August 13, 2024 • 65 mins
Welcome to another exciting episode of "Haunts and Legends." In this episode, hosts Ray and Sierra dive into the captivating world of Irish folklore, focusing on the elusive and mischievous leprechauns. Get ready for an enlightening discussion filled with history, myths, and personal anecdotes.
Ray and Sierra kick off the episode with a light-hearted conversation about their week and some housekeeping updates, including the launch of a new website. The main topic then transitions to the fascinating lore of leprechauns, exploring their origins, characteristics, and cultural significance in Ireland.
From childhood memories of Lucky Charms to the terrifying leprechaun movies, our hosts share their personal experiences and thoughts on these enigmatic creatures. The discussion delves into the historical context of leprechauns, tracing their roots back to Celtic mythology and the 8th-century writings of Irish monks.
Sierra provides a detailed explanation of leprechaun traits, including their mischievous nature, solitary lifestyle, and their association with pots of gold at the end of rainbows. The episode also touches upon modern interpretations and media portrayals, highlighting how these mythical beings have become symbols of Irish culture and St. Patrick's Day celebrations.
In a surprising twist, the episode reveals that leprechauns are considered a protected species in Ireland, with designated sanctuaries and even a leprechaun whisperer named Kevin. The hosts also share intriguing accounts of supposed leprechaun sightings and encounters, including a story from Western Pennsylvania and the curious case of leprechaun bones displayed in an Irish pub.
Join Ray and Sierra as they explore the mystique of leprechauns, blending humor, history, and a touch of the supernatural. Don't miss this captivating episode that promises to leave you questioning the boundaries between myth and reality.
Thank you for tuning in, and be sure to join us next Tuesday for another thrilling episode of "Haunts and Legends." If you have any suggestions or topics you'd like us to cover, feel free to reach out to us. Until then, stay curious and keep exploring the unknown!
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What's going on everybody? This is Haunts and Legends.
I am your host Ray and this is my co-host. I'm Sierra As you can see we had
a brand new video to bring to everybody.
Make sure you guys go and check out www.supernaturalsoree.com on October 26th
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get haunted will be hosting their first annual Supernatural sorry,
I think that's how you say it, right?
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check check that out everybody it's going to be a great time it is and you guys
might see rob and skinny jeans which is a site for lovely lovely eyes rob's gonna kill me it's great.
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Oh hello everybody hi damien he said
he's not ready for this i know what happens with these creepy little things hi
carmen hey carmen hi courtney
hello everybody is
ben hi jess hey jess who
else is here who else is here oh hi mom hey and
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hello welcome welcome welcome to another fantastic
tuesday evening right how was
your week not too bad so you
know just another week of work podcast doesn't
pay bills yet not yet someday eventually
we'll be doing this full-time it's a dream house it is a little bit of housekeeping
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here everybody i did make a post earlier that i took the website down so right
now the website is unaccessible i am in the process of building a new website,
which should be up any day now. So stay tuned for that.
Now, today we have a very interesting topic from my homeland. Go to Ireland.
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Leprechauns. Ray, what do you know about leprechauns?
My favorite Leprechaun is from the cereal brand. Good old Lucky Charms.
Yes, I love Lucky Charms.
Love me some Lucky Charms. Not a pot of gold, but it is a party in my mouth.
I'm going to choose to move on from that statement.
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But I also wonder what else I think of. I think of the Leprechaun movies and
how much they scared the living daylights out of me as a child.
Yeah. Terrified me.
There's like, what, four of them? Three? Three or four of them? Something like that.
Terrified. Even the good old, you know, leprechauns in the hood. Did that scare you?
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I don't even know what that is. I don't even know if I want to get that or not.
When you say leprechauns in the hood. Yeah, they made leprechaun movies with
leprechauns in the hood.
So you just have leprechauns rolling down with like glocks and shit? Like what?
I'm sorry. What?
So I see you're missing one of them. Am I?
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Yeah, pretty sure. I really hope that I don't ever come across a two foot tall
little gremlin with a goddamn glock.
That would be a recipe for a very bad day.
I think I'm okay with that. I think I'm okay with not knowing.
Leprechaun 2, Back to the Hood.
It's hard to see, but I can't show it right now. Maybe I just saw the first one.
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Maybe probably because i was
terrifying as a child well these little things
running around killing you like what it had
great old actor ice tea in it i just have this mental picture of these little
two-foot leprechauns running around with glocks like that's what that is what
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my head is doing to me right now
and i don't know if i appreciate it god anyways Anyways, your mom said,
I'll send you the link, Sierra. It's part of the Leprechaun series.
Yeah, I might get to it. I think now as an adult in a in a ghost hunter,
I think I think my brain can handle it.
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But like seven, eight year old Sierra who had no business watching any kinds of those movies. No, no.
But in my research, I'll have, you know, I did not ever come across a leprechaun
with a Glock or trying to kill people.
So we're going to talk about the nice leprechauns today. Okay.
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We're going to steer way, way, way, way from that.
So modern culture has really brought out the story of a leprechaun.
You know, Ireland has basically claimed it as its mascot.
You know, you go over to Ireland, you're going to see people dressed up as a
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leprechaun everywhere.
Everywhere. However, if there's anybody in the audience that doesn't know what
a leprechaun is, for one, please move out of the rock you've been living under.
It is 2024, for God's sake. For two, I'll explain it to you.
Leprechauns are small little creatures that are roughly about two feet tall,
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sometimes maybe a little taller.
And they are very mischievous. Very mischievous. hideous. They are also said to be very fast.
And they hoard gold treasure. Now we all know, what do you find at the end of
the rainbow? A pot of gold.
Now, I have seen the end of the rainbow and it led to a target.
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So I don't know how well I believe that unless target wants my gold.
They also live in cereal boxes.
Well, I can say that I have not found a leprechaun in the the bottom of Lucky Charms.
Well, Carmen, Carmen says, who actually seen them? How do they know what they
look like? Like fairies?
Well, we're going to get into that because in Ireland, lots of things happened.
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Supposedly. We're going to be the judge of this. I have lots of information for you guys.
So they are very tiny, incredibly agile fairies.
They're classified as fairies. Now, I don't think I personally ever would have
considered a leprechaun a fairy, but that's what they are nonetheless.
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If you go back to traditionally, right? Traditionally, they are talked of being
very stern, gloomy, bad-tempered old men.
Now, fun fact, there are none, zero, zilch female leprechauns,
and I think that's sexist.
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Why can't we have a female leprechaun? Why do the guys have to have all the fun? Make it make sense.
Hey, Kathleen. Hi, OPM.
So, again, very old men. They are said to be mean and ugly.
Wow, Stephanie's here. It's past her bedtime. Look at this. We have a Stephanie in the house.
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Is this your first time tuning in, Steph?
Damien said, have you ever seen a female dwarf? Gimlet says, why?
Speaking of, let me just put this in here, okay?
Now, this might be far-fetched, but my little Lord of the Rings brain says no, okay?
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How far different are leprechauns and hobbitses?
They're very short. They're both short. They're still little people.
Are leprechauns really hobbits? I'm choosing to believe that,
and none of y'all can convince me otherwise.
I mean, the hobbits do wear green uniforms.
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Yeah, but the fact that Damien mentioned Gimli, I was like, gotta mention it.
Okay, so you can blame Damien for that.
So, anyways, mean, ugly old men are leprechauns.
They are said to be very solitary creatures, so they are saying that it's very,
very rare are you going to find more than one leprechaun when you see one?
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If you see one, it's only going to be one.
They like to stay by themselves. They live in fairy-like homes within nature.
So, caves, tree trunks, tunnels.
So, are they kind of like territorial?
I didn't see anything about them. They just like their space.
Or they just kind of like, you know, Bilbo Baggins. No one's home! No one's home.
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Listen stop if you want to
if you want to do a podcast episode talking about lord of the rings the entire
time i am down okay but do not threaten me with a good time that's all i'm saying
that's all i'm saying they're also said to be very quarrelsome and foul-mouthed so you got ugly
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old men leprechauns that are also have a party mouth or a potty mouth.
Look, all I'm saying is it sounds exactly like good old Bilbo.
Listen, I love Bilbo. You made the comparison. I did, but Damien brought it up first, mind you.
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Wasn't me this time. Was not me.
They're also very greedy, which explains like, hey, you know,
this is my gold. You can't have it.
I'm trying to think, trying to stay up on the comments here.
Carmen, we're going to have to, we're going to have to square up.
I will say, I will say this year, I met my boy, Sean Astin, who played Sam on
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Lord of the Rings. And I loved him so much.
Damien, listen, when you come over stateside, like we can have a Lord of the Rings marathon.
I am down a hundred percent, a hundred percent.
So, leprechauns have been around for a while. Now, it has only been within the last...
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I don't know, 40, 50 years that it's really become a thing of say Scotland or
not Scotland, Ireland, sorry, Damien's homeland is on my brain.
Now the media has really gone off with it.
You know, the leprechaun is now a symbol of St. Patrick's day,
stuff like that, an excuse for people to get drunk, whatever else.
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But in order to really understand where the, where the term leprechaun came
from we have to go back into history of ireland right so one of the earliest,
references to leprechauns comes into
play from the 8th century there was an irish author and monk whose name i am
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going to butcher but it was naored naored but he wrote a or he wrote of tiny
solitary fairies who lived in the countryside and were known for their cunning and trickery.
Which, okay, leprechauns, right? They're going to be like, oh yeah,
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go look, my gold's over there. Go look over there.
And when you go look over there, they're going to poof gone. Be like, bye bro.
Like tricked you. Like I'm out of here. You might get my crap.
It wasn't until the medieval period. So the 14th, 15th century that the leprechaun became
a recognizable character in
irish work for folklore right so the word leprechaun is derived from a medieval
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irish word which is basically like a leprechaun leprechaun leprechaun and it
translates to small body so a little two feet tall little creature creature, small body,
little, little habit, you know, and so cute.
Try to listen. I, girl, I've been watched it. I've seen it. I love it.
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I love it. Captain Hook is my man. Okay.
Love it. Right. Have you ever seen
once upon a time? No. Do you go do your homework? You, you have, what?
Very long time ago. Well, that's a shock. Moving on.
Damien said they mend their shoes because they're always wearing them out.
If caught, they have to grant supernatural power so they can use gold as a lure
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to trade for capture. Hmm.
We're going to get into that. I have things to say about that. So...
The description of a leprechaun differs depending on who you talk to, right?
