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‘Hello, I wanted to tell you about an experience that I had, several years ago when I was about thirty-eight years old: now I’m fifty eight. My kids had gone on holiday with my husband and so I... Read more
‘Was sat on my stairs on the telephone looking out of the hall window that looks across my front garden (no hedges), and onto the second main route into town. Time would be approximately 10.30 pm... Read more
‘Gnome like little men about two foot high working on clearing up foliage beneath the trees and chatting with each other. Small bright white balls of light moving above them from leaf to leaf.’... Read more
‘Let me begin with the fact that ‘weird’ things have always happened to me for as long as I can remember, but this event, changed my life and solidified belief in me and others, forever. It w... Read more
‘My friend and I visited the stump of a recently fallen, beloved old willow tree in my backyard. We encountered spheres of colored light rising from the stump and floating around it. They behaved... Read more
‘Dancing balls of light beautiful, around the trees.’
... Read more‘I was walking through the woodlands on *** Grounds with my family and at one point they had all walked ahead to look at something while I stood alone waiting for them. I watched them for a bit t... Read more
‘I saw a fairy on the top of a cliff but only a fleeting glimpse of wings.’ ‘Iridescent colourful wings.’ ‘I just know it was [a fairy that] I saw the wings flicker and a very faint body ... Read more
‘I was sitting in my car waiting for my art school to open. There was a thunderstorm brewing and a heavy, gusty wind blew up. Bits of paper and other trash were being blown by the wind past my ca... Read more
‘When I was about six years old, I awoke to see a tiny nun floating near my bed, in the kneeling prayer position. This isn’t exactly a classic fairy sighting, but the nun was very small. I perc... Read more
‘Me and a friend aged nineteen and seventeen, had been hitching for two days in May 1983 and were pretty tired on our second night without sleep. We were on our way home and had walked from the M... Read more
‘It was in a woods that me and some friends where camping. (known as Bluebell Woods) and we it was very early in the morning as the before it really became light. I was outside the tent when I sa... Read more
‘I was approximately eight to nine years old when a band of fairy creatures flew in through my open bedroom window and danced along my duvet by my face. I was wide awake and both fascinated and s... Read more
‘I was in my front yard with my parents (who were on the other side of the yard) on a sunny day when I heard wings flapping. I looked to my left and up in the air when I saw three tall, slender f... Read more
‘It was June and I was in the back yard and out of the corner of my left eye I kept seeing something flit. It was a bight streak of light that would zip across the flowers and bushes.’ ‘Their... Read more
‘I saw a parade of fairies going across my bedroom floor. They were all dressed in finery and had musical instruments and tiny animals. I tried to wake up my sister, and shook and shook her, but ... Read more
‘I was surveying the rain damage that Sunday Morning when a coach pulled by dragonflies approached and blocked my path. The coach was fashioned in an old style hearst [hearse?] pulled by a pair o... Read more
‘I was taking pictures outside and saw something in the corner of my eye and I saw these things flying through a tree and took a video of it and after I looked at it closely, I saw they were fair... Read more
‘I was feeling quite sick and needed to throw up unfortunately, but my husband and I saw this beautiful bright light that had a trail behind it. It was spectacular, it landed on my shoulder and m... Read more
‘In woods, following raccoon trail up a creek. Trail divides. One went up hill to the right to a dark entangled hostile woods. Trail to left went up. Hill to the left to a luminous, verdant green... Read more
‘First, it was Halloween weekend, and we were all in a wooded grove on a small college campus. There were about five to seven of us that decided it would be fun to hike out through the woods to f... Read more
‘I was nine and playing in the woods behind my elementary school (my mom was a teacher so sometimes I had to stay late after school with her). It was around four in the afternoon. I heard somethi... Read more
‘Walking down a country track between the *** and *** I heard a whistling/humming noise from the hedge row bottoms. I was with a party of four others who were all walking ahead. It was summertime... Read more
‘I was fifteen, and my family [British tourists] and I were in holidays in our old family house, in a town of the French Southern Alps. We had seen in the newspapers that a little festival was ta... Read more
‘Me and my friend were taking a walk in the woods, and they went somewhere else. Then while I was near a river. I noticed a fairy. It wasn’t doing much besides looking at the river. I watched i... Read more
‘My younger sister and I were playing in the woods behind our grandparents’ house with our family dog. Our grandparents’ property was fairly large so we liked to go exploring. On the backside... Read more
‘Appears to be a nude nymph woman in a muddy spot without any dirt on her.’ ‘Manifestation of some goddess, in fairy nymph form.’
... Read more‘Camping I was alone near campfire. Friend in tent. I finished my book by fire. I felt presences. I looked up and right. A crowd of beings. Some small furry dark, others sasquatchy. All staring. ... Read more
‘I was about eight to nine years old back then. My friend and I ran down to the city lake, which is surrounded by a beautiful park filled with ancient trees. It was around two or three in the aft... Read more
‘I saw a dryad in a tree. I was at *** for an herbalist conference in 2009. I walked into the college green, which contained quite a few old trees all around the green. I glanced up at a huge, ol... Read more
‘I was climbing a tree and I suddenly saw something glittering above me in the branches. I saw tiny wings and a tiny body. It was moving, flying outwards from the tree. It was moving very rapidly... Read more
‘While cleaning my rabbit’s pen, suddenly two green fairies appeared near a tree, one was hovering waiting for the second one and then they flew off. A medium told me they came to heal me as I ... Read more
‘In the summer of 1972 camping in the woods with my girlfriend I went to fill up our water container at the spring we often camped by. These camp outs involved psychoactive substance use… T... Read more
‘I have always been a bit of a believer and became more-so due to a photo I took of my garden one day, which made me more curious. One night shortly after this, on a summer evening at dusk, my hu... Read more
‘I was going downstairs in my own house. It was around 10 pm and I hadn’t put on the light as it was summer time and only dim, not completely dark. As I proceeded down the stairs I saw what app... Read more
‘I had never really considered that fairies could be real although I loved the cute depictions of them in books and movies. The event that my husband and I experienced may not be related to fairi... Read more
‘I was with a couple of friends on a country road in my home town, in ***, Costa Rica, circa 1993. My friends were having a fight, they were a couple, and I went and sat on a rock nearby but long... Read more
‘My girlfriend and I had recently moved in together and we were getting used to our new apartment. As our work schedules were offset at the time, I gladly prepared dinner for us both nearly every... Read more
‘Feeling very calm and relaxed in the home of a friend, a little anxious as always before a psychedelic session. It’s the first time I have visited them, so everything is new, but I am generall... Read more
‘Walking home through the local recreation ground a friend and I heard a noise from the bushes to our side. Looking round what we could only describe as a fairy was floating out of the bush. Coul... Read more
‘Unusual wind, change in the light, got very quiet, could only see it out of the corner of my eye.’ ‘Blurred like trying to look through fog.’ ‘[Fairies are] very old beings.’
... Read more‘I was sitting on my living room couch. Afternoon. No one was about, no activity outside. I looked through a dining room window and plainly saw the face and a small conical hat on its head. The f... Read more
‘I was seven years old. It was very early summer (the corn was maybe four feet high), a bright and sunny day in the fields of *** PA. My grandmother was visiting friends. They sent me outside to ... Read more
‘Like a tiny person. A red cap, red jacket, green leggings.’ ‘I was a child I just accepted it as a fairy. Certainly not a ghost or demon if that is what you are implying. It was a fairy that... Read more
‘It was between eight and ten pm close to the summer solstice date. I was listening to a podcast in my bedroom while I was folding laundry. My children were sleeping. I had a large salt lamp and ... Read more
‘I gave massage to a teenage boy and had asked for energetic guidance since the boy was young and in pain.’ ‘After a while I suddenly saw two small winged shadowed beings circling above his l... Read more
‘I just remember their presence. I opened a circle and they came to sit with me. I couldn’t describe them but I can now look at depictions of the fae and recognize truth from fiction.’ ‘Whi... Read more
‘It was Maundy Thursday, and we were working on a project for the European Union. They sent us to the village of ***, and at the road junction of *** between ten and twelve in the day, we saw on ... Read more
‘I was thirteen years old when this happened. We were on a family holiday in France and stayed in an old silk mill. With the garden lay an acre of grassland that led to a ruined house and a water... Read more
‘It was a sunny day. I was a child and believed in fairies and was looking for one. I saw a fairy about the size of my thumb wearing a green dress. She was stood in a plant.’ ‘About the lengt... Read more
‘While recreating my garden space, I could feel a crazy kind of magic, my garden got excited while I worked in it, the longer and harder I worked the more exciting and magical it felt, the plants... Read more
‘In the summer of 1996 I was meditating in the end chamber of *** Long Barrow (a Neolithic barrow, excavated in the 1950s and now open to the public). The light of the day was fading and after ab... Read more
‘I’ve had many experiences, but this is one of the more recent one that happened when I was around twenty. My Mum, brother and I were all going to live in another state, we were heading to Quee... Read more
‘I’ll just describe the Irish fairy here – hiking deep in the Burren – on our way to one of the many holy wells present there. We [American nationals] entered a stretch of luscious green en... Read more
‘On 10/11/16, approximately at 4:00 pm I was walking in the woods (a State forest reservation named ***) when I was looking to a big tree foliage and admiring the beautiful foliage and the sun ra... Read more
‘Saw something humanoid, winged, greenish, about four- to six-inches tall, it climbed between the thin branches of a weeping ash tree that stood in the corner of the communal green area where I g... Read more
One morning as I was walking into work through the parking lot where there are intermittent trees and flowers, I spotted something with very large wings on the ground. At first I thought it was som... Read more
‘Heard and felt something in my room late. Only light from TV. Playing with new upgraded phone. Turn on video pan around the room. Play it back, wrap up in my bedsheets. There he was chilling wat... Read more
‘I was sitting in one of the chambers with a night-light. An approximately two-foot high figure appeared in the passageway in front of me. He had a very round face covered in minute wrinkles, a p... Read more
‘Now, I don’t know if this counts as fae, but the folkloric origins are so close that I feel like this may work. My parents were having a house party, and I didn’t want to be around all the p... Read more
‘I awoke in the night with moonlight shining through a gap in my curtains. Then into the light stepped a white-haired woman all dressed in white. She had a nimbus of white light around her and wo... Read more
‘I [an Australian national] was visiting Wales and staying at a place called Fairy Hill. While waiting for friends to come and take me sight-seeing I walked the grounds and found myself stepping ... Read more
‘I was walking in a wildlife reservation when I caught sight of something small and blue through the trees. It was six to eight inches high, cobalt blue with bits of red, partially behind a small... Read more
‘My husband and I took a trip into the mountains to camp for a few days. We hiked to the camping sites around a large pond and stayed for a few days. It was during a tropical storm, so it rained ... Read more
‘Multiple small sparkling lights flying around my friend.’
... Read more‘A friend and I were in West Yorkshire. We lived in the countryside and often wandered over the hills and woods were there were streams. On this occasion we were walking alongside the stream (thi... Read more
‘In the late 90s I moved to a house out in the country. It was a historical home used in the Underground Railroad complete with secret passage ways. It already had a bit of paranormal activity bu... Read more
‘While out walking after having eaten dinner, on a moonless night, taking a ‘short-cut’ through the woods behind the library in *** (a small stretch of land that runs east-west between ***and... Read more
‘This is perhaps one of my earliest memories in life, however brief. I was very young at this time – I estimate around four years old – based on where we lived, which was the *** neighborhood... Read more
‘Large group of people dancing in two circles around a fire, felt impelled to the place, had the feeling that my job there, was just observe.’ ‘Tall, thin, long curly hair and wearing medieva... Read more
‘I was walking our neighborhood with a friend, and I was telling her that my family came from a long line of people who lived in the woods. In the story, I told her that we hid from people at fir... Read more
‘In a wooded area by a stream thought I saw figures in the woods that were like shadows. Felt I wasn’t alone.’ ‘Blended well with the plants and shadows.’ ‘It is my impression that it w... Read more
‘I was meditating and had made a point of pushing energetic ‘impurities’ or ‘vibrationally dissonant’ energies out of my body through the soles of my feet (I was laying down in my bed). M... Read more
‘I saw it flying in a circle like loop on way [sic] and then another through the kitchen window. It was really windy outside after a rainstorm and it moved against the wind. It had an organic mov... Read more
‘I’ve always been connected with nature and have had many experiences. It was probably late fall when it first happened. I’m always the first person awake in the morning, and I usually feel e... Read more
‘Whilst dancing outdoors under the influence of fifty crushed Morning Glory Seeds (also known as ‘Druid’s Dream’) with many hundreds of people, there were many people drumming. Two beautifu... Read more
‘Many years ago (circa 1982) I lived in ***, an old ***, Brisbane mansion that had been converted into flats in the 1930s. Next door, at the end of a cul-de-sac, was an overgrown lot on which sto... Read more
‘It was June 2016. I was with my mum walking through a lovely moorland garden on ***moor which only opens every summer, during May to July, for charity. Mum and I had been looking around the gard... Read more
‘This happened in November 2019. I was sitting in my kitchen get ready to go out and do my nightly chores. I was sitting alone playing a word game on my phone, when I could hear like what sounded... Read more
‘Some friends came from the city for the weekend and the lady brought with her a pattern and fabric so I could help make [a] dress for a party. One of the items was a long zipper and when it came... Read more
‘At this point in the past, I had never much thought about elementals or faeries. But some of my friends were talking about it, and I got into it a little and expressed my desire to meet them. I ... Read more
‘I was about ten at the time. We had just moved into the house on the property a month or two prior to the sighting. It was a slightly overcast winter day, and I was sledding outside with my moth... Read more
‘I was with a friend’s car, driving back to Nottingham from Darlington, where we had been to see a band. We didn’t have a map and got lost. We became so confused that at one point we found ou... Read more
‘It was a dark night outside when I had this experience. When I was sleeping, I heard some charming bells sounds from nowhere. It happened about one to two minutes. It was so soothing. I was part... Read more
‘The fairy fell from the tree as a leaf. I have a photo of it perched on the wall. I know it sounds odd but it’s true.’ ‘Small, large wing, pretty.’ ‘I think they can take different for... Read more
‘My fiance Y and I were in our bedroom just relaxing for the night, I was sitting on the end of our bed and Y was next to me. The whole week we had heard weird noises outside our house at night a... Read more
‘There is a bog near my home in Kentucky. It is accessible to anyone, because there is a popular paved bike/walking trail that runs past it, however there are also several foot trails through the... Read more
‘I was walking through the woods and swept back a branch. I saw a scene before me of a frozen waterfall and rocks as if it had frozen in time. It took up the entire area yet it seemed small and w... Read more
‘When I was about eleven or twelve maybe, I was sitting on my bed in my bedroom facing the doorway to my room, which was open, when this little creature ran by my door. It was maybe eight to ten ... Read more
‘We had visited this small pocket of rainforest about two weeks before and I felt like I was being spoken to. I was asked to return at the next full moon. On dust [at dusk?] I returned to a very ... Read more
While walking in the woods a bright light appeared around fifty centimetres away in front [of] me level with my head and hovered there. It came from above to the right. When I was able to focus my ... Read more
‘I was on holiday in Cornwall with my family. I think I was about thirteen. We’d been on holiday in Cornwall before, and had joked about the ‘Little People’ who lived in the tin mines etc. ... Read more
