‘We were walking through the woods at night, there were four of us, all who saw the same thing as me, and we were returning to the youth hostel we had hired for the weekend. About ten feet away from us, amongst the trees, we saw a small hooded figure. It was about two feet high, dressed in a long, dark coloured cloak, and bent slightly. It seemed to know we had seen it, and it followed us through the woods, always at about the same distance away. It took us about five minutes to get back, and it followed us all the way back. By the time we got back we were quite frightened as it did not feel friendly. All four of us, all adults, saw exactly the same thing!’ ‘About two-feet tall, hunched and wrapped in a long hooded cloak.’ ‘We just all thought that [a fairy] was what we were seeing. I suppose because it was in the woods, was much smaller than a human and that all of us could see it.’
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Derbyshire, England
2000s
Female: Age 41-50
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in woodland
9 pm-12 am
two to ten minutes
with several other people, some of whom shared my experience
no special state reported
menacing
hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, unusually vivid memories of the experience