So there's some people that say that everyone agrees that they're small,
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old, grumpy men, right? Everybody agrees on that part.
But what they don't agree on is some say that they wore red outfits and some
say they wore green outfits.
And then some say they did both. It just depends on which part of Ireland Ireland,
you were searching for them or you looked for them in.
If you were in the northern part, they wore green. If you were in the southern part, they wore red.
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Hi, Kenny. Hey, Kenny. It's my boy.
So they are old men with beards who wore red or green coats with tall hats.
They were also depicted as shoemakers.
And again, some would say that they would spend their days making shoes for
other leprechauns or for people.
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And others say that they weren't shoemakers, that they were just repairing their
shoes from all the running around that they did personally.
But where did they get the gold from?
They had to be bringing in some kind of income, right? Were they just stealing it?
Some people think that. Some people think that they went and snuck through houses
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and stole food and coin and gold and everything else,
but then who they selling it to are they selling it to other leprechauns are
they selling it to people.
Yeah hi gina i was just in ireland sadly did not find any leprechauns and i
was looking well i watched a josh gates episode today of destination truth and
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he said that you had to drink a couple of pints in order to find a leprechaun
so did you in fact partake in the
pint drinking there gina so again
like i said they also come in say to
only come out at night to cause mischief and mayhem but they differ between
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who you ask right so if you take say little out of left field if you take vampires
for example right some people say they sparkle when they go into sunlight.
Some say they burn up and die when they go to sunlight. Some say that they can go into sunlight.
So depending on who you ask, depends on what story you're going to get.
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Now, I will say as a little disclaimer, is a lot of our Irish history,
Irish mythology that we know today was written down by Catholic monks when the
Roman Empire took over Ireland.
So is it safe to say that some things may have been left out?
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Some things may have been altered from the original like truths?
It's possible. Back in the day, they wanted to completely erase any kind of
other religion besides that sole religion that they wanted.
So when you have your Celtic pagans and stuff, they were thrown to the side
and be like, nope, you don't exist anymore. This is our story now.
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So it's the way of the world, the way things happened back then.
Nothing we can do about it.
But I would be interested to know what information...
Painted information there would have been about this specific topic you know
i'm sure somewhere out there like maybe i'd have to take a trip to ireland and
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be like hey you look like an old building can i see historical records the fact
that the you know of that happening i don't know,
they're probably like damn you weird like why
is this why is this random white girl coming up and asking ian said
have you guys researched any celtic
mythology leprechauns are insidious creatures that like
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all fae they are deal makers and child thieves
i did read something about that i'm not
very well versed in celtic mythology but it
is interesting it's something i really need to do a lot more ian said celtic
and druidic histories in western ireland are well preserved they all how also
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house much of the catholic writings so again shoemakers old ugly men,
grumpy like they're getting really red really bad red like why they why they gotta be grumpy right.
Going on to another source of inspiration for leprechauns is they say that they're
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water sprites of the Celtic mythology.
They are tiny fairy creatures first appeared in Irish literature in a book called
The Adventure of Fergus, Son, and Lettie from the 8th century.
The story in that book goes that the hero Fergus, who's the king of Ulster, falls asleep on a beach.
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He wakes up to find that a number of water spirits have taken away his sword
and are dragging him into the water it is the water touching his feet that wakes
him up fergus frees himself and grabs three of the spirits they promise to grant
him three wishes in turn in return for their freedom,
now again you have a whole bunch of different people saying different things about one subject,
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some say that they're solitary creatures but this guy claims he saw three of
them and he caught all three of them and got wishes you want to know what he
wished for what's that to breathe underwater.
It's said that, and again, many different people, many different stories.
Some say that if you manage to catch a leprechaun, which is very difficult,
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very, very difficult. They're very fast. They're very cunning.
Some say that if you catch it, that he'll lead you to his pot of gold.
And some will say that he will grant you three wishes if you catch him, like a genie.
But the same way with a genie if you're going on the
the wishes aspect you have to be very careful with your wishes right with a
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genie you have to be very direct you have to be very careful with your wording
same thing with leprechauns now does that mean leprechauns have magic powers,
how extensive do those magic powers go is it just something simple of i mean
if he can grant wishes Can I ask for more wishes? Is there rules?
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I don't know. I'm trying to stick up with these comments.
Ian said their deals are intentionally deceptive. True, an agreed deal,
but a deal intentionally deceptive.
Damien makes a good point he said they could fall under.
Glaisting glaistigs or brownies when i was doing research about it brownies came up a lot,
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brownies are basically kind of the u.s version of a leprechaun but they're like
house fairies like help with housework but they're leprechauns they're said
to hoard vast sums of gold at the of rainbows.
And it is said that those who are clever enough to catch the leprechaun would
make them reveal that location.
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It's also said that, again, we talked about the three wishes, but in the process of.
Leprechaun like telling you again very cunning right he'd
be like oh in order to get to my treasure you got to go over there
and if you listen to him you take your eyes off
the leprechaun and you go over there the leprechaun's gonna book and be
like psych i'm out of here very like they're not gonna give up the treasure
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i mean i wouldn't want to give up my treasure absolutely not it said if if captured
and threatened with bodily violence he might if you keep your eyes on him,
reveal the hiding place of his treasure.
But again, very smart, very cunning.
Nine times, probably nine and a half times out of 10, he gets away.
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Now, going back into more leprechauns, some believe that they are descended from a god named Lu.
Now, Lu was a god of the Tuthodadanon?
Probably said that wrong, but
the Teutha de Danann, which translates to tribe of God or tribe of gods.
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Now they were a supernatural race in Irish mythology. They were said to be the
first living beings in Ireland.
And once the Christians came over, they, or when the Malaysians came to Ireland,
they apparently conquered these gods and forced them to live underground.
Now a way to get underground into their underground world is through fairy rings
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you know everybody the witchy people everybody knows what fairy ring is you
see a fairy ring you're not supposed to enter it you're supposed to stay far
away from it respect it leave an offering whatever else,
in ireland if you go into a fairy ring it said that a
leprechaun is going to come out because they are in in
a way a garter of the fairy ring because not
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anybody's going to be able to go into to this underworld of the tribe of
gods right these this
tribe of gods thought to represent the main deity main deities of pre-christian
gaelic ireland but again a lot of irish mythology was recorded by christian
monks who most likely modified it most likely i don't have proof but But most likely,
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the tribe of gods were referenced to as kings, queens,
and heroes of distant past who had supernatural powers.
In other writings, they were referred to as fallen angels who were neither good or evil.
But they all agree that they were gods. Yes.
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You have Lou. Lou was a member of the Tuthadi Danan.
He was a warrior, a king, a master craftsman, and a savior.
He had many different talents, many different.
He almost had, he, so in order to get into this tribe of gods,
right, you had to have something to offer the gods that nobody else had.
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So like, oh, hey, I'm a, I'm a great musician.
Oh, sorry, bro. We already got one of those. Oh, well, I'm a great cook. Sorry, bro.
We already got one of those, too. So he tried like 15 to 20 times with different
things and was like, hey, like, what about this? What about this? What about this?
And they're like, nah, nah, bro. You ain't invited. Stay out of here.
But he was like, but do you have somebody that can do all of these things?
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And it stumped the man. And the man was like, you know what?
We don't. We don't have somebody that can do all of these things.
So that's how Luke was let into the tribe of gods.
Now it has also been said that Lou
was known to play tricks on people when the
outcome would benefit him so because
of that they think that because of the the nature
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of leprechauns being cunning cunning and their trickery they think that they
are a descendant from Lou now we're gonna get to the funny part there's a funny
part of this now let me let me just go to the comments Before I go into this,
Carly says, have you guys seen the video about a man who had a classmate who
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grew up with him and both distinctly remember the teacher bringing a real-life
leprechaun to class to show them on St. Patrick's Day? I don't.
Going to have to look that up because I remember I remember being in elementary school, St.
Patrick's Day coming around. We build a leprechaun trap and then we'd come in
the next day of school and there'd be like little footprints and the trap would
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be, you know, it's a good old marketing ploy.
You know, as a kid, I probably believed that there was a real life leprechaun. Okay.
Nowadays, I'd like to. I'd like to believe it, you know, but I'm going to have to look up that video.
If you can send me the link, that would be helpful. Please do.
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Damien says, what is classified? What is classed as a fairy ring?
If Alpacons are fairy descendants, would they be governed or overpowered by other entities?
If they are descendants, yes. But what if they're... I mean, when we think of...
Hierarchies i guess you have the gods at all like you have the guy at the top
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no matter what religion is you got the guy at the top and you got people,
sprinkling down right it may not be like oh hey this is what you got to do like
you have to do you could have some some you know higher power overpowered other
entities that are like i don't I don't give a shit what you do.
Like, just don't get in my way. You know? Yeah.
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I don't know.
Now, here we go to the funny part. Now, Ray, do you think leprechauns are real? I don't know.
Ireland does. See, I haven't been to Ireland yet. It's on my bucket list,
though. Do you want to know why I know that?
Why do you know that? Because Ireland has listed leprechauns as a protected species as of 2009.
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There is land. There is land in Ireland that is protected land and is left as
a sanctuary for leprechauns, the little people.
Look it up. 2009. 2009. 2009. They are protected under the European directive.
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Now, it does say, I will, it does say that it got passed into that because they
can't prove or deny their existence.
So I will say that. They're not saying, Ireland isn't saying, yes, they exist.
But they're also not saying, no, they don't. But if it's a protective species...
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In the U.S. passed something about Bigfoot being a protected species? Hmm.
Because the U.S. already knows. They just don't want to admit it.
They just don't want to admit it. You cannot sit there and tell me that Bigfoot doesn't exist.
You can't. But yes, 2009, under the European Directive, they are now a protected species.
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They have an area preserved in Loth. Loth?
Called the, I'm going to butcher this.
The coelobifolup, which is protected for all flora, fauna, and leprechauns.
And you want to know how many leprechauns supposedly live there? How many? 236. Really?
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236 leprechauns. Now. How did they get this count?
Oh, oh, I'm glad you asked me that, right?
I am so glad that you asked me that because did you know there's such a profession
called the Leprechaun Whisperer?
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No. Well, there is. His name's Kevin.
And my man Kevin talks to the leprechauns and that's how they got their number
because that's what the leprechauns told Kevin.
