‘I was trimming a bush at the top of my garden, my young friend was in her garden where she was tending some plants. We both saw a small flash this was on my right and on my friend’s left. I put down my shears and as I was getting up I saw this little figure with wings, legs and a body etc. I looked at my friend and we more or less said at the same time, ‘that was a fairy wasn’t it?’ We were both perplexed to say the least. As it happened at that time, we both had made a fairy garden at the tops of our gardens, so it was quite fitting what we both saw, we did not tell any of our neighbors in case they thought we were nuts.’ ‘As said on last page like minute whimsical little people with sparkly wings that were illuminated in a sense.’ ‘[I believe they were fairies] because we know what we saw, ok, we tried rationalising it by asking ourselves were we sure we both saw what we saw and we did this immediately after the experience by me asking my friend to write down what she thought she saw, we compared notes and we had the same answers.’ ‘[Fairies are] little people with wings some with no wings a sign of hope a sign of maybe a revelation or something to aspire to.’
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Yorkshire, England
2000s
Female: Age 41-50
regular supernatural experiences
in a garden
3 pm-6 pm
less than a minute
with one other person who shared my experience
you were undertaking a repetitive task (e.g. picking blackberries), you were extremely happy
friendly
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