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‘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 child-like voice warning others that we were near, it uttered something like ‘Shh, they’re coming.’ There were some other voices in reply, but I can’t remember their exact responses. All came from the trees above us. We looked to see if anyone was actually there hiding in the trees but there was nobody to be seen, and nowhere for a person to possibly have hidden. It was autumn and you could see the branches in full. We were convinced it was fairies in the trees that day.’ ‘Melodic voices, like children at play.’ ‘I wouldn’t imagine a ghost to be so ‘lively’, and to us as children, it seemed like the only thing that it could be.’ ‘I think [fairies] must be nature spirits of some sort.’ ‘I have always tried to be open-minded about the unusual. I won’t jump into believing in anything unless I have learned or witnessed enough to form an opinion, and with new evidence, I am not uncomfortable with changing my opinions. But there have been plenty of strange things in my life that have led me to feel that there must be something out there that we just don’t fully understand yet.’