Good old Kevin. and apparently the leprechauns only talk to kevin now why is
kevin so special i don't know,
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i don't know how does he talk to him goes into the woods and talks to him he
talked to all 236 of them i'm sure there's like a like a like a chief leprechaun,
maybe i don't know how the world of leprechaun works I'm sure he went into the
woods and was like 1, 2, 3 stop moving Henry 4.
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I'm sure if they're all kind of territorial he probably went to all their houses
he probably sat down to have tea with them too like,
I don't know but that's what the internet says the internet says that Kevin
can talk to leprechauns hey the internet never lies,
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Ian says, the leprechauns only speak to a single order of scholars,
and he is the last of the order.
Well, I guess he better start making some babies.
One leprechaun for every potato planted? That's a lot of leprechauns. I love potatoes.
Hmm. Yes, according to the internet, there's 236 leprechauns still living in
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Ireland in a cavern under the Cooley Mountains.
They are all concentrated in the area of Laos, which is also considered to be
an important part of the spirit world. Hmm.
I got a little Irish in me. I'm going to have to take a trip to Ireland. I mean, same.
Now, I'm going to do, you thought that was funny. The talking. I mean, let's be real.
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You and I, we talk to dead people all the time, right?
Right. So how far-fetched is it to talk to leprechauns?
Not that far-fetched. I mean. Not that far-fetched.
I mean, if you go to Ireland, you come back and you're like,
hey, guys, I just talked to a leprechaun like three days ago.
You're going to have people be like, right, you're full of shit.
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Like how much, how much goodness did you drink? Right? Like, let's be real.
People probably say we're full of shit for talking to dead people, but I mean,
they could just get over it, you know, but did you also know I'm going to do
one even better than our good old leprechaun whisperer, right?
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Did you know that there were supposed bones of a leprechaun found?
Really? Yeah. You can go see those bones.
Do you want to know where you can go see those bones, Ray? Where at?
At a pub. In Carlington, Ireland.
I'll put it on the list. You can go into the pub, order a Guinness and some,
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buffalo wings, sit down, and be like, hey, can I see some leprechaun bones?
Buffalo wings? An Irish pub?
Yep. um according to what
i read i looked at this guy this menu okay you went as far as looking at the
menu yes yes i did in fact look at the menu and they had buffalo wings okay
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because i read i read that somebody thought that the bones that are there are really chicken bones,
and i was like did they even serve chicken wings and they do okay and i love i love me some chicken
wings yeah so you
order a guinness you order some chicken wings and be like hey can i
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see some bones and they're gonna go over to this glass
case that's locked and show you this bones of a of a leprechaun now there has
this is this the random bone picture that you sent me earlier oh yeah i do have
a picture of that can you pull that up ray because when i was looking Looking at it,
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it definitely looked human and did not look like a chicken.
People say a bunch of things. But I could definitely pull it up real quick.
We will not avoid Guinness.
I only drink Guinness on special occasions.
Gotta find it. Alright, hold on. Ian said, the demeanor of the talk tonight
is the energy most Americans have towards the cryptids and fae of other countries and cultures.
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About 1,500 years of culture and myth that have been stifled and barely survived
multiple genocide attempts.
I'm not saying that I don't believe in it. so please
please don't think that like i said ray and
i say and at least two weekends a
month and sit into old 17 1800
1800 buildings and talk
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to ghosts so if i ever had the chance to talk to a leprechaun i absolutely would
i am by no means any means ness any means period saying that the things don't
exist like all right so i'm gonna show you guys the uh not chicken.
And you guys show me the bones right show me the bones this
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is a chicken so if you
go over to ireland in carl carling carlington
at a pub called dj
o'hairs you're gonna find this in a case locked
up now the first
story there's there's many different stories on how these bones
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came came to be right but like if you look at those right like what do you kind
of bones do you think those are it looks like a tiny human but it's like it's
it's just you know missing other things that That can say,
sure, it's definitely a human.
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You don't have a full skull. You don't have any hands.
You only have the femur. You don't have the actual tibia, fibula, the foot bones.
Could it be a hobbit?
I mean it's really
small though i mean look how small the bones are compared to this dollar bill
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here that it's sitting by i mean i know the whole dollar bill would be the whole
length of its arm so it's like i mean you say they're like two feet tall but i don't know
if the whole dollar bill is the length of its arm it might be smaller than two feet yeah,
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yeah ian i mean is there child leprechauns that are even smaller but if how
how could there be a child leprechaun if there's no females a child hobbit i'm sorry do they lay eggs,
eggs they use their magical powers to create offspring i guess i don't know,
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ask the leprechaun whisperer i should,
ian said funny you say that hobbits were the template for token i know if i
could tell you my love for lord of the rings we would be here all night all
night long i love of mohabbats is okay.
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Lucky charms right now a little tip of the cap i try,
good point here's the other thing is it a complete skeleton well there's definitely
not there's no hands there's no feet there's no skull you're you're missing,
you're missing your whole forearm and the hand and with
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legs you're missing the whole from the kneecaps down
right damien going
back to your your thing from earlier would i make a deal with
leprechaun perhaps depending on what he
could offer me unfortunately i'm a ginger so
i don't have a soul so unless i'm giving him your soul that won't work for me
either but do you know that there were people that wanted to test the bones
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like in these bones have been there since Since 1946.
They won't let them test the DNA composition? No, because they see it as bad luck.
I get it i get it it would be nice to be able to run a dna test on the bones
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to see exactly what the results show right but you also got to think it's at
a pub it's very well known,
i'm sure a lot of tourists go just to see the bones obviously when they get
there they drink they eat they spend money so like doing the testing and be
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like oh it's not actually anything
it's just you know here's a bone from from a cat here's a dog bone here's this
bone just pieced together to look like it they're gonna lose business i get
it just just like santa claus we believe in it because that's what we want to
believe in right right so joe they were
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found in they were found in carlington ireland so one story goes it said that
the original pub owner pj o'hare found the leprechauns discarded clothes and bones on,
fly v foy along with some gold coins so it's in that that carlington ireland area area.
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There's another story that's kind of funny.
That the original owner, PJ O'Hare, was a leprechaun hunter.
Now, pre-2009, when they became a protected species, there were people that
went hunting for leprechauns.
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You could go and purchase a hunting license in Ireland to hunt for leprechauns.
It was a yearly thing.
Just like we purchase hunting licenses to shoot deer, turkey, whatever else.
You got a license to hunt a leprechaun.
But there are still people that'll say it's not real.
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If it's not real, why do they protect the species?
Why do they have a protected land in Ireland for them to live free and why is
there a hunting license you can purchase or could purchase to hunt them.
Like, has anybody ever actually successfully caught one, killed one?
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Not to my knowledge. I looked.
However, there's a story going back to our to our lovely PJ O'Hare,
who said that he did catch one.
And you want to know what he did with it? What did he do with it?
He brought it back to the pub.
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So it's said it is said that in 1946 for a
point come on let's
drink he caught the leprechaun whose name was sean good old sean brought him
back and held him in captivity at the pub he would only let sean out sean the
little leprechaun he would only let him out to entertain his guests with his Is music and singing.
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So you. Back in 1946.
And for. The next 55 years.
You could go. To PJ O'Hare's. In Carlington Ireland. And see a leprechaun.
Dancing in the pub. While you're drinking Guinness. And having a grand old time.
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Like it doesn't get any better than that. It brings me back.
Again. It brings me back.
It brings me back. Do you remember in the first Lord of the Rings when they're
all, when the hobbitses are dancing up on the table, they're singing the jolly old song.
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Like that's what I, that's what I imagined that this little leprechaun was doing.
Just dancing around with a pine in his hands, saying and tapping,
dancing on the table and everything else.
Might be. Dominic's here too. Hi, Dominic. Hey, Dominic.
I will get back to you after the show. I'm not ignoring you. I promise.
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What's your take on the TikTok video of the Tiny Tree Person? Haven't seen it yet.
Haven't seen it yet. So, again, 55 years. So, 1946.
For 55 years, this man kept this leprechaun in his pub dancing for people.
That's a long time. And I would assume for such a small little being,
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magical or not, that is a long time to live.
Like how old was the leprechaun when he first got him? Right? Right. Yeah.
2001. So when I was three, three, Sean, the leprechaun said, all right, I'm done.
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Now also knowing within the, those 55 years that Sean, the leprechaun was forced
to dance and entertain the drunken guests of the pub, the,
the owner was trying to get the
leprechaun to reveal his treasure and he found
the leprechaun what instead of my goose chase goose chases like
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oh yeah go here the pub owner would go
there it's not there oh yeah it's actually over here
like played games with him for 55 years right finally he snuck out in the middle
of the night as the pub owner was drunk and passed out and he's never been seen
again never been seen again but you want to know
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what's even funnier what's that they're still offering a reward for his safe return.
How much it was 50 000 whatever money they use i don't know if they use pounds
or whatever currency they have but it was 50 000 whatever currency it is all
right time to go over there,
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now they have his clothes which
i sent you the picture if you can pull that up they have
his clothes supposedly in a
in a frame hanging up at the pub like oh yeah this was this was his leprechaun
clothes leprechaun clothes and his musical instruments look at that fifty thousand
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dollars damien said seventy thousand dollars he probably did the math you trying to
go find sean the leprechaun for 70 grand i am
like what am i doing working my
day job like let's go like that
is crazy sean oh five
that is crazy is that his last name yeah oh oh oh five something like that all
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right but yeah those are his clothes probably rank of reek of guinness i'm sure
so it It looks like I need to get an accordion,
some Guinness, a mandolin, a little hammer, an anvil,
and we should be able to catch them.
Yeah. But.
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2024 so we're 23 years later and they're still offering a reward there's only one place to go,
you have to go to ireland gotta stop kevin's house first yeah we gotta we gotta we gotta get kevin
but kevin lead me to your leader take me to your leader and if i walk up in
there there's a bunch of hobbitses walking around you can just leave me there
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i will forever live my life as a hobbit amongst my people forever.
See, that's a great question. I don't know. I was not able to find that.
How long do leprechauns live? Does anybody else know? Damien,
do you know? Ian? Ian seems very well-versed in this topic.
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Damien said, don't hunt drunk. Well, you see, again,
I watched the episode of Destination Truth with Josh Gates,
and he was told that the best way to find a
leprechaun is to drink a couple pints first are we
gonna be able to bring some pints within the leprechaun territory where they
all supposedly live i don't know it is a tourist it's like a tourist attraction
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too like a lot of people go there just to see it as long as they have some pints
so bring some pints and we'll set up a leprechaun trap now i did read an account about
this woman who is from irish heritage that moved to a new house in ireland and.
