Gnome. Philippines

Location. Iloilo, Philippines
Date: January 16 2004
Time: early afternoon
At the Rizal Elementary School grade 4-faculty advisor Hermie Orieno asked her students to clean the grounds. As the students cleaned around an acacia, some of them saw two dwarves in green and blue clothes near the trunk of a tree. Later, other students also saw dwarves in nearby shrubs. The dwarves talked to the children and said their names were Wendy and Wendell. They asked the children not to hurt them because they didn’t mean them harm. In fact, they helped the children clean the place. As other children, like Divine Grace Castillo, 9, Myrna Salaver, 9, Charmaine Clarin, 10, and Sandy approached, they also saw the dwarves. Sandy even gave them a biscuit, which the dwarves ate. The children saw the biscuit become smaller as the dwarves ate. Then along came another student, Kent Grey, 10, who couldn’t see the dwarves. He was angry that the others could see them but he could not. In his frustration, he got a stick, asked the girls where the dwarves were. He started hitting the ground with the stick, accidentally hitting one of the dwarves, breaking his leg. When the other children saw what happened to the dwarf, they reported it to Ms. Orieno. She rushed out but could not see the dwarf. Then one of the girls pointed to a leaf that was moving while the others around it remained still and told her teacher that the dwarves were by that leaf. In the meantime, Kent was taken by his parents to a local “albulario” or witch doctor to prevent him from being harmed by the dwarf. According to Ms. Orieno, almost half of her class saw the dwarves. Some students in another section also did. The dwarves were described as wearing pointed hats and colorful clothes of blue, green and red. The children also saw a mother dwarf with a male child. She wore a red dress. According to Sandy who seemed to be the one who saw the creatures most clearly, there were at first only two dwarves. After Kent hit one of them and it fell to the ground, others came out of hiding and surrounded the victim. The head dwarf, who had a long beard and wore black clothes, was very angry. Ms. Orieno although she could not see anything, apologized to the dwarves for what happened and asked them not to retaliate because Kent could not see them. Charmaine, who saw what happened, cried when she saw the other dwarves crying. The dwarves told the girls not to tell others that they saw them. They didn’t explain why. Other children, especially the boys said they also saw what appeared to be “angels” coming down from the sky. They described the creatures as beautiful, with wings and very curly hair reaching down to their shoulders. The angels were naked except for a piece of cloth covering their hips down. They said nothing to the children, who estimated their size to be three feet.

Source: Jaime Licauco, Inquirer News Service, Philippines http://www.inq7.net/lif/2004/feb/17/lif 22-1.htm