‘I have always been a bit of a believer and became more-so due to a photo I took of my garden one day, which made me more curious. One night shortly after this, on a summer evening at dusk, my husband and I were sitting in the garden at dusk pondering the jungle of a garden we were planning to transform and tackle in the coming week. We had just moved into this house, and the garden was a tangled unsightly mess. We had been sitting in silence surveying the mess, when I thought I could see a kind of sparkling effect amongst the tangled weeds, I tried to point this out to my husband, who did not see this, however within the next few minutes, what had been the tangled mess of weeds was to me anyway suddenly transformed into what I can only describe as a beautiful garden, glowing and beautiful. I thought that perhaps it was just me that could see this so I didn’t mention it to my husband, then he nudged me and said for fuck’s sake! Look at the garden!!!! He saw it too and then he turned and looked at me and said OH MY GOD!!! Your face!!! You look like a teenager, and he was holding my face and staring at me in amazement, of course I dived into the house to find a mirror, but saw no difference! and my husband said that as I ran in, the garden went back to normal! I can only assume that what was experienced was what is called in Scottish lore ‘The glamour’.’ ‘All around the garden are old stones built into short walls. In later years I found out where the stones had come from. Near where I live there is what was once a grand estate, and is now a public woodland/glen, with ruined castle etc. near the site of the castle there had once been a stone built ‘Fairy well’ where people could sample the mineral waters of the well and make wishes etc. however the well was reduced to rubble in the landslide. Local people in the 1960s helped themselves to the old stones for use as garden walls and edging etc, and you have guessed it my garden is full of these stones!’ ‘[It was a fairy] [b]ecause it was so embodied in the plant life in the garden, and if there are such things as fairie in my own opinion they are part of nature and plants, trees rivers etc’
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South Lanarkshire, Scotland
2000s
Female: Age 41-50
regular supernatural experiences
in a garden
6 pm-9 pm
two to ten minutes
with one other person who shared my experience
no special state reported
no fairy mood reported
loss of sense of time, 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