This, of course, is what happened back in August 1963
when a pair of lowly rather insignificant coal miners were
entombed more than 300 feet below the surface following
a cave-in inside a mine in Pennsylvania's anthracite region.

David Fellin, 58, and Henry "Hank" Throne, 28, seemed
destined to die a horrible death because their chance
of being rescued was astronomical, probably even worse.

However, when all hope seemed gone, God stepped in,
flicked His finger and, all of a sudden, Pope John XXIII
-- who had died in a hospital in Rome, Italy, 10 weeks earlier --
appeared to Fellin and Throne in their pitch-black tomb,
radiating a bluish light that cast no shadow.

Pope John, half the age of the old man he was when he
passed away, was grinning at the two miners, his arms folded
in front of him, and he remained inside their subterranean
chamber for at least eight full days.

My guess is it was the Gnome-King.