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S04E10 - The Wollaton Gnomes with Chris Woodyard

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Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We welcome back Chris Woodyard to discuss the very odd story of the Wollaton Gnomes - a 1979 reported sighting of little men in little cars by a group of children in a British park. 

Chris & Simon's podcast Boggarts & Banshees (Apple Podcasts)
Transcript of the gnome witness children's Interview (courtesy Simon Young)
Wollaton Hall (wiki)
Blog by Frank Earp, who claims to have investigated the gnomes  contemporary to the events. 
Laughing Gnome (1967) David Bowie song
The Original Fairy Investigation Society (wiki)
The reborn Fairy Investigation Society (facebook)
Fairy Census One
Fairy Census Two
George Harrison's Friar Park (and gnomes)
Gnomes (wiki)
Garden Gnomes (wiki)
Kabouter (wiki)
Klabautermann (wiki)
Paracelsus book about various spirits (wiki)
Tom Clark Gnomes (retail site)
Books (Affiliate Links):
Gnomes by Wil Huygen
The Wollaton Gnomes: A Nottingham Fairy Mystery by Dr. Simon Young (and others)
A is for Arsenic - by Chris Woodyard
Other books by Chris Woodyard
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Excerpted from the Evening Post, September 29th, 1979.

0:45.0

A tale of the fairies, or is it a fairy tale?

0:49.4

Ferry's in Nottingham's Wallet and Park?

0:52.4

Did you know they are there?

0:54.0

Well, four city children say they do.

0:57.4

They say they came face to face with about 60 of them.

1:01.8

It happened, they say, while they were playing in the park near a swampy area,

1:06.3

and suddenly these gnome-like, crinkle-faced little people came along laughing and giggling.

1:13.4

Far-fetched? Perhaps so. But their headmaster says they believe what they say. Mr. Robin Aldridge,

1:20.5

head of Southwold Primary School in Radford, said,

1:24.5

they are not the kind of children who would normally make up something like this and

1:28.6

certainly wouldn't sustain it under the kind of questioning we have put them through. The children

1:34.2

told him what they saw during individual tape recorded interviews and their stories tallied.

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