‘I saw ‘lights’. Sparkly tinkly lights. But it was the energy, that’s what made me stop and look in the first place. It was like that part of the garden was alive and moving. I do think I heard like whispers but won’t a hundred percent say that. I have often ‘felt’ this in other gardens but only saw the lights once.’ ‘[What are fairies?] To be honest I’m not sure I have an opinion on that. They just ‘are’?’ ‘The people I was with, unbelievers – often had me on about believing in faeries! – took what I was telling them seriously. They never felt or saw anything. I think it freaked them a little coz they saw a change, or something, unexplainable in me.’
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Nelson, New Zealand
2000s
Female: Age 31-40
regular supernatural experiences
in a garden
can’t remember the time
ongoing
with several other people, some of whom shared my experience
no special state reported
no fairy mood reported
loss of sense of time, unusually vivid memories of the experience