‘When I was five, we moved to a new house. I kept feeling like something was in my room, and when I went to sleep, I saw a humanoid creature with grayish skin and red eyes hiding in my closet. After I insisted to my parents, he was real, they finally told me the ‘monster’ was good. I slept better after I gave him food, and he became fond of me. He’s been around ever since, following me, and occasionally giving advice. He is territorial and doesn’t like most people, but he protects me.’ ‘Tall, grayish skin, red eyes with dark sclerae, dark unkempt hair.’ ‘He is extremely quiet usually.’ He has ‘some of the fairy’s specific personality traits, such as a hatred of lies. Honestly for years I didn’t realize because the fairies in my books looked different.’ ‘I was afraid, but it was because I thought something was there.’ ‘He was annoyed that I noticed him the first time. He tends to get angry but not really at me.’ Fairies ‘can be dangerous but a lot of people used them as a way to explain unpleasant things once.’
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Illinois, US
1990s
Female: Age 0-10
occasional supernatural experiences
inside a private house
9 pm-12 am
‘happened repeatedly’
on my own
you had just woken up or were just about to go to sleep
aloof
loss of sense of time, profound silence before the experience, hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life