‘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 slightly shiny leathery skin. They wore nothing but Oxford commoners’ gowns (no mortarboards). They were under some vegetation in a flower bed – rhubarb it might have been. They were smiley, fast-moving, and very deliberately one put its finger to his mouth as if to tell me not to tell others around me. It was truly, truly amazing.’ ‘[They were fairies because] it just fit – didn’t consider it could be anything else.’ ‘[Fairies are] human-like creatures, clever, small, not usually seen.’
§109
Oxfordshire, England
1990s
Male: Age 21-30
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in a garden, in a city, inside a public building (e.g. church, school...)
12 pm-3 pm
two to ten minutes
on my own
you were extremely happy
friendly, mischievous, joyful
loss of sense of time, profound silence before the experience, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life, a sudden warmth before the experience