‘Two of my children were camping at bottom of garden, at roughly midnight I went to check they were ok before I went to bed. As I approached the tent I could hear whispering in the garden and giggling. I heard a voice whisper ‘its mum’, from one side of the trees then giggling, and whispering from another area. I thought my kids were up and messing about in garden. So I hissed back at them that I was angry with them for being up. I unzipped the tent but they were both fast asleep (genuinely) in their sleeping bags. I checked all round the garden there was no one there. We do not have neighbours with children. We are very rural and garden backs on to water meadows. The voices sounded very child-like and mischievous.’ ‘Child like hissy voice, like whispering, suppressed giggling’. ‘It seemed like there was a number of voices, I didn’t feel scared or threatened, the voices, knew me as mum, rather than my name, like they had previously heard my children using that.’
§44
Dorset, England
2010s
Female: Age 41-50
occasional supernatural experiences
in a garden
9 pm-12 am
one to two minutes
on my own
you had just woken up or were just about to go to sleep
mischievous, joyful
loss of sense of time, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience