This account from a local newspaper (Diario Uno) gives a little more detail and might be the source for some of the previous stuff:
04.01.2006
Locals from the Antártida district swear they have seen goblins
Strange. They say that there were seven and they were in various trees. Even the police claimed that someone threw stones from the trees, denting a patrol car.
Seeing is believing, that is the question and even if there is a general disbelief in these stories, it is notable that a large group of locals from the Antartida district of Paraná swear to have seen seven goblins on the night of December 30th. To expand upon the subject, the fifth commissary stated that although they could not corroborate the events, police personnel were assaulted from the trees, as was the patrol car 97 which was dented by thrown stones.
The spokesperson of the group of locals from the Orcadas del Sur street was Ricardo Abella who commented to UNO, together with a group of children, adolescents, men and women, that “after 30 years we again see these goblins”,
“This happened last Friday, when we put a Christmas tree up in the neighbourhood. We saw how they rapidly climbed and descended through the branches throwing rocks like white buds”. The man, a fisherman by trade and owner of a shop, was supported in his testimony by neighbours. Including a lady who said she was a policeman’s wife mentioned that she touched one of them for a few seconds when it pushed her.
They said that the strange creatures are white in colour.
“When the local children saw them, they began to run and throw stones, and from the trees the goblins quickly returned hostilities. The “goblins responded with violence and hurled back the stones, striking some children and locals who received bumps and bruises that weren’t serious”.
Another man said that the problem “recurred every night since Thursday 29th of December of last year. Once it gets dark these things come out and with a scream begin to jump between the trees”.
He didn’t dismiss that “the little dwarves are angry with the idea of switching off the Christmas tree lights. From that moment they began to throw stones and they stopped once the lights were switched on again.”
“Because we couldn’t believe what we were seeing, we cut the willow with a chainsaw and we cut up another to see what was left, but we didn’t find anything”, emphasised a local baker.
“The greatest problem happened last Friday. After they tried to cut some branches, the goblins got angry again and began to throw stones, so we called the police so they would do something about it”, said another woman from the Balbi district located a short distance from the area.
“At this stage in the events there were already about 900 people watching the strange happenings”, she stated.
The humble neighbourhood, of houses precariously built by the ravine, has a wide bottom that at the bottom of a slope concentrates on a small area of scrub.
There is constant smoke in the area and the basic services can be counted with your fingers. In the middle of this nothingness, the locals noted that “when the police arrived in patrol car 97 from the fifth commissary, they themselves were assaulted by the little dwarves”.
“The officers wanted to use a spotlight and the light reflected as if from a mirror and then a great shadow appeared”, related one of the teenagers, who said he had witnessed everything that had happened.
Seperating themselves from the group of people, the police fired a gunshot and the result was “a rain of stones in various directions. So many stones fell that everyone retreated”.
One of the children that was there said that the little dwarves “were small, white and they stuck their tongues out at you, they were like people and their hands were tiny”.
Her eldest brother said: “We provoked them – with stones – and the goblins threw them back”. The informant, when he saw that his tale had nothing more than his own testimony as proof, challenged: “Come in the night and you will almost certainly see the, this isn’t bullshit, this is something real, neither myself nor anyone else invented it, and the truth is that we have begun to fear the goblins”.
The conversation was interrupted by an elderly woman who said: “I don’t believe in these things, and even if I see something strange, I prefer to tell the children and the neighbours that they are little angels, so I tell them to pray a lot.”
Another local man said that 30 years ago in Ameghino street he had observed the same phenomenon, which was repeated 15 years later.
Finally, a teenager from a nearby house commented: “It seemed that they wanted to play, because otherwise, with so many stones that they threw, they World have hurt the locals.”
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