She would she had like an attic above her bedroom
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and she would constantly hear like when she laid down tonight
she would hear things like scurrying around like she thought maybe it was
a mouse maybe it was like a like an animal of
some sort like little footsteps like a
raccoon running yes so she
was like what the heck so one night
before she went to bed she took flour imported powdered
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it over the floor in her
attic and went to bed that following night
or that following day she went up and looked and she claims
that she found small footprints prints
that were human like barefoot human
footprints walking around but she's
a older a grown woman living by herself yeah so was there a leprechaun it said
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that you can give them treats like it's for whatever reason they like milk you
can leave out milk for them you can And probably,
I don't know, get some of those little like gold chocolate coins for like St.
Patrick's Day and just leave those out maybe.
I'm going to get a whole box of the Lucky Charms marshmallows only.
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And be like, here, leprechaun, leprechaun, leprechaun. With some milk.
I mean, I guess it's a good idea. It's a good plan. I guess. Yeah.
I did come across another account of... Damien, how do you know it's almond
milk? Almond milk, not cow milk.
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Did almond milk even exist hundreds of years ago?
I don't know. Why not oat milk? What about coconut milk? Why almond milk, Damien? Hmm?
What do your eyes see? What do your elf eyes see?
Okay, I'm done. That was Lord of the Rings reference in case you didn't know.
Anyways back to leprechauns so
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there was another account now this came from reddit now take
this how you will because it did come from reddit it was by a person called
essentially dread 14 and she was told a story that happened in 1991 in western
pennsylvania the story is as follows,
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It says, my ex-boyfriend's dad was the chief of police of a small town located
directly outside of a city.
He had several police officers who worked for him and one was a young rookie cop whom I'll call Mike.
The police officers in that jurisdiction often assisted the city police with calls.
Mike was going to such a call on a cold day in the beginning of March.
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He was driving down a road that on either side of, on either side was a field
of tall dead brown grass.
All of a sudden, Mike saw what he thought was an animal coming out of the grass on the left side.
He said what he saw next.
He said he saw the next sequence of events in a slow motion.
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He tried to slow his cruiser down.
He saw that it was not an animal, but indeed a small, bald, dirty man dressed
in ragged clothes, approximately two feet tall, running out from the grass.
He slammed on his brakes. The cruiser did not stop fast enough,
and he hit the small man with the front of the car.
The man flew up in the air. Mike jumped out of the car, ran to the front.
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He said he looked right down at the small man who then noticed had reddish brown hair.
The little man began a screaming evil laugh and hopped up, running into the
grass on the right side of the road.
Mike ran after him, but all he heard was the sound of his evil mocking laugh.
Mike went back to the station. He was visibly shaken.
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My ex's father said he was pale white and could barely choke out the story.
When he finished telling them
what happened, everyone except my dad's ex began howling with laughter.
The other cops teased him relentlessly about the leprechaun story.
Since it was about three weeks before St. Patrick's Day, one of the cops went
to the dollar store, bought a leprechaun hat.
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He left it on Mike's doorstep with a note stuck to the brim saying,
I'm coming for you, Mikey.
The next morning, Mike came in crying and told my ex's father he was quitting the police.
My ex's father believed Mike and said that he could tell he was extremely sincere
in his belief and that he had hit a leprechaun.
Huh. Now, again, this came from Reddit. So believe it how you want.
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I just thought it was interesting. But it happened.
Pennsylvania. Why is there a leprechaun in western Pennsylvania?
Why would somebody quit the police force if he knew he was telling a joke and
then people were messing with him?
It's like... But if you put yourself in that shoes, put yourself in this Mike guy's shoes,
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if you saw a leprechaun, if you hit a leprechaun with your car and went into
work and was like oh my god guys, you'll never believe it.
You tell them the story they're gonna be like right you're so full of shit now imagine
you telling one of your bosses that he's probably gonna ask what are you talking
i'm gonna get drug tested right away if i tell my boss that i hit a i hit a
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leprechaun you know they're gonna take my hand and drag me right up to the front
of the office and say he in this cup penis cup,
so like just because his that this guy's co-workers were making fun of him doesn't
mean that it's not real because like you said they would drug test you immediately immediately.
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Immediately and then he would make fun of me every day yeah you would never
live it down no that that that story would live rent-free in their minds for
the rest of your time working there and even further after that yeah and then
you know what's crazy with our gps systems in our truck,
if we hit a leprechaun locally here, they're going to put cameras in every single
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truck because they have the capability of doing that.
And then, you know, they might see one though. Maybe.
Maybe. Or they're just going to think you're high or drunk. Top of the morning
to you, Damien. Top of the morning.
So, leprechauns. Are they real? Are they fake?
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If they are fake, why are they protected species? Why were you able to get a
hunting license to kill them?
Why do they have their own protected sanctuary in Ireland?
See, this makes me want to go to Ireland even more now. Like,
I've always wanted to go to Ireland.
Ireland it's it's it's on my bucket list of countries to visit but now I have
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more things to do and figure out when I get there Damien will go to Ireland with us.
Maybe maybe maybe that never mind that's mean I was gonna say in order to try
to like Like pull out to course out the leprechauns.
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What if we find a midget friend respectfully dress them up like a leprechaun and use them as bait?
I think it's a great idea.
Respectfully. You know what I just got in my head? I don't know if I want to know.
The little little dude from Bad Santa dressed as an elf. Oh,
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my God. Stop. Stop. Not him.
We will not be able to have a serious podcast. No way. No way.
It would be funny, though. Send the email, Ray. Send the email.
Love that guy.
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But yeah, leprechauns. We're really not going to know unless we go to Ireland. Nope. But.
But, of course you will. We'll have to bring Damien to Ireland with us.
How does Ireland, how does the Irish feel about the Scottish coming up into
their crib? That's what I gotta know.
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I don't know. I heard the Irish don't like Americans, but screw it.
We'll go enjoy a couple pints.
I mean, I'm pale enough. I got the freckles. I think I would get away with it.
You maybe not so much. I have a little Irish in me.
Never mind. A little Nordic, a little Irish, mainly German, but.
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I mean, my complexion says Irish, so I kind of can't hide from that.
You burn bad, but I burn just as worse. I just, I'm just not missing the, the.
You have yes or lack thereof right yes
fun story about that you know my great-grandmother
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used to call my freckles and it's hard to see on
the screen because i look pale as a ghost but i do have freckles but my grand
my great-grandmother my dad's grandma used to call my freckles angel kisses
she used to tell me that every night when i went to bed an angel would come
down and give Give me a kiss. And that's where my freckles would come from.
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However, that stopped real quick when I was like, Mimi, what about the ones on my butt?
And she's like, I have some cookies. You want a cookie?
And she never mentioned it again. So angel kisses, you know?
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But yeah, that's today's episode. Good old leprechauns.
I don't know i'm not saying that
they're not real i think they are i'd like to believe that they
are i would love to believe they are but it's going to take us i would say road
trip but a plane trip a little flight over a little flight over the pond a little
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flight over the pond we'll have to kidnap damien we'll promise him a couple
pints of pints of guinness and call the
day is that all right with you damien i think
it's a great idea he already agreed to be bigfoot bait
we already talked about this a euro
trip not that euro trip but a euro trip
have you ever seen that movie euro trip many times
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great film great film
but we are not recreating that or have
a euro trip euro trip add in cryptids
bigfoot nessie that would be what's our cryptid safe word i don't know i don't
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know hi todd hey todd well so our leprechauns is loose inclusive,
See, I don't know because earlier I read about, I spoke about a story that happened
in Western Pennsylvania.
Some believe that they can travel through the fairy rings into the underworld,
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basically, where the tribe of gods are.
And if they're able to grant three wishes, they have to have some kind of magic.
Can they travel interdimensionally? Can they travel through portals?
Hop in a portal in Ireland?
Go to Wisconsin for a day and then go back to Ireland? Maybe.
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It's possible. If they're offspring of deities, maybe they can.
Yeah. I mean, if they're a descendant from an actual God.
Rainbows are in USA. What's the lore with your rainbows?
Leprechauns are one. I got to look up some more stuff. I see a lot of people post rainbows.
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We're dealing with like past family member deaths.
Oh, not, I gotta, I'd have to do some more research into that one.
Rainbows going going inside with the leprechaun just magic yeah kind of thing
but like i said they people say there's there's a pot of gold at the end of
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the rainbow i have seen at the end of the rainbow there was a target that's
all i'm saying and you want to know what's that target,
squish mellows and that's the only answer that i need well that is your pot
of gold it is honestly Honestly, I'm only at like 84.
However, my boy Russ that was on live last night with Damien had a,
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with Compass of Curiosities, if you don't know them,
go follow them on their socials.
He has a raccoon Squishmallow and I don't. And that's a problem.
I need the trash panda. I need it.
For sure. So that's going to be my next purchase.
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Todd said, it would be nice if they could travel through a portal to my home
and leave a small bag of gold. Not asking for a lot.
I don't know if you're asking for a lot.
I think people would be okay if they just traveled and cleaned up the house
a little bit and then left. you know just the little things just the little things,
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but we are over past eight there is no van down by the riv podcast with buddy
tonight however there's a podcast coming on at nine with trevor and i can't remember,
nine o'clock on the get haunted network go hang out with them it's a haunted haunted casket,
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special event promo with trevor faith and bill bryan yes go check that out.
Todd said if not a gold a pint of guinness at least unfortunately
i think we're gonna have to supply our own guinness if i
was thinking ahead while doing this episode i
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could have have been drinking a guinness if i was thinking ahead but i wasn't
car bombs i have to work tomorrow that's the only issue but just do one car
bomb one car bomb to launch the episode,
i didn't think of it though so i didn't either but there's always next but we
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are planning to to do another leprechaun episode march 17th of next year if
not march 17th at least around that time so we might have to partake in some
irish car bombs before that episode starts,
todd said don't go down that rabbit hole.
We're gonna have to get like little hats uh you're gonna have to get like a
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a beard like off amazon an orange beard yes you got it that wait see what's
our christmas episode guys that's gonna be fun very we got a ways we got spooky
season of first i'm not rushing it.
