The tracks were approximately 4 1/2 to 5 inches long, bare foot and headed away from the river into a side canyon. The area around the river was sandy and I could clearly see that the child had came out of the river and headed in a straight track in a westerly direction. The tracks I believed were less than a day old so I quickly set out to find the child. I followed the trail for about 2 miles until I lost them in the rocks. It was in late March and snow patches still spotted the shaded areas. I could clearly see that the child, even being bare foot, had not avoided the snow, but had continued in a straight line. I believed that the child was delirious perhaps and in a bad way. As soon as it became apparent that I had lost the tracks and could not find the child, I headed back as fast as I could to the nearest house where we reported the incident to the sheriff.

When the sheriff and his deputy arrived, the rancher at whose house I had made the report from and I joined them. With their Four wheel drive, I took them to the location where I had first found the tracks. After examining the foot prints, all agreed that it definitely was a child's tracks and called in a local man who had tracking dogs by radio to help with the search. When the dogs arrived, to everyone's bewilderment, they refused to track the child. Whining and whimpering with there tails between their legs around their owners feet. After first smelling the tracks, no matter how much coaxing or begging anyone did, no one could get the dogs to participate. With great disgust the Sheriff and the men started out with out them on what turned out to be a 2 day fruitless search. The tracks were picked up and followed several more miles beyond where I had lost them, but vanished eventually along a very rocky canyon bottom. As no lost children or further reports were received the case was closed as a mystery.

Several months later, as the whole affair continued to bother me, I mentioned the incident to an old Indian fellow who lived in Lamar that I knew. He only smiled at my concern and said that I should never be worried about the Little People. That they were earth spirits and very elusive. He said that since I had been the one to come across the tracks first, I should take it as a sign that they wanted me to know about them and learn everything that I could from them. So thirty tears later I am still tracking them. I have had many experiences with them since and have learned a great deal about them. But he was right for sure about one thing. They are elusive indeed.

Origination:

Due to cultural similarities I believe that perhaps the Little People are the ancestors of Pictish tribesman from Northern England, Ireland and Scotland. The general description of these people are vague, however it is generally believed that they were small in stature, perhaps three and a half to four feet tall. They were know to live in underground hill burrows and entire villages could only be located by the smoke from their peat fires wafting up through smoke holes. They were hunter gatherers and goat raisers. Their goat herds were kept in underground pens at night and only let out to forage on the grassy hill sides when they felt safe. Their Celtic neighbors were suspicious and afraid of them and had very little intercommunications. The Picts were thought to be magical because they could vanish without a trace. The only known and reliable information that I can locate on possible interaction concerns medical administrations and minor trade exchanges. The Picts were know for their medical and herb lore and were brought in as midwifes and doctors on a regular basis. Trading seems to be confined to the men only. Goat hides and dried herbs were traded for grain and fish itseems.

The Picts were fierce fighters and very territorial. They were armed with short spears and darts. Their favorite means of attack seems to be to dig pits and cover themselves with grass mats in open areas. When the enemy moved in amongst them in what appeared to be empty land the Picts would attack with darts, unseen and hidden from sight. Thus grew the fable that they were invisible. Historically, the Picts joined forces with their Celtic neighbors to defend the British Isle against the Romans. They painted themselves with woad, a blue dye they considered sacred and tattooed their faces in blue geometric designs. As the Islands became more populated it seems that their invading neighbors out of fear drove them out. They continued to migrate until finally they were either driven out or exterminated. I believe, due to legends and scant historical records that these people perhaps joined early Irish and Norwegian explorations and fishing journeys and little by little via Iceland gradually made their way to the New World. This migration started no later than 100 BC. Numerous artifacts and Pictish type structures have been located and excavated in Nova Scotia and new England to support this theory. New World legends amongst the natives began to circulate through out Indian cultures of the Little People about this time.

The numerous Little People artifacts in my possession collected from numerous sights throughout Colorado are identical in design to Pictish artifacts recovered from Scotland and Ireland and supports this hypotheses. A Pictish and Celtic form of writing known as Ogam has been found throughout Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Being deciphered by the well known and world expert Berry Fell, an approximate date has been ascribed to these sites at around 300 BC to 800 hundred AD Working personally with William Mclone, author of Ancient America, and an associate of Mr. Fell's, I have visited many of these sites and concur that they are indeed very similar to Celtic and Pictish locations in the United Kingdom.

Little People facts:

1. They have been reported as being blue.
2. They wear animal skins and hoods or cone shaped hats
3. They either live underground and in Caves or they have mastered a lost technology that allows them to use dimensional and time barrier gates as mentioned in legends of Druids and the megalithic builders that used Ley Line energy from the earth. This energy today is called Crystal Magnetic Energy or Crystal Lattice Web.
4. New Ogam like writing and markings accompanied by crude animal paintings are still being found in areas where Little People are being sighted in Colorado and New Mexico.
5. The Little People are curious about anything in their territory but refrain from human contact in all but extreme rarity.
6. They seem to like to indulge in the use of superstition as a means of keeping people at a distance and have been seen wearing religious and strange ceremonial costumes in this practice. They seem to delight in masquerading as demons, ghosts and rightening apparitions to scare people away. Note: this was also a favorite ploy of the Picts.
7. Only males are ever seen. Females and children are protected and hidden much the same way as in the old Pictish culture.
8. The men are seen occasionally with staffs of rods. This also is a characteristic of the Picts, Celts and Druids. The staffs were called Dodder staffs and were used as dowsing rods called doddering in the Gaelic tongue. They were also used to detect Ley lines, called Sun Paths and as surveying sticks as well.

I personally have never seen a Tiny Person. I have seen several tiny stone and flint artifacts that have been collected by a few old timers however from ant hills in the Purgatory country. I have aquired two of these myself. One is an arrow head made of agate and it measures just under 1/8 inch and is perfect. Second I have a black stone ax complete with part of the wood handle intact. Rather than having the head tied to the handle as American Indian artifacts of normal size, it has a hole drilled through the ax head length wise, similar to modern European metal axes and the wood shaft wedged in place. This ax head is smaller than a dime.

The information I have gathered about the Tiny People leaves me to believe that they lived in mud structures suspended from narrow canyon walls similar to Swallow nests. Hense the early American name Swallow People. From old accounts, it seems that these Tiny people were unfriendly for the most part in there encounters and were feared by native American and Mexican peoples that came in contact with them. I have collected many stories of these little folks.

By far my biggest interest is in the Little People of which I myself have seen two. I have many of their artifacts and have studied them and tracked them for 30 years. I have absolutely no doubts about their existence and believe there still remains a large number of them living in secluded areas of south western Colorado and New Mexico. They are no larger than 3 feet tall. The women although very rarely seen, are smaller. They seem to be a talented and diverse culture. From my studies I believe I have pieced together a strange but plausible history for them and believe that unlike the bigfoot, have not only interacted at times with other more known cultures, but have influenced the beliefs of those cultures immensely. But a las, those encounters have always ended tragically it seems for the Little People and over the last 50 years their interaction and sightings have become almost nil.