The little fellow was spirited away in the dead of night from Denis and Doris Heard’s garden more than 13 years ago. They accepted the theft of their garden gnome as ‘just one of those things’.

Pharmaceutical worker David was in on the prank from ... the colourful garden miniatures cropped up again among the pansies underneath the village road sign. Twenty gnomes appeared at a bus ...

"We just sat there dumbfounded." Kidnapping garden gnomes for exotic trips is a common prank in Europe, and a "Garden Gnome Liberation Front" active in France during the 1990s even pretended to ...

When asked if he has any inkling of who pulled off this prank, Smith said he has no suspects. The garden gnome owned by Branden and Dana Smith of Tumwater, Wash. went missing for six months and ...