‘I was looking through flowers in a field to draw a still life for as an art project, when I [saw] several small beings emerging from the plants. They were tiny in size but large enough that I was completely sure they were in no way insects. They looked like tiny pale humans with moth-like wings and made tiny tinkling noises. I had no camera with me so I sat down and drew as they hovered around and ‘spoke’ to one another. About halfway through the sketch curiosity got the best of me and I stepped a foot closer and reached my hand towards the little beings. They quickly disappeared into the distance and as hard as I looked I wouldn’t find them anywhere.’ ‘Small, pale, with long limbs and wings similar to moths.’ ‘Like little bells (a cliche description but accurate).’ ‘They seemed similar to how fairies had been previously depicted and described, but not exactly how they are in most movies.’ ‘I never believed in them at all and was incredibly skeptical of the supernatural before and was incredibly turned on this opinion after the experience.’ ‘I hope to learn about other’s experience with fairies and want to have another experience with them some day.’
§350
Ohio, US
2010s
Female: Age no age given
occasional supernatural experiences
in a garden
12 am-3 am
two to ten minutes
on my own*
no special state reported
joyful, aloof
profound silence before the experience, hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life