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Historically speaking, if a leprechaun’s not carrying a bowl of delicious cereal under a rainbow with several children chasing him, we really don’t care if he exists or not. They’re not as cool as monsters, not as spooky as ghosts, and they do far less anal probing than aliens.

Plus – nobody really believes in them anyway – right?

But there have been sightings – lots of sightings. And possibly – just possibly – one got caught on tape.

It wasn’t carrying any of the aforementioned delicious cereal though, so we remain quite dubious.

First and foremost – leprechauns aren’t only sighted in Ireland. As we understand it they get at least three weeks of annual leave, and they like to spend that vacation time seeing the world. A few years back one was all over Mobile, Alabama. A local news channel captured the pandemonium:

Irelandseye.com has a webcam secreted away in a mystical part of the Irish countryside. The purpose of the cam is to find leprechauns – and some people consider it a success – like this comment-leaver:

“I’m a fairy believer myself. I’ve always been since a child. And because of my belief and gifts to the fairies I’ve seen them. Here I’ve seen 3 very vivid Leprechauns and a few more but not as vivid.”

Or this one:

“he is sitting at the base of the tree with a red coat and hat on..with something like a rod in his right hand and something white in his left.”

The webcam updates every 30 seconds or so – and it caught an actual stream of a possible leprechaun running through the bushes on the right within the first 10-15 seconds or so. It’s not wearing a green hat, it’s boringly bald and it kinda looks like an all gray bowling ball hovering with delight. Check it out:

It’s bookin’ pretty fast, isn’t it? Again – without the green bowler and no bowls of cereal, we’re extremely skeptical about that thing being anything supernatural, but we sure don’t know what it is. If you’d like to investigate the scene yourself – hop on over to Irelandseye.

Who knows – you may get credit for concretely discovering a green-clad high sock-wearing sort of all around gay tiny new species.

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