Lee Berger and a team from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa recently announced that they have found skeletons belonging to dwarf humans who inhabited the Pacific islands about 900 years ago.
Meanwhile, something incredible has been happening in Argentina lately. A creepy gnome terrorizes the town of Guemes in the province of Salta in the north of the country.
Teenager Jose Alvarez told the local newspaper El Tribuno that he and his friends had photographed the creature during a recent night out.
“Alvarez said: We chatted about our last fishing trip. It was no longer even night, but early morning. I took out my cell phone and started clicking the camera, while the others continued to talk and laugh. Suddenly there was an incomprehensible noise, as if someone invisible was throwing stones on the ground. We turned towards the sound and saw the grass stirring, as if a small animal, like a dog, was sneaking through its thickets. But it was not a dog that came out to meet us, but something incomprehensible, like a dwarf. It scared us a lot. This is no joke."
“Jose added that other locals saw the gnome too. We are still afraid to go out - like everyone else in the area. One of our friends was so scared of what he saw that we had to take him to the hospital, "admitted the teenager."
“The police officers even had to intensify their night patrols after more frequent complaints from the residents of Guemes. Local newspapers have already dubbed this ghost the Creepy Gnome due to its appearance somewhat reminiscent of a fairytale hero. According to eyewitnesses, he wears a pointed hat and moves in an unusual way - in small steps to the side."
The town has voluntarily imposed a curfew. After dark, few people dare to go outside, fearing to meet a terrible gnome …
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The Hobbits Controversy Continues
Scientists have examined ten burial caves on one of the Palau Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. In one of them, they managed to find the remains of bones belonging to at least 25 people. According to Berger, some characteristics of the found remains suggest that the buried inhabitants of the Palau Islands were dwarfs.
“Scientists explain the dwarfism of the people inhabiting Palau by the so-called island rule,” which states that the size of small species inhabiting the islands increases, while the size of large species decreases. This process is associated with the need to save food for large animals and favorable living conditions for small ones."
By measuring the size of the pelvic bones and limb bones, scientists estimated that the men who inhabited the island weighed no more than 43 kilograms, and the women no more than 29. The islanders carried all the characteristics characteristic of the species Homo sapiens, although some features allowed scientists to conclude that the ancients were somewhat primitive. residents of Palau.
It is not known how correct the conclusions of the researchers are, but their work is likely to contribute to the continuation of the debate about the origin of other dwarfs - the Indonesian hobbits from the island of Flores. Since their discovery, there has been debate in the scientific community as to whether the hobbits are a by-species of the genus Homo - Homo floresiensis - or whether they were ordinary people suffering from an unknown disease that caused their growth to decrease.
In the spring of 2008, Australian experts suggested that the hobbits were suffering from a thyroid disorder. According to scientists, the inhabitants of the island of Flores were deficient in iodine and selenium.
"The slowdown in growth suggests that females, along with other external factors, experienced severe iodine deficiency during pregnancy," said Dr. Peter Obendorf of the Royal University of Technology in Melbourne. "We believe that these remains are not related to an unknown race, but belong to people who suffered from a certain disease."
“But other scientists do not share the new theory. I regret that serious scientists are seriously considering this option. There is little evidence for this theory, "says bioanthropology professor Colin Groves."
In his opinion, the nature of the remains irrefutably indicates that the hobbits were previously unknown individuals of the human race, which existed about 13 thousand years ago. Peter Brown of the University of New England believes that the scientists who put forward the theory of thyroid disease in hobbits did not study the remains directly, but only relied on data from other researchers.
"Chud white-eyed" from the Ural mountains
However, while scientists argue about whether there was a race of dwarfs in the distant past or not, let us ask another, more interesting question: do gnomes live on Earth today?
Many adult uncles answer this childish, seemingly, question unequivocally: they live, or at least lived quite recently, and as evidence they cite numerous facts of meetings of people with representatives of this small "fabulous" people.
One of these meetings took place back in 1698 in the Urals. An ancient manuscript, now kept in the Bryansk Regional Library, testifies that the creature was no more than 20 centimeters tall. It stood at the entrance to the cave and held a beautiful crystal in its hands. When he met a man, the dwarf almost immediately went into the ground, and the stone remained. They could not determine its appearance.
The Lapps living on the Kola Peninsula and their Sami neighbors have legends about the dwarfs who once settled underground. The Lopari call them "saivok". Having stretched out their light dwelling in a convenient place, they could sometimes hear dim voices and the clink of iron coming from under the ground. This served as a signal: to immediately move the yurt to a new place - it closed the entrance to the underground dwelling of the saivok. With the underground inhabitants, who were afraid of daylight, the Lapps were afraid to quarrel.
Legends about small underground inhabitants who know how to work with iron and possess supernatural abilities have survived among all peoples inhabiting the north of Russia. For example, the Komi living in the Pechora lowland claim that it was the gnomes who taught people to forge iron. Their witchcraft has a terrible power. By their order, the Sun and the Moon fade.
