‘Me and my best friend at age eight were in the countryside for a family barbecue in the fall. Me and her decided to go play in the large woods that evening (just as the sun was starting to set) behind the house because all of the other kids were doing it. We had wandered maybe three minutes into the woods (we could still hear the party faintly) when we came across a ring of mushrooms. I had heard of these being somehow connected to fairies so me and my friend danced around the inside of it for a couple of minutes. When nothing seemed to happen, we left the circle to continue playing. But when we stepped out of the circle, the warm sunset lighting suddenly faded to the point where it was almost pitch black, and we heard our names being called out. We ran towards the voice and found most of the family looking for us. We had apparently been gone for hours. They couldn’t see or hear us even though we were a few minutes from the party in a relatively undense part of the forest, and their hunting dog couldn’t smell us.’ ‘Since it happened a while ago I can’t remember the exact noises, but I do think I remember giggles that weren’t mine or my friend’s, and bells/wind-chimes.’ ‘I did research after the experience, and with the fairy ring and other factors, I believe fairies could be the only supernatural creature able to create what happened to me and my friend.’
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Ontario, Canada
2000s
Female: Age 0-10
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in woodland
6 pm-9 pm
two to ten minutes* [‘a few minutes for us, hours for the people looking for us’]
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, unusually clouded memories of the experience, a sudden warmth before the experience