‘I was on a solitary retreat of thought and meditation for five days. On about day three, I was sitting and just staring at the surrounding nature when a body flitted by about two metres from my ... Read more
‘My experience happened shortly after sundown on a late summer evening. I had gone outside to take out the trash, so it was a Tuesday night. The sun had set but there was still a little light in ... Read more
‘I was pushing my wheelbarrow across the horse’s paddock when a movement up at the big trees caught my eye. I turned to see a very tall ethereal being (with wings) all dressed in green leaning ... Read more
‘This is my second encounter with a fairy. This experience happened about three years ago, when I was fifteen. My family rented a cabin in ***, California, during the summer. It was my first time... Read more
‘I grew up in a California suburb surrounded by open space, and have always loved taking walks around our block. I’ve also always felt very close with nature, and loved the idea of fairies, as ... Read more
‘In the cool of an Autumn evening, just on dusk, I stood by the edge of a mountain pool. A dozen or more dragonflies flitted lazily across the surface of the water. Some landed on lilly-pads whil... Read more
‘Watched a busy group of fairies in the flower/herb borders in garden, watching from patio they also saw me. Full daylight in the summer holiday. After noticed fairy rings on the lawn, they were ... Read more
‘While walking from home to catch a bus early morning I saw what I can only describe as a classic Tinker Bell fairy hovering over the middle of the road. It turned saw me and flew into a garden h... Read more
‘I think I saw into another realm. I didn’t see a being. I could see the trees and grass breathing. I felt certain that I was somewhere I shouldn’t be. I didn’t see anybody, but I think the... Read more
‘I had taken photographs and asked fairy folks to appear. Semi-solid fairy ‘entities’ showed themselves and most people could see them on the pictures verified as genuine by Dr *** of the ASS... Read more
‘This experience occurred one night (6-9 pm) in ***. I remember that I hadn’t slept much the previous night, so I had fallen asleep in the afternoon. I woke up startled because, even though I h... Read more
‘My parents were taking all of us for a walk (five children) I was running ahead I saw the fairy/elf, stopped, it took a moment before I could speak, then I shouted for my mother to come see, eve... Read more
‘Myself and two friends (all eighteen to twenty-one) went to a golf course one evening with the intent to have a few casual beers. Upon arrival, it began to sprinkle so we decided to head towards... Read more
‘I was eating breakfast one morning when I took a drink of my milk and a fairy with short red curly hair flew out from my milk threw her arms back and spat out a drop of milk. And the drop landed... Read more
‘The birds were flying out of a nearby tree, down into my vineyard and eating some of my sweet grapes. It was in the early morning. I was quite annoyed as I work hard for this so I shouted and cl... Read more
‘Under the branches of a very old and large fig tree. As I played with my older sister they joined our game as if they were friends who had always known us. Then as the afternoon wore on they dri... Read more
‘I watched it in real time on my night vision surveillance camera on my front porch in the middle of the city. At three in the morning I [was] just watching my camera on the monitor. I recorded. ... Read more
‘It was late at night and I went to my parents’ bed to wake them up but they were asleep so I went back to my bed and I couldn’t sleep. At that moment I remember seeing many small lights comi... Read more
‘I had just returned home, and it was probably around 10 to 11 pm at night. I was lying in my bed just thinking about some things because that night I had a near incident involving a vehicle whil... Read more
‘I was grounded for a week, so my family went out without me. I was in my room until I heard trash cans rattling, it was a rural area, so raccoons and opossums were very common. I walked to the s... Read more
‘I was about eleven to twelve years old, on holiday in the Norfolk Broads with my mum, dad, two sisters and a cousin. I am the youngest of three sisters; my boy cousin was about three years young... Read more
‘I went out back of the house to relieve myself. I feel like a wasp was flying up on me, I looked to my left nothing there I could see at distance something watching me pee. It knew I seen it mov... Read more
‘One evening, I had just come home from work at around 9:45 PM. My mother was in the kitchen, and she had served me a glass of red wine. I sat down on the couch and sipped my wine until it was ab... Read more
‘When I was twelve, I went on a bike ride with my mam to the ***, a piece of countryside beside where we live. It was about 11:30 am and it was a sunny day but a bit cloudy at times. We were biki... Read more
‘Myself and a friend, we were aged around fourteen at the time, went for a walk one summer’s day as we often did. It was the summer holidays, so we had all the time in the world. We packed a dr... Read more
‘I was driving with my wife and two kids in the car. A thing that I presumed was a autumn sycamore type leaf ‘flew’ across the road stopped in front of the windscreen it was then it put up it... Read more
‘This happened several times: I used to go on holiday to Wales with my grandmother, uncle and aunt, from our home in an Oxfordshire village. I was always out and about, even very early in the sum... Read more
‘I was picking cherries and noticed a lot of moss and mushrooms and very small flowers, I thought to myself the area looked very much like fairy land. On my second day at the job picking cherries... Read more
‘My younger brother and I had wandered off from our parents, and we were playing in the woods. There are some very old and beautiful beech trees there. From up one of the trees, we both heard a c... Read more
‘I was eight and I was losing my teeth. I believe that I saw the tooth fairy but I feel that she may be one of many. I had lost a tooth and kept it in my special tooth holder. Usually my parents ... Read more
‘While being shown the basement, which was very poorly lit, we were shown a corner that had been excavated to, presumably, provide a place for some previous tenants to grow marijuana (probably). ... Read more
‘During the summer and winter months from 1975-1979, I lived near the base of the ***, part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. A few times each season, I would wake to see a large ban... Read more
‘It was very dark and walked past the small treeline about two houses wide toward the meadow which is dimly lit. I started getting this really strange feeling and looked near a curve that goes in... Read more
‘I was taking pictures of my backyard and could see many fairies in the trees. They were busy doing some kind of work among themselves but aware of my presence. Afterwards I realized I had captur... Read more
Something about three-inches tall I thought was a butterfly or moth, but it was so white it was almost blue. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something fly past me and get tangled in my hair, I wa... Read more
‘I am unsure if this was a kidnapping attempt or if I dreamed this. So, my dad took me out in my stroller. And he would call it my Cadillac or mini car. He would always take me on walks, and we w... Read more
‘My brother and I went up *** Crag near ***, North Yorkshire one summer evening, leaving his old motorbike at the bottom and walking up. We had been sitting about chatting for a while, watching t... Read more
‘Many years ago I saw a photo of a tiny creature in the Scottish Highlands, looking at children playing. The family only saw this when they had the photos developed and saw a blob in the grass. T... Read more
‘I should preface that my third eye had been recently opened and I had been seeing energy in the air like static and auras of people and trees. One night I was in bed with my partner in the dark;... Read more
‘I’m not saying I saw the tooth fairy, but it was the night that I lost my first tooth. I wrote a letter to the tooth fairy and left it on my nightstand and had a glass of water by my bed. I wa... Read more
‘I witnessed a stone golem with one huge eye pounding the ground with a log. I saw him because I was curious about the noise from my home. I walked outside and my mother and her female friend hea... Read more
‘Me and my family were driving home from my grandparents’ house and I looked out the window and saw a small insect-like thing glowing red and blue flying outside my window. It only stayed there... Read more
‘In the 1970s I used to stay (as a five year old) in a small four- or five-hundred-year-old cottage with a small bamboo thicket and a stream running down. It was on a quite steep hill, just outsi... Read more
‘Walking dog with wife through a plantation of silver birch, mainly trees to our left, to our right a step bank leading to a metal fence running the length of an industrial site on the edge of a ... Read more
‘[starts here] Then early one afternoon in May, I was sitting out in my garden. The rhododendrons were in flower and it was a hot bright sunny day. I was very comfortable and content to listen to... Read more
‘I was sitting at the table in the living room, eating breakfast with my mom and brother, on a weekend, I think. From the table we could all see out [of] a large window onto our deck and into our... Read more
‘I saw something moving along through the leaves very fast. About fifteen to twenty feet away. When it stopped it looked like a wooden clothes peg, about three- to four-inches high. It moved agai... Read more
‘I was waiting for the tooth fairy when I was seven years. In Norway we put the tooth in a glass or egg-holder of water in the window. In the morning coins are in the water. She looked exactly li... Read more
‘It was a columnular cluster of translucent pale blue almost metallic with sparkles elongated slender many insect-like wings flapping. Weirdest looking thing I ever saw! Maybe a portal? They sudd... Read more
‘On a curious visit to Cottingley village. Visited the park with interesting depictions of Elsie and Francis. Drove to their house and took a photo with my phone. Looking at the picture later tha... Read more
‘I came out to the balcony to turn off the lights before going to bed. After I turned the lights off, there was a light traveling from the pasture on my right, out to the woods on my left. The li... Read more
‘This event happened sometime in the spring or summer of two thousand and eleven. It was evening, dark outside. My friend was parked at the curb in front of my house. We were standing outside her... Read more
‘Driving late at night on country road, I witnessed a small man in the middle of the road. He was perhaps three feet in height. I swerved to avoid him. He did not have wings or anything like that... Read more
‘It was a dryad. It protected me against something that my wife and I think was a wight.’ ‘No faerie was actually seen.’ ‘I know that faeries are real. I’ve seen them. I’ve interacted... Read more
‘I saw a group of six Sidhe, four male, two female, walking through an open field along a narrow foot path in my direction. This was not my first contact with them, so I wasn’t afraid. We excha... Read more
‘I was in the living room of my small one bedroom apartment when I first saw flickers of light out of the corners of my eyes. This was the day after I had a dream where I recited a spell from a b... Read more
‘I was on my way to pick up my ex-fiancée from work. *** is a strange town. One minute you’re in civilization, next it’s country roads, then back in the town again. As I was passing the hosp... Read more
‘I was playing games with my cousins in the backyard at night time. We were playing a game where we pretended to activate superpowers, and to do so we stood in a circle and held hands. Something ... Read more
‘I was cutting my hair [?] for a friend of mine and her mother, in their kitchen in an old house that had been renovated into apartments. Her ten-month-old son was in the room with us as well. He... Read more
‘I was on a swing bridge awaiting a friend’s arrival and I saw something small from the corner of my eye. I looked up and there were a small number of them, all winged. Some sitting on branches... Read more
‘When walking on early summer mornings in the summer of 1979/80 I, on more than one occasion, witnessed a small grey-clothed figure about eighteen inches in height and of ‘shambling’ gait in ... Read more
‘I was playing by myself under a mimosa tree. At first I thought it was just a very pretty colorful butterfly flitting around me but the body was definitely not that of a butterfly. The body was ... Read more
‘My family had a house with a long driveway that had a steep hill to the road. One day, my dad drove my sister and I down to the bottom of the driveway to wait for the bus, but it was running lat... Read more
‘I was walking back from the rec center to the dorms which was about a one to two mile hike. I felt a weird sensation of dread while walking along the path and was silently wishing I wasn’t wal... Read more
‘We both saw the beautiful fairy along with others around her, hovering above me during a healing session, the beautiful beings healed my heart chakra. I had my eyes closed and open, the lady doi... Read more
‘It was flying alongside my car, just outside my left window, moving like a large hummingbird. It was about six to eight inches long. It happened twice around the same time.’ ‘Body about six ... Read more
‘Above me while on the couch. There were several.’ ‘Colorful.’ ‘They seemed friendly and very small. Hovering above me.’ Fairies are ‘supernatural beings from another realm’. ‘I e... Read more
‘I saw a bright flashing light in my house and then it flashed again. I saw ‘beings’ that were clothed in light floating into my room, but they did not have legs or legs that I could see.’ ... Read more
‘There had been a drought. For several months there has been no rain and I was standing with my head pressed against a window facing a tall hill and meadow. Suddenly it started raining and then I... Read more
‘I was driving in my car at night through a woody populated area. I saw something very small (eighteen to twenty two inches) running on two legs. It did not have the shape of a human child and it... Read more
‘Dancing at the foot of the bed, still there when I hid and looked again.’ ‘A noise woke me to look.’ ‘I saw lots of small people shapes, in shadows’. [In a subsequent email] ‘I was s... Read more
‘I had a very fertile garden and had just watered it. I was at my back door and I was aware of a very small insect creature which hovered examining me. I am aware it isn’t an insect from its mo... Read more
‘My ex-husband and I were helping round up a small herd of cattle at my brother’s property. Both men were complaining about how hard the job was going to be because of two rogue heifers who did... Read more
‘I did not necessarily believe in fairies until I saw this. Never thought much about them. I was lying on the couch inside my home. It was after midnight. The light source was from the bathroom l... Read more
‘I was creating a garden just for the Faeries as well as for my enjoyment and called for them, promising them they could have use of the garden (home, shelter, etc.) for as long as they wanted an... Read more
‘I was walking from grandma’s house to home and movement in the woods below the road caught my eye. It was a shimmer at first then had a form. It looked the size of a small child in a brown dre... Read more
‘I was five or six years old, and encountered a little red man at a tree stump. He was about two to three feet tall, dressed entirely in red, with a solid red face, tiny white horns on the top of... Read more
‘While I was alone playing in the backyard a small butterfly came to land on my foot, soon after it was followed by a dragonfly I began to feel an instant surge of happiness and relief in my bein... Read more
‘My friend invited me to go out into the woods to look for fairy rings. We took wine from her parents’ pantry as a friendship offering. We left at sunset, having been given permission to go cam... Read more
‘Was taking pictures of flowers in my garden. There was a tiny boy. Tiny. Sitting on a leaf, he had brown pants and brown hair and was slouched leaning up against the stem of the columbine flower... Read more
‘I [American citizen] was in the Philippines to marry my wife. We stayed at *** hotel in ***. In front of the hotel was a mountain and behind it was an aquamarine-colored river with large sand ba... Read more
‘I was a high school student when it happened around 11 PM in the summer of 2013. I was busy with homework in my room when my mother called me from the salon to come immediately. I found her stan... Read more
‘I awoke from sleep to see three Faeries hovering over my bed. They looked as one would imagine Faeries to look like (wings, little dresses, etc). They had the appearance of being made of water o... Read more
‘It was back in December 2012. I had gone with my husband to the *** Reserve on *** Island. It was a clear day. We had decided to take a different path than our normal route (as we would go there... Read more
‘I was an exchange student from *** University… [in the US] studying at *** College in ***. I was a distance runner and was invited by a fellow student, X, to her home in ***. Another student, ... Read more
‘I was sitting on the ground pulling weeds and just quietly enjoying the day when I realized I was hearing singing. The voices sounded like children or higher pitched as if on helium. I began to ... Read more
‘I wrote this down as soon as I woke up, so it is fresh from memory, not a recall. Some details on places were added after transcription from a draft, which was left otherwise untouched. The envi... Read more
‘In the winter of 1999 I was staying at a friend’s in the village of *** near *** Moor. I awoke in the night. It was after midnight around 3 am and I heard what sounded like an angelic choir si... Read more
‘I was four to five years old. I was in my bedroom one evening. I noticed a twinkling light in my window. I watched the light fly down towards my neck region. As the light came closer I noticed i... Read more
‘I saw a tiny man, naked and with a bushy white beard, he looked at me and ran fast. I followed him until he entered into a hole in the ground. I haven’t seen him since.’
