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Writer investigates Wollaton Park gnomes case

By T.K. Randall
February 15, 2017 · Comment icon 51 comments

The story has long remained something of an enigma. Image Credit: The Gardeners Chronicle
A bizarre encounter by six schoolchildren in 1979 is the subject of a new investigation by Dr Simon Young.
The peculiar incident, which took place in Wollaton park, Nottingham, involved a group of young children aged between eight and ten, who all claimed to have witnessed a remarkable sight.

Their testimony told of an evening encounter with several dozen white-bearded "gnomes" who, at half their height, wore Noddy-style caps and drove around the park in tiny bubble cars.

The children remained adamant that they had spent around 15 minutes in the gnomes' company.

Fast-forward to the present day and now writer and historian Dr Simon Young has reopened the case in a renewed effort to get to the bottom of the mystery and learn what actually happened.

To aid in his research he is seeking out the original children who will now be in their 40s.
"The Wollaton Park sightings badly needs a longer study," he said. "I would like to interview them about their memories. I will guarantee absolute anonymity."

"People are understandably very sensitive about these matters."

Bizarrely, there were even encounters with the alleged gnomes by adult witnesses some years prior, as detailed in Marjorie Johnson's book "Seeing Fairies".

In the early 1900s, Mrs. C. George claimed to have seen "little men dressed as policemen".

"They were smiling and looking very happy," she said at the time. "They hadn't any wings, and as far as I can remember they were between two and three feet in height."

Source: Nottingham Post | Comments (51)




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Comment icon #42 Posted by Manfred von Dreidecker 7 years ago
These are cool: Messerschmitt KR200 (1,450 hp Daimler Benz ; sorry I mean 200 cc two-stroke);    and Heinkel Kabineroller:
Comment icon #43 Posted by Black Monk 7 years ago
Me and my brother used to call VW Beetles "bubble cars" when we were kids. They were much more commonplace then. Whenever we saw one we used to say: "Look! There's a bubble car!"  
Comment icon #44 Posted by poi 7 years ago
i was bought up in Wollaton on charlbury Road and back then a lot of the area was woods fields old dried up canals, ponds, slag heaps of coal etc where we used to play as children we were probably about half a mile from wollaton park main gates and back then you could almost walk to Wollaton Park without going out of the woods and fields  I am 50 now so I am going back to the late 1970s. one evening in summer me and a friend were stood on the side of an old dried out canal it was midsummer maybe 9 oclock at night just going dark but you could still see quite well and I looked across the othe... [More]
Comment icon #45 Posted by oldrover 7 years ago
Poi, I can't pretend to believe in the possibility of little humanoids, but I genuinely enjoyed your story. 
Comment icon #46 Posted by taniwha 7 years ago
If the children at Woolaton Park actually saw dolls instead of gnomes this story has taken on a very sinister and creepy twist indeed.  
Comment icon #47 Posted by Black Monk 7 years ago
Why?
Comment icon #48 Posted by Ozfactor 7 years ago
dolls in remote controlled cars ! 
Comment icon #49 Posted by Matt221 7 years ago
My mate had one in his car collection great fun to drive
Comment icon #50 Posted by ChaosRose 7 years ago
People are actually investigating this?
Comment icon #51 Posted by RICHD 1 year ago
It's FAKE! The whole story is a concocted MYTH. Look at the area in GOOGLE satellite maps. The inspiration for the lie is the shape of the ARTIFICIAL LAKE at the southern end of the Park which apparently was created only a hundred years ago when the urban LEGEND began: from the air it is in the shape of a classical "GNOME'S CAP" (conical) with the south-projecting rounded end of the lake/pond as the "gnome's head". THERE ARE NO GNOMES IN WOLLATON PARK, OR ANYWHERE BECAUSE SUCH THINGS DON'T EXIST  EXCEPT IN THE IMAGINATION! Conclusion: it's ALL a LIE! More worthwhile chasing down the existen... [More]


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