A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

§148

Co. Dublin, Ireland 1990s
Male: Age 21-30 never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in open land (fields etc) 9 pm-12 am one to two minutes with one other person who shared my experience
no special state reported
mischievous, angry, aloof
hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you

‘While traveling at night, on a road that ran up some mountains, we saw a shapeless white form that appeared to be a white shopping bag blowing around in the wind moving quickly up the mountainside. It was moving against the wind, however. Uphill. We had pulled off the road, at a lay-by, to look at the view of the city lights down below, when we noticed the shape jumping from tree to tree towards us. It was about two or three square feet in area, and a matte bluish white color. Like a large pillow case or, like I said earlier, a shopping bag. No markings or features, not shiny at all, looked more like a strange cloth than a plastic. Both myself (American) and my fiancée (Irish) had a feeling that whatever it was, its intentions were not good. We had a general sense that something unpleasant would happen if it caught up to us, so we jumped back in the car and hightailed it out of there.’ ‘Like an amorphous shape, vaguely rectangular.’ ‘Size changed through the experience.’