‘My mother, aunt, and I were out in our garden admiring the flowers, a rather large bumblebee flew over and landed on a flower to drink nectar and we all simultaneously saw the bumblebee was carrying a tiny red pail in its front legs that appeared to be metal as it was shiny. The three of us all saw it at the same time, all saw the same thing, and it flew away within one to two minutes.’ ‘My mother had actually stated after the experience we had possibly just seen a being from the fairy realm, because in our world it was highly unlikely an oversized bumblebee would be collecting nectar in a shiny red pail the size of a thimble’
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Maine, US
1980s
Female: Age 11-20
occasional supernatural experiences
in a garden
6 pm-9 pm
one to two minutes
with several other people, some of whom shared my experience
no special state reported
joyful, aloof
loss of sense of time, 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 sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life