But we we're gonna have a podcast new year's eve
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that's gonna be a lot of fun we had
no idea that christmas eve was gonna be on a tuesday so be
prepared oh oh lauren really really can you hook girl up please please let me
know hit a girl up sierra needs a designer owned squishmallow one of a kind
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i need a 20 inch mothman squishmallow 20,
is that the santa one it's my
christmas i don't have any of
my big ones he's adorable they're oh
my gosh we're we're getting off topic but
but build a bear
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build the bear has a
mothman build a bear right now yeah but it's always sold out i know so if anybody
that's like watching if you happen just like walk by build-a-bear one day and
you see a mothman like hit a girl up let me know i'll send you that podcast money real quick.
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Because i need it to survive that's it that's what that's what we'll leave this
episode on in search of mothman build-a-bear.
But as always i would love to thank all of
you for tuning in and hanging out with us on a
tuesday evening your support your love and
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What's going on everybody? This is Haunts and Legends.
I am your host Ray and this is my co-host. I'm Sierra As you can see we had
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Make sure you guys go and check out www.supernaturalsoree.com on October 26th
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Oh hello everybody hi damien he said
he's not ready for this i know what happens with these creepy little things hi
carmen hey carmen hi courtney
hello everybody is
ben hi jess hey jess who
else is here who else is here oh hi mom hey and
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hello welcome welcome welcome to another fantastic
tuesday evening right how was
your week not too bad so you
know just another week of work podcast doesn't
pay bills yet not yet someday eventually
we'll be doing this full-time it's a dream house it is a little bit of housekeeping
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here everybody i did make a post earlier that i took the website down so right
now the website is unaccessible i am in the process of building a new website,
which should be up any day now. So stay tuned for that.
Now, today we have a very interesting topic from my homeland. Go to Ireland.
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Leprechauns. Ray, what do you know about leprechauns?
My favorite Leprechaun is from the cereal brand. Good old Lucky Charms.
Yes, I love Lucky Charms.
Love me some Lucky Charms. Not a pot of gold, but it is a party in my mouth.
I'm going to choose to move on from that statement.
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But I also wonder what else I think of. I think of the Leprechaun movies and
how much they scared the living daylights out of me as a child.
Yeah. Terrified me.
There's like, what, four of them? Three? Three or four of them? Something like that.
Terrified. Even the good old, you know, leprechauns in the hood. Did that scare you?
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I don't even know what that is. I don't even know if I want to get that or not.
When you say leprechauns in the hood. Yeah, they made leprechaun movies with
leprechauns in the hood.
So you just have leprechauns rolling down with like glocks and shit? Like what?
I'm sorry. What?
So I see you're missing one of them. Am I?
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Yeah, pretty sure. I really hope that I don't ever come across a two foot tall
little gremlin with a goddamn glock.
That would be a recipe for a very bad day.
I think I'm okay with that. I think I'm okay with not knowing.
Leprechaun 2, Back to the Hood.
It's hard to see, but I can't show it right now. Maybe I just saw the first one.
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Maybe probably because i was
terrifying as a child well these little things
running around killing you like what it had
great old actor ice tea in it i just have this mental picture of these little
two-foot leprechauns running around with glocks like that's what that is what
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my head is doing to me right now
and i don't know if i appreciate it god anyways Anyways, your mom said,
I'll send you the link, Sierra. It's part of the Leprechaun series.
Yeah, I might get to it. I think now as an adult in a in a ghost hunter,
I think I think my brain can handle it.
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But like seven, eight year old Sierra who had no business watching any kinds of those movies. No, no.
But in my research, I'll have, you know, I did not ever come across a leprechaun
with a Glock or trying to kill people.
So we're going to talk about the nice leprechauns today. Okay.
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We're going to steer way, way, way, way from that.
So modern culture has really brought out the story of a leprechaun.
You know, Ireland has basically claimed it as its mascot.
You know, you go over to Ireland, you're going to see people dressed up as a
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leprechaun everywhere.
Everywhere. However, if there's anybody in the audience that doesn't know what
a leprechaun is, for one, please move out of the rock you've been living under.
It is 2024, for God's sake. For two, I'll explain it to you.
Leprechauns are small little creatures that are roughly about two feet tall,
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sometimes maybe a little taller.
And they are very mischievous. Very mischievous. hideous. They are also said to be very fast.
And they hoard gold treasure. Now we all know, what do you find at the end of
the rainbow? A pot of gold.
Now, I have seen the end of the rainbow and it led to a target.
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So I don't know how well I believe that unless target wants my gold.
They also live in cereal boxes.
Well, I can say that I have not found a leprechaun in the the bottom of Lucky Charms.
Well, Carmen, Carmen says, who actually seen them? How do they know what they
look like? Like fairies?
Well, we're going to get into that because in Ireland, lots of things happened.
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Supposedly. We're going to be the judge of this. I have lots of information for you guys.
So they are very tiny, incredibly agile fairies.
They're classified as fairies. Now, I don't think I personally ever would have
considered a leprechaun a fairy, but that's what they are nonetheless.
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If you go back to traditionally, right? Traditionally, they are talked of being
very stern, gloomy, bad-tempered old men.
Now, fun fact, there are none, zero, zilch female leprechauns,
and I think that's sexist.
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Why can't we have a female leprechaun? Why do the guys have to have all the fun? Make it make sense.
Hey, Kathleen. Hi, OPM.
So, again, very old men. They are said to be mean and ugly.
Wow, Stephanie's here. It's past her bedtime. Look at this. We have a Stephanie in the house.
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Is this your first time tuning in, Steph?
Damien said, have you ever seen a female dwarf? Gimlet says, why?
Speaking of, let me just put this in here, okay?
Now, this might be far-fetched, but my little Lord of the Rings brain says no, okay?
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How far different are leprechauns and hobbitses?
They're very short. They're both short. They're still little people.
Are leprechauns really hobbits? I'm choosing to believe that,
and none of y'all can convince me otherwise.
I mean, the hobbits do wear green uniforms.
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Yeah, but the fact that Damien mentioned Gimli, I was like, gotta mention it.
Okay, so you can blame Damien for that.
So, anyways, mean, ugly old men are leprechauns.
They are said to be very solitary creatures, so they are saying that it's very,
very rare are you going to find more than one leprechaun when you see one?
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If you see one, it's only going to be one.
They like to stay by themselves. They live in fairy-like homes within nature.
So, caves, tree trunks, tunnels.
So, are they kind of like territorial?
I didn't see anything about them. They just like their space.
Or they just kind of like, you know, Bilbo Baggins. No one's home! No one's home.
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Listen stop if you want to
if you want to do a podcast episode talking about lord of the rings the entire
time i am down okay but do not threaten me with a good time that's all i'm saying
that's all i'm saying they're also said to be very quarrelsome and foul-mouthed so you got ugly
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old men leprechauns that are also have a party mouth or a potty mouth.
Look, all I'm saying is it sounds exactly like good old Bilbo.
Listen, I love Bilbo. You made the comparison. I did, but Damien brought it up first, mind you.
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Wasn't me this time. Was not me.
They're also very greedy, which explains like, hey, you know,
this is my gold. You can't have it.
I'm trying to think, trying to stay up on the comments here.
Carmen, we're going to have to, we're going to have to square up.
I will say, I will say this year, I met my boy, Sean Astin, who played Sam on
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Lord of the Rings. And I loved him so much.
Damien, listen, when you come over stateside, like we can have a Lord of the Rings marathon.
I am down a hundred percent, a hundred percent.
So, leprechauns have been around for a while. Now, it has only been within the last...
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I don't know, 40, 50 years that it's really become a thing of say Scotland or
not Scotland, Ireland, sorry, Damien's homeland is on my brain.
Now the media has really gone off with it.
You know, the leprechaun is now a symbol of St. Patrick's day,
stuff like that, an excuse for people to get drunk, whatever else.
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But in order to really understand where the, where the term leprechaun came
from we have to go back into history of ireland right so one of the earliest,
references to leprechauns comes into
play from the 8th century there was an irish author and monk whose name i am
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going to butcher but it was naored naored but he wrote a or he wrote of tiny
solitary fairies who lived in the countryside and were known for their cunning and trickery.
Which, okay, leprechauns, right? They're going to be like, oh yeah,
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go look, my gold's over there. Go look over there.
And when you go look over there, they're going to poof gone. Be like, bye bro.
Like tricked you. Like I'm out of here. You might get my crap.
It wasn't until the medieval period. So the 14th, 15th century that the leprechaun became
a recognizable character in
irish work for folklore right so the word leprechaun is derived from a medieval
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irish word which is basically like a leprechaun leprechaun leprechaun and it
translates to small body so a little two feet tall little creature creature, small body,
little, little habit, you know, and so cute.
Try to listen. I, girl, I've been watched it. I've seen it. I love it.
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I love it. Captain Hook is my man. Okay.
Love it. Right. Have you ever seen
once upon a time? No. Do you go do your homework? You, you have, what?
Very long time ago. Well, that's a shock. Moving on.
Damien said they mend their shoes because they're always wearing them out.
If caught, they have to grant supernatural power so they can use gold as a lure
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to trade for capture. Hmm.
We're going to get into that. I have things to say about that. So...
The description of a leprechaun differs depending on who you talk to, right?
So there's some people that say that everyone agrees that they're small,
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old, grumpy men, right? Everybody agrees on that part.
But what they don't agree on is some say that they wore red outfits and some
say they wore green outfits.
And then some say they did both. It just depends on which part of Ireland Ireland,
you were searching for them or you looked for them in.
If you were in the northern part, they wore green. If you were in the southern part, they wore red.
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Hi, Kenny. Hey, Kenny. It's my boy.
So they are old men with beards who wore red or green coats with tall hats.
They were also depicted as shoemakers.
And again, some would say that they would spend their days making shoes for
other leprechauns or for people.
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And others say that they weren't shoemakers, that they were just repairing their
shoes from all the running around that they did personally.
But where did they get the gold from?
They had to be bringing in some kind of income, right? Were they just stealing it?
Some people think that. Some people think that they went and snuck through houses
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and stole food and coin and gold and everything else,
but then who they selling it to are they selling it to other leprechauns are
they selling it to people.
Yeah hi gina i was just in ireland sadly did not find any leprechauns and i
was looking well i watched a josh gates episode today of destination truth and
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he said that you had to drink a couple of pints in order to find a leprechaun
so did you in fact partake in the
pint drinking there gina so again
like i said they also come in say to
only come out at night to cause mischief and mayhem but they differ between
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who you ask right so if you take say little out of left field if you take vampires
for example right some people say they sparkle when they go into sunlight.
Some say they burn up and die when they go to sunlight. Some say that they can go into sunlight.
So depending on who you ask, depends on what story you're going to get.
