I didn't want to post this in IHTM because it happened to my granddad
Anyway his sighting happened back in the early 1980s I believe, at the time he had a huge circus type trailer/mobile home which was parked on my family's field in the New Forest. The trailer backed on to the forest itself, and one day my granddad was sat in his chair by himself when he saw out of the window a little man in a green suit, a funny little hat and classical gnome boots, my granddad told us the little man smiled at him and stayed on the spot then either him/it or my granddad waved at the other, I don't know who waved first but the wave was reciprocal. The gnome then simply disappeared, I want to say he said
''in a puff of smoke'' but I'm not sure now, I know the little man just vanished before my granddad's eyes. Anyway that is the story that I sent in to FT. My nan refused to believe him but he stuck by his account until the day he died.