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‘In the winter of 1999 I was staying at a friend’s in the village of *** near *** Moor. I awoke in the night. It was after midnight around 3 am and I heard what sounded like an angelic choir singing. It sounded very distant. I got up to investigate, walked around the house trying to work out where the sound was coming from and could find no explanation. It wasn’t coming from anything in the house that I could discern. It sounded like it was coming from [the] nearby moor. The night was very clear and still, no wind or rain. What choir would be out at that time of the morning on the moor in the cold and pitch-black dark? It was also other-worldly sounding. The singing continued on, and I went back to bed unable to come up with any earthly explanation. There are so many stone circles, cairns and standing stones on *** Moor, a vey ancient and sacred landscape. I didn’t know about faerie music at the time, I was more into angels, I now wonder if it was the fae that I was hearing out on the moor that night.’ ‘High pitched, like an angelic choir singing, very beautiful and ethereal, many harmonies.’ Why do you think your experience was a fairy experience, as opposed to a ghost or an alien or an angel or some other type of anomalous experience? ‘At the time I was interested in angels so I thought it was angelic. Its only in retrospect knowing more about fairies and local fairy folklore that I think it was fae.’ Fairies are ‘nature spirits who are part of the natural world’. ‘The experience took me by surprise and I have since had other unexplained auditory experiences.’