The Nenets living on the coast of the Arctic Ocean say that “a long time ago, when our people were not here, there lived“sirtya”- small people. When there were many people, they went right through to the ground”.
The Russian explorers who settled in the Urals also have legends and tales about people living in the mountains of small stature, beautiful, with unusually pleasant voices. Just like the saivok on the Kola Peninsula, they do not like to be in the daylight, but some people hear the ringing coming from the ground. And this ringing is not accidental. "Chud white-eyed" - under this name dwarfs appear in the Ural tales - was engaged in underground mining of gold, silver, copper. When the Russians came to the Urals, on the advice of the prophetic, knowing the future of shamans, the white-eyed chud who lived on the western slopes of the Urals dug long underground passages and hid in the bowels of the mountains with all her treasures.
Back in the 16th century, European geographers were convinced of the existence in the Arctic Ocean of the continent Arctida, inhabited by dwarfs, who created a strange civilization, unlike ours. They possessed pronounced extrasensory, as they say now, abilities.
Then one of the many terrestrial cataclysms occurred, as a result of which the Arctic continent was almost completely submerged. The surviving inhabitants of Arctida left the freezing and quickly ice-covered islands and settled in northern Europe and Asia. They could not restore their civilization, they did not want to fight with the locals and gradually left the surface of the Earth into underground catacombs and caves, into their usual habitat. After all, in their homeland, they spent six months in them. To protect people from greedy to precious metals, especially to gold, they put psychological barriers at the entrances to their underground shelters. These barriers to this day inspire people with supernatural horror, driving them away from the places sacred to dwarfs.
We all come from Lemuria
Not so long ago, French television showed a report by the Marseilles journalist Chris Durier about his trip to the United States. On the Californian mountain slopes, he discovered a settlement of strange creatures, as far as he could discern - vaguely similar to people and at the same time reminiscent of all known exotic animals - lemurs. They live in strange-looking buildings, which are quite difficult to find among the dense green bushes.
The journalist's sensational discovery sparked a lively discussion in the scientific world, and scientists immediately recalled that back in 1932, an American reporter Edward Lancer published an article in a Los Angeles newspaper about a settlement of the so-called lemurians living in complete isolation on the slopes of Mount Shasta in California.
And even earlier, in the second half of the 19th century, the theory was widespread among zoologists that once Africa, Madagascar and India were tied by a piece of land in the Indian Ocean, inhabited almost exclusively by lemurs, galago, potto and loris, all of which together constituted a class of semi-monkeys. Scientists believed that the land, in the end, having gone under water, spread the distribution areas of semi-monkeys around the world.
The English zoologist Philip Sclater called this continent plunged into the abyss Lemuria, and scientific interest in it was fueled by the assumption made by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel that Lemuria was the cradle of humanity. Well-known occult philosophers immediately took up and developed Hackel's theory. So, Helena Blavatsky claimed that during the sessions of communication with the spirits, she learned from them the true history of mankind, from which it follows that it began with Lemuria. According to Blavatsky, the inhabitants of this country were the third of seven earthly root races, each of which goes through seven stages of development. Today's people represent the fifth race.
Blavatsky argued that the lemurians arose as grotesque creatures resembling monkeys with three eyes, which, being hermaphrodites, multiplied by laying eggs. Having evolved into a more perfect race, they partially moved to Atlantis and became the fourth race. Later, Lemuria was destroyed by a volcanic explosion, and Atlantis was destroyed by black magic.
The followers of Blavatsky to this day continue to cite more and more evidence of the existence of the "cradle of humanity." Well, archaeologists, who operate mainly with facts, have not found these very proofs in the ground or under water, have long given up on Lemuria and everyone who wants to be convinced of the existence of the dwarf race in the past is offered to simply visit the place of Skara Brae instead of talking about lemurts on the coast of the Orkney Islands.
Skara Brae Hollow Hills
Until recently, on the banks of the Skar Brae, there were ordinary-looking hills overgrown with green grass. Once a strong hurricane destroyed the upper part of one of the hills, and the locals were amazed to discover a miniature dwelling hidden in it! Small beds, low ceilings and doorways - all indicated that the underground house was made for people no more than a meter tall!
Archaeologists uncovered other hills and found that they also contained miniature rooms. Experts have found that they were built on purpose as underground structures. At first, walls were erected from stone slabs, then flooring was made from stones and wood on them. And only then the whole structure was covered with a layer of earth and peat, leaving only a small entrance hole.
In the middle of each room was a hearth lined with stones. Small lockers were also made of stone slabs. Underpasses were made between the dwellings. The archaeologists also paid attention to one more detail: on the floor of the rooms and in the aisles, heaps of sand lay, reminiscent of an old belief. It turns out that everyone who, without asking, invaded the dwelling of an underground dwarf in the past, immediately turned into a pile of sand.
