The Legend of the Alabama Leprechaun
This 2006 local news story is closing in on 50 million YouTube eyes smiling.
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Jimmy Kimmel calls it “the greatest local news story of all time.” Ahead of the late night talk show host’s annual St. Patrick’s Day replay of the 2006 report by Brian Johnson for Mobile, Alabama NBC affiliate WPMI-TV, Press-Reporter journo Emily Hill hit Le Cren Street with a photographer to see if anyone remembered the infamous sightings of a “leprechaun” sitting in a tree.
Hill hit the rainbow-jackpot, tracking down Shun Thomas, the Crichton neighborhood man who started it all.
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