‘I was asleep and was woken by thunder. We had wonderful storms then. I went out to the verandah to watch the lightning and in one of the flashes of lightning everything was lit up for a few seconds. Not that long, maybe just two seconds. And there he was, sitting on the verandah watching the storm. Small, hairless with large eyes. Rather sad eyes. I didn’t think ‘goblin’. I don’t think I’d heard that word then I just thought it looked sad and lost. No threat to me in any way. The house I grew up in used to be swampland but they drained it and filled it in. Afterwards I felt like the poor thing had lost its home. Then I went back to bed. I didn’t tell anyone.’ ‘It felt linked to that place.’
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Queensland, Australia
1970s
Male: Age 41-50
occasional supernatural experiences
inside a private house
3 am-6 am
less than a minute
on my own
you had just woken up or were just about to go to sleep
sad
unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life