Video: 'Creepy gnome' back on prowl
The "creepy gnome" is back.
A NEW sighting of South America’s ‘creepy gnome’ has caused panic among locals after a group of youngsters claimed a ‘midget monster’ ran towards them at night.Video: 'Creepy gnome' back on prowl
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Give me a break. Its clearly some dead possums stuffed in a Bigfoot costume.
For some reason this is really interesting to me. I wish I could be there during a sighting. I would just chase the thing. So what that it's creepy!? Just GET it! Find out if it's a little man, or a deformed animal or WHATEVER! Just proactively solve the mystery for crying out loud!
AND HURRY! I'm dying to know!
Creepy. Reminds me too much of this: http://kindertrauma.com/images/misc/headb8.jpg
The most unbelievable part of this is that teenagers were waltzing in the street at night.
You know, the more footage I see, the more I believe it’s just a monkey with a hat. The real mystery is: where did he get the hat from?
La Pequeña Argentinian Gnome?
Maybe one of those "Phantasm" jawa-looking dwarf things got loose.
Or maybe it's that creepy kid from Dario Argentos PHENOMENA ... when I think about it like that, it actually gets scary .. it smells a little like a viral campaign for some upcomming horror movie...
-snarf
It seems to sidle in stead of walk.
It's probably just Nobby Nobs.
We got much better footage of him, he even agreed to appear in our short film, Der Weinachtman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VnR3dYuQgo
i fukken love that gnome
1st time this gnome was on the prowl
http://www.terrorgnome.com/ popped up and made my balls hurt when i got to the end of the blog.
wonder if the dude will "investigate" this one 2
That Travelocity gnome sure is getting around. Instead of going all the way to South America to see it, just buy one on Ebay:
http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZtravelocityQ20gnomeQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZQQ_sopZ1
A two legged dog or a monkey maybe.
What's really pathetic about this hoax is that in March the kids released two different 'takes' of their video, one to the Sun and the other to the local paper - both of them ending with them fleeing in the finest amateur drama club terror!
I agree MarkBellis. In both videos the gnome is far more convincing than the teens.
I agree that the most interesting thing is they were dancing with each other. Americans are so damn self conscious and worried that something they do will be seen as "gay". We can't relax, be our selves and enjoy life.
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#17 What are you talking about? We haven't changed the layout in over a year.
Don't worry, their weakness is sensitivity to water.
Pffft.
I just want to know who the dressed-up dwarf is. He should be invited on Saturday Night Live by now.
I can't help but think it's just a person with physical deformities and hip problems. If so, it's not unreasonable to imagine them shunning general society, going out at night, etc. Think "Elephant Man"
Kind of remind me of the Catman of Greenock:
http://current.com/items/88878695_the_legend_of_catman
Why did the chicken cross the street? So it could be in a teenager's "gnome" video. Didn't Peta say it was cruel to put chickens in dress up costumes??
Secondly, gnomes aren't creepy if you studied them ahem read the book;
http://www.amazon.com/Gnomes-30th-Anniversary-Wil-Huygen/dp/0810954982/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224451239&sr=1-2
I'm quite sure you will be enchanted by it, it really is a five star book.
Creepy Gnome on it's own... rustic foreign teens with big imaginations.
Creepy Gnome riding a chupacabra... very credible.
You know, I read somewhere that there has been a lot of gnomes/elves/small fantasy like people and that kind of stuff sightings there and the surroundings area, I think the article was on taringa.net an argetinean page, in spanish sorry...
Anyways it makes for an interesting reading.
sorry for my bad english.
Chase that Gnome down and catch it. There's at least 5 of you. Unless it really is Nobby Nobbs. Then use some sort of very long-handled net.
I'm voting viral marketing too.
Um, it looks like a dog. Head down, tail up, four legs splayed in a classic agressive small-dog position. In fact, it looks a lot like the stupid terrier that lives next door to me, when it's barking at me for having the chutzpah to live next to it.
Also, the gnome was barking.
As for "running sideways", I've seen a dog that just runs sort of kitty-korner for whatever reason. Also, if it's head-down & barking, it likely wants to keep it's front end towards whatever it's barking at.
It doesn't even look like a gnome.
I don't get it.
Peter
@ 12
Wow - that link (http://www.terrorgnome.com) tells a tragic story.
This guy - a harmless internet dork - decided to visit the scene of this video in Argentina, at significant personal expense. But almost immediately after arriving in Argentina, he was mugged and beaten unconscious by thugs. He ended up brain-damaged, unemployed, and homeless.
Jesus. *Jesus*. That's horrible.
It's difficult to get that story out of my head. I hope life has started treating this poor guy better.
- David Stein
@ 30
yeah, I just read that blog too and it's pretty horrible.
clarification though. I think he was in Santa Cruz, Bolivia when this happened... not Argentina.
I agree with #29.
Listen and you will hear barking sounds.
Look, without trying to imagine what sort of monster it might be, and you will see a dog.