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‘Was sat on my stairs on the telephone looking out of the hall window that looks across my front garden (no hedges), and onto the second main route into town. Time would be approximately 10.30 pm but visibility is good on the road as it is the secondary main route into the town centre. The road was quiet as it is a seaside town and it was out of season. The road is well lit by streetlights. As I was talking on the telephone I watched a ‘tree-man’ walk slowly down the road. There were no hedges in my field of vision and I could clearly see any foliage that is across the road in the gardens opposite as ‘he’ walked past them. This tree-man took so long (approximately up to two minutes) to pass I actually had time to mention it to my husband on the telephone and describe what I was seeing. The figure was approximately seven-foot tall, slim, I could clearly see a trunk like body from the waist up, branch-like arms and a quite haggard face with short branches coming from the top of the head and sides, but not like a true tree, they didn’t seem to taper to twigs. It walked in a measured way, as though putting one foot down and then making effort to pull forward, arms swinging. The figure was slightly leaning forwards. It passed my field of vision and I stood up to look down the road, but next door’s hedge blocked my view. I did not feel it was threatening in any way, but it just seemed to be going about its business.’ ‘Approximately seven-foot tall slim tree-man figure judging from the height of the wall it would have been behind, seen from waist up only. Haggard/wizened face, seemed ‘old’. Bark-like heavy grooved texture of body and face, long branch-like arms bent at the elbow area, unnaturally straight and thin arms, long hands. A few leaves scattered on the body and arms. ‘Stumpy’ branches from head (not tapering as branches do).’ ‘Researched since and found nothing at all about this area and faery lore.’ ‘I have a belief in faeries as nature spirits or landscape/elemental creatures and am a keen reader of folklore. This figure would fit with my personal belief and my folklore studies as a faery sighting.’ ‘I have two thoughts. I believe faeries are ‘spirits’ or elemental creatures associated with certain landscape features/trees/places etc. I believe they co-exist but are perhaps on a different vibrational level to us and our limited visual spectrum.’ ‘I think faeries/folkloric creatures do exist at all times, and in certain places or associated with certain trees etc, but due to the limited spectrum of what we can see and our limited senses we can’t see them all the time unless we glimpse them by accident. I feel this could be due to our disconnectedness from nature, and the way we have ‘dismissed’ our senses to a great extent (except the visual). I think if we could hone our senses better, get away from the ‘easy feed’ of modern sensory stimuli and be more in stillness we would probably notice much more.’