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‘This happened in ***, on March 10, 2019. I [American tourist] was staying at the *** Bed and Breakfast just outside the town/stone circle. My room overlooked a field and the back garden, and there was a tree outside my window. As it was early March and still cold and windy, there were no leaves on the trees, and no bugs outside. I was sleeping in my room and woke up at 11:11 PM (this was verified from a text message I sent to someone about the incident that evening). I looked out the window and saw two lights, one blue/white, one red/orange. At first, I thought I was just seeing lights from a plane crossing the sky, as it was a clear night, but then I realized that these lights were just staggering around, meandering, within the branches of the tree. I grabbed my phone to take a photo or video, but it was too dark, and my phone was an old Samsung that could not be adapted to night video, and I couldn’t turn off the flash. I got up and sat at the desk near the window watching them for a long time – over an hour. During this time, I looked for every explanation. I checked the reflection of the fire alarm light. I looked around for other sources. I didn’t physically go outside as it was too cold and windy. I eventually went to sleep, but every night I saw these lights, and on the third night I was there, one of them got close to the window, and it seemed to look at me with orange eyes that were like fiery saucers. Then it continued its meandering. The next morning, I was at breakfast, and was talking to the couple in the next room, who had arrived recently from North Carolina. The woman said to me, ‘Did you see the fairies in that tree outside last night?’ So, I wasn’t the only one who saw them. The owners said they had never seen anything in that tree, but it is likely they would not have been able to see them from their house that was next to the Bed and Breakfast.’ ‘One looked like a blue/white light, the other like a red/orange light, and this one seemed to have eyes like fiery saucers when it finally looked at me.’ ‘*** generally, has a reputation for strange phenomena, which I did know beforehand, but I’d mainly heard of UFO-type experiences.’ Why a fairy? ‘Because it felt elemental – like this was something connected to the land. Ghosts generally appear for a period of time, or at a certain time, and disappear – or are heard at certain times. Angels are not connected to the land, and they did not match the description of an alien.’ ‘Elemental spirits – earth, air, fire, or water. They are always here. But are likely in another dimension.’ ‘My Ph.D. is on ***, and I’ve taught Mythology for years. My previous take on fairies was that they very likely existed, but I wasn’t really sure if they were a psychological phenomenon connected to transitional experiences, or something real. I’ve had subsequent experiences in Ireland involving ‘time slips’ and ‘stray sods’, and I have no doubt they are real at this point.’