Return of the Creepy Gnome

Argentina's "creepy gnome" returned for a visit last week, this time in the town of Clodomira, Santiago del Estero province. A grainy cell phone video shot by a group of teenagers goofing around on Avenida San Martin shows a diminutive, pointy-headed figure sidling across the street and moving toward the teens, who say they screamed and ran.

"This little thing was moving around like a dog but ran on two legs," one of the boys told a reporter for El Liberal. They dubbed the creature "el petiso orejudo" -- "big-ear pest" -- the popular nickname for Argentina's own boogeyman, Buenos Aires serial killer Cayetano Santos Godino. Godino was blamed for the murders and attempted murders of eleven children between 1904 and 1908.

A similar video shot in the town of General Guemes last March caused an Internet sensation amid reports that local residents were "living in fear" due to several sightings of the "strange and tiny figure."

According to British tabloid The Sun, the new footage was examined by a photographic expert who deemed it "credible." Others describe the video as "staged."

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