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This section contains descriptions of unexplained facts provided by eyewitnesses or published in the media, as well as the results of their analysis by the group.

Spirits. United Kingdom

ID	#1610190076
Added	Sat, 09/01/2021
Author	July N.
Sources	thinkaboutitdocs.com Fortean Times
Phenomena	Spirits The Alien Gnome
Status	Research

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness

Incident date:

05.1994

Location:

Йорк

United Kingdom

J. Burdett was walking on the Pike Hills golf course near Asham is God. The sun was still shining, and visibility was clear enough.

Suddenly, his attention was caught by figures about 100 yards (90 m) ahead of him, who were apparently throwing a ball onto an empty golf course.

There were five or six very small figures that Bardet took to be children who were completely absorbed in their game, and he kept walking in their direction until he was about 50 yards (45 m) away from them. It was then that they seemed to know about him, and now he saw that they were not children, but very small adults, about four feet (1.2 m) tall.

At that moment, one of them seemed to be preparing to hit the ball hard in the direction of the witness. The startled witness ducked behind a nearby tree for a few seconds.

Still curious, he immediately crawled out of his temporary shelter and found an empty green passageway ahead.

Original news

Date: May 1994
Location: Near York, England
Time: evening
Summary: J Bardet was walking across the Pike Hills golf course near the Askham Bog nature reserve. The sun was still shining and visibility was reasonably clear. Suddenly his attention was drawn to some figures roughly 100 yards ahead of him, apparently putting a ball around on an otherwise deserted golf course. There were five or six very small figures, which Bardet presumed to be children, quite engrossed in their game and he continued to walk in their direction until he was about 50 yards from them. It was then that they appeared to become aware of him and he could now see that they were not children but very small adults, of about four feet high. At this moment one of them appeared to prepare to strike the ball hard in the witness direction. Nonplussed the witness ducked behind a nearby tree for a few seconds. Still curious he immediately re-emerged from his temporary shelter to find an empty green and fairway ahead of him.
Source: Fortean Times

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