A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Virginia, US 2010s
Female: Age 21-30 never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in woodland 9 pm-12 am two to ten minutes with one other person who shared my experience
you were tired and hadn’t slept for a long time
friendly, joyful, aloof
a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you

‘I was standing at the back door of a friend’s house, looking across the clearing right behind it, to the edge of the forest. He lived in a small cabin, in a fairly secluded and rural area. At the edge of the forest (maybe around fifty feet away) I saw a small white light about three or four feet off the ground. It was floating and dancing in small circles. I called my friend to ask if he saw it too, he did. He said maybe it was a solar light (the kind that is attached to the top of a stake, which you stick in the ground) that he had in that area. I pointed out that if that was the case, how could it be moving around and floating off the ground? He didn’t argue. We watched it for several minutes. I went back the next day to look at the area in daylight. There was one broken solar light in that area, firmly anchored to the ground. I definitely saw something else. A fairy, duh! :)’ ‘A small white light. Since it was at a distance, I couldn’t see any other form (or maybe there wasn’t one.) I did not try to approach for a better look.’ ‘I think a fairy would be most likely to appear as a dancing light by the edge of a forest. I’ve read of other people seeing fairies as balls of light. The setting in nature is somewhere I would think it would be likely for fairies to be, even if they weren’t always visible. When seeing it, I had a feeling of awe. I think if it were an alien or ghost, I would have felt unease.’ ‘Elemental spirits, like the Angels of nature. In a realm tangential to ours. Maybe occupying the same physical space, but on a different energy frequency or something.’