Tired of watching Leprechaun, Leprechaun 2, Leprechaun 3, and Leprechaun 4 for St. Patrick’s Day? You have some choices this year on Wednesday.

Okay, most of the programming this week is scheduled so, if you had the time, you could watch SyFy’s “Destination Truth” and History’s “MonsterQuest” throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, in alternate hours. But I had to pretend there was an intentional St. Patrick’s Day smackdown in all of this, because it feels that way.

Don’t forget, for every hour of DT, half of the programming is usually ghost stories and the other half is cryptid-related. MQ sticks to one cryptozoological topic, usually, under one umbrella.

DT begins its new season this Wednesday with “Ghosts of Masada/The Leprechuan,” and if it is like the “Iceland Elves,” Ryder will be scared, looking very “Blair Witch-like,” and Josh will crack some good Irish Little People jokes. (Yes, Josh, I thought the “elf off” was quite humorous.)

Meanwhile, MQ returns to one of its most successfully done topics, Sasquatch, and screens its second-to-last episode this Wednesday. (See my longer posting, with videos and images about the “Sierra Sasquatch” episode elsewhere on Cryptomundo.)

On Monday, March 15, DT showed four straight hours of reruns. They are gearing up for their new series. Josh is funny, and I wish them luck. For MQ, I feel joy that they were able to do so much, and yet sad to see them go.

Here are the DT programs scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, all times are Eastern:

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
08:00 AM
DESTINATION TRUTH – SEASON 3
HAUNTED FOREST/ALUX

09:00 AM
DESTINATION TRUTH – SEASON 3
ISLAND OF THE DOLLS/LUSCA

10:00 AM
DESTINATION TRUTH – SEASON 3
KING TUT’S CURSE/SWAMP APE

11:00 AM
DESTINATION TRUTH – SEASON 3
GHOSTS OF CHERNOBYL/SAL’AWA

12:00 PM
DESTINATION TRUTH – SEASON 3
ALIEN MUMMIES/VAN LAKE MONSTER

01:00 PM
DESTINATION TRUTH – SEASON 3
CHULLACHAQUI/BERMUDA TRIANGLE

02:00 PM
DESTINATION TRUTH – SEASON 3
HAUNTED LOST CITY/THUNDERBIRD

03:00 PM
DESTINATION TRUTH – SEASON 3
WEREWOLF/ARICA MONSTER

04:00 PM
DESTINATION TRUTH – SEASON 3
BHUTAN YETI

March 17, 2010
10:00 PM
DESTINATION TRUTH – SEASON 3 – NEW
GHOSTS OF MASADA/THE LEPRECHAUN

March 18, 2010
12:00 AM
DESTINATION TRUTH – SEASON 3
GHOSTS OF MASADA/THE LEPRECHAUN

Here are the MQ episodes due to be broadcast on Wednesday.

March 17, 2010
Noon
MonsterQuest: Hillbilly Beast

1:00 pm
MonsterQuest: Mothman

6:00 pm
MonsterQuest: Hillbilly Beast

7:00 pm
MonsterQuest: Mothman

8:00 pm
MonsterQuest: Piranha Invasion

9:00 pm
MonsterQuest: Sierra Sasquatch NEW

Next week on MQ, reportedly, their last show, if they are not renewed, is “America’s Wolfman.”

Allegedly, History may pre-broadcast some parts of “America’s Wolfman” on YouTube this week.

Coming soon, MonsterQuest is generously donating some of the series’ props to the International Cryptozoology Museum, for public display. Can the museum get anything from “Destination Truth”? Stay tuned. More details later.