Your True Tales
April 2006 – Page 4

Elf Sighting
by John Stephan

In 1971, on an early morning in the late spring, early summer, I awoke and as it was my habit to gaze out the window above my my bed to look for rabbits and other wildlife in the yard, as our house was surrounded in the back by a forest.

I was nine years old at the time and movement directly under the window on the ground beside the TV tower antenna. I saw a what appeared to be a little elf or gnome, complete with a hat and beard. Its hair was brown and with a tight curl. It was approximately two feet high in stature and was moving as if gravity had no effect on it – similar to a man walking on the moon. It changed direction very quickly and its legs moved very rapidly.

I was completely bewildered and rubbed my eyes to make sure I wasn't dreaming and peered out again. My younger brother who shared the queen-sized bed with me was still sleeping and I reached down to wake him so that he could see this strange phenomenon, but by the time he got up the thing was gone.

To this day, I know I was not hallucinating nor dreaming. When I recently confided to my older brother of my sighting, he related a nightmare encounter he had with the same entity in his bedroom when he was seven years old. Neither of us had any knowledge of each other's encounter until last week. I am now 43 years old and he is 50. We both had our hair standing on end when we confided our encounters. His story is too disturbing to relate here. I have never seen this entity ever since.

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