Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garden gnomes — those cute figurines often used to decorate the back yard — are a fairly common sight in the American suburbs. But ...

Once upon a time, there was a Vernors mascot — a gnome wearing a green outfit and hat with yellow band and a black buckle on the front. With a wink in his eye, the jolly fellow appeared in Vernors ...

In this example collected from the Snopes inbox in March 2008: I just heard about this bizarre story about a gnome in an Argentina town. Has anyone ever heard anything like this before? Origins: On 11 ...