‘Walking dog with wife through a plantation of silver birch, mainly trees to our left, to our right a step bank leading to a metal fence running the length of an industrial site on the edge of a common. My wife said ‘what th’ hell’s that.’ I hear rustling. Look up to see IT run across the path eight feet ahead of us. It was late autumn the light was fading so it was a silhouette. A humanoid figure of about four to five feet maximum. Thin body, thin limbs, large head with what looked like bushy hair. It ran down the bank. We felt absolute fear and ran swearing. We both saw it together. She saw it coming through the trees. I saw it as it crossed the path.’ ‘The sound of something running through undergrowth’. ‘Four to five feet, thin body and limbs, large head, with bushy wild hair, dusk so was silhouette.’ ‘Both myself and my wife are not prone to lying and admire honesty. We saw it together without a doubt and do not talk openly about it unless we really know and trust the person as we know there would be ridicule’. ‘It looked more like a creature from fairy legend than anything else’. Fairies are ‘either nature spirits or beings from another dimension’.
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Worcestershire, England
2000s
Male: Age 21-30
occasional supernatural experiences
on or near water, in woodland
3 pm-6 pm
no duration given
with one other person who shared my experience*
you were undertaking a repetitive task (e.g. picking blackberries) (‘walking the dog’)
aloof
profound silence before the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life