Gnome. Finland

A family of four, Matti, Maria, Teuvo and Tapani went to the forest near the village of Hermunen to pick blueberries. They scattered in four directions however always keeping eye contact with each other. About noon, two of them, father Matti and his eldest son Teuvo had an experience they shared with the others only later. Already when they had arrived at the forest Matti Kuningas had observed a large stone, or so it looked like, which he had never seen before although the forest was very familiar to him. The distance to the stone was about 30 meters .The stone was about 2 meters high and three meters in width and on it there was some very green moss and a rowan tree. Suddenly a gust of wind rose, which astonished Teuvo Kuningas since the day was clear and calm. Both he and his father Matti observed now from their respective positions a little man, about one meter tall, which appeared near the stone. The man’s skin was reddish like that of a carrot and he wore a green overall. The head was large and his shoulders broad. Teuvo Kuningas observed a box in the man’s chest, from which came some kind of flash. Now the little man started to run away from the stone, and Matti Kuningas, who was closer, heard him make a “mourning” like sound.

Teuvo Kuningas heard a voice resembling human speech. Suddenly the little man turned and ran towards Matti Kuningas. He stopped at a distance of 15 meters and for a minute or so looked at Matti. He seemed to have a human like face, however it appeared elderly. Then he turned and started to run away. About 50 meters from Matti he seemed to turn a somersault and disappear. Teuvo saw also the disappearance, but he saw also the man reappear, now closer to him. He was now somehow deterred by some unknown force and could not even look at the man properly. He could not move either. He also smelled a terrible odor in the air. After the man had again disappeared, he heard a noise from the direction of the stone but nothing could be seen. When the whole thing was over, Teuvo noticed to his astonishment that over a half an hour had passed. When they were on their way home, Teuvo decided to have a closer look on the stone to see if there were any footprints. When he came near he also noticed the moss and the little rowan tree and some silvery gray on its surface. When he tried to get closer to the stone and touch it with his berry basket, the same unknown force deterred him again and even turned him around and forced him to go walk away. He thought of throwing a stick at it but could not do that either. In the car he suddenly found himself unusually tired. He intended to tell the others about the experience but soon it all vanished from his thoughts. Only gradually could he remember the event, but it was some six months later when he told of the experience to his younger brother Tapani. Teuvo had thought that he had been the only one to have seen the little man, but soon found out that his father had also seen him. In the meantime Tapani Kuningas became one of Finland’s leading Ufologist.