‘I was sitting on the open back of a flat bed trailer, in a field. There were a number of other people in the field, but they were busy elsewhere. I was relaxing, just gazing across the fence into the woods. A very large (twice human height) humanoid creature, which appeared to be made out of sticks, jumped out of a tree about thirty metres from me. He landed in a crouched position with one hand on the ground in front of him. He seemed to look at me for about five seconds, then jumped straight back up into the tree and sort of strode away, in the branches, along the line of the fence to the corner of the field, where he turned away from me and went out of sight. I and a friend, whom I called over, went and examined the place where he jumped down and where he turned and went away. We found nothing but a strong smell of decay.’ ‘Like a skeleton made out of sticks.’ ‘It didn’t look like a ghost or alien and it didn’t have wings. It might easily have been ‘some other type of anomalous experience’, but, not having any other way of categorising it, I have chosen to ascribe it to faries.’
§54
Hampshire, England
2000s
Female: Age 41-50
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in woodland, in open land (fields etc)
9 am-12 pm
less than a minute
on my own
‘relaxing at a campsite’
no fairy mood reported
No special experience reported