Gnome. United States

The story took place in 1948 in liberty, Missouri. The Dan Bortko's family moved into a new house Casassa and this house was built sometime in the 1920's, and it once inhabited, but for some time it was empty.

The house stood on top of a hill and beside him was an old barn. In this house in 1952, Bortko saw something that has haunted him for many years afterwards. Dan was then very young, he was only 4 years, but he distinctly remembered that he had seen a Troll or a dwarf with a big beard. Dan slept in the room with his two younger brothers, when something woke him in the middle of the night. As he opened his eyes, I realized that in the room there's someone else.

"I barely opened my eyes and saw IT. It was an old man with a long white beard, large nose, and the height less than one meter. He was standing at my bed feet. I was very surprised."

The little old man looked like a real dwarf cards. He was wearing leather shorts in the German style, and in his hands he held a Smoking pipe and she was smoke. He looked at the boy and then smiled at him, winked and disappeared into the wardrobe.

Later, the mother of Deng told him that in his childhood he often talked to someone whom no one saw, it was believed that the boy has an imaginary friend. Bortko then he remembered looking out my bedroom window, saw the little men next to the barn.

Dan also tried to draw a dwarf, whom he met in the night, and depicted the old man's face with large dark eyes. Seeing this pattern, his younger brother bill was very scared and cried.

"Every time he saw this picture, it's like he went crazy".

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