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Now, I will say as a little disclaimer, is a lot of our Irish history,
Irish mythology that we know today was written down by Catholic monks when the
Roman Empire took over Ireland.
So is it safe to say that some things may have been left out?
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Some things may have been altered from the original like truths?
It's possible. Back in the day, they wanted to completely erase any kind of
other religion besides that sole religion that they wanted.
So when you have your Celtic pagans and stuff, they were thrown to the side
and be like, nope, you don't exist anymore. This is our story now.
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So it's the way of the world, the way things happened back then.
Nothing we can do about it.
But I would be interested to know what information...
Painted information there would have been about this specific topic you know
i'm sure somewhere out there like maybe i'd have to take a trip to ireland and
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be like hey you look like an old building can i see historical records the fact
that the you know of that happening i don't know,
they're probably like damn you weird like why
is this why is this random white girl coming up and asking ian said
have you guys researched any celtic
mythology leprechauns are insidious creatures that like
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all fae they are deal makers and child thieves
i did read something about that i'm not
very well versed in celtic mythology but it
is interesting it's something i really need to do a lot more ian said celtic
and druidic histories in western ireland are well preserved they all how also
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house much of the catholic writings so again shoemakers old ugly men,
grumpy like they're getting really red really bad red like why they why they gotta be grumpy right.
Going on to another source of inspiration for leprechauns is they say that they're
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water sprites of the Celtic mythology.
They are tiny fairy creatures first appeared in Irish literature in a book called
The Adventure of Fergus, Son, and Lettie from the 8th century.
The story in that book goes that the hero Fergus, who's the king of Ulster, falls asleep on a beach.
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He wakes up to find that a number of water spirits have taken away his sword
and are dragging him into the water it is the water touching his feet that wakes
him up fergus frees himself and grabs three of the spirits they promise to grant
him three wishes in turn in return for their freedom,
now again you have a whole bunch of different people saying different things about one subject,
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some say that they're solitary creatures but this guy claims he saw three of
them and he caught all three of them and got wishes you want to know what he
wished for what's that to breathe underwater.
It's said that, and again, many different people, many different stories.
Some say that if you manage to catch a leprechaun, which is very difficult,
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very, very difficult. They're very fast. They're very cunning.
Some say that if you catch it, that he'll lead you to his pot of gold.
And some will say that he will grant you three wishes if you catch him, like a genie.
But the same way with a genie if you're going on the
the wishes aspect you have to be very careful with your wishes right with a
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genie you have to be very direct you have to be very careful with your wording
same thing with leprechauns now does that mean leprechauns have magic powers,
how extensive do those magic powers go is it just something simple of i mean
if he can grant wishes Can I ask for more wishes? Is there rules?
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I don't know. I'm trying to stick up with these comments.
Ian said their deals are intentionally deceptive. True, an agreed deal,
but a deal intentionally deceptive.
Damien makes a good point he said they could fall under.
Glaisting glaistigs or brownies when i was doing research about it brownies came up a lot,
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brownies are basically kind of the u.s version of a leprechaun but they're like
house fairies like help with housework but they're leprechauns they're said
to hoard vast sums of gold at the of rainbows.
And it is said that those who are clever enough to catch the leprechaun would
make them reveal that location.
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It's also said that, again, we talked about the three wishes, but in the process of.
Leprechaun like telling you again very cunning right he'd
be like oh in order to get to my treasure you got to go over there
and if you listen to him you take your eyes off
the leprechaun and you go over there the leprechaun's gonna book and be
like psych i'm out of here very like they're not gonna give up the treasure
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i mean i wouldn't want to give up my treasure absolutely not it said if if captured
and threatened with bodily violence he might if you keep your eyes on him,
reveal the hiding place of his treasure.
But again, very smart, very cunning.
Nine times, probably nine and a half times out of 10, he gets away.
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Now, going back into more leprechauns, some believe that they are descended from a god named Lu.
Now, Lu was a god of the Tuthodadanon?
Probably said that wrong, but
the Teutha de Danann, which translates to tribe of God or tribe of gods.
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Now they were a supernatural race in Irish mythology. They were said to be the
first living beings in Ireland.
And once the Christians came over, they, or when the Malaysians came to Ireland,
they apparently conquered these gods and forced them to live underground.
Now a way to get underground into their underground world is through fairy rings
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you know everybody the witchy people everybody knows what fairy ring is you
see a fairy ring you're not supposed to enter it you're supposed to stay far
away from it respect it leave an offering whatever else,
in ireland if you go into a fairy ring it said that a
leprechaun is going to come out because they are in in
a way a garter of the fairy ring because not
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anybody's going to be able to go into to this underworld of the tribe of
gods right these this
tribe of gods thought to represent the main deity main deities of pre-christian
gaelic ireland but again a lot of irish mythology was recorded by christian
monks who most likely modified it most likely i don't have proof but But most likely,
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the tribe of gods were referenced to as kings, queens,
and heroes of distant past who had supernatural powers.
In other writings, they were referred to as fallen angels who were neither good or evil.
But they all agree that they were gods. Yes.
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You have Lou. Lou was a member of the Tuthadi Danan.
He was a warrior, a king, a master craftsman, and a savior.
He had many different talents, many different.
He almost had, he, so in order to get into this tribe of gods,
right, you had to have something to offer the gods that nobody else had.
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So like, oh, hey, I'm a, I'm a great musician.
Oh, sorry, bro. We already got one of those. Oh, well, I'm a great cook. Sorry, bro.
We already got one of those, too. So he tried like 15 to 20 times with different
things and was like, hey, like, what about this? What about this? What about this?
And they're like, nah, nah, bro. You ain't invited. Stay out of here.
But he was like, but do you have somebody that can do all of these things?
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And it stumped the man. And the man was like, you know what?
We don't. We don't have somebody that can do all of these things.
So that's how Luke was let into the tribe of gods.
Now it has also been said that Lou
was known to play tricks on people when the
outcome would benefit him so because
of that they think that because of the the nature
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of leprechauns being cunning cunning and their trickery they think that they
are a descendant from Lou now we're gonna get to the funny part there's a funny
part of this now let me let me just go to the comments Before I go into this,
Carly says, have you guys seen the video about a man who had a classmate who
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grew up with him and both distinctly remember the teacher bringing a real-life
leprechaun to class to show them on St. Patrick's Day? I don't.
Going to have to look that up because I remember I remember being in elementary school, St.
Patrick's Day coming around. We build a leprechaun trap and then we'd come in
the next day of school and there'd be like little footprints and the trap would
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be, you know, it's a good old marketing ploy.
You know, as a kid, I probably believed that there was a real life leprechaun. Okay.
Nowadays, I'd like to. I'd like to believe it, you know, but I'm going to have to look up that video.
If you can send me the link, that would be helpful. Please do.
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Damien says, what is classified? What is classed as a fairy ring?
If Alpacons are fairy descendants, would they be governed or overpowered by other entities?
If they are descendants, yes. But what if they're... I mean, when we think of...
Hierarchies i guess you have the gods at all like you have the guy at the top
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no matter what religion is you got the guy at the top and you got people,
sprinkling down right it may not be like oh hey this is what you got to do like
you have to do you could have some some you know higher power overpowered other
entities that are like i don't I don't give a shit what you do.
Like, just don't get in my way. You know? Yeah.
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I don't know.
Now, here we go to the funny part. Now, Ray, do you think leprechauns are real? I don't know.
Ireland does. See, I haven't been to Ireland yet. It's on my bucket list,
though. Do you want to know why I know that?
Why do you know that? Because Ireland has listed leprechauns as a protected species as of 2009.
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There is land. There is land in Ireland that is protected land and is left as
a sanctuary for leprechauns, the little people.
Look it up. 2009. 2009. 2009. They are protected under the European directive.
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Now, it does say, I will, it does say that it got passed into that because they
can't prove or deny their existence.
So I will say that. They're not saying, Ireland isn't saying, yes, they exist.
But they're also not saying, no, they don't. But if it's a protective species...
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In the U.S. passed something about Bigfoot being a protected species? Hmm.
Because the U.S. already knows. They just don't want to admit it.
They just don't want to admit it. You cannot sit there and tell me that Bigfoot doesn't exist.
You can't. But yes, 2009, under the European Directive, they are now a protected species.
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They have an area preserved in Loth. Loth?
Called the, I'm going to butcher this.
The coelobifolup, which is protected for all flora, fauna, and leprechauns.
And you want to know how many leprechauns supposedly live there? How many? 236. Really?
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236 leprechauns. Now. How did they get this count?
Oh, oh, I'm glad you asked me that, right?
I am so glad that you asked me that because did you know there's such a profession
called the Leprechaun Whisperer?
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No. Well, there is. His name's Kevin.
And my man Kevin talks to the leprechauns and that's how they got their number
because that's what the leprechauns told Kevin.
Good old Kevin. and apparently the leprechauns only talk to kevin now why is
kevin so special i don't know,
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i don't know how does he talk to him goes into the woods and talks to him he
talked to all 236 of them i'm sure there's like a like a like a chief leprechaun,
maybe i don't know how the world of leprechaun works I'm sure he went into the
woods and was like 1, 2, 3 stop moving Henry 4.
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I'm sure if they're all kind of territorial he probably went to all their houses
he probably sat down to have tea with them too like,
I don't know but that's what the internet says the internet says that Kevin
can talk to leprechauns hey the internet never lies,
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Ian says, the leprechauns only speak to a single order of scholars,
and he is the last of the order.
Well, I guess he better start making some babies.
One leprechaun for every potato planted? That's a lot of leprechauns. I love potatoes.
Hmm. Yes, according to the internet, there's 236 leprechauns still living in
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Ireland in a cavern under the Cooley Mountains.
They are all concentrated in the area of Laos, which is also considered to be
an important part of the spirit world. Hmm.
I got a little Irish in me. I'm going to have to take a trip to Ireland. I mean, same.
Now, I'm going to do, you thought that was funny. The talking. I mean, let's be real.
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You and I, we talk to dead people all the time, right?
Right. So how far-fetched is it to talk to leprechauns?
Not that far-fetched. I mean. Not that far-fetched.
I mean, if you go to Ireland, you come back and you're like,
hey, guys, I just talked to a leprechaun like three days ago.
You're going to have people be like, right, you're full of shit.
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Like how much, how much goodness did you drink? Right? Like, let's be real.
People probably say we're full of shit for talking to dead people, but I mean,
they could just get over it, you know, but did you also know I'm going to do
one even better than our good old leprechaun whisperer, right?
