‘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 saw a many little lights (maybe like seventy five to a hundred) appear out of what looked like a sea of bluebells (they were in full bloom at the time) like fireflies but their light was the same blue/purple shade as the bluebells. They flew around for a few minutes in the most beautiful of shapes. Two of my friends poked their heads out the tent and saw exactly what I was seeing. They [the fairies] flew around into the trees never really coming close to us (maybe about twenty five meters away) they started to disperse after a couple of minutes just as it was getting lighter. Just before they fully disappeared all that remained came into one last cluster and formed a humanoid shape that seemed to turn its head and look at us. It was only for a second before the little light flew away into the trees and landing again into the bluebells. In the morning when it was light we looked for any evidence of it but saw nothing.’ ‘It was dead silent.’ ‘My experiences as fit with other descriptions of fairy I have heard of in the past.’
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Oxfordshire, England
2000s
Male: Age 11-20
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in woodland
3 am-6 am
one to two minutes
with several other people, some of whom shared my experience
‘it was very dark but we weren’t tired at all’
wistful or dreamy perhaps
loss of sense of time, profound silence before the experience, hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sudden chill before the experience