In 1979 a strange thing happened in Wollaton Park in Nottingham, England. A supernatural event that seems like a fairy tale. A number of children were playing outside after 8 pm and they ended up going to the park, which was locked for the night. They climbed over the fence and wandered away through the field until they reached a wooded place surrounded by a fence. It wasn't even allowed for anyone to be there as the fenced area was quite swampy. Full of excitement and eager to explore, the kids found a way in. Soon they noticed that something else was with them in the woods, and it wasn't any wild animals. There were movements in the trees and bushes at first.
The kids saw a bunch of strange people emerge from the trees and bushes. They were in small cars and they stared angrily at the kids, as if furious with them for being there. Suddenly the kids were being chased by the people in cars, so they ran out of the swampy woods and across the field. A few of them fell in mud and desperately ran from the speeding cars. They reached the park's fence and got out, and then the cars stopped chasing them. What was most interesting was the description of the people in the cars from the locked park. They were all doll-sized! and they were driving in little cars. This became a big story later on and the name Wollaton Park Gnomes was coined.
While the story sounds silly, the area itself is full of magical folklore and it's not the first time living gnomes have been seen. Other local people, including adults, have also encountered actual gnomes and fairies. It's believed that the kids might've just overreacted to a surprise meeting of wild animals in the dark woods, when they shouldn't have been out there so late. There is a book about the weird story: "The Wollaton Gnomes: A Nottingham Fairy Mystery" by S. R. Young.
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