A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Wales 2010s
Male: Age 21-30 never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in woodland 3 pm-6 pm one to two minutes with one other person who shared my experience
no special state reported
aloof
loss of sense of time

‘My dad and I hiked up a large mountain near our house and on the way down it got dark, and we walked off the path. I noticed something that I thought was a tree stump, but black in the distance. We climbed up onto what we thought was a path then saw in the distance, about thirty feet away, a dark figure advancing towards us. I didn’t get too nervous at first until I realized that we could not identify whether it was a creature or not. We were very isolated and in a place that one would not normally walk. We heard crunching noises of twigs and leaves as the figure got closer, now around twenty feet away, and I had an overwhelming sense that it had feminine energy; not that I could see its face. My dad immediately turned around and started marching into the really dark part of the wood. I struggled to keep up with him. When we got home, we spoke about it and he said he had an urge to walk that way and he also heard a humming tune coming from the figure. A few hours later and I am still feeling strange about it.’ ‘Black hooded creature’. ‘Humming’. ‘It felt very close to nature’. Fairies are ‘manifestations of energy.’