‘I was bunking off from school and sitting in a field boarded by woods. I knew these fields like the back of my hand. I had a sketchpad and was busy drawing. Looking up into what should have been a sloping, open field, it was now full of very small apple trees, a strange mist around the trees and me. I got spooked and scrambled back up the field to the main road and went home a bit shaken up. Returning the following Saturday with friends I’d told this experience to, the field was as it always was, just a field. No sign of the orchard. What I hadn’t told my friends about was the strange compulsion I had experienced, wanting to eat the apples from these trees, and the faint music I heard. I believe I had been in a faery orchard and God knows what might have happened had I eaten any of the fruit.’ ‘Twinkle-like music and flute and strings.’ ‘I think this experience opened something up within me and has made it easier for me to have this type of experience.’
§575
Somerset, England
1970s
Male: Age 11-20
regular supernatural experiences
in open lands (fields etc)
9 am-12 pm
on my own
no special state reported
no fairy mood reported
loss of sense of time, hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life