A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

§362

Pacific North West, US 1980s
Male: Age 11-20 occasional supernatural experiences
in woodland 3 pm-6 pm less than a minute on my own
at peace with my surroundings
aloof, aware of me
loss of sense of time, hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience

‘I had been walking in the woods and suddenly I felt like I was being watched, and sensed someone moving between the trees off to the side of the path. I saw the fairy out of the corner of my eye, a short figure (two-feet tall or so), wearing clothes made of leaves, dappled green and brown. He was walking upright, striding diagonally away from me, between the trees. I turned to look more closely, only to see the ferns closing behind him, rustling with the movement. When I followed off the path, I couldn’t find any more trace of him.’ ‘Two- to three-foot tall, humanoid and stocky, wearing clothing made of leaves.’ ‘It was at home in the woods, it had physical impact on the ferns around it.’ ‘[Fairies are] corporeal, interplanar [interplanetary?] nature beings’.