Little People
Why it's on Wait… what now?: Costa Rica leprechauns that turn into water to escape is a bizarre mechanic.
- Creature
- Little People
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness mentions that in Costa Rica, leprechauns are flesh and blood but can turn into water to escape if scared or cornered.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Little People
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Little People reports with no place (79) - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 26, 2026
- Case id
- case-05983e4226
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- It Had a Man’s Body but a Dog’s Head - Dogman Encounters Episode 642
YouTube · 2026-04-11
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.