Leprechaun-Like Being Photographed During Full Moon

In the quiet of a recent night, illuminated by the glow of a full moon, a curious incident unfolded that has left many scratching their heads in wonder, reports coasttocoastam.com

A set of photographs, shared with the world through the social platform Reddit, captured what appears to be an unexpected visitor, materializing seemingly out of thin air.

The first photograph presents a serene lunar spectacle, the full moon reigning over the night sky in its usual splendor. However, it is the second snapshot that has stirred debate. Here, a small figure dashes across a previously empty lawn, its sudden appearance as baffling as it is beguiling....<<<Read More>>>...

The Fairy Investigation Society

For a brief moment after World War One, everyone was obsessed with fairies.

It started with a series of black and white photographs, showing two schoolgirls in Edwardian clothes frolicking in the garden with tiny, winged fairies.

To the contemporary eye, it's no surprise the photos of the Cottingley Fairies were faked. But in 1920, when the camera was still considered a mysterious and scientific instrument, they captured imaginations far and wide.

Even the great writer and intellectual Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, championed the photos as evidence that his spiritualist inquiries were based firmly in the real world.

The Cottingley Fairies might be the most recognisable example of early-20th-century interest in the 'fair folk', but they are certainly not the only one. There was, in fact, a society of people, some of whom were hugely influential, who met regularly to discuss fairy sightings and hear from people who'd had their own fairy experiences.

During the horrors of World War I, many people sought comfort via all manners and mediums of supernatural practice. And fairies, being as they were conveniently located at the bottom of the garden, were particularly popular.

Simon Young, a British historian and expert in folklore and accounts of the supernatural, gives a frank account of the original Fairy Investigation Society.

He says it was "an organisation that was set up in the United Kingdom in the 1920s by a bunch of bohemian eccentrics in London"...<<<Read More>>>...

 

A Word on 'Little People'

 Little people have been part of the folklore of many cultures in human history, including Ireland, Greece, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, Flores Island, Indonesia, and Native Americans. 

The Native peoples of North America told legends of a race of "little people" who lived in the woods near sandy hills and sometimes near rocks located along large bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes. Often described as "hairy-faced dwarfs" in stories, petroglyph illustrations show them with horns on their head and traveling in a group of 5 to 7 per canoe.

Native legends often talk of the little people playing pranks on people, such as singing and then hiding when an inquisitive person searches for the music. It is often said that the little people love children and would take them away from bad or abusive parents or if the child was without parents and left in the woods to fend for themselves^.

Other legends say the little people if seen by an adult human would beg them not to say anything of their existence and would reward those who kept their word by helping them and their family out in times of need. From tribe to tribe there are variations of what the little people's mannerisms were like, and whether they were good or evil may be different.

One of the common beliefs is that the little people create distractions to cause mischief. They were believed to be gods by some. One North American Native tribe believed that they lived in nearby caves.The caves were never entered for fear of disturbing the little people...<<<Read More>>>....