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‘I was hiking up some foothills of Mount *** alone. I was heading straight to the main mountain. It was between eleven and midnight. It was dark, but the moon was full, so I didn’t use a light source. I had been hiking for about thirty minutes or so when I came into a clearing. As I was moving along, I became aware of many flying things flying all around me. A flutter past my right ear, then one past my left. Though it was a bright full moon, I could not see what these things were, I could only see dark figures as they passed. There were so many of them that I had to stop to figure out what was going on. They kept fluttering past my ears. Were these bats? When I stopped to study these things, they began to dart at my face. I could barely make out dark figures flying straight at my face, before they would dart off to the side, just a few inches away from my face. I heard others flying to the sides past my ears. They looked bat sized. I audibly said, ‘Hello Bats!’ But I was thinking, ‘Why were they behaving this way? Why weren’t they flying high above and catching bugs like normal? I’ve never seen bats behave this way. Not even in a cave full of them.’ I watched them more intently to see if I could make out any shapes. Then I finally saw something. A wing, maybe four inches long, but I saw the moonlight reflect off of it and shine through it. It looked insect like. ‘Umm, these aren’t bats’, I thought. Are these fairies? I was not afraid, and felt no danger, but I have a healthy respect for fairies. I am aware of stories like the one rumored about Robert Kirk, the author of the book: The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies, was killed by fairies to prevent him from publishing his book. So, I decided to announce myself. I said, ‘Hello Fairies?’ I stated that my intentions were peaceful, and that I was happy to say hello if they wished to. I held my arms out in case any of them wanted to land, and actually say ‘hello’. I held them out for a few minutes. As I stayed in this clearing they stayed with me, flying all about me. But I was on another mission, so I began to move along. I felt that they stayed with me though, as I hiked another ten to fifteen minutes, flying distantly, maybe about ten to twenty feet away. At some point, I decided to stop and meditate. Soon I heard a noise that startled me, so I felt that I should head back to my car. As I said, I felt that they had stayed with me, but when I came back to that same clearing, they began to fly around me like before. As I left the clearing, and as I headed down the foothills, I felt that they stayed with me. Every once in a while, I heard one flutter past me, or I saw one fly past me. I actually felt comfort in this. They stayed with me until I got close to where people were camping. None of them ever touched me. I didn’t know what to think about this experience, because I feel so cautious about them. So, the following day, I talked to someone that I felt had a connection with this area about my encounter. She felt that I had encountered fairies and they were having fun with me. So, I like to think that I had some fun with them too.’ ‘I had seen a light high on Mt Shasta and a Medium had channeled the inhabitants of Telos, a city under the mountain. They invited us to come see them.’ ‘I could only make out small shadowy figures flying about me in the moonlight. I did distinguish insect like wings.’ ‘I heard fluttering as they flew past me.’ ‘I asked someone who said fairies were there. I did not know this prior [to going]’. Fairies are ‘people or creatures from an unknown realm that can intersect with ours’.