A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Florida, US 2010s
Female: Age 11-20 occasional supernatural experiences
in woodland 12 pm-3 pm one to two minutes with one other person who shared my experience
no special state reported
angry
a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life

‘It was maybe 2011 or 2012 at a girl scout camp in the Florida panhandle, camp ***. There is a wooded area nearby nicknamed ‘fairy glen’ that has a fairy statue where girls leave little trinkets. I was an edgy preteen at the time and, for shock value, lightly kicked the fairy statue in the glen. On my way back to camp, pine sap fell in my hair, so much so that I had pine needles falling and catching in my hair. I did everything to get it out, soaps, oils, anything I could find in the kitchen, elbow grease. Everything I did just kept it as bad as before. A friend of mine suggested it was the statue’s doing, so I took a trinket to the statue and gave it with a sincere apology of kicking it earlier. On my way out this time, I touched that part of my hair in an offhanded way and noticed the sap was completely gone.’ What is your opinion of fairies? ‘Big fan’.