A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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US 2000s
Male: Age 11-20 occasional supernatural experiences
in woodland 3 pm-6 pm ten minutes to an hour with one other person who shared my experience
No special state reported
mischievous
hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience

‘My sister and I accidentally ended up on a fairy road when walking on paths in the public park. I was nineteen at the time and she was thirteen. We were accompanied by her dog. After about fifteen minutes walking we got lost and she used her GPS on her phone to find we were miles away from where we had started. In the path behind us the sunlight shimmered oddly, but no forms were distinct. I apologised aloud for having used their path and gave an offering of the cool rocks and leaves I had picked up along the way, and my sister and I walked back the way we came. It took longer, more like twenty minutes, but we returned to the park after having been gone less than an hour. I have never encountered that path again, though I have visited the park many times since.’ Fairies are ‘flesh and blood entities with the abilities to hide thoroughly and bend spacetime.’ ‘My supernatural experiences occasionally involve fairies (for instance, mushroom rings appearing), but it isn’t common. Usually, I just get a sense of otherness that could be fairies but could be other entities.’