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Did you know that there were supposed bones of a leprechaun found?
Really? Yeah. You can go see those bones.
Do you want to know where you can go see those bones, Ray? Where at?
At a pub. In Carlington, Ireland.
I'll put it on the list. You can go into the pub, order a Guinness and some,
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buffalo wings, sit down, and be like, hey, can I see some leprechaun bones?
Buffalo wings? An Irish pub?
Yep. um according to what
i read i looked at this guy this menu okay you went as far as looking at the
menu yes yes i did in fact look at the menu and they had buffalo wings okay
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because i read i read that somebody thought that the bones that are there are really chicken bones,
and i was like did they even serve chicken wings and they do okay and i love i love me some chicken
wings yeah so you
order a guinness you order some chicken wings and be like hey can i
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see some bones and they're gonna go over to this glass
case that's locked and show you this bones of a of a leprechaun now there has
this is this the random bone picture that you sent me earlier oh yeah i do have
a picture of that can you pull that up ray because when i was looking Looking at it,
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it definitely looked human and did not look like a chicken.
People say a bunch of things. But I could definitely pull it up real quick.
We will not avoid Guinness.
I only drink Guinness on special occasions.
Gotta find it. Alright, hold on. Ian said, the demeanor of the talk tonight
is the energy most Americans have towards the cryptids and fae of other countries and cultures.
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About 1,500 years of culture and myth that have been stifled and barely survived
multiple genocide attempts.
I'm not saying that I don't believe in it. so please
please don't think that like i said ray and
i say and at least two weekends a
month and sit into old 17 1800
1800 buildings and talk
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to ghosts so if i ever had the chance to talk to a leprechaun i absolutely would
i am by no means any means ness any means period saying that the things don't
exist like all right so i'm gonna show you guys the uh not chicken.
And you guys show me the bones right show me the bones this
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is a chicken so if you
go over to ireland in carl carling carlington
at a pub called dj
o'hairs you're gonna find this in a case locked
up now the first
story there's there's many different stories on how these bones
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came came to be right but like if you look at those right like what do you kind
of bones do you think those are it looks like a tiny human but it's like it's
it's just you know missing other things that That can say,
sure, it's definitely a human.
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You don't have a full skull. You don't have any hands.
You only have the femur. You don't have the actual tibia, fibula, the foot bones.
Could it be a hobbit?
I mean it's really
small though i mean look how small the bones are compared to this dollar bill
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here that it's sitting by i mean i know the whole dollar bill would be the whole
length of its arm so it's like i mean you say they're like two feet tall but i don't know
if the whole dollar bill is the length of its arm it might be smaller than two feet yeah,
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yeah ian i mean is there child leprechauns that are even smaller but if how
how could there be a child leprechaun if there's no females a child hobbit i'm sorry do they lay eggs,
eggs they use their magical powers to create offspring i guess i don't know,
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ask the leprechaun whisperer i should,
ian said funny you say that hobbits were the template for token i know if i
could tell you my love for lord of the rings we would be here all night all
night long i love of mohabbats is okay.
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Lucky charms right now a little tip of the cap i try,
good point here's the other thing is it a complete skeleton well there's definitely
not there's no hands there's no feet there's no skull you're you're missing,
you're missing your whole forearm and the hand and with
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legs you're missing the whole from the kneecaps down
right damien going
back to your your thing from earlier would i make a deal with
leprechaun perhaps depending on what he
could offer me unfortunately i'm a ginger so
i don't have a soul so unless i'm giving him your soul that won't work for me
either but do you know that there were people that wanted to test the bones
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like in these bones have been there since Since 1946.
They won't let them test the DNA composition? No, because they see it as bad luck.
I get it i get it it would be nice to be able to run a dna test on the bones
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to see exactly what the results show right but you also got to think it's at
a pub it's very well known,
i'm sure a lot of tourists go just to see the bones obviously when they get
there they drink they eat they spend money so like doing the testing and be
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like oh it's not actually anything
it's just you know here's a bone from from a cat here's a dog bone here's this
bone just pieced together to look like it they're gonna lose business i get
it just just like santa claus we believe in it because that's what we want to
believe in right right so joe they were
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found in they were found in carlington ireland so one story goes it said that
the original pub owner pj o'hare found the leprechauns discarded clothes and bones on,
fly v foy along with some gold coins so it's in that that carlington ireland area area.
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There's another story that's kind of funny.
That the original owner, PJ O'Hare, was a leprechaun hunter.
Now, pre-2009, when they became a protected species, there were people that
went hunting for leprechauns.
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You could go and purchase a hunting license in Ireland to hunt for leprechauns.
It was a yearly thing.
Just like we purchase hunting licenses to shoot deer, turkey, whatever else.
You got a license to hunt a leprechaun.
But there are still people that'll say it's not real.
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If it's not real, why do they protect the species?
Why do they have a protected land in Ireland for them to live free and why is
there a hunting license you can purchase or could purchase to hunt them.
Like, has anybody ever actually successfully caught one, killed one?
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Not to my knowledge. I looked.
However, there's a story going back to our to our lovely PJ O'Hare,
who said that he did catch one.
And you want to know what he did with it? What did he do with it?
He brought it back to the pub.
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So it's said it is said that in 1946 for a
point come on let's
drink he caught the leprechaun whose name was sean good old sean brought him
back and held him in captivity at the pub he would only let sean out sean the
little leprechaun he would only let him out to entertain his guests with his Is music and singing.
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So you. Back in 1946.
And for. The next 55 years.
You could go. To PJ O'Hare's. In Carlington Ireland. And see a leprechaun.
Dancing in the pub. While you're drinking Guinness. And having a grand old time.
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Like it doesn't get any better than that. It brings me back.
Again. It brings me back.
It brings me back. Do you remember in the first Lord of the Rings when they're
all, when the hobbitses are dancing up on the table, they're singing the jolly old song.
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Like that's what I, that's what I imagined that this little leprechaun was doing.
Just dancing around with a pine in his hands, saying and tapping,
dancing on the table and everything else.
Might be. Dominic's here too. Hi, Dominic. Hey, Dominic.
I will get back to you after the show. I'm not ignoring you. I promise.
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What's your take on the TikTok video of the Tiny Tree Person? Haven't seen it yet.
Haven't seen it yet. So, again, 55 years. So, 1946.
For 55 years, this man kept this leprechaun in his pub dancing for people.
That's a long time. And I would assume for such a small little being,
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magical or not, that is a long time to live.
Like how old was the leprechaun when he first got him? Right? Right. Yeah.
2001. So when I was three, three, Sean, the leprechaun said, all right, I'm done.
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Now also knowing within the, those 55 years that Sean, the leprechaun was forced
to dance and entertain the drunken guests of the pub, the,
the owner was trying to get the
leprechaun to reveal his treasure and he found
the leprechaun what instead of my goose chase goose chases like
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oh yeah go here the pub owner would go
there it's not there oh yeah it's actually over here
like played games with him for 55 years right finally he snuck out in the middle
of the night as the pub owner was drunk and passed out and he's never been seen
again never been seen again but you want to know
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what's even funnier what's that they're still offering a reward for his safe return.
How much it was 50 000 whatever money they use i don't know if they use pounds
or whatever currency they have but it was 50 000 whatever currency it is all
right time to go over there,
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now they have his clothes which
i sent you the picture if you can pull that up they have
his clothes supposedly in a
in a frame hanging up at the pub like oh yeah this was this was his leprechaun
clothes leprechaun clothes and his musical instruments look at that fifty thousand
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dollars damien said seventy thousand dollars he probably did the math you trying to
go find sean the leprechaun for 70 grand i am
like what am i doing working my
day job like let's go like that
is crazy sean oh five
that is crazy is that his last name yeah oh oh oh five something like that all
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right but yeah those are his clothes probably rank of reek of guinness i'm sure
so it It looks like I need to get an accordion,
some Guinness, a mandolin, a little hammer, an anvil,
and we should be able to catch them.
Yeah. But.
(46:34):
2024 so we're 23 years later and they're still offering a reward there's only one place to go,
you have to go to ireland gotta stop kevin's house first yeah we gotta we gotta we gotta get kevin
but kevin lead me to your leader take me to your leader and if i walk up in
there there's a bunch of hobbitses walking around you can just leave me there
(46:56):
i will forever live my life as a hobbit amongst my people forever.
See, that's a great question. I don't know. I was not able to find that.
How long do leprechauns live? Does anybody else know? Damien,
do you know? Ian? Ian seems very well-versed in this topic.
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Damien said, don't hunt drunk. Well, you see, again,
I watched the episode of Destination Truth with Josh Gates,
and he was told that the best way to find a
leprechaun is to drink a couple pints first are we
gonna be able to bring some pints within the leprechaun territory where they
all supposedly live i don't know it is a tourist it's like a tourist attraction
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too like a lot of people go there just to see it as long as they have some pints
so bring some pints and we'll set up a leprechaun trap now i did read an account about
this woman who is from irish heritage that moved to a new house in ireland and.
She would she had like an attic above her bedroom
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and she would constantly hear like when she laid down tonight
she would hear things like scurrying around like she thought maybe it was
a mouse maybe it was like a like an animal of
some sort like little footsteps like a
raccoon running yes so she
was like what the heck so one night
before she went to bed she took flour imported powdered
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it over the floor in her
attic and went to bed that following night
or that following day she went up and looked and she claims
that she found small footprints prints
that were human like barefoot human
footprints walking around but she's
a older a grown woman living by herself yeah so was there a leprechaun it said
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that you can give them treats like it's for whatever reason they like milk you
can leave out milk for them you can And probably,
I don't know, get some of those little like gold chocolate coins for like St.
Patrick's Day and just leave those out maybe.
I'm going to get a whole box of the Lucky Charms marshmallows only.
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And be like, here, leprechaun, leprechaun, leprechaun. With some milk.
I mean, I guess it's a good idea. It's a good plan. I guess. Yeah.
I did come across another account of... Damien, how do you know it's almond
milk? Almond milk, not cow milk.
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Did almond milk even exist hundreds of years ago?
I don't know. Why not oat milk? What about coconut milk? Why almond milk, Damien? Hmm?
What do your eyes see? What do your elf eyes see?
Okay, I'm done. That was Lord of the Rings reference in case you didn't know.
Anyways back to leprechauns so
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there was another account now this came from reddit now take
this how you will because it did come from reddit it was by a person called
essentially dread 14 and she was told a story that happened in 1991 in western
pennsylvania the story is as follows,
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It says, my ex-boyfriend's dad was the chief of police of a small town located
directly outside of a city.