... Read more‘I was walking through the woods with one of my friends. She and I are both transgender, and I remember telling her that people like us often experience strange happenings because we too are lock... Read more
‘One day, while alone, heard someone invisible, clearing their throat near dining room table within house. I went to investigate and saw nobody until I blocked sunlight from outside sliding glass... Read more
‘It was in December or January that the incident happened. I believe it was either late afternoon or early evening. It was very cloudy and I believe there had been a thunderstorm or was about to ... Read more
‘I saw a little light dancing around me while I was praying, so I took a picture of the light and when I looked at [it] I saw it was a light in a shape of a heart, and saw something else so I gav... Read more
‘Several weekends ago in Kent in England I went into my garden to give it the last mow of the year. It had been a wet few weeks after a busy summer, so it was going to be quite a task. My eight-y... Read more
‘I was sitting on my steps, having a conversation with my sister. We were distracted by a large, bright yellow ‘insect’ flying low and very fast. He flew around us for about thirty seconds un... Read more
‘We were on the way to see our Gran, with my sister aged nine, and our Father. We went under railway arches, and turned into a long lonely lane, with a stream at both sides, the railway embankmen... Read more
‘A mid-twenties, very handsome man sat and started talking to me. I was young and attractive, but usually this did not happen because he was very confident and came right over sitting down and ta... Read more
‘I had taken a few grams of magic mushrooms shortly before and was beginning to feel a bit energetic and loosened up mentally. But I was far from ‘tripping’ at that point. I had gone into my ... Read more
‘Whilst in bed as a child I was awoken on several occasions over several years, to see what I described then as little nasty wolves coming out of an antique wood wardrobe, after drawing them for ... Read more
‘Late summer 2009 in a place called *** reservoir valley in Staffordshire. I walked my dog here on a regular basis, but on this occasion left my dog at home because she would get in the way of my... Read more
‘My family was on a religious pilgrimage. We were lost. None of us had ever been in this part of the world. It didn’t appear on our map. I was in the back seat of the car. My grandfather left u... Read more
‘I had just got back from a quick trip to Walmart and as I was carrying in shopping bags a small fiery looking thing (roughly spherical in shape) darted in through the open door. It’s hard to d... Read more
‘This has haunted me for always. I swear it was not a dream. I was in the back garden. My mother was hanging clothes on the washing line, and a sort of wicker-basket affair with a balloon on top ... Read more
‘I was a child, in the forest by the house. I ‘felt/sensed’ ‘Them’ though I did not know what they were then. Did not actually See anything.’ ‘I ‘Felt’ Peaceful, Happy, that they ... Read more
‘It had purple wings and wore a white dress. It was the size of a small doll. It had tiny legs though I never saw its arms or face.’ ‘I actually thought it might have been an angel after but ... Read more
‘In a large garden, I was interested in the different plants, having never been to Asia before [British visitor], when I noticed a very bright shining ball of light around a flower head, about ei... Read more
‘I was probably just a month or two shy of fifteen at the time this happened. It was the summer school holidays and I was visiting with my grandparents at their seventy-five-acre farm by the rive... Read more
‘I was at a lecture being given by a woman who claimed to work with Spirits (and fairies). I was sitting in a large room with several other people who were attending the lecture inside a room typ... Read more
‘My back garden has CCTV and lighting facing out towards the garden which will light up if somebody is outside, and on top of one of my bins, my spotlight lit up a figure smaller than a foot tall... Read more
‘I took a photo. I noticed a winged small figure all white, a head wings, what looks like a dress and it has its back to the camera. It is hovering around the leaves of a Sycamore tree. I can sen... Read more
‘It was in a dream that was, so strange, so realistic, I honestly would not have thought fae until someone I knew mentioned something from an old Celtic story. I was, still am with a person who i... Read more
‘I saw the bucka in our garden at ***. He is about three-foot tall with a dark beard and rather frightening so he must be a bucka du. I’ve found out more recently that the poet John Harris who ... Read more
‘I awoke in my bed to find myself surrounded by tiny men dressed in brown holding spears. They did not speak but I was aware that if I moved or cried out that they would stab me. I could not move... Read more
‘I was walking home one night when a rustle began in a hedgerow to my right. Being from the country, I put it down to a badger or fox out hunting. That thought soon fled when the rustling followe... Read more
‘As I was walking down the road, I noticed to me left side, out of the corner of my left eye, that a silvery glitter was bouncing in the bush alongside me. It wasn’t shiny. It was glitter. It w... Read more
‘I was closing a gate to a field and noticed will [sic?] white dots flying around over the gate, they appeared to come over to me stop moving and then turn and fly off.’ ‘[I thought they were... Read more
‘I was in labor in September of 2013 in A*** NC. During labor, I fell into a sleep of sorts where I had a memory. It wasn’t a dream or a fantasy or a thought. It came to me as a deep memory of ... Read more
‘I was at a Walgreens very late at night waiting for a prescription to be filled, so I browsed around for a while. I remember thinking something on the radio sounded strange, but I couldn’t pin... Read more
‘I was sitting with my friend in her living room having a cup of tea and a chat. All of a sudden, I had an overwhelming feeling that I had to go into her garden. Something was in the garden that ... Read more
‘On a family walk, something flew very close to my face. I only saw it for a second, but it looked like a tiny person with wings. It did not look like a butterfly or similar. It was gone before I... Read more
‘I saw what I guess you could call a Leprechaun. I was walking from our back lot to the house. We had a very old peach tree at the edge of the yard. As I came into the back yard I heard a noise a... Read more
‘My friend (male) and I were sitting at the edge of a field on the outskirts of our village, chatting. It was evening, fairly dark. We could see across the field to a footpath which connected our... Read more
‘I saw ‘lights’. Sparkly tinkly lights. But it was the energy, that’s what made me stop and look in the first place. It was like that part of the garden was alive and moving. I do think I h... Read more
‘I felt pinching on my legs early morning… Sat up in bed, sheet draped over knees and saw several three inch high people. They were sliding down the sheets… A few were still lightly pinching ... Read more
‘I had spent the last four hours hiking cross-country in a state forest preserve (***, Park Forest, Illinois). It was right about sundown and I’d found the path leading back to the nature cente... Read more
‘I was attending ***’s Witch Camp, an event for modern Pagan Witches that features daily magical training and rituals. We were supposed to spend an hour by ourselves in nature, observing, makin... Read more
‘In 1999, I was seven years old, playing in the woods with my friend ***. We were standing at each end of a big log in the woods, when I noticed movement in my peripherals. I tried focusing my pe... Read more
‘I was playing by myself outside when I heard music. It sounded like a flute or clarinet. The music was otherworldly and made me want to dance. I loved it! I loved it so much I wanted to go to th... Read more
‘It was my first fairy encounter, the first in a long series of encounters that went on for about five years. I was about six, and lived with my parents and my grandmother in a beautiful house wi... Read more
‘I had just moved into a ground floor flat in *** and was going through the process of doing some decoration. I had moved in about six weeks before and on the Saturday [I] was planning to pull up... Read more
‘I was about five years old. It was late summer. My grandfather and I were walking in a neighbor’s woods across the street from his place, just off their country driveway at the bottom of a lar... Read more
‘I was watching a baby and his eyes kept following something. My mother said he was seeing the faeries so I watched him and saw them out of the corner of my eye. They were like little lights. Lik... Read more
‘I was sitting watching the water at the edge of a first on the bank of a local creek. Suddenly, what I assumed was a dragonfly came around the right side of my head and paused, hovering, directl... Read more
‘Whilst taking snapshots of people during a midsummer gathering, there were fluttering fairies visible in the camera. I photographed and took video of them all evening.’ [I thought it was a fai... Read more
‘About two weeks after I had read Enchantment of the Faerie Realm by Ted Andrews I was stood next to a bush in a Public Garden. Thinking about how I would organize and grow a garden if I had one.... Read more
‘I saw a transparent rainbow fairy glide across the doorway with backlit light from the open front door. Her dress was beautiful
... Read more‘I was about eight years old, and I was sitting in the back seat of the car while looking out the window. My father was a doctor and whenever there was an automobile accident, he always stopped t... Read more
‘I was sitting on a bus looking out of the window. Between Hammersmith and Kensington in London, there is a little park/open space. The bus was stuck in traffic, light was good, and there, sittin... Read more
‘My family [British] were living in *** and I had come to visit them from London. I was about twenty-one years old. The house was an old (and very haunted) townhouse in central *** on a fairly bu... Read more
‘I had just arrived home one summer night. It was between nine and ten pm and had just rained not long before, so the grass was wet. I walked across the backyard and just had that feeling that so... Read more
‘I am from Michigan, United States and in July 2009, I took a senior trip with ten classmates to Ireland. Our flight landed at the Shannon Airport July 14th, around 7am after a nonstop flight fro... Read more
‘I was going fishing with my brother at a little pond near our house and I looked out on the water and saw something slip behind a tree on the other side of the lake. It looked like what I would ... Read more
‘My son was giggling at something in the bushes. He was about three. I called him over and he piled with us in a big hug in the sunlight. I sensed movement where he had been giggling and I looked... Read more
‘I am constantly surrounded by interactive energies. This particular incident began with the familiar feeling of something close. As I took out my camera intense multi-colored flashes of light br... Read more
‘I was walking through the park up into town when I began to hear singing some of it sounded tortured and I glanced out of the corner of my eye left and right and there were a group of fey beings... Read more
‘This happened in 2003 or 2004 in the town of ***, Massachusetts. I was thirteen or fourteen at the time. My mother, eleven- or twelve-year-old sister, two friends about our ages and I all saw th... Read more
‘I was outside playing by myself and I looked up and there were two little people, not kids, holding hands looking at me. A man and a woman and they just stood watching me and smiling at me and t... Read more
‘My fiancée and I moved here in February, on the property is a small far [fairy?] ring as well as multiple spots for mushroom growth (those are new actually). *** (fiancé, hubby, soulmate, non-... Read more
‘During a ritual I was conducting to honor the earth and nature spirits, a tall dark-haired man wearing green and black with silver and gold trim and decorations appeared and said we knew each ot... Read more
‘As I was taking a video of the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City these little Orbs show up in my camera.’ ‘Purple light.’ ‘Music was playing outside in the city by a musician.’ ‘I bel... Read more
‘My mother, aunt, and I were out in our garden admiring the flowers, a rather large bumblebee flew over and landed on a flower to drink nectar and we all simultaneously saw the bumblebee was carr... Read more
‘It was evening in winter. I was walking the dog. It was really cold and crisp. The type of dry winter air, not damp. Frost had started to form. I had let the dog off the lead, and he had trotted... Read more
‘I was driving home from the animal hospital with my dog and stopped at the light on the access road for the highway. There was a green area with trees to my left. I saw the fairy fly past my win... Read more
‘I [Canadian national] was a few days into a *** tour of England, staying at an inn in Tintagel, having visited the Castle and Merlin’s Cave. That night, my roommate and I were not sleeping wel... Read more
‘We just set up a fairy garden a couple of weeks ago. My relative and I were having a small bonfire in the backyard. Behind the tree where the fairy garden was, I saw a bright white light in the ... Read more
‘It was in the early spring, probably in 1992 or 1993. There had been a windstorm the night before, and there were many branches (some quite large) on the ground. My daughter was playing with som... Read more
‘Around 8 pm on a June night about twelve or so years ago, a light appeared on or from within a half dead pecan tree. It swirled around the trunk from ground level to about twenty five feet or so... Read more
‘On a swing, feeling freedom and joy, introspective, saw dancing lights around me, as if joining in my joy. Knew it was special visitation, validation.’ ‘Small pinpoints of lights dancing aro... Read more
‘I was walking down steps from near where I live, through [a] wooded area, into town and saw what I believe was a fairy leant against a tree.’ ‘We just looked at each other.’ ‘Small adult... Read more
‘I walked into a magical supplies and Pagan shop on *** in Cambridge. I was talking to the proprietor (who was behind the counter) when I saw a face out of the corner of my eye, on my right-hand-... Read more
‘I had been very ill and had major surgery. While recovering on the second night I found five to seven little men in the room. They all had similar features, but their clothing did vary. They wer... Read more
‘I moved out here in the country last June 2019. I rent my old farmhouse and an acre of land which is surrounded by a sheep farm, extremely high pine trees, and absolutely no neighbors… Hea... Read more
‘I was in a field not far from my grandma’s house. Visiting for the day. Saw several lights in and about a hedge. I walked up to the hedge and the lights started to fade, I also thought I could... Read more
‘It was maybe 2011 or 2012 at a girl scout camp in the Florida panhandle, camp ***. There is a wooded area nearby nicknamed ‘fairy glen’ that has a fairy statue where girls leave little trink... Read more
‘When I was very young, I would take shoe boxes and make very elaborate houses for little people. I didn’t know then what I was doing but now I know. Later about five years ago I met a close fr... Read more
‘I was in my house. I have a small den with a very small closet to the left of the doorway and a large bookcase on the wall opposite the closet. It was about 10 AM. I saw a bipedal creature, abou... Read more
‘The night I experienced purified amazement. Date: sometime in July 2020. Time: after midnight. Place: ***, Yorkshire, England. After a day that seemed to run on the theme of detachment in respec... Read more
‘This account might better be explained by the possible second sight that I believe my wife, Frances (one ‘s’ her father got it wrong registering her birth), named after her grandmother posse... Read more
‘I [American national] was sleeping at *** hostel. I was on my own after a weekend attending mythologist *** Myth school. Everyone else had left that morning and I stayed two more days the only o... Read more
‘As I was walking along when my family were looking the other way I saw a small fairy with a face, wings and body wearing the colour orange. For a few seconds.’ ‘Female with the colour orange... Read more
‘It was a really pleasant late summer’s day, sunny but not too hot or humid, my wife and I decided to drive to *** Park, Greater Manchester, to take a walk and have a coffee in a nice setting. ... Read more
‘We were in the car it was January around 5 pm so dark. Something about two-feet tall, white and willowy, floaty jumped out of the hedgerow in front of our car then disappeared.’ ‘Thin and wi... Read more
‘We were with our walking group – the boys x three aged ten-twelve years old had ventured ahead of the main body of walkers (seventeen in total) so, because I am a walk leader, my daughter ... Read more
‘While visiting a local site known to have fairy activity I saw a female being, of approximately human height and appearance, with brown hair, dressed in white. She stood between trees in a secti... Read more
‘I was in my backyard gardening, when a saw a strange fungus in the grass. I went inside to get my camera to take a picture of it. When I was taking the picture I felt watched if like I was been ... Read more
‘Saw a very small man, less than half the size of a human, walk across a field in front of me (I was walking in the field, he was crossing my path). He was wearing a workman’s apron over his cl... Read more
‘Me, my husband and four children were on holiday in Cambridgeshire and were out having a walk. Me and my seven year old daughter were lagging behind, whilst the rest of my family were a couple o... Read more
‘It was late at night, we were walking down the road till we passed by a tree which was illuminated by a light pole, and something flew right in my face. It didn’t hit me but was at five to ten... Read more
‘Very strange. I was staring at a spot on a book shelf and then all of sudden a small figure, princely, popped out. After a moment it receded. It really seemed like a little fellow. I like the id... Read more
‘My children and I attended a Ramtha event. He asked the children if he could send them fairies. They agreed. We lived on ***’s farm at the time. We went for a walk in the forest, and I started... Read more
‘I was in my bedroom when the fairy ran across a chest of drawers in front of the window.’ ‘I was a small child when this happened, but it is one of my most vivid memories.’ ‘It was small... Read more
‘May have heard their laughter, but not certain.’ ‘Vaguely humanoid, only caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye. Seemed to have long flowing hair or clothing. A shimmery look of an aur... Read more
‘I’ve always had paranormal type experiences but my first one I think that could be a fairy experience is when I was about sixteen. It was dark and possibly quite late. I don’t remember. I wa... Read more
‘I was in bed, the clock chimed midnight and woke me up. I was twelve years old. My bed faced the bedroom door which was open, there was a wardrobe straight ahead against the wall, the bathroom d... Read more
‘When I was five, we moved to a new house. I kept feeling like something was in my room, and when I went to sleep, I saw a humanoid creature with grayish skin and red eyes hiding in my closet. Af... Read more
‘Purple light.’ ‘The sound produced images.’ ‘[Fairies are] interuniversal beings.’ ‘Innocence is something they can give back. They protect their chosen. People can be portals to the... Read more
‘The incident happened in the mid-nineties, probably 1996 when I would have been twenty-one years old. I was working as a mechanic in a garage in *** and I worked Saturdays and I had one weekday ... Read more
‘I [western tourist] was watching out the window of a train in Japan, and saw standing upright, unsupported, on a path between fields, a closed black umbrella. There was no one around and the ful... Read more
‘My friend and I had been walking home at dusk after a long walk, we were both either eleven or twelve and didn’t have cell phones yet. I had been out a little too late and thought my dad would... Read more
‘I was fifteen years old, I woke up and a little green man/being ( sort of looked like a gremlin/imp (khaki green skin/ bald/pointed ears/wrinkly weathered skin/ unclothed/ about a foot and a hal... Read more
‘Half an inch large creature in light blue colour that was flying above flowers. We were one or two feet away; we could not see a face or head details due to fluttering of its wings. It had a loo... Read more
‘It happened when I was just getting into bed. I heard music and talking. When I listened more closely. The music and talking vanished. It was so cool it was midnight then. During the summer. I s... Read more
‘Once when I was about seventeen years old, I was crossing the hall from my bedroom to the bathroom, and just as I was crossing the threshold I saw something out of the corner of my eye down near... Read more
‘It was in a dream, and she was protecting me and asked me if I knew what she was and I said yes. Then later after we were done flying together I saw four little ones and when they saw me they tu... Read more
‘I was about ten years old, and it was my first year living in rural Pennsylvania. My friend and I were playing in the woods behind her house. We were pretty deep into the forest, exploring and p... Read more
‘It began by hearing noises in the woods across the street from our home at night for weeks. It was enough noise to spook the dogs (twigs snapping, throwing pebbles, leaves moving), but we werenâ... Read more
‘I was lying in bed and was awoken by movement in my bedroom. Turning my head, approximately thirty centimetres in front of my face hovered a small, about five centimetres high, fairy. Clearly ve... Read more
‘Myself and a friend were spending the night with a couple who lived in a cabin on the edge of ancient woodland. We were having a party. Although the cabin owners, and others who have stayed ther... Read more
‘It was in the year 1998 when I was at work with my colleague who is now my life partner. We hadn’t known each other very well then, and one day after he left his desk for a minute or two, I sa... Read more
‘We took a photo with a mobile phone, I and a friend, in this photo, two silhouettes with little coloured lights, that formed two outlines one of a fairy and one of a gnome. I no longer have the ... Read more
‘One spring/early summer evening, about two to three weeks after my dog died, I was sleeping in my bedroom. My cat often shares the bed, but he did not this evening. I was sleeping on my side and... Read more
I saw a pink fairy in sunshine about ten- to twelve-centimetres high flying out of the window. It was very clear and has stayed with me. My father was in the room but did not know what I saw. I was... Read more
‘I was about four years old, camping with my mother, stepdad and friends. We were preparing lunch and I was curious to find one of the family friends sitting below a tree staring into the tree. F... Read more
‘I’ve had several [experiences] but I decided to choose one. The majority of my fae experiences happen in dreams, whether I was around the fae or I was one (those are rarer but they do happen o... Read more
‘It was actually my friend who took a photo of toadstools and only after when looking at the photo did I see a fairy standing on a tree stem.’ What are fairies? ‘Possibly spirits of people wh... Read more
‘I was walking with my friend when I was nine. We saw a tree light up! It lasted about eleven minutes, then stopped. I heard a soft, creepy song in the distance. We watched dancing and flying fai... Read more
‘I was in the woods along the *** highway, between *** Canyon and *** peak. Maybe a half mile from the hairpin turning road. I’d sat a long time, so long that animals had returned to their acti... Read more
‘My experience occurred the very first time I took magic mushrooms. I noticed these small two-dimensional creatures walking in procession in the grain of wood on a chest of drawers. There was one... Read more
‘We believe a Thorn Warrior showed himself to us one evening near sundown in July 2011. My son had his Learner’s Driver License and he had driven up *** Mountain and down through our neighborho... Read more
‘I wrote about it on my blog: About a fortnight later, I returned with a friend, who is a medium – but that’s another incident.’ ‘Tall, thin, silver-white bob hairstyle, long yellow patte... Read more
‘I was moving out of my parent’s house where I had lived my entire life. I was sitting in my bedroom on my laptop and I suddenly turned my head to the right and there was this being. It looked ... Read more
‘For years everyone has either been at school or work. The house is completely empty during the day. So they must have gotten used to there being no one in the house at two o’clock in the after... Read more
‘When I was a child I got a strong sense that there were creatures living in our garden other than the usual birds and insects. When I played outside during twilight or as it was getting dark, I ... Read more
‘It was during a period when I was gardening all the time. I was completely enchanted by my garden. Looking out into my patio, I was standing in the lounge when a small bright light started float... Read more
‘I believe I was about eight years old. For some unknown reason myself and my sister (who is approximately four years older than me) were sleeping in our parents’ bed (our parents were not in t... Read more
‘I was probably around five or six years old. I lived in a very haunted/active home – spirits. Some were negative and bullying. A habit of mine was to get up at night to go into my kitchen to s... Read more
‘One lovely warm afternoon and [I] had just rolled down my van driver’s side window to get the mail. Leaving the window open, I continued to drive up the driveway. I looked out into the woods, ... Read more
‘I was in a clearing on a mountain, on a full moon in autumn. Friends were in a truck not far away listening to music, and I was dancing and spinning a stick in the moonlight. After a while, I no... Read more
‘Within the week previous to seeing a fairy, I had taken part in a ouija board which was not shut down properly. Afterwards I was told by my friends that something appeared on the wall behind me ... Read more
‘My friend and I were playing with little bits of stones and coloured beads, pretending we were making a meal for fairies and we saw one watching us. I remember we whispered ‘shh’ so as not t... Read more
‘A friend and I were wandering through some woods with which we were reasonably familiar. I sensed the presence of something faerie, and we felt as if we had been ‘pixie-led’ (wandering about... Read more
‘It was close to Christmas and my mother was pregnant with what would be my sister. She was around six months along and she was not in the best mood, because she was afraid that there would be an... Read more
‘I was lying in bed with the light off watching TV. I had shelves above my bed. I saw movement out the corner of my eye. I see vaguely this time pixie-like shape moving around on my shelf. I just... Read more
‘I was five years old. My first five years had been pretty rough. I was born into an unwed mother’s home, then put into an orphanage, then into different foster homes. When I was five months ol... Read more
‘I was walking through the woods at dusk with my father when I heard a sort of crunching, static sound like a more aggressive, corrupted form of the fairy bells of old and a sound that I had hear... Read more
‘Three-foot-tall black creature in the road looked like an ape with huge black bubble eyes.’ ‘I heard it running away.’ ‘Others in my state, Florida, have been reported.’ ‘I think it ... Read more
‘Fairy was on roof of house.’ ‘Filled out [the census] for nine-year-old daughter who saw it on roof of sister-in-law’s house during birthday party for her cousin.’
