The Longport Leprechaun

Famed throughout Stoke for his cheeky sense of humour and lack of height, stories of the Longport Leprechaun have been around for literally ages.

According to local legend, the Leprechaun spends his time making bras, and burying any money he makes near to a pot bank on an industrial estate in Longport. If captured, he offers three wishes in exchange for his release.

Dressed in a green tracksuit and red baseball cap, possibly to hide a balding pate, the Leprechaun is thought to operate alone, though it is unknown if there is one or many who live in the area. Experts believe them to live underground, maybe in the cave system underneath Longport.

Actual Leprechaun not pictured

Meetings with the Leprechaun are often and varied.

"On Halloween, he came to my door asking for sweets," Jill Conkers reported in 1986. "I told him to do one but he chucked toilet rolls all over the car I had up on bricks in my front yard."

"He said he'd grant me three wishes if I showed him my dugs," said Leeanne Stump in 1994. "I got 'em out but he fucked off, laughing like a little bastard."

"I captured him once," Phil Pulse claimed in 2007. "My three wishes were for pork scratchings, a pint of beer and a 'handie'. Fair play to him, he pulled through for me and I let him go."