‘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 some hovering. The wings were like butterfly wings. They watched me as intently as I watched them. We stayed that way for a few minutes. They smiled at me and I felt calm. I looked away and then they were gone.’ ‘Like small beautiful people with butterfly wings’ ‘It felt that way [like they should be fairies] and they looked mostly like how I would imagine them. They also matched the desert [?] of the skeleton my father found as a young man.’ ‘I wish more people were open minded as I do not feel that I can often speak of my experience.’
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Staffordshire, England
2000s
Female: Age 11-20
regular supernatural experiences
on or near water, in woodland
12 pm-3 pm
two to ten minutes
on my own
no special state reported
friendly, ‘serene’
loss of sense of time, hair prickling or tingling before or during 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