... Read more‘There was a clearing, which was odd because pine forest and all, that we kids all knew as ‘haunted’ in the way kids often know these things. One day, we decided to brave the clearing. It was... Read more
‘I was driving home from a business trip. I live in a very rural part of North Yorkshire. I was driving over moorland when my car stalled and stopped. Everything cut out. In the distance I could ... Read more
‘I am a past life regression therapist and I regressed someone who remembered having been an Elemental. (This surprised both of us.) Subsequently, I regressed someone else, to find out whether th... Read more
‘Y and I were walking from *** Ridge down to the lake. When we got to the stairs, there seemed to be a silver powder substance all over the stairs. I put some on my nose and reached over and out ... Read more
‘It was a few seconds. I heard a high-pitched scream, and there was a fairy right there. Then she disappeared.’ ‘Her hands were covered in dust. She had an Indian dress on her, which was cove... Read more
‘It was both auditory and visual. It was a nice summer’s day. I was in my backyard playing guitar when I heard giggling from a tree branch. I looked up in time to see a sparkle fall from the tr... Read more
‘We had not been long in Australia. I was walking with my father and we saw the fairies in the trees. They were smallish, very bright and you could see their forms within the lights. They seemed ... Read more
‘Was digging up a garden bed and had a visit from the wee folk riding on a bee. At first I shooed the bee away but then it hovered six inches away from my face and I heard a little voice. I could... Read more
‘I have a friend who does photography. She took pictures of a flower and water and put them together to look as though the flower was growing out of the water. She emailed me the picture. I didnâ... Read more
‘I was a boy at a boarding school. There was a school outing but because I experienced motion sickness I didn’t have to participate. We used to build dens or camps and I had visited the one our... Read more
‘I’d moved into my parents’ house shortly after they had both deceased and one night, I’m thinking somewhere between 2 and 3 AM. I awoke suddenly and then decided maybe I had better check t... Read more
‘Walking home in woodland after building den with friends. [I] was nine at the time. Came around a tree and saw two small creatures two-feet high sitting on a stump. Appeared to be carrying small... Read more
‘It was about mid-October. I was a front-seat passenger in a car driven by a friend on a country lane in Cornwall. We were climbing a hill on a bendy road. My attention was drawn to the side of t... Read more
‘Looking out my window and saw these flying things and videoed them and zoomed in and saw that they had wings. Prior to this took picture of a statue I have and when got picture back the fairy st... Read more
‘I was in my brother’s bedroom and my mum had briefly left the room. The little man came up from the floor. He was angry and I wanted him to go away. He looked old and wizened.’ ‘Like a gno... Read more
‘When I was six years old I was playing in the empty lot next to my house and suddenly, I was in a forest. The fairies were tall and they fed me a drink and cakes that were very sweet and seemed ... Read more
‘It was my fifteenth birthday, March 20th 2006. I was walking along a hiking trail with three friends, two girls and a boy my age. It was about five o’clock or a little later. The weather was g... Read more
‘I have had many [experiences]. However, I will share the experience my son and I shared knowingly for the first time. He was born with second sight and could see them in full which I didn’t kn... Read more
‘Spheres/balls of light flying into the haunted forest – approximately a hundred or more gathered at our location. We watched for several hours and finally left the area as it was getting very ... Read more
‘I was sitting with my ex-husband who said he doubted the existence of anything. I told him to open his mind to the experience and suddenly a ball of light appeared outside the apartment window. ... Read more
‘There was an elf or a pixey in our wardrobe. We could hear noises and heard him laugh. We were a little bit scared.’ ‘We felt it was a fairy.’ ‘[Fairies are] friendly and sometimes misch... Read more
‘Heard a ‘thank you’ and saw a gold streak fly past my face.’ ‘Gold colour’. Why a fairy? ‘Size and speed’.
... Read more‘On a dead-end city street/alley that was wide open, and not between buildings, near a defunct train rail.’ ‘Small, somewhere around the size of a hummingbird or a parakeet. It glowed with a ... Read more
‘[I] live in the Colorado wilderness. [I] was sitting around an outdoor fire pit in the ground. [I] was singing to the Universe. Something white started glowing coming toward me. I held out my le... Read more
‘I [Croatian national] was watering my plants on my balcony, and when I turned… by my right side, at the height between my elbow and shoulder I saw something that looked like a weird shimmering... Read more
‘I was just leaving Glastonbury on a lovely summer day we had had a lovely weekend at the Glastonbury symposium in the town hall. I turned onto the road and there in front of me was a creature. L... Read more
‘When I was about eleven, my best friend (let’s just call her Sarah) and I were obsessed with fairies and gnomes. We had these little gnome figurines that we would talk to constantly and we oft... Read more
‘This happened in 2011 in the summer several nights of one week. Not sure of the month now. We slept with the windows open and I had been having trouble going to sleep that week. I would often sl... Read more
‘Walking a tiny trail through some woods next to a river, I stopped to talk to small tree when I saw a VERY brilliant blue tiny light flying above my head. I stood still and watched it move to a ... Read more
‘I was twenty-seven-year-old, and it was shortly after I met my x-boyfriend ***. I remember it was a Friday evening, and I was excited that *** was coming to see me the following day. I ate dinne... Read more
‘I was walking down my driveway when I saw a cluster of yellowish golden-with-a-glow faeries swirling around at the end of my driveway. There were around five of them or perhaps seven. They had v... Read more
‘Was the most beautiful experience I’ve ever been a part of… I’m a photographer was out in nature for the day… Was in a partly shady waterfall area when all of a sudden they were in and a... Read more
‘It was pale, green-faced, hooded in black. Flat nose, narrow eyes.’ ‘A mischievous, dwarfish thing.’ ‘Actually I think that ‘fairies’ and ‘aliens’ are the same beings.’ ‘Fair... Read more
‘I was walking along a well-used path through woodland with a friend near *** in Scotland. It was winter. Bright sunshine but very cold. We both heard a noise – a high pitched squeak – and lo... Read more
‘This happened in ***, on March 10, 2019. I [American tourist] was staying at the *** Bed and Breakfast just outside the town/stone circle. My room overlooked a field and the back garden, and the... Read more
‘At the time I was, I think, around five to six years old, maybe a bit older. In my bedroom was a wooden play box which I was very afraid of. The reason for this was I would often hear voices com... Read more
‘I was putting my three-year old to bed and after I laid her down, right above her crib appeared a number of bright miniature red lights, flitting back and forth. I don’t think she remembers th... Read more
‘I parked up to make a call and have a cigarette. I saw two fairies sort of drifting around some fireweed. I watched them for what seemed like a couple of minutes before they flitted off. I saw t... Read more
‘Around 6.30 am in early November I was walking up the lane where I live on my way to the station (I work in a bank in London and am quite a down-to-earth person). There is a clump of woodland on... Read more
‘Due to my grandfather’s training which he passed on to me, I [US citizen] am always in a near-meditative state. This may have an impact on why I’m rarely completely in this world. I had wand... Read more
‘My first experience happened at about 3 am after watching a movie I had turned off the TV and DVD player and was sitting in the dark. I noticed a light behind the curtain on the window. I watche... Read more
‘For a few days I had been clearing vines from the far back of my yard right where the woods begin. There’s a clear view of that area from my kitchen window where I was standing before I was go... Read more
‘I was staying at my brother’s place in suburban western Sydney. At the time there was a vacant block next door to his place, which was mainly grass but with a small rather stunted tree in one ... Read more
‘Walking home from primary school – aged about eight to nine – along a fairly secluded thin lane with trees up either side. Near the entrance was a clearing – before the concreted path star... Read more
‘I awoke in the early hours to see a small woman in a very short cloth dress (above her knees) sitting cross legged on my TV table. She had very long thick very wavy hair and was slowly switching... Read more
‘It was a late Summer’s day in 2007, we had been walking the dog back through *** at Chilworth, we were in a clearing, when I spotted what looked like a tree rushing across fields towards us, a... Read more
‘I did a ritual to receive my fairy name. ‘I am faery and faery bound. A name for me will soon be found. And by this name the Lady knows that I am hers where e’er she goes. So magick name now... Read more
‘I woke up one spring morning to a sense of presence in my bedroom. The room was filled with a pink glow that I believe had to do with dewy pink flowers that had just bloomed in a tree outside th... Read more
‘I had been playing with a younger brother in our backyard, in the summer twilight. It had been a botanist’s house, and he had installed many rare and unusual specimens that frequently grew out... Read more
‘The first time I saw a faerie I was four years old. Our whole backyard was a wooded hillside and right in the middle of the woods, not too far in, there was a little clearing with some may flowe... Read more
‘I caught a skink [lizard] inside my home and was in the process of releasing it outside. I had it trapped in a glass jar and took a picture of it before I released it. After I snapped the pictur... Read more
‘I was going down the stairs to eat on my own for breakfast: Mummy and Daddy were upstairs. I had gone into the kitchen to get something to eat, but I ate on the stairs. I ate on the stairs becau... Read more
‘I was walking on my own across the Mendip hills near the village of *** in Somerset. The public footpath took me through an open field on a slight incline, I was walking towards a small copse on... Read more
‘Certainly, the first happened before I can remember it at about two to three years old when my Mum was sitting with me in bed. Here’s what I put on a forum about it previously plus my Mum’s ... Read more
‘Camping with a friend. It may have been around 10 o’clock pm we were sitting around a fire and we heard walking in the woods. We used our flashlights and saw nothing. Going back to camp my fri... Read more
‘I was four years old and my granddad was very interested in gardening at the time. I was helping my granddad with his gardening around a small pond that he had in his garden and we were pushing ... Read more
‘At an old cellar of a long-gone cabin, I became aware of the presence of many spirits, some living in the area and some passing through in their travels. I did not converse with or see them, but... Read more
‘Friends and I were walking along the cliff trails on a full moon night when we noticed something large and grey crouched on the trail side. It looked like a spider human hybrid with humanoid bod... Read more
‘I was fishing at midnight on *** Lake. There was a full moon. At first I thought I was looking at fire flies, but they were not. Afterwards, I started to see them every night in the evening. The... Read more
‘I was playing in the yard when I saw a child with amazing beauty come out of the wood line and she asked if she could play with me. We played for a while, and I noticed a shimmer of what looked ... Read more
‘I was sleeping in my bed and began to drift into awakeness. With my eyes still closed I felt air hitting my face. There was a pulse to the air like wings. The air would lift up a little then go ... Read more
‘I was walking through the Vermont woods near my house. The woods stretch far. They are preserved and have many trails. I had seen other fairies and spirits before in these woods. I was walking n... Read more
‘I was around the age of ten or eleven. I was exploring the wood behind my childhood house. While walking through I came across this area of trees that felt different from the rest of the woods. ... Read more
‘Most of the times I went out to film (to look for UAPs [unidentified anomalous phenomena]) was between 9.30 pm and 11.30 pm, which is when I would see the most UAP activity. While filming, I som... Read more
‘I had some friends over for pizza, I was restless and decided to wash my windows while the pizza was cooking. It’s only a one bedroom apartment ground floor so I only have three windows. I sta... Read more
‘We [Canadian tourists] were visiting Ireland with a new friend, one who practices fairy magic. We had found an ancient ring of stones said to have fairy activity. My husband waited in the car. A... Read more
‘I was walking with an elder sister, going to my brother’s house who lived about two kilometres from our home on a country road. It was around 7:00 PM, the sun had set and was dusky, but not da... Read more
‘I was about seven years old (1953). I had been sharing a bedroom with my elder brother, who was about eighteen at the time, but he left to join the army. So, I was left on my own in the room. I ... Read more
‘Friends were celebrating their engagement at *** Castle, which is a DIY castle made by one guy over many years. Impressive and weird. I was camping behind the castle along with other guests. My ... Read more
My husband and I were having a hike in the area, near Morvah. We had parked the car and walked to the Men-an-Tol, then down to the Men Scryfa which is a standing stone dating from the early medieva... Read more
‘I walked through my bedroom door (which was up against the left wall that ran about three feet and then there was a bay window facing out onto the street at the front of the house) I saw a littl... Read more
‘When I was ten years old, I stayed at a friend’s house. My friend had to leave the room for a moment, so I amused myself by looking out the window. In one of the neighbouring backyards, I saw ... Read more
‘I was on holiday with my husband in Maui, Hawaii in September 2014 and we were doing a morning walk along the boardwalk in Ka’anapali from our ocean front resort, and as we were walking along ... Read more
‘This is the story of the last time that I saw ‘my’ ice fairy. I don’t remember when was the first time, I was so young. She is a girl with a frost jumpsuit, her hair was white, short, it i... Read more
‘I moved to a new studio in February 2014. It was in the same mill building as my previous studio but the room was much bigger and had a fantastic view. The view of the woods was beautiful, I oft... Read more
‘Small points of light resembling campfire sparks appeared and began to ‘dance’ before our eyes. First slow, then faster. One darted from one end of the room to the other and appeared to ‘j... Read more
‘For too many reasons to go into here, my daughter and I had realized in 2000 that we have a house fairy living with us, so this incident from about two years ago is far from the first occurrence... Read more
‘It was sunset, and the sun was coming down. The sunset was spectacular. I was up the farm ‘doing the jobs’ (feeding the birds, checking the enclosures, driving birds in and shutting them up ... Read more
‘It seems so silly now but I remember it vividly. I was eating cocoa puffs watching Saturday cartoons and saw a girl, she was shiny and white, almost like a pearl, in my room and she had flowers.... Read more
‘For a moment, I caught a glimpse of a tiny woman with long black hair dressed in leaves. She saw me looking at her, and vanished.’ ‘She had long black hair, tanned skin, a tunic of dried lea... Read more
‘Just a feeling as I sat on a cliff path that nature spirits were near, photo attached.’ ‘Ethereal, part of the grasses.’ ‘It was a feeling and the photo shows typical fairy forms.’ ‘... Read more
‘I have had a few fairy experiences. The first when I was nine years old. I walked home from school, alone, and when I arrived to my house, I saw some little lights in the grass. I walked to them... Read more
‘I woke up at 2:30 in the morning standing on the steps of my deck, with no recollection of getting there. The door closest to get into the house was locked. I looked out into the yard before tur... Read more
‘I’ve had many sightings, but this is the most recent and the most memorable. I have a picture of the nature faery my nieces and I encountered on a walk. We were taking photos to go home and lo... Read more
‘Soon after my wife and I moved into our new house we began to notice strange things happening. Objects would go missing when they shouldn’t. One time I had bought a large pack of AA batteries ... Read more
‘This happened when I was seven or eight years old. It took me a while to remember this memory, but when it did all of my strange feelings and uneasiness about faeries suddenly made sense. I was ... Read more
‘I volunteered to invoke a member of the Fairy Court and facilitate one of several stations on a ‘Quest’ during a gathering of my tradition. The quest took place on a trail through the wood, ... Read more
‘I was looking through flowers in a field to draw a still life for as an art project, when I [saw] several small beings emerging from the plants. They were tiny in size but large enough that I wa... Read more
‘Walking under some beech trees, early morning. My friend and I initially both noticed an amorphous greyish shape on the ground about a hundred metres ahead. We thought it may have been a large d... Read more
‘I have always had a fascination with fairies and always longed to see one but never had. I have also always been a very heavy dreamer (at night), and though when I was a child I could lucid drea... Read more
‘Woke up sometime after midnight two nights in a row. I sat up both nights, saw two men about three feet high at the foot of my bed, wearing green and yellow clothing, green overalls I think, wit... Read more
‘In my peripheral vision, I saw this beautiful, adorable, pink orb. It looked like it was fluttering in place, as if it had large butterfly wings. I looked directly at it, and it disappeared. I q... Read more
‘It was really short, but I knew it had to be a fairy of some kind. I was in my sitting room, watching TV actually. I was not thinking about fairies or magical things at all, just watching someth... Read more
‘When I was little I lived in an old neighborhood in ***, Kentucky. My mother grew roses and hollyhocks in the back yard by an alley. I would sit in the grass and play with the fairies. They were... Read more
‘About 2 AM around late August, I encountered something. I was just lying down to finally go to sleep. At the foot of my bed there’s a big dresser. Not easily moved. On said dresser is my witch... Read more
‘I was outside my house standing near our huge tree waiting for my ride. I turned around and saw a pointed face creature with dark skin tones. He sat there and watched me for at least a minute or... Read more
‘October 13 2020 6.55 AM I was cycling to work out of the village where I live on the cyclepath which is next to a field on one side and with a grass verge beside the road on the other. The path ... Read more
‘Small flying green things.’
... Read more‘Found out there is a rip in the veil near the stream in my backyard. Had a conversation with a water Fae who was collecting light.’ ‘Fluid light energy, in a almost human like shape with a p... Read more
‘I’d been walking along a track at the side of a river through a wood in an area rich in fairy folklore. I’d gone there to take photos of the area as part of my own research into fairy lore. ... Read more
‘Earlier in the year when I was visiting a hospice gardens, in Devon, just wishing to soak up the memory of my beloved late partner, I was sitting on the bench in the Scented Garden all alone whe... Read more
‘I loved trees as a child and had become curious about the holes I often saw in the bark of the tree where it meets the earth. I was taking a walk with my father and was looking at one of these h... Read more
‘I was sleeping in bed next to my sister when all the sudden I was awoken. Flying above me was a little fairy girl in a green dress with brown hair. I remember feeling like I couldn’t move or s... Read more
‘I, at the time, worked as a sawer for *** crew fighting wildfires in the Alaskan interior forests. As we were cutting line around the fire it began to rain a bit and for the most part the fire w... Read more
‘I live in a house in a small valley in a relatively rural area of Connecticut. Before my family bought this house we had been renting for a bit, during this period in the spring or summer, my yo... Read more
‘My boyfriend and I met while solo traveling [as tourists in] Central America. After meeting we decided to do the last country together and went to Costa Rica. We were leaving to go back home two... Read more
‘There was a period of time where I would hear the soft jingle of a bell and the pattering of tiny feet in my room, even when no pets were present. None of my pets wore bells on their collars nor... Read more
‘My daughter, who at the time was around seven (she is now nineteen) loved water. I had the sprinkler on out in the back yard, and she stripped herself off and danced and squealed with joy under ... Read more
‘I was between seven to nine years old, and I was lying in bed. I had trouble sleeping as a child so while I was fully awake, I was tired. There was a streetlight right outside my bedroom window ... Read more
‘It happened in the early morning after having stayed up all night. (Some critics might say this caused an hallucination, I, on the other hand, think those times increase sensitivity). My friends... Read more
‘I was around twenty years old in 1991-1992. I knew someone who was a practitioner of Ceremonial Magick. The person told me that the Fey realm was real and I had my doubts. When we went to *** in... Read more
I was walking back across the field with my mum and dog when we saw what we believe was a fairy. What we saw was had a smallish body with a head and hair. It had see-through wings bigger than a but... Read more
‘I was trying to contact the Vila, just in passing, sitting outside in the shade in the garden. Flash of light, in the mind, and I saw far away, a figure sitting on a stone wall. I inquired about... Read more
‘I was severely distressed, suffering from anxiety and nightmares. I could not sleep. I had fallen asleep and woke up. I was half awake. I heard music coming from a hill and there was the sound o... Read more
‘My hometown is mostly urban but still features a few nature spots, including a creek and small patches of forest in some areas. One day, my dad had picked me up from tutoring in middle school, a... Read more
‘I was on a camping trip with two friends. It was late at night and there were white fog type lights floating around us, there were no lights around us and no smoke so it was weird for this to be... Read more
‘I was sitting underneath the willow tree in the back garden and felt an electrical tingle. Turning to look over my shoulder I saw five small figures, very human like but much smaller: despite my... Read more
‘My husband was driving us through *** State Park, it was a weekday afternoon (on our honeymoon) and we were the only people on the road, driving through thick forest. There was an electrical-typ... Read more
‘I slept in cot in my mother and father’s bedroom when I was a small child. I used to see the Green Man in the opposite corner of the room, he stood between the wall and my mother and father’... Read more
‘When I was about four and a half years to about five years old, I was visited by a strange being in the middle of the night. I remember one night, I was playing with the shadows on my walls whil... Read more
‘I was driving to a friend’s house one evening before dark (before dark is important) and I saw lights on the side of the road. I’m driving near somewhere that doesn’t have electricity as o... Read more
‘I recall preparing for bed and my closet door (a wooden sliding door) was open. I saw several elves or fairies materialize from swirling-colored points of light. I recall them being one to two f... Read more
‘Me and my best friend at age eight were in the countryside for a family barbecue in the fall. Me and her decided to go play in the large woods that evening (just as the sun was starting to set) ... Read more
‘I was joking [! hiking?] through some woods when I saw movement about twenty yards from the trail I was following. I left the trail to get a better look, and came upon a slender, too pale being ... Read more
‘I was trimming a bush at the top of my garden, my young friend was in her garden where she was tending some plants. We both saw a small flash this was on my right and on my friend’s left. I pu... Read more
‘I saw a large, what I believed to be an insect, flying object in my shaded garden so I began to ‘stalk’ it with varying degrees of success. It seemed to be about five or six inches in length... Read more
‘I saw something when I was fourteen, but I was never sure what it was or how to classify it, but nevertheless here is the story you can have. It was about the year 1984. I was fourteen and my be... Read more
‘I was, if I remember correctly, alone with my younger brother in our flat, it was evening, he called me because he saw ‘Tinkerbell’ dancing on a flower-pot stand located on a wall near the c... Read more
‘Full Moonlight, Samhain Eve, little gobliny type men running in and out of bushes, giggling, tumbling and scurrying around garden. House by side of burren, yew lined at side, orchard at end.’ ... Read more
‘As a child I always played in the nearby woods alone. On this one occasion which I remember to this day I suddenly entered a part of the woods which I had never seen before. There before [me?] w... Read more
‘I’m not sure this was a fairy but after reading your article in Fortean Times, I noticed similarities. Can I stress that I have good dream memory/recall and do not actively or intentionally as... Read more
‘I was at a festival with my husband. A ‘fairy festival’ incidentally, *** in Oregon. We had just arrived and were out on a hillside surrounded by woods at a venue called *** Hideout, and the... Read more
‘I heard a voice coming from a tree in my backyard. At first the voice was not clear, so I asked it to repeat what it said. Then I heard clearly. ‘Hello down there!’ ‘Are you a fairy?’ I ... Read more
‘It was a tiny man about eighteen inches tall. He was wearing a brown suit and hat and had a round face [and was] smiling. It was near an ancient meadow.’ ‘I also see ghosts and UFOs so I gue... Read more
‘I think I very briefly experienced the Fairyworld, but not Fairies.’
... Read more‘One night I was in bed sleeping. In the middle of my sleep maybe one to three in the morning, I began to hear music playing. Not like radio music or anything electronic. But live music. At first... Read more
‘I was perhaps three or four years old at the time. My father and I were attending a pool party. While we were there, he hung around with his friends while I played with the one other child who w... Read more
‘Three friends in the woods late one night we all heard this funny music, the other two tried to dismiss it as some people playing fiddles or whatever it was in the woods at night! I am a musicia... Read more
‘When I was in college twenty years ago my suitemates used to talk about going on ‘adventure walks.’ The idea was you leave the house with nothing but a quarter and just start walking. You go... Read more
‘On falling asleep in bed, I heard the sound of glass bottles clinking beside me, before finding myself in the bathroom looking at my reflection in the mirror morph into the face of a young man. ... Read more
‘My bedroom window was open. I rested on my bed when suddenly about five fairies flew in my bedroom window and started playing and frolicking on my replica Victorian dark wooden miniature furnitu... Read more
‘It was just a swoosh of light that lasted an instant.’ ‘It was fairy-like energy. It didn’t inspire angel presence, it inspired fairy presence.’ ‘[Fairies are] nature beings of light.â... Read more
‘I distinctly remember this happening to me during January at 2:06 am when I was fifteen. I was lying in bed with the blinds closed and my bedroom door closed and locked. I had been asleep, but s... Read more
‘Hadn’the [hadn’t?] gone to sleep yet in my in-law’s house, though my husband was asleep beside me. The shades were pulled down, and the room was completely dark. A small ball of light sudd... Read more
‘While checking out broken down building in ghost town, had grandkids go into building to get picture and take pictures, upon reviewing pictures later, from one picture to the next only a couple ... Read more
‘I was home in bed with the measles. The bed had rails, so I was three to four years old. I likely had a high fever, because I recall the doctor doing a house call. A small fairy with wings came ... Read more
‘I was with my friend hiking through the woods after dark. We were taking psychoactive drugs I’ll admit, but I know the difference between a hallucination and what’s real. We were out late at... Read more
‘I was down by the creek in the bushland on the acreage we lived on. I was skipping stones on the creek when the stone I had just tossed stopped and floated in place in the middle of the creek. A... Read more
‘I live in an area with many foxes. One [I] saw in the summer of 2020. I was going for a walk because isolation had me stirring up and I needed the fresh air. I live in the woods, in a small vall... Read more
‘It was a repeating experience. One which occurred to me as a young child recovering from polio. I was rather a lonely kid, both shy and fierce. I spent a lot of time alone. I sang a lot. I would... Read more
‘I saw it out of the corner of my eye as I walked through a school on my way home at about 6.15 in the morning. It was darkish but there was light from the security lights in the school and from ... Read more
‘As a young teenager I was sat in bed one evening reading Shakespeare’s The Tempest. I was wide awake. I would usually read for hours before going to sleep. There is a legend about The Tempest,... Read more
‘My youngest son aged, approximately twenty at the time of my first encounter, was home from university for the holidays. He had a camp bed (cot bed) in my bedroom as the spare rooms were not fun... Read more
‘It happened the first time in either summer or autumn 2012. I was asleep in bed and home alone. Normally I live with my mom, but she was out of state. It was so strange. I woke from a dead sleep... Read more
‘Simulacrum in the hedge. This is how I always see them. You have to be in the right vibe to see.’ ‘Bit like a large gruffalo but no teeth’. Experience in ‘my garden, yes I talk to them.â... Read more
‘My sister and I accidentally ended up on a fairy road when walking on paths in the public park. I was nineteen at the time and she was thirteen. We were accompanied by her dog. After about fifte... Read more
‘My brother and I were sitting in the living room. The dog started growling and was staring at three [the?] kitchen door. We went into the kitchen to see what he was upset about and saw a figure ... Read more
‘I was about five years old and feverish. In bed I looked over at a bookshelf (??) and vividly saw little people dancing around a fire. I was TERRIFIED. I remember it to this day (fifty years of ... Read more
‘This happened in a small city in central NJ. We had left the center of town and were walking up an avenue (picture the suburbs – front yards and streetlamps) at around 10.30-11 pm. We were bot... Read more
‘I was driving back home from a long trip. I stopped to take picture of some birds around a lake of water. I noticed a ‘swarm’ of what I thought were insects heading my way. They got close to... Read more
‘When I was a little child, I was playing in the garden, when I saw this little tiny thing. I thought it was a butterfly, but it was white, with jagged wings. I took it and I pinched it, I think ... Read more
‘I had been walking in the woods and suddenly I felt like I was being watched, and sensed someone moving between the trees off to the side of the path. I saw the fairy out of the corner of my eye... Read more
‘In my grandmother’s garden I saw a figure materialize in an almost heatwave like fashion. This was inside of a hedge, I cannot remember what the scientific name of the plant is but we called i... Read more
‘Flying fairies. One landed on my hand.’ Fairies are ‘small people’.
... Read more‘It was on a track near ***, to *** mountain, the walk with a friend stopped under woodland path blocked with a pool, a fairy ring stood next to it! The area was quiet. No birdsong and had a long... Read more
‘I had been living in *** for some time when I decided to move back to Adelaide. A friend suggested we stop by the *** where a guy named M** lived who had an incredible garden in amongst the rain... Read more
‘I was lying in bed, not quite asleep, when I seen a pale blue shimmer fly from the corner of the room, and out the open bedroom door.’ ‘I’ve seen ghosts, and angels, this was a fairy for s... Read more
‘I was trying to make contact with one of the house fairies, so I tried out this meditation. At first nothing happened because I got distracted, but at some point I wandered off into a deep tranc... Read more
‘We (my family and I) were on a fairy house trail on *** Island, Maine. The trail and the ‘fairy lore’ seemed fake and was all man made, but it was still very cool and very pretty. As we were... Read more
‘I was sitting on the open back of a flat bed trailer, in a field. There were a number of other people in the field, but they were busy elsewhere. I was relaxing, just gazing across the fence int... Read more
‘I saw a movement out of the corner of my eye that kept moving. I turned to look, thinking it was some sort of bug. As I was focusing, I realized I was looking at a human-like shape, hovering wit... Read more
‘A leg cramp had triggered a bad fibromyalgia flare. I went inside to lie down. In mere seconds, not finished settling down, I felt a long-fingered hand hold my hand. A pair of similar long-finge... Read more
‘Light blue fairy with crystal wings that landed on my blanket. She had a dress that looked like it was literally water.’ ‘Happy and she had a blue theme going on’. ‘A melodious sound res... Read more
‘Fairy music that no one else could hear. It sounded distant, yet ever since, every now and again I get an unbelievable urge and longing to go with them, even if I don’t hear the music, it gets... Read more
‘It is one of the childhood memories that I share with my sister who was a little younger than me. We both woke up for some reason, right now I believe we just woke up together. I am not sure abo... Read more
‘Myself and my then girlfriend 2004 were having sex deep in a forest where we found a glade where we both saw at first two lights followed by another six as we were both occultists we stopped and... Read more
‘For a couple of years now, I have had several (up to six) fairy rings in my front yard. One day on a whim, I entered the circle with my autistic son and we danced in the ring. That night when I ... Read more
‘I was sitting at a picnic table minding the kids who were playing. It was a nice, sunny afternoon. I was relaxed and my mind was wandering. I looked up and saw what I knew to be an elf lying alo... Read more
‘We were walking in Wicklow. We saw a pixie dancing across the top of a field of gorse. It was skipping along the top of thick gorse. It was wearing traditional pixie dress including a pointed ha... Read more
‘First of all, I’ve have many experiences and some were shared since childhood. The one I’m talking about is a particularly clear one. I asked my guides/angels to meet them and as I was medit... Read more
‘It was a summer’s day in 2016, I was sat in my garden relaxing (I should add I’d been through a traumatic experience a few years before and feel like it adjusted my ‘ariels’ as it were).... Read more
‘It was a very brief encounter late one evening. My partner and I had been watching television, and had since switched the TV off and [we] were talking for some time. At one point I glanced towar... Read more
‘I live in New York City, but in October of 1996 was visiting my mother and extended family, who then lived in ***. It was the middle of October and my mother, my aunt and I had taken a drive out... Read more
‘Meeting with a Tree Spirit? One morning, I walked to the corner of my road where there is a green space; an old orchard with oak trees, rowans and hawthorns alongside the cider apple trees. Ever... Read more
‘It was the night of Halloween, and I was alone on the farm property where I lived. I visited a willow tree that was a favourite place to spend time, and the area was well lit by stars etc, even ... Read more
‘Scary, but mesmerising. When at the time people did not believe you.’ ‘A blur of whiteness.’ ‘Could have been a ghost.’
