‘Around August/September 1991, in Cornwall UK, whilst driving down a country road with hedgerows either side, travelling at a speed of around forty-five-fifty miles per hour. Something compelled me to look into the hedgerow. I saw a brown leathery-skinned, very angry looking old man, standing about two and a half feet high, completely naked apart from a loin cloth type clothing. He was pointing right at me with his index finger. What happened in an instant seemed to last forever. I then braked sharply only to realise the road was falling sharply towards a sea wall. If I hadn’t braked I would have driven over the sea wall and over the cliff face as I was not on the road I thought I was. I had my then wife and baby son in the car with me. I consider this ‘Pixie’ to have saved our lives.’ ‘About two and a half feet tall with brown leathery type skin. An old looking face with a hooked nose and large ears. He was bald or had very little hair. He had noticeably large hands.’ ‘No music but there was a definite silence to the surrounding air.’ ‘Its appearance was of something that would be described in a nursery rhyme. I just seemed to know what it was upon seeing it!’ ‘The events of that night have and will stay with me forever. It did frighten me enough to not want to see another.’ ‘I don’t know [what fairies are].’
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Cornwall, England
1990s
Male: Age 21-30
occasional supernatural experiences
on or near water, on a country road
9 pm-12 am
less than a minute
with one other person who shared my experience
No special state reported
angry
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