‘I believe I was about eight years old. For some unknown reason myself and my sister (who is approximately four years older than me) were sleeping in our parents’ bed (our parents were not in the bed, just me and my sister). I remember waking up and looking over to the tallboy in the corner of my parent’s bedroom near the window. There were several pixie- and fairy-like small beings climbing up to the top of the tallboy. I would guess each was no taller than nine inches to twelve inches tall. The fairies were glowing with a white light which illuminated the pixies so I could see them. I was neither afraid nor puzzled, I just remember thinking they were there to look after us. I wasn’t dreaming I am sure as I remember too that I must look away quickly or else they will go away so I pulled the covers over my head.’ ‘As you would expect, small feminine creatures with wings and the pixies [were] male.’ ‘I do believe that it was a tinkling sound that woke me up.’ ‘Definitely fairy’ as opposed to other kind of supernatural experience. Fairies ‘exist not just in our imagination’. ‘I definitely saw fairies and pixies.’
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Lincolnshire, England
1960s
Female: Age 0-10
occasional supernatural experiences
inside a private house
12 am-3 am
less than a minute
with one other person who did not share my experience
you had just woken up or were just about to go to sleep
friendly
a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience