‘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 summer (long before 6 a.m.) to walk in the local woods and across the fields. Though I never really saw anything, I felt completely safe. When we travelled to go on holiday, I would see several ‘people’ very beautiful, adult-height to me, but more like ‘angels’ who would stop at a certain place and bid me goodbye, so I felt. I would see them from the car. They would race alongside it, appearing and disappearing again as we passed woods and houses, until we came to a certain place on the road north. I don’t remember exactly where it was, now, but it was in the country rather than in a town. It was as if that was the limit of their ‘territory’. On the return journey, I would begin to see them again as we returned. My feeling about them was ambiguous, as I think was theirs about me. They were like distant ‘guardians’, seeming almost to do a job, but neither liking or disliking it. When I moved from the village at age ten, I no longer experienced that, but I remember it well.’ ‘Tall, with long hair, and very beautiful faces.’ ‘They looked to [be] real – as in solid – to be ghosts. On the other hand, I think some part of me knew they could be completely invisible if they chose. I suppose they could be aliens or angels, I just considered them (although I did not put a name to it then) a kind of genius loci.’ ‘It’s probably quantum! Most things are. I think they may be from a different reality.’
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Oxfordshire, England
1970s
Female: Age 0-10
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
on a country road
9 am-12 pm
ten minutes to an hour
with several other people, none of whom shared my experience
no special state reported
aloof
loss of sense of time, unusually vivid memories of the experience