A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Notts, England 1980s
Male: Age 11-20 regular supernatural experiences
inside a private house 12 am-3 am two to ten minutes on my own
you had just woken up or were just about to go to sleep
mischievous, aloof, melancholy
profound silence before the experience, hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life

‘I awoke in the night with moonlight shining through a gap in my curtains. Then into the light stepped a white-haired woman all dressed in white. She had a nimbus of white light around her and wore a pearl crown or tiara. She then put her hand on my shoulder and her touch was very cold. I was lying in bed at the time in a state of shock not believing what I was seeing. I then blinked and she was gone. I was visited by her again in 1987 whilst on holiday in ***, Scotland. This time I was given a message. ‘Scathach will come to you.’ Scathach I have since learned was a Celtic queen of Alba. I have been visited by her one more time since then in my home in ***, Nottingham, just before the birth of my son. The first visitation triggered at least fifty more visitations of many kinds of creatures, all on the borders of sleep over the last thirty-four years. These ranged from men dressed in black cloak and top hat (***, Derbyshire, 1996), black dogs (***, Nottingham 1997), Corpses (***, Nottingham 2000), hybrid human animal combinations, (***, Gwynedd multiple times since 2016) red mists (***, Nottingham 2012, 2014, and 2015) and old ladies (*** Nottingham 2020). Once whilst doing my PhD, (I lived in the *** area of Nottingham at that time) I awoke to see an old lady all dressed in black standing in my bed. I am a professor of *** in *** now and my logical mind asks where do these originate. The experiences have however been extremely frightening, involve all of the senses and vary greatly in what I see.’ ‘White lady of noble bearing’