‘It was on a track near ***, to *** mountain, the walk with a friend stopped under woodland path blocked with a pool, a fairy ring stood next to it! The area was quiet. No birdsong and had a long reputation of strangeness! I walked around it and felt a cold spine-chill and my partner noticed a mist around the area! I took this as a sign to head back, but took two photos on a SLR camera! The walk out seemed longer and [more] stretched out than walk in! Photos when developed showed a green figure in the tree canopy! The other one was not there, like the film had been rewound? Revisiting the site years later the walk took mere minutes to reach the same location. All had changed as a derelict property on the path was now occupied and the woodland was clear and hillside visible! The local folklore noted many strange sightings of all kinds of entities. Photo published in Janet Bord’s books!’ ‘[Sounds] like drums and whistles, could be water tumbling over rocks and wind in the trees!’ ‘Yes, [a reputation for fairies] plus ghosts, the wild hunt, black dog, ghosts, illuminated palaces, mists and lights.’ ‘Probably the area I had read up on the folklore in the Manx museum prior to visiting during the MANX motorcycle races rest day! Always had an interest in folklore and Fortean phenomena, ancient sites, but you never think anything will occur during a walk! A friend with me experienced it but from a female perspective!’ ‘[Fairies are] nature spirits… who knows.’ ‘A further two visits, nothing was experienced and the time lengthening didn’t occur! State of mind, time of day… may have had something to do with it! The Isle of Man has a pervading sense of strangeness on the Celtic/Norse feel! I have noticed it always makes me and other visitors somewhat in asleepy dream like state with the freshness of the air, from sea and mountain. A visit to other sites such as Gef the talking mongoose proved interesting and so did several archeological sites!’
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Isle of Man
1980s
Male: Age 41-50
regular supernatural experiences
on or near water, in woodland, on a country road
12 pm-3 pm
no duration given
with one other person who shared my experience
no special state reported
no fairy mood reported [‘unknown’]
loss of sense of time, profound silence before the experience, 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 sudden chill before the experience