... Read more‘I went out to my back deck and noticed a glowing red light in my garden (the light would get brighter, then dim, then get brighter again). The light was next to a large cedar hedge that was next... Read more
‘I was sitting under a tree in the garden when a fairy came walking around my feet. She was hurt, clutching her shoulder, face grimaced in pain. I looked in the direction she was looking and saw ... Read more
‘I was on a rock in the river reading while my husband fished on up river. I was across from a park, people walking with kids and dogs. There were two young boys walking on the trail with their d... Read more
‘We called on the faeries and they started to light up. We have a photo of one of them.’ ‘Light and wings’ ‘They have a fairy trail, fairy village, offerings.’ ‘I believe in them but ... Read more
‘As a child I often stayed the night on the weekends at my Nan’s house and she would look after us kids after school until our parents finished work. I enjoyed spending time with her, watching ... Read more
‘While minding my own business, I saw a bright yellow thing zip/streak across our garden at an abnormal speed about two metres off the ground… It was going so fast that it left a laser-like mot... Read more
‘I was about five years old. My mum kept the clothes-horse behind my bed as I used to play ‘tents’ with it. I woke up in the middle of the night (I always slept with a light on) and sitting a... Read more
‘In an earlier experience when I was four or five this might have been a faery, at least I was sure then it was a fairy. A light flit across my completely dark bedroom, skirting the wall and out ... Read more
‘Lying on the floor watching Saturday Night Live, I briefly dozed a little and awoke. I notice the fish swimming around in my aquarium which was next to me. I also was aware that several small be... Read more
We were walking along and noticed that it had gotten very, very quiet, looked around and noticed several small ugly humanoid persons about ten- to twelve-inches tall climbing all over a maple tree ... Read more
‘My husband and son were going to river-raft on the *** River. They helped me find a pleasant spot to wait for them (probably the *** Forest). They left me with food, water, a blanket and a pillo... Read more
‘I have a pair of tweezers that go missing a lot. I keep them in the top drawer of my dresser, which is pretty messy, so I can usually find them with a bit of rummaging, but this time was differe... Read more
‘Inside my home has been seen by me and my husband who now believes and my daughter has seen him also and outside my home. About two-three-inches tall from head to feet in all green or brown clot... Read more
‘I was in the woods behind my house, wandering by the brook, when I stopped to crouch down by the water. It was a sunny fall day, but shady under the trees, with dappled sunlight filtering down. ... Read more
‘It was close to midnight, likely during a weeknight. I and a friend were waiting for the last bus from Maynooth to Celbridge. My friend has no recollection of what I will now detail. My mother, ... Read more
‘I was inside a Neolithic tomb and saw a number of beings crowding around our group. They had large, black slanted eyes except for one who was bearded and seemed to be in charge. He was screaming... Read more
‘I was walking with my friend on a path in *** Gardens. I saw a small person/elf in a green elf outfit with a pointy hat walking along the trees on the hillside. Perhaps it was someone dressed as... Read more
‘It was Autumn in 2016. My family was attending a reunion at the *** Center in ***, Washington. This is a yoga retreat and a place people come to commune with nature and give homage to the fairie... Read more
‘I was going to college and headed out the door to my car which was parked across the street. I was not thinking of anything in particular aside from going to class. To cross the road, I looked l... Read more
‘It was the Summer Solstice 2004, and I was excited to bring offerings to the Drombeg Stone Circle. I brought butter, honey, Jamesons. And I included a stainless steel knife to serve the butter. ... Read more
‘My friend had sent me a picture of herself hoping I could connect with one of several spirits she had been seeing in her home. While I was trying to connect I was taken aback by seeing a fairy. ... Read more
‘I was hiking up some foothills of Mount *** alone. I was heading straight to the main mountain. It was between eleven and midnight. It was dark, but the moon was full, so I didn’t use a light ... Read more
‘We were walking through the woods at night, there were four of us, all who saw the same thing as me, and we were returning to the youth hostel we had hired for the weekend. About ten feet away f... Read more
‘I was riding my bike home from a friend’s house, sometime after 11 pm, in the summer of 1977. (I was almost nineteen years old.) The road I was on ran parallel to some railroad tracks; I rode ... Read more
‘I was lying in my parents’ bed in between them when I saw lots of tiny fairies dancing on the window (we had the old sash windows then and they danced on the middle part). My parents didn’t ... Read more
‘Walking through the woods I was lured to a tree that was toppled over into another one. The sunlight was hitting the tree at the most perfect spot. I had to see the tree in person! I walked over... Read more
‘I was visiting ***, an iron age hill fort in Hampshire as I needed some yew trees to photograph for a commission. I had my best friend with me as she had the camera. We had never been there befo... Read more
‘I remember lying in bed in a dark bedroom. The bed faced the window, where the curtains were drawn shut. A twinkly light flew from one side of the room to the other, across the window. I could s... Read more
‘Just let my dog out, standing by the door. It came in the door from the left and hovered right next to my left ear for a second, then went out the way it came in and went right with extreme spee... Read more
‘I have seen them all my life. This looked like part tree but moved and danced round.’ ‘Looked bit like green man but with a body’. Sound ‘like bells ringing.’ Fairies are ‘earth ange... Read more
I drove into my front yard in the pouring rain. As I pulled up, wipers going, I saw an Elf/Pixie looking at me from behind the leaves of a bush. I turned the wipers off to get a better look and he ... Read more
‘I was with my sister when we saw an orange light floating above some woods about half a mile away. At first, I thought it was someone setting off fireworks, but it didn’t disappear like firewo... Read more
‘I woke up around 10:30 [pm] because I heard a noise, and I saw a small person lifting laundry out of the clothes pile near my bed. I thought from the size of the person that it was my son, who h... Read more
‘I had multiple experiences as a very young child (five years and less) and they all blend into one today. I would be in my bed at night, it would be late, very dark. And in the corner of my bedr... Read more
‘I was working on a missing heir case looking for a family on the Isle of Man. I was in a taxi driving from a farm back to my hotel in Castletown. The driver told me of the story of the Fairy Bri... Read more
‘It was a very intense dream. So real that I am counting this as an experience. Very detailed. The fairies (dressed in pretty dresses etc.) and I were getting off a boat on a lake, it was very st... Read more
‘I heard a sound like a bug in the room it was around my face I looked up I saw a little red dress fairy I swore at it. I was scared it happened two times. I have said sorry and left a gift of su... Read more
‘I communicate with faeries, but up till this point had never physically seen one. We were at *** Falls walk and stopped for lunch by the river with my husband and two kids. I was eating my sandw... Read more
‘I was a little baby in a crib. I was lying awake in my crib. The floor in my bedroom opened up and a bunch of little troll people came up from the ground under the floor. One of the trolls kept ... Read more
‘I was playing under the dogwood tree in my grandparents’ back garden, tossing marbles up into the branches and watching them fall and bounce on the moss around its roots. It was late afternoon... Read more
‘The experience occurred in summer of 2006. While taking an afternoon nap in our apartment in ***, Pennsylvania, I was awoken by the sound of a little girl giggling. I turned in bed towards the g... Read more
‘I wandered into the hills from the place we were staying. I came across a large clearing with an abandoned collapsed building. I heard laughing and singing and then what I thought was a young gi... Read more
‘The late afternoon sun highlighted a floating array of tiny (one to two inch) transparent shapes that moved in a slightly erratic but continuous line of flight (no discernible breeze), eight to ... Read more
‘***, Glasgow 1998. It was late afternoon in the city. After many weeks of intense work, I was completely relaxing in my third-floor tenement flat in Glasgow. From my lounge I could look out acro... Read more
‘I walked into the ditch by a corn field to take a picture of the sunset. It was still quite light and there was snow on the ground. I did not realize I was taking a video. I did not see the fair... Read more
‘I was walking home from work and always cut through this arboretum because I’ve always loved nature. It was fall. I documented the whole event in my psychic experiences journal the moment I go... Read more
‘My husband and I [American tourists] were on our honeymoon visiting Thomas Hardy country. It was the first two weeks of September 1971. On this day we were just driving around, saw a sign for **... Read more
‘I was driving with my dad and a friend along a country road, [when] a fully black figure with fluttering wings and a small figure [body? i.e. not two beings] flew in front of the front window. I... Read more
Was waiting for my friend to come back from lodge, was standing on bridge over water by parking lot. Thought it was her saying my name, but she didn’t come back for another five minutes. Distinct... Read more
‘In August 1958 (I was seven and a half years old) my family (from ***, Nebraska) visited my paternal grandmother in ***, California. I was sleeping on the couch in the living room by myself one ... Read more
‘I was physically, mentally, and emotionally abused child and frequently sent to my room the moment I got off the bus, while my siblings were allowed to go play with friends. I would often be in ... Read more
‘I was dreaming about drawing a comic and a character looked me in the eye and spoke to me. She disappeared and then two women were walking toward me, both very elongated of body, one very tall a... Read more
‘I lucid dream normally, my dreams that night were different – very hard to describe, but happy, fun and entertaining, not tiring or draining. I woke up and was watching the full moon, decided ... Read more
‘A friend and I were home one evening relaxing, my dog was out the front garden, it was late autumn, we had candles lit, listening to music, discussing spirituality/religion etc as was our passio... Read more
‘There was a ball of light. You could not see through it. It hovered in my doorway. Then zoomed out the window. It didn’t break the window, just zoomed through it.’ ‘There was a hum.’ Wha... Read more
‘When I was around eight I spent a lot of time with my pony kept at a local farm. A large tree stump was near the field gate and when alone I would spend long periods looking at the hollow inside... Read more
‘It was in my gran’s back garden I saw what I can only describe as a small fairy being flying into the bushes at the bottom of her garden that led into fields. I have never told anyone this for... Read more
‘There is a local shaman who had developed an interest in faeries and elementals. She offered a faerie workshop at her place, and I was the only person who showed up. After some rituals, we walke... Read more
‘9 November 2013, Brecon Beacons, Wales, UK. I was walking alone off a mountain where I had been walking all day, in sunny cold weather. At the foot of the mountain I saw a gnarled tree standing ... Read more
‘My sister and I were home alone, and dwarfs came through a light portal outside, then came into our house and told us not to be afraid and that they had come to babysit us for the day, and that ... Read more
‘I’d been walking in *** for the third time in three days and was using the name ‘Oberon’ as a mantra similar to a Buddhist monk might do. I then felt quite tired and propped myself up agai... Read more
‘It was a female approximate age around twenty. Very tall. Totally pink skin but with blonde hair and translucent shiny pink wings. She flew across the room slowly and gracefully about one foot o... Read more
‘I have taken photos of spirit orbs and Earth bound souls for over a year now. I am gifted to be able to cross souls to the light therefore my love and light are very strong and I attract a lot o... Read more
‘They’re enacting the winter solstice [in a prehistoric cavern]. I was in the cavern by the carved Bowles when I noticed blood dripping down my forearm. I was embarrassed and wiped it away and ... Read more
‘Irish Faeries: A True Story. First of all, let me just say that prior to my experience, I didn’t give the faerie lore much credence, relegating it to children’s bedtime stories: you know, â€... Read more
‘I was excited as we were going out for the day.’ ‘I was buckled into a seat in the back of my granddad’s car waiting for my sister to join us I watched a creature in the hedgerow at the si... Read more
‘A telepathic friend had a dream about the Brownies of Edinburgh wanting to meet me, near a ruin on a hill. I found out where this was from the description and went with my partner to walk up thi... Read more
‘For several years I had experienced the same dream. In the middle of the night, fast asleep in my bed, I would be rudely awoken by a furious wind raging over me. At times it was like a swarm of ... Read more
‘I was between the ages of six and ten years old. I was in bed trying to go to sleep. Lying on my left side, I looked at the crumpled blanket over my right hip. Sitting on top of it, studying me,... Read more
‘I was ten and was out walking our dogs with my mum. We walked the same route along country lanes and up to a very old bluebell wood. For some reason we took a different path through the woods an... Read more
‘Reclining, resting after family left, in an eight-hundred-year-old cottage. Closed eyes and saw three brownie looking beings with dark brown saucer eyes. Looked into their eyes and since I am al... Read more
‘Saw a small figure darting in/out of the flower pots in my backyard, at twilight. Got a sense of ‘not enough room’, creature was NOT happy, extremely sad.’ ‘I heard mourning sounds, as i... Read more
‘Human figures appeared in a field. They were dancing and playing music I was literally spellbound and my legs were moving on their own and my friend almost ran into them… Chilling.’ ‘I... Read more
‘I was nine years old and had taken my first airplane ride with my mother. We traveled to her friend’s hometown for a long visit. That evening we drove to her friend’s cottage on a small lake... Read more
‘I was asleep and was woken by thunder. We had wonderful storms then. I went out to the verandah to watch the lightning and in one of the flashes of lightning everything was lit up for a few seco... Read more
‘I would like to share a type of faerie sighting. This is called an in between dream. It began when I made a faerie ring in my patio. Once I placed the rocks in a circle, I noticed there was a pl... Read more
‘A dark ring of grass with fairies running from side to side playing or dancing’. ‘About an inch tall, a transparent white colour.’
... Read more‘I had just finished making a Frappuccino and was placing the whip cream canister back on the table, when a fairy knocked it off. It was blue, with four wings, and did not appear to have any clot... Read more
‘In the Midsummer evening, when I was like ten, a friend of mine and I were on an open field where a bonfire was getting ready for the night, when suddenly we saw some balls of light dancing arou... Read more
‘I had a dream that seemed to have lasted the whole night. In my dream, a male faerie who was almost humanoid, but not quite, had a little realm in an office building, or maybe a convention cente... Read more
‘I was napping on a bed in my grandparents’ finished basement after school. The basement had small windows but was mainly underground and thus lit with artificial light, which was on. I was loo... Read more
I thought there was a fly hovering and darting around me, it then flew in front of my face and I realised it was not a fly as it was silver, sparkling, had only four limbs and had a face resembling... Read more
‘I was taking a break from yard work and drinking water when I noticed something standing on the side of the driveway. It was black about one foot tall, a slender muscular body with wings on its ... Read more
‘I was bunking off from school and sitting in a field boarded by woods. I knew these fields like the back of my hand. I had a sketchpad and was busy drawing. Looking up into what should have been... Read more
What happened? ‘I’d rather not say’ Fairy was ‘not seen’. ‘A loud whisper was heard and also the sound of writing with a pencil.’ A fairy is a ‘magical being of spiritual nature’.... Read more
‘I was in at the bottom of our garden, it was quiet there, I was half way up an apple tree and a small winged person flew slowly by I can remember being thrilled about it and ran in to tell my pa... Read more
‘My fairy experiences. Firstly I’m not crazy! In fact I’m a bit of a skeptic. I have had two occasions in my life where I’ve rubbed my eyes in disbelief at what I have seen. In 1987 when I ... Read more
‘Not sure when it began as a child but I know it ended on my tenth birthday because I recall the disappointment and correlate that year. They came to me in my sleep, very often and the purpose wa... Read more
‘I was in my dark bedroom and watched a little silhouetted figure, maybe six-inches high, move across the hall floor, lit from the living-room. When I told my mother next day that I’d seen a fa... Read more
‘I was lying in bed looking at the sun rising from my bedroom window. When I saw a flash of red light darting amongst the plants and flowers outside. I grabbed my phone and took a few pictures of... Read more
‘I opened a large wardrobe in my sister’s room and inside was another world. There was a green field, tall green plants and colourful creatures that didn’t seem surprised to see me.’ ‘I s... Read more
‘It was the night of Halloween. My housemate and I had been handing out candy to neighborhood children for the last few hours. I had a bit of a headache, so I excused myself and went out the back... Read more
‘I had been at a Ferranti’s Christmas party and received a present from Santa which was a pastry set. I had a lovely time at the party and went to bed happy, putting my gift at the end of my be... Read more
‘I had experienced a couple of strokes in May 1999 and had come home to convalesce. I was relaxing on my bed, with my eyes shut, but awake. It was a sunny day and the light lovely, when I felt a ... Read more
‘While at work as a gardener on an estate, I went to speak to my colleague who was a short distance away clearing undergrowth with a strimmer and wearing ear protectors. As I approached him, I no... Read more
‘During a ritual I clearly saw moving shadows that could not have come from the light situation.’ ‘Fairy shadow pictures.’ ‘The schemes had their own structure, so I am absolutely sure th... Read more
‘I was working in my garden when I saw a diminutive woman dressed in a white robe with her arms akimbo and face lowered to the ground standing about two hundred metres away. As I watched her, she... Read more
‘I was around twelve years old. [I] had been ill all week with flu. [I] woke up and watched many of them flying around the room.’ ‘Beautiful…. Sparkly’. ‘Wing fluttering sound.’ W... Read more
‘Riding a trail through the woods I’d stop and take pictures of wild plants to identify later. One day it felt as if I were being watched, so I pointed the camera in that direction and zoomed i... Read more
The beings that I saw appeared to be fell walkers. They wore walking gear. They had knapsacks. But their knapsacks seemed to be empty. They carried no bottles of water. There were about fifteen to ... Read more
‘My fiancé and I went to bed at around eleven pm. During the night I was woken up because someone was pulling at my bedsheet repeatedly. I thought it was my fiancé. I opened my eyes and for a s... Read more
‘In my bedroom, in the window behind curtains. Three fairies in a group. They moved up, down left and right. All were quite bright and I could clearly see their outline complete with wings. I was... Read more
‘I fell asleep in the chair in the living room and woke at around 3 am. There was a green light coming from the clock on the video recorder (the video was broken – only the clock worked and was... Read more
‘So we were making a crappy indie film, and we’d finished filming for the night. We were trying to get all the various power cords dealt with. They were tangled as all hell. So I struggled with... Read more
‘I was on taking a walk when I noticed a strange light. I followed it for some time before seeing a small female humanoid figure with wings quickly flying away stare at me and giggle and fly away... Read more
‘I was in the shower and had a white shower curtain pulled across. I was just having a wash, when I saw with both eyes, face on the silhouette of a fairy through the white curtain. It fluttered a... Read more
‘I got into my automobile to go to work. The time was 7:55 AM. I put the key into the ignition and before I turned the switch, I detected a movement in the wooded area right next to my driveway. ... Read more
‘I was walking through *** National Monument and I saw a Satyr come and go behind a tree. I turned to my family, but they were all facing the other way and would not have believed me.’ ‘Like ... Read more
‘Dark, approximately at 3-4 am, we’re near a rural road with a little tent camping. We heard sounds and sweet voices from the wood and then sparkles.’ ‘[Fairies are] representation of eleme... Read more
‘Taking photos of wildlife and next to an old cedar caught a glimpse of a fairy hovering.’ ‘Human like with wings, with an aura round it.’ ‘[Fairies are] interdimensional beings’.
