A man, on vacation in Lake Tahoe, has taken an extraordinary photograph of a mysterious 3-ft tall creature scurrying through the woods.

This tiny elf-like figure dubbed the leprechaun-alien was caught on camera as he flees a forest.

The wee chap - who looks no taller than 3ft - can be seen running from the woodland just as a tourist whipped out his camera.

He was snapped in Lake Tahoe by Lloyd Deneau, who paused to take a picture of the stunning trees and caught the extraordinary teeny figure.

Lloyd, 41, from Florida, swears the image has not been doctored.

“When I took the picture I’m sure there was no one there,” he said.

“It was only when I downloaded it on my camera that I saw it.

“I showed it to my friends and family but no one can explain it.

“My kids coined it the leprechaun-alien.”

He added: “I have a military background and don’t really believe in aliens, but I can’t explain this.”

As well as an elf, leprechaun and alien, the figure has even been described as a baby Bigfoot.

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His original :

Cropped:

Very strange, could it be a ghost?

Hmmm...the original is pretty pixelated...
Could it be a photoshopped human child??????

I agree Patty. If the person was taking his time and focusing on the trees than the object might still appear blurred but the surroundings should be very clear.

The picture is such a bad quality that it's impossible to work out for sure what it could be. But my guess is that it's something completely natural like a tree stump, and because of the distortion it's causing a matrix effect.

Anyone else see Little red riding hood?

That can't be the original picture. Even my cheapo digital takes better pics than that. I want to see the original pic - in which that anomaly is probably a very small portion of the picture... This looks like a picture that has been enlarged too much and then cropped.

Here is a little piece of an ordinary picture. See the angel?



Now look what happens when I zoom in on the angel and capture the result:



Look similar?

I agree, Heike.. Looks like an enlargement and way too fuzzy to be the original.

Totally agree with you Heike! And I can't help but notice it has a certain human quality to it.
And LMAO, Janet! It DOES look like lil red riding hood!

I think it looks like a bald man standing out in the grass-there is no way to tell how far away the 'lephrachaun' is without seeing the actual picture.