i love this blogpost! I’m from st Pete myself and I happened across this article; I have been exploring the creek and roser park and think you might be interested in hearing my theories! 

the “little peoples” are described across different cultures, and native Americans are no exception. Up until recent years, no one really explored the area down in Roser Park —day or night unless you were from there— and I found some interesting spots that make me think there’s truly more to the lore. 

Mini Lights: little fairies🤔 

The area was also said to, and I can only provide this information word of mouth since a teacher told my class about it in middle school, have conducted human experiments with chimera. As my teacher described it to us, very cryptically: there was a lab down in Booker’s creek(roser park) that had flown in wild dogs and big cats from Africa and they had intended to splice dna to create hybrids. He then proceeded to tell us there were missing children from a local highschool, Lakewood High, but never really said more after that. 

my brain hadn’t put together what he was saying back then, because I thought the insinuation was that the monsters they created attacked the kids; today I understand the story differently though. The kids were used in the experiments is what he tried to say to us without saying it. 

i know this doesn’t sound like the little people storyline, but your point about Minnie and human transmutation brought it to mind again, plus the massive hospital complex in the area would serve as the perfect place for both people to experiment with and privacy of practice(they have underground spaces) 

now I theorized on my own that the little people may have been conducting abductions for the lab— but what if the little people were natives who were forced into hiding and enslavement? Being that they aren’t human, they can’t just actively exchange money with us to “pay their dues” but they could exchange labor. Superhuman speed, strength and the overall ability to stay unseen? The perfect target for exploitation. It’s likely that the last of them fled, or they were all killed in this type of service. 

I saw something that looked like a home for small creatures but nothing an animal would have built on their own: it looks like you’d need hands to construct it. 

Either way, the behaviors of the mini lights are similitudes of other little peoples across cultures; the Memegwesi of The Cherokees, the Eloko of the Congo, the Sidhe of Europe, and the Tokoloshe who seem to carry the nature of the story behind Minnie’s witch doctory. Some described as hostile, others as kind but with boundaries. I think the merit in their existence is that they are not alone in their descriptions much like we humans can be described varyingly across the world and although there hasn’t been anyone to prove their existence, I think the presences there can truly be felt like what you experienced. I too have felt strange presences and heard strange sounds while exploring there however it is an allure of mystery, that hospital and the whispers of human transmutation, unknown abductions and other interesting places that make me think there’s much more to the story that what we see looking into the creek for sure.

If anything, I think the land originally belonged to the fae folk there. That humans moved in, and although the mini lights may have coexisted peacefully with the Indians; it all changed for everyone after conquest. There were more than witches targeted in the hunts back then, I think little peoples were no exception to that. Then when science came for the land, they had succumbed to the enslavement because they were outmatched. Or at least that’s one storyline I’ve come up with in my head😂  

Also wanted to share: My dad saw a 20ft serpent like creature swimming near downtown USF while he was fishing, over 20 years ago, and there was only one other person,  a stranger fishing, who saw it too.. He only saw it that once and he fishes the gulf a lot! He actually had never mentioned it to anyone until the day he told me a couple years ago, he forgot til then, but when he told me I bet him that he wasn’t the only one with stories about it. So we googled it and turns out there were stories like his, no pics but tales of it swimming from st Pete out to Madeira beach ! They call it the Clearwater monster I believe, I think you might be interested in that one too, it fits the vibe of this blog for sure:)

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