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Thank you for sharing these links. They are quite interesting to watch.
I think these were all faked or misrepresented for fun as a duende.
The first Gnome video: I think it was probably something like a harlequin where someone had the form attached to their upper body and they were crawling along. Or it may have been a child dressed up in costume.
Also there were two versions of this videos. One of them clearly showed a flash light beam shown across the area where the gnome was shown... and in the other one there wasn't a flash light beam and showed the same gnome.
In the second video you can clearly see a shadow of sorts above the board that is leaning against the wall to the far left. The shadow seems to sway in a tethered motion with the movement of the Duende. This video was the perfect set up for the boys to have filmed further about going and looking behind the board to see what was behind it, but they didn't do that... Sooo, that's another reason it lost credibility with me.
And in the third video, it could've been been a cat or some sort of critter that they had put a hat on. It's really too hard to tell because of the poor quality. It loses credibility with me because there was no more of the video after the last blurred frame... they needed to show where they went back in a few minutes and could or couldn't find it.
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During the first flurry on the net when the first video about the 'gnome terrorizing a town' came out, and the story was posted on a website called the Sun or something like that, I surfed & read many many forums across the net about it...
I was gobsmacked and sick to my stomach to realize there is a real danger associated with the nature folks, gnomes. wee folks and other little beings of that nature...
On most of the forums there was enthusiastic agreement that the boys should have captured the gnome.
This scared me to death... What if the gnome had of been a child or a little adult dressed up?
I posed this opinion on one forum and got a few catty chastising replies about being too serious.
I was sooo miffed about it...
If people encourage each other to capture a gnome or wee folk, they could be accessories to kidnapping or worse...
This isn't like big foot, there's not many 8 ft hairy costumed people wandering about the neighborhoods, but it's almost a given that a child could dress up as an elf or gnome and go strolling about.
So, for the most part I try to keep an objective point of view on the subject. When I post comments on videos such as this I try to be real careful with my words.
I hope to someday see a genuine video, so keep searching and posting the links. I'm always interested in watching them.
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These are just my opinions. I apologize if I offend anyone. It's not my intention to offend anyone or their beliefs.
), but they have to be rather motivated to do it with good conviction. Sure, some people will create hoaxes, but I believe after delving into many tales of the paranormal, that it is quite rare that they do. There is just no big reward for it that out-weighs the discomfort of living in a lie. For MOST people that is true anyway IMO. So I play the odds and believe most things that are presented with sincerity and that I see aren't obviously faked (generally for a joke or tongue-in-cheek).
who knows. Good clips. Thanks, Aleera.
Because as I perused similar videos linked to it, I could tell it has become a popular joke to make these type of videos. Muddies the water.
