in this world. You just became adults too old, and lost touch with childhood. Why the kid believes in miracles? Yes, because he looks at this world widely with open eyes and expecting magic gifts from him. And peace willingly goes towards …
The first story. About the gnome who amused one brother and scared the other …
This story began in 1948. in Liberty, in Missouri. Dan Bortko was very young when his family moved here from Kansas The house where they began to live was built in the 20s, in lately he has been empty. The house was located on a hilltop, Nearby was an old barn …
Four years passed, and one day something happened to five-year-old Dan what is called a miracle. The boy slept in the room with two younger brothers. In the middle of the night, something woke him. Dan opened his eyes: in at the foot of the bed stood an old man of very small stature. He had big nose and long white beard. The old man looked like a dwarf with holiday card. He wore, for example, leather shorts on German manners. In the hands of a man holding a smoking smoking the receiver.
Dan was so surprised that he wasn’t even afraid, and only in all eyes looked at his guest. The dwarf also silently looked at the boy, then smiled, winked at him and disappeared into the wardrobe.
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After that, Dan, looking out the bedroom window, often saw little men, and always – near the old barn. Once he even painted a dwarf who visited him at night. When this drawing saw Dan’s younger brother, Bill, he was very scared and cried. And whenever Bill got an ill-fated drawing eyes, the baby hit in tears. Apparently one dwarf brother they were amusing, and they frightened the other – perhaps because he was whims and sneak. As for the parents, they stayed in ignorant and believed that Dan has some imaginary friend, with which the boy often says …
The second story. About the gnome who came in a thunderstorm …
Today Dave Barsalou is a respectable middle-aged American, but he well remembers the almost fabulous story that happened to him in ten year old. Dave then lived in New York – with his parents, sister and grandmother.
… That night there was a severe thunderstorm, and the boy woke up from peals thunder. He was alone in his bedroom. Suddenly in the sound of wind and rumble Heaven heard some other sounds. It was a moan or howl but he did not resemble human crying or whining of an animal. The boy felt uneasy. For a while he still lay wrapped up into a blanket, and then could not bear it, got out of bed and spanked in grandmother’s room, which was closer than others. Dave gently whisked to grandmother under a blanket, he did not want to wake her. However the woman is not sleeping. Hugging her grandson, she pressed him to her and in a whisper asked:
– You’re scared?
– Grandmother, what is this howl? – in turn asked boy.
“The wind howls,” the woman replied.
“No, it’s someone alive,” Dave persisted. – Are you not do you hear
“My dear, there is nobody there,” said the grandmother confidently. -Close your eyes and sleep.
Dave realized that she was no longer disposed to talk, and did kind of falling asleep. In fact, he sensitively listened to the sounds, coming from the street. Now a strange howl was already moving, like living creature moves. Rounding the house, he approached the wall, behind which was the grandmother’s room, and therefore, was in some two feet from the boy …
Dave was lying, afraid to move, and thought about why his grandmother doesn’t hear any of this. And suddenly he realized that she was just pretending – pretending not to frighten him even more …
After some time, the howl became quieter, the storm also a little calmed down. Dave fell asleep. Waking up, he saw sunlight breaking through the curtains. Grandmother was not in the room, and the boy went to look for her. The living room and kitchen were empty, and Dave decided that grandmother in the yard. Opening the front door, he froze in amazement.
Armed with a rag, a woman washed the porch from dirty traces left by someone’s tiny feet. It seemed that inherited by a newborn baby or mechanical doll.
– What is it? – Dave exclaimed in fear. – Grandma, what are you are you doing
But then behind his back came the voices of his mother and sister. Grandmother strictly pressed a finger to her lips and with a nod of her head ordered the boy to enter into the house, and she continued cleaning. So besides her and Dave, nobody saw striking tracks. Several times the boy tried to ask grandmother about the night guest, but she either laughed it off, or pretended not to understand the grandson.
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Dave Barsalou later found out that in the legends of the Indian tribes, living in the Hudson Valley (where New York is now), often talked about little men who somehow were associated with storms and thunderstorms …
The third story. About the gnome whom they “did not recognize” …
The following story was told by David Schwab, a 54-year-old resident New Jersey. David’s childhood passed in the city of Orange, where his friend there was a boy named Jerry who saw with his own eyes gnome.
This Jerry often told David about the little a long-bearded creature, but he considered his stories a fiction, than very angry friend. It was in the early 60s.
Many years passed, and David Schwab believed in the existence of gnomes (there were some reasons for that). In December 2009 he met with Jerry and asked him to repeat his childhood story.
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He told that, as a child, went out into the yard for a walk and I saw a little man with a long beard, who stood on porch. He was wearing funny clothes and a pointed hat. Height the man was only 2-3 feet. He looked at the boy piercing and mocking at the same time. Jerry hasn’t yet once saw a gnome in his house, and he never tried to scare a boy. True, I didn’t make friends with him.
When Jerry was already an adult, a cousin came to visit him brother. With him was a five-year-old son. Happy boy laid to rest in Jerry’s bedroom. Suddenly, a child ran out of a loud cry rooms and rushed to the adults. As it turned out, he woke him up small man with a white long beard. He stood by the bed and just looked at the boy. Jerry immediately remembered his former the dwarf understood who came to his nephew. He did not understand why he should have been so scared if it was completely harmless old man. Really the boy never saw gnomes in pictures or on TV? But, probably, everyone perceives in his own way wonders…
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