Garden gnomes are vanishing at an alarming rate.
Homeowner Kristine Smith received an email last Saturday from a group calling itself the Gnome Liberation Front.
The GLF informed her that it had stolen a gnome from her yard and sent a picture to prove it. Smith says the whole thing is a bit eerie.
"They said they renamed him Elvis and that we didn't have respect for him because we never named him, so I don't think we'll ever see him again," Smith said. "That's my sense."
Elvis is just the latest gnome to be "liberated." None of the others has been returned.