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‘My youngest son aged, approximately twenty at the time of my first encounter, was home from university for the holidays. He had a camp bed (cot bed) in my bedroom as the spare rooms were not functional at that time. It was around 1.25 AM when I woke, although I don’t know what roused me. I sat up partially and was drawn to look across the room at my son’s bed. It took a moment for my eyes to become accustomed to what I was seeing and to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was! There were five slim figures, possibly around twelve to fifteen inches tall, completely grey in colour, their hands joined up in the air and they appeared to be dancing around in a circle. Although they were in human form, the bodies and the limbs seemed very long and thin. Other than that, there were no distinguishing facial features that I could make out. It was almost as though they were paper cut-outs. There was no sound, just the dancing movement and jigging up and down as they went around. This wasn’t the first odd thing I’d seen in our house, so I wasn’t particularly perturbed other than to think how cheeky they were. I must have fallen straight back to sleep because, at 1.55 AM, I was awoken again by my son cursing at something I could no longer see. His exact words were ‘Get off my f*** bed and leave me alone!’ I didn’t say anything to him at that time, partly because I was completely shocked that we had both experienced these little creatures within a short space of time. The next day I casually mentioned it to my son, and he simply replied, ‘It was the fairies, mum, they won’t leave me alone.’ I discovered that day that he’d been having fairy problems for the whole time I had lived in the house. They even followed him to another town where his girlfriend lived. My son had never told his girlfriend about fairies, but she asked him one morning if he had felt tiny feet on the bed the previous night. When my son and I spoke in detail he told me that they celebrated whenever he was back from university. Following that incident, I did a fair bit of research and spoke to a lady who seemed to be quite an expert in fairy matters. Together we discovered an area in my back garden that she said was a fairy dell. The lady herself was reluctant to go into the space but I was curious. I discovered that if I stepped into it, outside sounds seemed to become muffled, as though I had put earplugs in. When I took a step back (out), the sounds became normal again. I personally never witnessed any fairies after that day, although I did periodically step in and out of the enchanted area just to see if it was still there.’ ‘Around twelve to fifteen inches tall with spindly legs and long bodies, completely grey in colour.’ What are fairies? ‘I really don’t know.’ ‘It was an experience I will never forget, mainly because of my son’s reaction twenty or so minutes after I had the experience.’