... Read more‘My stepmother had a number of well-cared for plants on a table in front of french doors leading into the garden in Kent. One afternoon I walked into the room and stopped short in surprise – I ... Read more
‘At first I thought they were lightning bugs, but the lights weren’t the same as what I remembered from when I was a child. The lights seemed to flutter around and around. Not really landing. I... Read more
‘First time: A long night of visitation. In Faerie, many months past, though I was only ‘gone’ for a short time. I was forbidden to relate some of the encounter. However, I was given a gift (... Read more
‘I did not see the fairy with my eyes. I asked the fairies if they were there, would they please show themselves in a picture. I snapped the picture. I believe it’s a fairy light that showed up... Read more
‘I looked up from my computer screen and just above it I saw a pair of wings fluttering extremely fast with what appeared to be a little body attached. But it moved so fast I couldn’t get a goo... Read more
‘One day I was listening to this woman on the internet talking about her experiences with Fairies. I was about fourteen at the time seeing this video. About halfway through the video, she began t... Read more
‘This is one of many experiences I have had after spiritually ‘meeting’ the being called Robin Goodfellow (also known as Puck or Hobgoblin) and several of his fairy companions a few years pri... Read more
‘We [Mexican and Belgian nationals] saw golden yellow orbs in Tintagel.’ ‘Golden light orbs.’ ‘Little bells or chimes and laughter.’ ‘Another woman shared the experience.’ Why fairi... Read more
‘I was at a ten-day shamanic retreat. I saw the fairies on the last day. They looked like the seven dwarves. They giggled when they saw me and ran along in front of me, talking excitedly and glan... Read more
‘It was a face rubbing in air. Baby face, green. Big eyes and he stared at me. It had its own light. Somehow I communicate that was a fairy. It was green but could see through.’ ‘[Fairies are... Read more
‘Whilst camping by myself, I asked the local Faeries if they would let me know they were there. I had two different experiences on two different nights. The first night was a small fountain of si... Read more
‘It was in the bushes/woods just outside the area known as the Fairy Glade, at Blarney Castle. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something flying about, moving in a manner similar to a dragonfly ... Read more
‘I [American national] was asleep and then awoke and looked out the window, or dreamt I looked out the window and saw circling tiny lights like candles (but greeny/blue/gold/red), circling one wa... Read more
‘Two of my children were camping at bottom of garden, at roughly midnight I went to check they were ok before I went to bed. As I approached the tent I could hear whispering in the garden and gig... Read more
‘I would have been between three to five years old. I was in the garden with my sister who is two years older than me. We were doing our own thing. At the time we lived in a house, which is now t... Read more
‘My dad and I hiked up a large mountain near our house and on the way down it got dark, and we walked off the path. I noticed something that I thought was a tree stump, but black in the distance.... Read more
‘I was approached in my back yard. The Fairy was checking me out. I had crossed the veil and she was concerned about what I was doing there. Then she recognized me and walked away.’ ‘Fairies ... Read more
‘My husband and I live in the next-to-the-last house on a dead-end road in the country. Our nearest neighbor’s house is a couple hundred yards away with woods between us. The road itself is a q... Read more
‘About three years ago I woke early one morning. It was full summer but it must have been around one or two in the morning. It was a hot night and I had the window open as wide as it would go. Ou... Read more
‘I had been teaching meditation to a group of people in a lovely ancient place with a very special and large garden where many ley lines converged/crossed. During a break I had gone to sit under ... Read more
‘Large, brilliant balls of bright lights flooding into our location in a haunted forest. Also, same balls of light appearing on my land and at the back of friend’s home by the large pond.’ â€... Read more
‘First of all, I want to make it very clear that this experience is just one among many others. These events are sprinkled liberally throughout my life. Ever since I was born I’ve been able to ... Read more
‘I turned on the television. I began hearing a horrible atonal moaning/singing from outside the house. It ranged in octave from a low octave moan to a high octave shriek. But it wasn’t ‘noise... Read more
‘I went to visit a woodland guardian tree, in a woodland that I used to visit as much as possible. I had just finished my visit to the tree, made respectful acknowledgements and turned to go down... Read more
‘My then husband and I were walking back from the side of Loch Lomond at *** back to the centre of ***. It was about three in the afternoon in the summer, and it was a lovely sunny day. The path ... Read more
‘I had hung a crystal heart and some hibiscus flowers in a half dead tree. When I walked away, I put my phone in the small of my back (in [the] waistline of my pants) and had it recording as I wa... Read more
‘More than one fairy approached me, flitted about and tried to get me to follow them deeper into the woods. They looked exactly like little human beings with wings. One was a rotund man. They wer... Read more
‘Me and my brother were exploring in the woods. We saw a tree maybe twenty feet off the trail which was so hollowed out you could sit inside it. We investigated it for approximately ten to twenty... Read more
‘My three-year-old daughter and I were out in my front yard while I was doing some gardening. I have a lot of trees and flower beds. I looked over at my daughter and she was sitting in a shaft of... Read more
‘I was eleven years old and riding the bus to school through the rolling countryside of ***, Kentucky, on the way to my school. Mostly open fields, but there are plenty of hills, creeks, and patc... Read more
‘A slender elfish man about four foot tall and somewhat ethereal but not transparent appeared from under the shady tree. He was wearing green under clothes, tights and blouse, with a black short ... Read more
‘I was taking a picture with my phone of balloons filled with colored water in the snow in front of my house. When I downloaded the picture to send to a friend I saw what appears to be fairy fing... Read more
‘I’m in my garden sitting on [the] floor letting ducks and hens out onto [the] lawn. A large very old tree trunk is at the centre of the garden. I was thinking of nothing at all, but looked up ... Read more
‘This is very long so please bear with me!! A few months ago I started seeing owl symbolism everywhere. In dreams, shops, scrolling Facebook, in books, advertisements, everywhere were pictures of... Read more
‘I was just starting to browse the real-estate market when I found a house on line that looked right up my alley, the price and size was right, but it was also out of town, it had lots of land an... Read more
‘I must have been four or five, my parents had separated for a while and my mum and I had gone back to live in my grandparents’ house, which was a weird house anyway, but that’s a separate st... Read more
‘We were working on grounding and healing techniques for the earth because I felt that a part of my grandparents’ land had an air of sadness to it. After grounding and attempting what I was the... Read more
‘I [American tourist] was staying at a bed and breakfast with a group. After dinner I went outside to walk along the river next to the building. I walked about a half mile down then turned back a... Read more
‘Entering my house, I turned to make sure the patio door shut and I saw a blur much bigger than anything on my patio dart from one plant to another. I could tell it was bipedal, but it was like i... Read more
‘I was walking my dog late at night on *** [New York street]. We did a once-round the parking lot as always, and a large figure stepped out of a dark corner. He said some very personal things to ... Read more
‘My mother had a beautiful garden full of color and in full sunlight. I caught a glimpse of something shiny that moved; and when I really looked, it was gone. I was not allowed to trample through... Read more
‘I [British national] lived on the Isle of Man for about ten years. It has a rich history of faerie folk but I was not looking for them when it happened. On the isle there is a woodland area call... Read more
‘My experience took place at the beginning of spring (2016), it was almost noon, and I was at the entrance of the apartment buildings where I lived. The entrance of the buildings has a garden tha... Read more
‘I got up to open a window and saw a white and orange light fly very quickly, two white pulsing lights stayed. I watched them and then went to the front door to go and investigate. They had gone.... Read more
‘My daughter and I sensed fae energy in our garden by the river, but never knew for sure until we noticed a photo taken at night, which clearly shows a sparkling fairy.’
... Read more‘I’d got up stupidly early on Midsummer in 2008. The plan was to head to somewhere pretty and take photos of the sunrise. I ended up in *** near *** in County Durham. I’d been making my way t... Read more
‘I [a Canadian] had been camping with friends but could not sleep. As I was walking around the campground, I noticed some sort of creature sitting on a log. As I drew closer, I realized it was no... Read more
‘I saw a tall, thin ethereal figure pressed with his back against a tree.’ ‘I felt the fairy was in its home woodland – it felt part of the place.’ ‘Tall, thin, green.’
... Read more‘I was about four years old. Family had finished dinner. It was daylight saving, in New Zealand, and during summer. In my parents’ garden was a lemon tree, adjacent to a path leading to an orch... Read more
‘I don’t really recall what happened now, but I kind of remember little floating lights dancing in the street on my cul-de-sac. They were too bright to make out, but I’m pretty sure they were... Read more
‘I was staying in a cheap inner city motel with a disused area approximately twenty-foot long four-inch wide grass. This was the bottom end of accommodation but the disused area was littered two ... Read more
‘It was the first time (in this Life). Alone, in the high woods of ***, a wonderful brilliant whitish Being, twenty centimeters long, watching at me for more than three minutes (approximately). N... Read more
‘I was just a small girl of about six or seven, I was waking up in my bedroom, I remember the light quite well, it was early dawn and some sun was coming in through my window, at the end of my be... Read more
‘My mother pointed out a fairy flying above a stream outside a National Trust-type property we were visiting. It glowed brightly, and clearly had wings, arms and legs. The recent Rossendale exhib... Read more
‘I was about twelve, staying in a room with my same aged cousin at my aunt’s house in Northumberland. Although the lights were off the room was lit by the streetlight directly outside the bedro... Read more
‘I was really young, maybe four or five. It was Christmastime and I was sitting by the window of our house in the woods. A bright, round light about four to five inches in diameter flew by the (s... Read more
‘I was sitting out on my back porch one evening, just enjoying the nice Spring weather. When I noticed a light in the shape of a small figure flying around in the trees in my backyard. The figure... Read more
‘Friends had gone ahead and I straggled behind. As I turned a corner, it was misty. The mist had a weird glow. As I walked into the low mist there was a procession. Around three feet tall. With l... Read more
‘I was staying at my parents’ home on a small island in New Hampshire (USA). I woke up at about 4 AM, and this was not notable because I have very irregular sleep patterns. What was different t... Read more
‘There was a fairy ring by my grandmother’s garden. I asked my grandmother what this ring of gross mushrooms was (back then I hated the way mushrooms looked) and the air changed. All of a sudde... Read more
‘While crossing a gate, a ‘thunder’-like noise was heard coming from the top of the wall to which the gate was attached. The noise was like stone dragged along stone, or something very strong... Read more
‘I awoke and saw a flashing light in my closet. At first I thought it was my phone but realized quickly that my phone isn’t in the closet. So I stared at the light for a few more seconds, then ... Read more
‘I was walking along a creekbed and saw a huge big uprooted root system from a tree, half in the water, half out. There were doors and paths all over it. I asked out loud if I could take a photo ... Read more
‘I was playing softball and was out in the middle of the field. I was bored and wasn’t paying attention to the game. Suddenly something small flew by me. It was fast but I could clearly see a h... Read more
‘About three months after returning to the States after living abroad for the past two years I decided to attend a meditation retreat in north Georgia. It was a weekend retreat at a cabin in the ... Read more
‘I was staying over at a friend’s: there had been a party the night before. I was the first to wake up, and went out to the garden for some air. I wandered around, admiring and talking to the p... Read more
‘A young man, three-feet high dressed all in brown was playing in the garden and walking around in my garden. He was wearing a pointed brown hat and when he lifted his feet I saw he was wearing b... Read more
‘Walking with my wife at the rear of *** Hill, ***, Scotland. It was dusk and we were following a deer and watching her, from the direction of the hill there came the sound of small children’s ... Read more
‘I was studying the Tuath Dé Danann at the time. I was about fourteen to fifteen years old, sitting on my bed in my room. I saw a twinkling ball of light fly in underneath my closed bedroom door... Read more
‘I was maybe three at the time. There was a beautiful garden with roses and such, somewhere near Findhorn. I saw something, a little person (the details elude me after thirty-one years) and I ben... Read more
‘As a child, about five or six, I would occasionally be left with our next-door neighbour, an elderly woman who lived alone. One day I have the memory that I took a toy with me into her house (a ... Read more
‘It was a luminous shape unlike I have seen before glowing and dancing under a street light.’ ‘Luminous human looking but very small.’ ‘Totally shocked but filled with wonderment.’
... Read more‘Sitting by my bedroom window late at night when I couldn’t sleep I witnessed a faerie processional taking place on my street. A column of faeries walked, wearing white cloaks and carrying sing... Read more
‘I was in the Fellow’s Garden at *** College, Oxford, lying on the grass after my last exam. I saw four creatures, maybe twenty-five centimetres tall, humanoid, hairless, with spindly limbs and... Read more
‘Walking in a very [?] garden, ***, a sunken area with a main street that ran along the top. There were halogen lights on this street, but none in the garden. It was late winter, not especially c... Read more
‘We were in the mountains for a long weekend, at cabin in the woods near water. Maybe a dozen of us just graduated from high school. It was within three hours of the SF Bay Area, but I don’t re... Read more
‘First I used to hear scratching, like the scratching of a rat or birds claws. It happened in my bedroom initially. It was in the dark once I turned off the lights. I could see very small faces a... Read more
‘An invisible wall that I walked into and could not pass made me look up from the ground cover. A life size figure on a white horse. The figure was green, neither male or female, appeared to be m... Read more
‘Was sitting in the living room when I heard a giggle and a white light flew past my head. The light moved all around the room slowly and I was able to follow it with my eyes for a good few minut... Read more
‘I went outside with my Collie at approximately 10:20 pm on a summer evening. I was standing on my deck, not thinking of anything in particular, just enjoying the evening air and the stars above ... Read more
‘Had just made a fairy garden it was just past dusk was taking a picture of garden and asked the fairies to show us if they were there and in the picture was an orbs and when you enlarged it you ... Read more
‘The Lost Wedding Ring. It was Monday 5 July 1982 and my wife and I were on holiday, with our one-year old son, at a small cottage in the hills above Abersoch, in Gwynedd, Wales. I can be specifi... Read more
‘While on the path, which was very overgrown and FULL of spiders, the trek was slow. There were butterflies everywhere, and I had my camera ready to take photos. A butterfly, average size for the... Read more
‘I [Czech/German/Norwegian national] was at a small end of tour together with a Celtic band from the US. We were all playing and singing mostly original songs. This little old man walked into thi... Read more
‘It was around 10 or 11 am in the early summer of 2002, and I was in the bathroom, just starting my bath. It was so warm and bright that I had the small window open, and the breeze was coming rig... Read more
‘I saw what looked like a dark red dragonfly flitting in and out of the branches of a holly tree by the side of my house, which also bordered on a church – but it turned its little head to face... Read more
‘I got lost in the woods on a horse trail in ***, Connecticut. I believe one of the reasons was that they wanted my dog. I have suspected that because of a previous experience with my mother in h... Read more
‘This true experience reads like a ghost story but there is a fey element to it. It was at some point between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve and a friend and I have been out for a drink and d... Read more
‘I was walking through the woodland of upstate New York (right next to Canada). I was fourteen years of age. And as I was walking, I felt the presence [?] to keep walking further in a specific di... Read more
‘My sister and I were digging in our backyard. Suddenly a group of fairies flew out of the hole. They were all dressed up like we had interrupted a formal ball. The males were in tuxedos and the ... Read more
‘The ‘fairy’ was a small being with no eyes and no mouth. No skin was visible because the ‘fairy’ was covered completely in a kind of burlap fabric.’ ‘A very fat infant covered in bur... Read more
‘I was working at a German-themed Renaissance Festival in ***, Tennessee. up in the mountains during either March or April of 2000. Myself and most of the rest of the Faire’s Cast were camping ... Read more
‘Far from my only experience, but my most reliable one. This was in 2019. The town I lived in at the time experiences periodic flooding every twelve or so years, and the year of my graduation was... Read more
‘I was a teenager. I woke up in the middle of the night and the door to my bedroom was open although I never went to bed without closing and locking it. The light in the hall was on which was als... Read more
‘I was camping near the moors with a group, one night I had nature’s call but didn’t want to walk the distance to the porta-potties, twas late, so instead I went directly behind my tent to th... Read more
‘I was eight, I was sitting. There were ferns. And on the ferns had two little men cleaning the leaves. I never saw me [sic].’