According to other legends, dwarfs used charms to lure people into their underground dwellings, and when they returned, it turned out that several years had passed. Could dwarfs and command the wind, send storms or pacify the storm.
Where have the inhabitants of the hills gone? Jewelry and dishes were neatly laid in stone cabinets; on the floor, near the exit from one dwelling, a necklace, stone tools and weapons were lying, as if dropped by someone in a hurry. One got the impression that the owners disappeared overnight, leaving this world forever.
The mystery of Skara Brae's dwarfs has not yet been revealed. Well, the locals claim that to this day they rarely meet with the last representatives of the little people. Moreover, they believe that dwarfs, trying to preserve the race, kidnap children from the cradle. Some of the abductees return to the human world after several years. Like, for example, one local girl who returned home after many years of absence. At first she was ill for a long time, but then she recovered and got used to life among people. But until the end of her life, something out of this world remained in her. Therefore, until now, the inhabitants of those places in northern Britain put pieces of iron in the bed of young children. After all, people believe that metal has magical power over the inhabitants of the hills …
Finding gold miners
In 1932, two gold prospectors who were looking for the precious metal at the foot of the San Pedro Mountains in Wyoming suggested that the gold mine might be in one of the rocks. They blew it up, but instead of gold, they found a small cave in the mountain range, in the depression of which, on a small stone ledge, in a sitting position was the mummy of a tiny creature.
In full growth, the creature would reach a height of about 35 cm, and in a sitting position - 18 cm. The most ordinary human face with large eyes, a low forehead, a wide nose, a large mouth with thin lips.
It's good that the prospectors figured out to take the mummy with them, otherwise hardly anyone would have believed their stories. The mummified little man with a mysterious smile on his face, named Pedro, turned out to be the property of Ivan Goodman, a car dealer from the city of Kasper.
Scientists did not take this find seriously and considered it to be another fake. However, anthropologist Henry Shapiro decided to investigate the mummy and use X-rays to identify the fake. Imagine his amazement when the X-ray showed that under the mummified shell there is a tiny skeleton, in all respects corresponding to a human.
Experts found that the dwarf died a violent death: his collarbone was broken, his spine was injured and, possibly, his head was broken. By all accounts, Pedro was a grown man in his 60s when compared to an ordinary person. The mummy had well-formed teeth, and rather large, protruding canines stood out.
Certain dogmatically minded scientists, naturally, immediately found the simplest explanations for this find. Some considered Pedro a freak child hidden in a cave, others - a fetus in the intrauterine stage of development, and some even argued that the wrinkled skin of the mummy was specially made by an experienced forger under the skin of an adult. However, over time, such exotic assumptions disintegrated, and today there are only two assumptions: either Pedro is a representative of the dwarf race that has disappeared from the face of the earth, or a creature from alien worlds.
A creepy gnome terrorizes the city
The Uslonskie Mountains cut through the entire right bank of the Volga for several tens of kilometers; several villages and numerous cottages and summer cottages are located on beautiful slopes.
Local attraction - caves, many of which have not yet been explored. Some of these caves are said to be inhabited today by rather unusual creatures.
Kazan summer residents call them gnomes, and locals know them as "tobyki". Often, these small creatures, the size of a two-year-old child, in exchange for vegetables and fruits, take out beautiful stones sparkling in the sun from the caves.
Locals believe that "tobyki" worship the Moon and often, on a full moon, lined up in a circle, sing strange songs in squeaky voices. Even eyewitnesses of unusual encounters assure that the "toby" are not afraid of wild animals, they consider them their friends and easily play with foxes, wolves and bears. And on their main holiday at the end of winter they arrange horse races … on hares.
Meanwhile, something incredible has been happening in Argentina lately. A creepy gnome terrorizes the town of Guemes in the province of Salta in the north of the country.
Teenager Jose Alvarez told the local newspaper El Tribuno that he and his friends had photographed the creature during a recent night out.
“Alvarez said: We chatted about our last fishing trip. It was no longer even night, but early morning. I took out my cell phone and started clicking the camera, while the others continued to talk and laugh. Suddenly there was an incomprehensible noise, as if someone invisible was throwing stones on the ground. We turned towards the sound and saw the grass stirring, as if a small animal, like a dog, was sneaking through its thickets. But it was not a dog that came out to meet us, but something incomprehensible, like a dwarf. It scared us a lot. This is no joke."
“Jose added that other locals saw the gnome too. We are still afraid to go out - like everyone else in the area. One of our friends was so scared of what he saw that we had to take him to the hospital, "admitted the teenager."
“The police officers even had to intensify their night patrols after more frequent complaints from the residents of Guemes. Local newspapers have already dubbed this ghost the Creepy Gnome due to its appearance somewhat reminiscent of a fairytale hero. According to eyewitnesses, he wears a pointed hat and moves in an unusual way - in small steps to the side."
The town has voluntarily imposed a curfew. After dark, few people dare to go outside, fearing to meet a terrible gnome …
Victor Potapov. Abnormal news, no. 21, 2008