Travelling gnome

The owner, who had not even noticed the gnome was missing until she found it returned on her porch, was interviewed on Good Morning America.

[7] According to ABC News, the owner decided to auction the gnome on eBay, which sold with the photo album for US$360 in May 2005,[8] because she became tired of all of the media attention.

However, in February 2006, it was reported that the gnome had actually been secretly purchased on eBay by the owner's friends who continued to take photos of it around the world in locations such as Canada, Mexico, Italy, and Thailand.

", and then continued to taunt him by making a Facebook profile in the Gnome's name then followed by posting pictures of it in many locations, such as the cinema, pubs, a trampoline park, a bowling alley, and an arcade.

[10] France's Garden Gnome Liberation Front (French: Front de libération des nains de jardin) was formed in 1997 in Alençon, France, aiming to release garden gnomes in their "natural habitat", for instance forests.

[15] In 2008, a 53-year-old man, who law-enforcement officials believed acted alone, was arrested on suspicion of stealing as many as 170 garden gnomes in the Brittany region of France.

[citation needed] The short, fantasy story "The Garden Gnome Freedom Front" (2005) by Laura Frankos, published in The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp, deals with the supernatural aspect of this custom.

[citation needed] In The Sims 4: Seasons, the garden gnomes are randomly spawned during various holidays with the player's task is to appease them with various stuff, including coffee, fruitcake pie, salad, toy or future cube.