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‘I live in a house in a small valley in a relatively rural area of Connecticut. Before my family bought this house we had been renting for a bit, during this period in the spring or summer, my younger sister and I were enjoying the weather on the screened-in porch reading. I don’t recall if it was gradual or spontaneous, or if we noticed all at once, but, at some point, we began to hear a piano tune being played. (We own a piano, but we didn’t have it yet at this point). The way sound travels in our little valley is quite fascinating so we shrugged it off initially and just sat there enjoying it. We discussed where the music could have been coming from and realized that none of our neighbors had a piano that we knew of, and if it was coming from the road on the other side of the woods, near the top of the valley, we would have heard before. We also noted that neither of us could name the song, and although it sounded familiar, we couldn’t recall where from. We got our mother to come to the porch and she agreed that she had no idea where the song was coming from or what song it was. At some points it sounded very far off, and at other points it sounded as if it were right in our backyard, and eventually, some other instrument (I unfortunately can’t remember if it was a flute or a harp), joined in from another direction. After about ten minutes, which felt longer, the music just sort of tapered out and we went on with our daily activities. It wasn’t until about half an hour later that my sister and I agreed that this music was otherworldly, though my mother was more dismissive, and my father had not heard it, having been in town. I don’t know about my sister, but I still maintain this position, but I tend to only tell people I really trust not to judge me, or in anonymous circumstances like these.’ ‘Very pleasant, like something you’d hear at a fancy restaurant. Enchanting but not dangerously so. Mostly piano, with another instrument harmonizing towards the end of the experience.’ What are fairies? ‘I’m still not sure. To me, there is at least one ‘Otherworld’ where they preside, but they can access both our world and theirs. I think as well that as humans migrated, the areas that Faeries can be found in became more numerous because folklore has power to them and this folklore was now being spread, just as I believe any supernatural being would. I believe Faeries adapt to their environments extremely well yet have a strong connection to the past. Believe that some people (including myself) have Faerie blood, though not through what we’d recognize as etic means