‘When I was little I lived in an old neighborhood in ***, Kentucky. My mother grew roses and hollyhocks in the back yard by an alley. I would sit in the grass and play with the fairies. They were little and would set on my fingers, I would make clothes and hats for them out of the hollyhocks and four-o-clocks. We would have tea parties with my little dishes. Once I was walking with my mother, and the fairies were dancing in front of me. I was poking my toes at them. My mother wanted to know why I was laughing, and I said I was playing with the fairies. She didn’t see any fairies and told me I was silly. We moved from that house when I was seven, and I never saw the fairies again. I don’t think anyone else ever saw them.’ ‘Like fairies! Little dancing things. Tiny children, maybe.’ ‘Just laughing.’ ‘I wish I could see them again. I went back to the alley of my childhood a few years ago, but my friends were no longer there.’
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Kentucky, US
1950s
Female: Age 0-10
occasional supernatural experiences
in a city, in a garden
12 pm-3 pm
‘it would depend’
‘by myself and also walking down the street with my mother’
no special state reported
friendly, mischievous, joyful
No special experience reported