‘I was about six years old, in my bed which would have been about 8 pm as that was my bedtime. It was midsummer time (around my birthday) and very light outside. I couldn’t sleep because it was so bright. I was watching the window, not really thinking of anything when a small periscope raised up from behind the window and from the top hole little tiny fairies flew out. They were all women. I cannot remember what they looked like or what they wore I just remember being overcome with how beautiful they were. They were all riding tiny peacocks and they flew around the window. It felt very natural and joyful. I looked up to the ceiling and more tiny little people (male and female, I think) were riding on carousel horses around the ceiling light, bobbing up and down in a carousel motion. It was the most joyous feeling, I felt filled with golden light and joy. I looked away to see if there was anything else and when I looked back, they were all gone. I tried but was never able to see them again.’ ‘It was just what it was. I knew in [my] bones they were fairies. There was no doubt in my mind’. ‘My father saw fairies as a child as well, and I wonder if it runs in my family. I also saw a fairy in the same house my father grew up in. His experience was very different to mine.’
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Hertfordshire, England
1970s
Female: Age 0-10
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
inside a private house
6 pm-9 pm
two to ten minutes
on my own
‘couldn’t sleep as wasn’t sleepy’
joyful
a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you