‘It happened in the early morning after having stayed up all night. (Some critics might say this caused an hallucination, I, on the other hand, think those times increase sensitivity). My friends were asleep and I rowed across the lake to an island. While enjoying the early morning, I was watching the squirrels playing in the trees when all of a sudden two small creatures (elves, fairies?) appeared on the branch and kicked a squirrel off the branch and it fell all the way to the ground. I have wondered if those entities really existed, but in my now soon sixty eight years I have yet to see another squirrel fall off a branch. I believe I had what an experience Jerome Clark coined as an ‘experience anomaly’.’ ‘They were not much bigger than the squirrels. They seemed to be clothed but I really don’t remember how, but bright colors come to mind.’
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Minnesota, US
1960s
Male: Age 11-20
occasional supernatural experiences
on or near the water, in woodland
6 am-9 am
less than a minute
on my own
you were tired and hadn’t slept for a long time
mischievous
a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life