... Read more‘This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me. I had lived in this house for eight years in ***, but the time had come to move on. I had developed a great appreciation for the two lar... Read more
‘I was a child. My disc. [?] now would be a flash of light and an emotional presence, like I was with another being.’ ‘A flash of peripheral light.’ ‘I’ve experienced ghosts. It was not... Read more
‘I’d been noticing dirt would appear on my papers, which were set in a place impossible for dirt to just pile up on it. I did some research and found out the Fae do this for fun. So I made an o... Read more
‘I lost my tooth when I was around five and was expecting to see fairies that night. It was around ten and I stayed awake as my mother fell asleep. We shared the same bed. Suddenly a transparent ... Read more
‘I lived alone at the time, in a cottage in a rural area, although I am a commuter most of my neighbours work in farming. This was very late at night and in heavy rain and I had gone outside to g... Read more
‘It was just before 11 pm, February 26, 2020. I went to get cigs down the road (just outside of town). I headed home and as soon as I turned onto the county road it was there at my driver side wi... Read more
‘I was at my gate working as a security guard, listening and singing to music. I see a bright, white light about five foot long with wings like a butterfly and a short dress on. She circled my ga... Read more
‘I was standing at the back door of a friend’s house, looking across the clearing right behind it, to the edge of the forest. He lived in a small cabin, in a fairly secluded and rural area. At ... Read more
‘I was hiking in a place called ***, a wooded hill near my hometown with my friend. There are several sites that we visit on the nab, one being a large oak with a spring coming out of it. We were... Read more
‘I was swimming in the shallow end of the pool at my grandparents’ house. I went under water and saw a four-six [inch] figure running across the bottom. I went up for air and to see if anybody ... Read more
‘It was a lazy afternoon when my wife and I took a stroll through a metro park and then crossed the lake over the boardwalk. She was the first one to notice the light that sparkled in the distanc... Read more
‘One experience was when I was outside in the woods near a creek in ***, Oregon. The fairies were near one of the white trees. They were there a while. They were blue orbs. And then they disappea... Read more
‘Walking my dog through Sherwood Forest. I had stopped briefly as my dog snuffled in the undergrowth. As I looked up a small bright object about the size and shape of a dragonfly caught my eye ab... Read more
‘I was driving through the village of *** near Hayle. There is a crossroad with some street lighting. It was a windy autumn night, little traffic on the road and I was driving quite slowly. I bec... Read more
‘I was playing outside with my dog and a Tinker Bell figure came up to my face fluttering around me smiling. I think she was a ‘she’ because she had a glowing white dress on.’ ‘She had on... Read more
‘I was working out in an old wood area recently where only one house is located. I was doing work at this house which is all but populated [unpopulated?]. I was alone and working on the wooded si... Read more
‘It felt like a magical morning, I went out just before sunrise in early February. I had my mind on nature spirits, as I was in the process of writing a fairy novel, everywhere seemed alive with ... Read more
‘Me and my husband were outside smoking a cigarette. Outside in our backyard. We live in the city, but I have a tropical patch of woods behind my fence. I have NEVER IN MY LIFE believed in fairie... Read more
‘Approximately eighteen months ago a group of twenty five friends and I went camping in the far north of Minnesota in the ***Waters Canoe Area. On our fourth day we found a secluded island in one... Read more
‘My children were upstairs playing, while going through my home cleaning I walked past my sliding glass door I saw someone swinging on their swing set. My backyard has a locked six-foot wood priv... Read more
‘I was working as a shepherd. I’d gone up to a remote part of the farm to check on some of the sheep. It was morning. I went up as far as I could by tractor, but the last field was bounded by a... Read more
‘I [US national] was living with friends at the time in ***, Ireland at *** House. I would go for walks every morning and would take a very specific route around the property (down the drive, thr... Read more
‘I was a child (I think I was ten) in the back seat of the car on a family holiday. We were in Devon and we were driving down a country road in the day time. My father, driving the car, pulled ov... Read more
‘I think I was about seven, because it was after we’d moved house but before my brother was born. I was in bed, the headboard was partially over the window as it was a small room. The curtains ... Read more
‘Coming home along an empty country road in daylight, in springtime – my husband driving, I was in the passenger seat. We were crossed the bridge over the river Barrow and came around a gentle ... Read more
‘Walking dogs in a park opposite railway line. Path would be darker than the rest. Dogs would not walk as usual and the feeling of oppression. We would turn around and go back the other way. Next... Read more
‘I was sitting on a wall dangling my feet in the river which runs through *** and there in front of me on the rocks was a small group of water fae having a water fight and giggling to themselves.... Read more
‘My grandma who is a witch had a huge garden of flowers and vegetables in the roof of our home. She used to water them at twilight. She asked [me] to join her and started to tell me how the fairi... Read more
‘I was in Mum’s sewing room when I looked up and by the closed door near the ceiling was a creature about six foot tall, all in floaty green hovering. I could see the wings and the body which l... Read more
‘Walking in June 2019 at around 5.30 am near the grounds of *** School in Buckinghamshire, I was crossing a small bridge and stopped to look in a small pool of water for any wildlife. At the edge... Read more
‘The second day that me and my two friends were living in that apartment was the first time that there was an experience. Early that morning I was woken up by the door bell. I went to the door an... Read more
‘My grandparents lived in a farmhouse in a valley surrounded by the woods in the Appalachian Mountains. There were no cell phones, and we had no video games to play so back then, we had to go out... Read more
‘While traveling at night, on a road that ran up some mountains, we saw a shapeless white form that appeared to be a white shopping bag blowing around in the wind moving quickly up the mountainsi... Read more
‘I saw a glowing thing in the sky when I was looking at the sky in night it wasn’t firefly.’ ‘Small glow of light’. Fairies are ‘magical mysterious creatures.’ ‘I want to interact w... Read more
‘I was on a bus on the way home from work when I found myself unable to get up for my stop. The feeling of paralysis ended as I passed my stop and we were going past the field behind my house. I ... Read more
‘I walked into my room with a towel around me from showering. I sat on my bed getting ready to rub my hair when a movement over at the window caught my attention. There they were. Little men walk... Read more
‘I saw a fairy for a split second in the kitchen in my flat. It was hovering over the bin!’ ‘Small, ethereal, fast.’ ‘My flat was next to *** Gardens.’ ‘It looked like a fairy, and sm... Read more
‘I was officiating a Pagan wedding ceremony in a small glen. We were surrounded by pine trees from the South to western part of the circle, scrub on our right with a hay field immediately beyond ... Read more
‘I had back surgery and was in a lot of pain. My boyfriend sent me beautiful purple roses because he could not be there. The faeries were attracted to the roses and also my need to have my pain a... Read more
‘I looked up and saw a bright ball of light. It moved like a little bird flying and the bright white ball just faded away as it moved away.’ ‘A bright white ball of light (brighter than the b... Read more
‘I was looking across a river (several hundred metres away) at an old grain silo, when I saw a big sparkle. It was very much like the sparkle of Christmas tinsel but only one little stripe of lig... Read more
‘My girlfriend and I were taking evening time photographs at *** state park. We found an amazing meadow surrounded by large old conifer trees. While my girlfriend [went?] down into the meadow to ... Read more
‘I was at the bottom of my paternal grandparents’ garden where there was a small walled in area containing a lot of climbing flowers. This was a garden that I visited throughout my childhood an... Read more
‘I was leaving work at the uni and walking down the quieter east side when, from a large concrete wall on the left what initially looked like maybe a leaf kind of hovered from left to right at ab... Read more
‘First time I saw what looked like a mix of a frog and a sparrow. When I got closer the little thing gave me a look of malice. I felt it was male. When he noticed I could see him he when [sic. wh... Read more
‘At first I saw a large pink butterfly on a thistle on a dry riverbank. I was young and had been left alone by my father and his friend. On approaching it, the butterfly folded like origami, firs... Read more
‘1993-1995 I was living in *** at university studying an art degree. One night, I went clubbing with friends, I took ecstasy. It was the first and last time I took it. I felt incredibly thirsty a... Read more
‘During a camping trip I and two close friends had a large campfire during a waxing moon (not yet full). We were on private property (over a hundred acres of land) when the wind started rustling ... Read more
‘We were watching the stars on December 21 of 2012 just past midnight when we both saw a woman step out of the woods. The area where we were was basically a large aspen tree of nine trees grown t... Read more
‘I was out on a commercial fishing boat with my best friend and her family. The night before we had seen a strange light in the sky – the adults were scared but us kids were fine. The next morn... Read more
‘There was a time, when I was in my early twenties, that the thought occurred to me that perhaps fairies were real. I purposely visualized a fairy, which, in that instance (in reality) removed a ... Read more
‘I was resting from tending my garden, in the shade. And I saw movement in the lower tiers of under growth. It was a small human shape about six to eight inches high. It had an almost hazy field ... Read more
‘I took the paddle boat alone out on the Lake Winnipeasaukee when I was around seven years old at Girl Scouts camp. We were supposed to take the paddle boats in pairs or groups of two or three, b... Read more
‘It was scary, first it was on the window trying to get it, then tried the door, I closed it that second, then it started screaming, but really really loud as a person, the whole school heard it.... Read more
‘A glowing flash of white and a slow drifting of faintly glowing yellow wings of something nearly a butterfly in the hallway.’ ‘The full form was not seen, but a faint glowing-sparkling of ye... Read more
‘A creature with a four-foot wingspan (the wings had the shape of a dragonfly’s wings and coloring of moth wings) flew past me three times, brushing my arm twice, and then disappeared.’ ‘Se... Read more
‘Weeding under small cedar hedge at bottom of garden, pulled a weed out and small glowing beings flew out. One flew up and hovered in front of my face for a very brief moment. Had wings like a dr... Read more
‘I was looking for spirits in the grounds of *** Hall, Bradford where I have seen many.’ ‘I saw a slight movement and upon activating my camera light I saw a fairy that looked to be waving or... Read more
‘2017 middle August, sitting out on deck smoking, *** inside with dog’s door open, when I seen a cloud zoom down so fast past two gardens. Then it paused when four limbs an inch long dropped do... Read more
‘I was walking down the field when I noticed a winged being leaning up against the side of a sycamore tree. He was as tall as the trunk, maybe fifteen feet.’ ‘Tall with large wings. he was br... Read more
‘I saw two what I took to be males about fourteen-inches tall standing near a small stream as we drove by. They were dressed in clothing that did not seem out of place or extraordinary. My father... Read more
‘I was driving on a country road, it was very dark and it was a heavily wooded area. Suddenly something flew in front of the car, in the beam of the headlights and up over the hood of the car. It... Read more
‘May 1st, 1959: Three friends, my brother, and myself were spending the day and night playing and camping in a small, wooded area called ***’s Woods near our homes. We were all seven and eight ... Read more
‘It was at twilight on Midsummer. My husband and I had friends over. We had done a ritual earlier and were finishing up our meal. Suddenly, a green light, much larger than a firefly, emerged in t... Read more
‘I shared the back bedroom of 125 *** Road with my grandfather. His bed was in the centre of the room and my bed was against the outside wall offering me a view of the sky in the gap between the ... Read more
‘I was about four-years old. We lived in the basement flat of a regency building in H____. My parents were caretakers. The building was the Church of England Diocese offices. It had been owned pr... Read more
‘I was getting ready to open my kitchen cabinet when I saw a strange bug. I looked closer and to my surprise it had a human type face and then it seemed to be pulled backward, and then it vanishe... Read more
‘I had gotten home from a friend’s house, and my parents were out, so I was locked out of the house, I sat by the door next to a small flower bed, and after a while about a dozen little naked p... Read more
As an eight-year-old girl, I was playing outside by the apricot tree in our yard when I saw a fairy. It was very small, maybe the size of my little fingernail. It had wings, green skin, and a body ... Read more
‘I was sitting on train, looking out at the narrow platform over to the trees and bushes just on the other side of the platform, and sensed movement, in the bushes and knew it was fairies or elem... Read more
‘I was just released from active duty in the United States army, and rather than returning directly home, decided to take several months walking Germany, France, and Great Britain. I had crossed ... Read more
‘I’m not entirely positive it was the fae, but I really tried looking at every other possibility. It was around eleven pm. There were four tornadoes near my house, so me and my family were all ... Read more
‘I was visiting a well-known outdoor natural museum in the region called Natural Monument Valle del Encanto (enchantment valley.) The place has ancient petroglyphs and rupestrian art, depicting s... Read more
‘I was asleep, lying on my left side. I slept on a mattress, without legs or box spring, which means it was more or less on the floor. While sleeping, I heard small noises in the room, the sounds... Read more
‘Standing at the checkouts waiting for the wife to pick up a last minute item. Pretty zoned out when this ‘big moth’ came straight at me. Felt like it was going to hit me in the face and went... Read more
‘I was in the master bathroom when I suddenly saw a shower of sparkles seeming to come from the window. I remember it very clearly, and it lasted at least fifteen to thirty seconds. The light com... Read more
‘I woke in the night, as my son had been restless. So I had got him back to sleep and was sitting next to him. The curtain rail had fallen apart and so there were no curtains and it was a full mo... Read more
‘I woke up in the night with a start and looked over and saw my partner on his elbow staring at me. It took me awhile to fully wake up and when I did my partner changed and I saw he was still sle... Read more
‘The second event occurred in about 1997 soon after my partner and I, together with our three-year-old daughter, moved into a very old house in *** Street, ***. Ours was the first house in the st... Read more
‘It was a full moon, and I took my six-year-old daughter with me to what I called a fairy garden – a lovely garden in a side yard, exposed to the sidewalk, with miniature model houses and ‘fa... Read more
‘It was a few weeks ago and about 05.30. I was waiting for the first train to take me to Glasgow. My eye was drawn to a small ball of light that seemed to be hovering around one of the platform l... Read more
‘The location was one of perhaps seven or so campsites that were cleared spaces situated off a single-lane road that threaded its way up a mountainside. The campsites were very basic, accommodati... Read more
‘My friend and I were gathering firewood for our Pagan ritual, when we saw a procession of tiny semi-transparent figures walking along the forest floor.’ ‘Tiny, less than an inch high, semi-t... Read more
‘Tiny high-pitched bells and flutes.’
... Read more‘When I was about three years old I was at home with my family and we were watching the Mighty Joe Young movie on TV. I got a little over excited by it and got really loud and disruptive and [I] ... Read more
‘Was playing in the woods and climbed up a large glacial rock. On a rock ledge was a tall thin man. Six and a half feet at least. He was oddly dressed and looked not quite human. He had six finge... Read more
‘I was at a party, and it was August (Spring) time in Adelaide. I went outside to get some fresh air and a break from the noise of the party. I was standing by a heap of firewood at the side of a... Read more
‘This was my first but not my last. I was a very young child and was smelling the flowers in my backyard. I touched a flower and it immediately closed (not typical for this flower). But I saw a f... Read more
‘Little lights of different colors and also intense smell of flowers and sweet.’ ‘I see other entities they don’t have the same light joy happy vibe.’ Fairies are ‘spirits from natureâ€... Read more
‘I was photographing roses in a friend’s garden and photographed two [fairies].’ ‘One was small didn’t look like it was clothed and either had something on its head, maybe blonde hair. Th... Read more
‘The ash tree is surrounded by grass at the rear of the car park. The car park is at the rear of two small blocks of flats. there used to be houses here from 1920-ish until 1990, when they were r... Read more
‘My husband would find his shoelaces tied in very strong knots. He usually leaves his laces undone after taking off his shoes. On another occasion, I was tending to a wound on his back as he was ... Read more
‘Fairy Encounter in Summer 2010. My girlfriend and I were sitting by a beautiful stream in *** Park. We each had just eaten a gram of mushrooms (psilocybe). She was a clairsentient person – for... Read more
‘Was around six years old, in my parents’ bed. I watched fairy dance in circles on parents’ dresser. Seemed female in feeling I got. Both parents asleep, house was in remote country. Was midd... Read more
‘My security lights in the back garden have been going on and off for weeks. We have the app on our phones to let us know if anyone is on our property while we are away. So around quarter past se... Read more
‘My usual hideout/ fort/ play area was in an overgrown honeysuckle bush in the garden of my backyard. There isn’t a particularly specified experience. But I know that growing up I thought fairi... Read more
‘All of my experiences were very similar, even though I was in different parts of North America. I am a practicing Pagan and all of my experiences were during full moon ritual. I don’t belong t... Read more
‘I was asleep and woke suddenly. I saw two beings standing across the room beyond the foot of my bed. They were under two feet tall. They had a cute but impish look and were dressed like elves in... Read more
‘A tree came to life and spoke to me. I had asked the tree to look after a book I placed at its roots.’ ‘I believe in fairies.’ What are fairies? ‘otherworldly beings’. ‘I can remembe... Read more
‘I was lying in bed with no lights on in the room while listening to music with headphones. I was not asleep or close to sleep. I saw a round green light through the closed blinds. It bobbed up a... Read more
‘I was driving, not fast, a fairy flew past the front of my car, landed on a fence, then kept going.’ ‘Too big to be a grasshopper. Had legs, not sticks.’
... Read more‘We were camping on a very remote coastal area on the Isle of Mull. We both deliberately went into a meditative trance – we were actually seeking a fairy experience, but didn’t expect to real... Read more
‘In one case, I saw a winged creature in a golden orb playing with my aunt’s cat and the cat was trying to get it. When the fairy saw that I have seen it, it vanished into the wall.’ ‘A win... Read more
‘I often see small tree-spirit type fairies in the woods near my mother-in-law’s house. I have also seen a tall, spear-carrying fairy man, once in full daylight, many times in vision experience... Read more
‘I saw a row of swans and they had crowns on their head. It was a misty day and there seemed to be a pink mist. The swans came out from a bend in a moat and swam towards me with a pink mist. Ther... Read more
‘I was four or five years old. I was sleeping in my bedroom and I woke up in the middle of the night. I used to have a night lamp on because I didn’t like to have an all-dark room, so I could s... Read more
‘Saw a fairy afloat next to my pillow while I was in bed.’ ‘Bright sparkling light with fast moving wings.’ ‘High pitched musical tone.’ ‘I sensed it was a joyful playful entity from ... Read more
‘I had been meditating regularly going into the faerie realm in meditation with a group of friends for a year or two. I was coming home one evening past the gardens and saw my faerie friend at th... Read more
‘I am a Spiritualist. I am aware of Spirit generally speaking. On one night, we were having a mediumship class/spirit session. During the session, an elven figure appeared over one of the other p... Read more
‘I was about six years old, in my bed which would have been about 8 pm as that was my bedtime. It was midsummer time (around my birthday) and very light outside. I couldn’t sleep because it was... Read more
‘Black creature with antlers, standing up right, had arms with long fingers, large orange eyes, at least six plus feet. Third time I have seen in the same spot over ten years. Have always seen it... Read more
‘I saw one or two as I was walking through the bush from the corner of my eyes. They were watching me I think.’ ‘I believe they were nature spirits – I was in nature in their habitat.’ â€... Read more
‘I awoke from my sleep hearing music and remember thinking how unusual it was for the neighbours to play music at all let alone this late and loud enough for me to hear through the wall. Just the... Read more
‘I was laid only end [sic] with the window open. It was quite warm with little breeze. I noticed a shiny speck come in the window. At first I didn’t think too much of it until I followed its mo... Read more
‘I was walking down a hill. I saw a little creature/thing. I don’t know what it was. I think it was about twenty-seven centimetres tall. I only saw the silhouette which looked human, but not. W... Read more
‘It’s hard to describe but in my bedroom I lit a gold Christmas candle for Yule – after I turned away for a split second and there in front of me was two glowing lights – not candle fla... Read more
‘When my friend and I were walking to my house on a summer evening we saw what looked like a little man run across our path! Quick as a flash it was gone! Maybe running late like we were :-). He ... Read more
‘This took place in the city of ***, Ohio. I lived at *** East *** Street at the time. I was walking toward the abandoned railroad bed. I spotted what I first thought was a hummingbird. After a c... Read more
‘Captured on home CCTV security.’ ‘Small with wings and legs.’
... Read more‘I was in my car with a friend driving down a country road near a small bridge in the redwoods forest. All of a sudden, a half man-half animal creature with little nubby horns ran in front of the... Read more
‘I was eight to nine years old when I found a fairy ring in our yard. I leaned over and asked them to visit me when they danced. That night, as my sister (six to seven) and I were getting ready t... Read more
‘A small shape flew by at my school. It had small wings and was pale blue coloured. It was only there for a couple of seconds before it disappeared. It shocked me a lot as I thought fairies were ... Read more
‘I saw them and we interacted.’ ‘They took various forms at various times, from butterflies to humanlike.’ ‘They identified themselves as the Fae.’
... Read more‘In the summer of 1999 I was working on an enormous archaeological excavation at the future site of terminal five of Heathrow Airport, just to the west of London. There was about seventy of us an... Read more
‘I myself actually had an encounter with a fairy-type creature of the small, diminutive type. It was on the twenty-seventh of December 2019 between 5.30 and 6.00 pm. It was extremely dark and col... Read more
‘I saw in the far distance a fallen tree and what was left of it was shaped in a perfect triangle, and it looked like a tee-pee with an entrance at the front. I made a comment to my sister walkin... Read more
‘I was sick in bed with swollen glands in my throat. I was six years old and the fairy came to me. She was beautiful dressed in yellow her wings were also yellow I will never forget my time with ... Read more
‘I don’t remember the date or how old I was, but it was summer and I was probably eight to eleven years old which would date it to summer 1959-1962. It was evening and the lightning bugs (firef... Read more
‘I was outside on the concrete steps at the back door when I noticed movement in the far right corner of my back yard. That area had several wild hemlock bushes next to it and an earthen mount ab... Read more
‘Around August/September 1991, in Cornwall UK, whilst driving down a country road with hedgerows either side, travelling at a speed of around forty-five-fifty miles per hour. Something compelled ... Read more
‘As a small child, I played in the woods near our house. On multiple occasions I interacted with what I know now to be fairies. They appeared to me as tiny people who would run along beside me an... Read more
‘I had a dream that the beansidhe [banshee] was calling for my father (he worked away) and when I awoke, I saw a beautiful blue lady standing by the curtains in my mother’s bedroom where I had ... Read more
‘I had done a deep meditation at home and then went for a walk with my dog. We went down a path bordering a field to one side and woodland to the other. After a short distance I was aware of move... Read more
‘While walking the trails in the afternoon, I got the distinct impression that something was jumping from tree to tree, following me. That evening, while relaxing on the computer, I saw many pict... Read more