‘Camping with a friend. It may have been around 10 o’clock pm we were sitting around a fire and we heard walking in the woods. We used our flashlights and saw nothing. Going back to camp my friend saw a floating orb light, it looked like a lantern floating through the air. We camped in these woods several nights and saw the orb lights twice more. With the lights there is always the sound of walking through the leaves in underbrush. A couple of times we heard small sounds that sounded like a small child. We actually never saw anything that looked like a fairy or anything else but from the descriptions from books I’ve read it could have been a possibility.’ ‘I can’t say that it was a fairy, just that it was a new experience seeing the orbs the few nights that we were there. The house that I grew up in was believed to be haunted with ghosts. The experiences that I had in the woods were different and we thought maybe they were fairies. But no proof of it.’ ‘[Fairies are] maybe spiritual beings.’ ‘Growing up through my childhood into manhood I have experienced a number of things that I can’t explain. It’s just this time in the woods it seem a little different. It could have been something else I don’t know for sure.’
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West Virginia, US
1960s
Male: Age 11-20
occasional supernatural experiences
on or near water, in woodland
9 pm-12 am
two to ten minutes
with one other person who shared my experience
no special state reported
maybe curiosity
profound silence before the experience, unusually vivid memories of the experience