‘When I was about six years old, I awoke to see a tiny nun floating near my bed, in the kneeling prayer position. This isn’t exactly a classic fairy sighting, but the nun was very small. I perceived it to be roughly the size of a child’s doll. I wouldn’t normally have considered sending this in as a fairy sighting, but Dr Young’s recent interview on the channel Hare in the Hawthorn caused me to reconsider. This occurred in the county of Worcestershire, probably in 1996. At the time, I thought of it as a ghost, while my father, being a fundamentalist Christian, thought it was a demon.’ ‘I don’t [think a fairy], but I heard Dr Young say in an interview that he was interested in encounters that happen to children in their beds and this experience is close enough to be of interest I would imagine.’ Fairies are ‘as plausible as any other paranormal phenomenon’.
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Worcestershire, England
1990s
Male: Age 11-20
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
inside a private house
6 pm-9 pm
less than a minute
on my own
you had just woken up or were just about to go to sleep
aloof
a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience