An outdoorsman and mushroom hunter observes a bipedal, short humanoid walking through the woods. He eventually realizes that this is not a woodland animal.
The following account was forwarded to me:
"I will be the first to admit I thought these types of sightings were a joke and not real and I've never been able to take them seriously.
I am an outdoorsman and have been for 35 years. I grew up in the woods. I memorize trees for mushroom hunting for a living. I know every brook, stream, bush, berry grove, log, you name it. Because of this, I want to keep my location private.
I'm on a forest road and not a soul in sight. I gather some mushrooms and look up the road and see a rock has fallen from the loose, steep side of the mountain to the middle of the road. I mentally note that I have to move it and not drive over it. I gather my mushrooms and get back to the car.
I look up and I see what appears to be a 2 or 2.5-foot-tall little brown thing walking from the side of the road over to the rock. My first logical thought is that it is a squirrel, but I see it is walking on two legs, appears to be wearing brown cloth or fur clothes, and is shaped like a human but very tiny. It's not scurrying either, it is ambling on two legs like a human would. Just casually walking like this is some normal, regular thing, like the monotonous work it does for a living.
I don't believe my lying eyes. It has to be something else. I get back in the car and head up the road and see that the rock has been pushed back to the side of the road from whence it came. It had fallen off the hill, rolled to my left, and then was sitting back on the other side of the road on the right. There are drag marks like someone slid it back.
I look, I smell, I sense, I listen. Nothing.
I don't know where gnomes live, but the old partially logged section where I was looked pretty perfect for a clan of these things. Lots of places to hide, secluded, near water, plenty of routes of escape, and would be easy to dig little holes in the mountain and be fortified against invaders. The side road into it was flooded and appears to do so regularly so these little guys even have their own moat.
I'm positive I'm overthinking this. It was a long drive back up the mountain, then down the mountain the other way, and sometimes home, and I can't pick this apart into anything else but being a tiny little forest man. I'm like 1000% positive that I saw what I saw.
It was near a military 'special interest' zone allegedly blocked off due to some native butterflies, but I'm starting to wonder if this research area is really about butterflies after all. They send you to prison, ban you from parks, and give you a $5000 fine if you take a single berry from inside that boundary." S
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