He had several police officers who worked for him and one was a young rookie cop whom I'll call Mike.
The police officers in that jurisdiction often assisted the city police with calls.
Mike was going to such a call on a cold day in the beginning of March.
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He was driving down a road that on either side of, on either side was a field
of tall dead brown grass.
All of a sudden, Mike saw what he thought was an animal coming out of the grass on the left side.
He said what he saw next.
He said he saw the next sequence of events in a slow motion.
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He tried to slow his cruiser down.
He saw that it was not an animal, but indeed a small, bald, dirty man dressed
in ragged clothes, approximately two feet tall, running out from the grass.
He slammed on his brakes. The cruiser did not stop fast enough,
and he hit the small man with the front of the car.
The man flew up in the air. Mike jumped out of the car, ran to the front.
(51:32):
He said he looked right down at the small man who then noticed had reddish brown hair.
The little man began a screaming evil laugh and hopped up, running into the
grass on the right side of the road.
Mike ran after him, but all he heard was the sound of his evil mocking laugh.
Mike went back to the station. He was visibly shaken.
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My ex's father said he was pale white and could barely choke out the story.
When he finished telling them
what happened, everyone except my dad's ex began howling with laughter.
The other cops teased him relentlessly about the leprechaun story.
Since it was about three weeks before St. Patrick's Day, one of the cops went
to the dollar store, bought a leprechaun hat.
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He left it on Mike's doorstep with a note stuck to the brim saying,
I'm coming for you, Mikey.
The next morning, Mike came in crying and told my ex's father he was quitting the police.
My ex's father believed Mike and said that he could tell he was extremely sincere
in his belief and that he had hit a leprechaun.
Huh. Now, again, this came from Reddit. So believe it how you want.
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I just thought it was interesting. But it happened.
Pennsylvania. Why is there a leprechaun in western Pennsylvania?
Why would somebody quit the police force if he knew he was telling a joke and
then people were messing with him?
It's like... But if you put yourself in that shoes, put yourself in this Mike guy's shoes,
(53:05):
if you saw a leprechaun, if you hit a leprechaun with your car and went into
work and was like oh my god guys, you'll never believe it.
You tell them the story they're gonna be like right you're so full of shit now imagine
you telling one of your bosses that he's probably gonna ask what are you talking
i'm gonna get drug tested right away if i tell my boss that i hit a i hit a
(53:27):
leprechaun you know they're gonna take my hand and drag me right up to the front
of the office and say he in this cup penis cup,
so like just because his that this guy's co-workers were making fun of him doesn't
mean that it's not real because like you said they would drug test you immediately immediately.
(53:50):
Immediately and then he would make fun of me every day yeah you would never
live it down no that that that story would live rent-free in their minds for
the rest of your time working there and even further after that yeah and then
you know what's crazy with our gps systems in our truck,
if we hit a leprechaun locally here, they're going to put cameras in every single
(54:14):
truck because they have the capability of doing that.
And then, you know, they might see one though. Maybe.
Maybe. Or they're just going to think you're high or drunk. Top of the morning
to you, Damien. Top of the morning.
So, leprechauns. Are they real? Are they fake?
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If they are fake, why are they protected species? Why were you able to get a
hunting license to kill them?
Why do they have their own protected sanctuary in Ireland?
See, this makes me want to go to Ireland even more now. Like,
I've always wanted to go to Ireland.
Ireland it's it's it's on my bucket list of countries to visit but now I have
(54:55):
more things to do and figure out when I get there Damien will go to Ireland with us.
Maybe maybe maybe that never mind that's mean I was gonna say in order to try
to like Like pull out to course out the leprechauns.
(55:19):
What if we find a midget friend respectfully dress them up like a leprechaun and use them as bait?
I think it's a great idea.
Respectfully. You know what I just got in my head? I don't know if I want to know.
The little little dude from Bad Santa dressed as an elf. Oh,
(55:42):
my God. Stop. Stop. Not him.
We will not be able to have a serious podcast. No way. No way.
It would be funny, though. Send the email, Ray. Send the email.
Love that guy.
(56:04):
But yeah, leprechauns. We're really not going to know unless we go to Ireland. Nope. But.
But, of course you will. We'll have to bring Damien to Ireland with us.
How does Ireland, how does the Irish feel about the Scottish coming up into
their crib? That's what I gotta know.
(56:26):
I don't know. I heard the Irish don't like Americans, but screw it.
We'll go enjoy a couple pints.
I mean, I'm pale enough. I got the freckles. I think I would get away with it.
You maybe not so much. I have a little Irish in me.
Never mind. A little Nordic, a little Irish, mainly German, but.
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I mean, my complexion says Irish, so I kind of can't hide from that.
You burn bad, but I burn just as worse. I just, I'm just not missing the, the.
You have yes or lack thereof right yes
fun story about that you know my great-grandmother
(57:09):
used to call my freckles and it's hard to see on
the screen because i look pale as a ghost but i do have freckles but my grand
my great-grandmother my dad's grandma used to call my freckles angel kisses
she used to tell me that every night when i went to bed an angel would come
down and give Give me a kiss. And that's where my freckles would come from.
(57:32):
However, that stopped real quick when I was like, Mimi, what about the ones on my butt?
And she's like, I have some cookies. You want a cookie?
And she never mentioned it again. So angel kisses, you know?
(57:54):
But yeah, that's today's episode. Good old leprechauns.
I don't know i'm not saying that
they're not real i think they are i'd like to believe that they
are i would love to believe they are but it's going to take us i would say road
trip but a plane trip a little flight over a little flight over the pond a little
(58:17):
flight over the pond we'll have to kidnap damien we'll promise him a couple
pints of pints of guinness and call the
day is that all right with you damien i think
it's a great idea he already agreed to be bigfoot bait
we already talked about this a euro
trip not that euro trip but a euro trip
have you ever seen that movie euro trip many times
(58:40):
great film great film
but we are not recreating that or have
a euro trip euro trip add in cryptids
bigfoot nessie that would be what's our cryptid safe word i don't know i don't
(59:03):
know hi todd hey todd well so our leprechauns is loose inclusive,
See, I don't know because earlier I read about, I spoke about a story that happened
in Western Pennsylvania.
Some believe that they can travel through the fairy rings into the underworld,
(59:25):
basically, where the tribe of gods are.
And if they're able to grant three wishes, they have to have some kind of magic.
Can they travel interdimensionally? Can they travel through portals?
Hop in a portal in Ireland?
Go to Wisconsin for a day and then go back to Ireland? Maybe.
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It's possible. If they're offspring of deities, maybe they can.
Yeah. I mean, if they're a descendant from an actual God.
Rainbows are in USA. What's the lore with your rainbows?
Leprechauns are one. I got to look up some more stuff. I see a lot of people post rainbows.
(01:00:08):
We're dealing with like past family member deaths.
Oh, not, I gotta, I'd have to do some more research into that one.
Rainbows going going inside with the leprechaun just magic yeah kind of thing
but like i said they people say there's there's a pot of gold at the end of
(01:00:29):
the rainbow i have seen at the end of the rainbow there was a target that's
all i'm saying and you want to know what's that target,
squish mellows and that's the only answer that i need well that is your pot
of gold it is honestly Honestly, I'm only at like 84.
However, my boy Russ that was on live last night with Damien had a,
(01:00:57):
with Compass of Curiosities, if you don't know them,
go follow them on their socials.
He has a raccoon Squishmallow and I don't. And that's a problem.
I need the trash panda. I need it.
For sure. So that's going to be my next purchase.
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Todd said, it would be nice if they could travel through a portal to my home
and leave a small bag of gold. Not asking for a lot.
I don't know if you're asking for a lot.
I think people would be okay if they just traveled and cleaned up the house
a little bit and then left. you know just the little things just the little things,
(01:01:43):
but we are over past eight there is no van down by the riv podcast with buddy
tonight however there's a podcast coming on at nine with trevor and i can't remember,
nine o'clock on the get haunted network go hang out with them it's a haunted haunted casket,
(01:02:09):
special event promo with trevor faith and bill bryan yes go check that out.
Todd said if not a gold a pint of guinness at least unfortunately
i think we're gonna have to supply our own guinness if i
was thinking ahead while doing this episode i
(01:02:30):
could have have been drinking a guinness if i was thinking ahead but i wasn't
car bombs i have to work tomorrow that's the only issue but just do one car
bomb one car bomb to launch the episode,
i didn't think of it though so i didn't either but there's always next but we
(01:02:54):
are planning to to do another leprechaun episode march 17th of next year if
not march 17th at least around that time so we might have to partake in some
irish car bombs before that episode starts,
todd said don't go down that rabbit hole.
We're gonna have to get like little hats uh you're gonna have to get like a
(01:03:15):
a beard like off amazon an orange beard yes you got it that wait see what's
our christmas episode guys that's gonna be fun very we got a ways we got spooky
season of first i'm not rushing it.
But we we're gonna have a podcast new year's eve
(01:03:35):
that's gonna be a lot of fun we had
no idea that christmas eve was gonna be on a tuesday so be
prepared oh oh lauren really really can you hook girl up please please let me
know hit a girl up sierra needs a designer owned squishmallow one of a kind
(01:03:57):
i need a 20 inch mothman squishmallow 20,
is that the santa one it's my
christmas i don't have any of
my big ones he's adorable they're oh
my gosh we're we're getting off topic but
but build a bear
(01:04:18):
build the bear has a
mothman build a bear right now yeah but it's always sold out i know so if anybody
that's like watching if you happen just like walk by build-a-bear one day and
you see a mothman like hit a girl up let me know i'll send you that podcast money real quick.
(01:04:43):
Because i need it to survive that's it that's what that's what we'll leave this
episode on in search of mothman build-a-bear.
But as always i would love to thank all of
you for tuning in and hanging out with us on a
tuesday evening your support your love and
(01:05:04):
everything just means so much to us so
we would not be here without any of you we would
just be talking to ourselves and while we could do
that it's just just not as fun so once again
thank you so much stay tuned for
next tuesday same place same time right
where you found us where we'll be coming to you with another episode
(01:05:25):
so have a great rest
of your week if you guys have any other
podcast ideas of things you
guys want us to talk about guests you want us to bring on
send one of us a message message our page message either one of us directly
and we would love the the suggestions so have a great night everybody we love
(01:05:51):
you all so much and we'll see you next time so see you next tuesday.
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