‘I was with my friend hiking through the woods after dark. We were taking psychoactive drugs I’ll admit, but I know the difference between a hallucination and what’s real. We were out late at night enjoying the woodsy coastline alongside the ocean. The woods we were exploring were like a hybrid of a sandy beach. We came across a ridge that overlooked a long stretch of beach of the Atlantic Ocean, I looked down to see the coastline and fell off it and slid down the ridge about twenty feet onto the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. My friend followed me down and we were now both on the coastline. Somehow, we lost the flashlight that was ON which seems impossible, but it happened. I’ll never understand how this flashlight was lost. After we slid down the ridge, we rested near the ocean shore. The moon was full and started to rise beyond the ocean skyline, and for whatever reason it was really red, like really really REALLY red but throughout the night it gained its natural color back. I was astonished by the moon’s beauty at the time and gazed at it for a while with my friend. My friend was scared of it and didn’t know that the moon was even the moon and asked me what it was: funny enough. He went to go urinate and I went to go talk to him as he was coming back and that’s when I saw this ‘fairy’. This thing was so pretty and so surreal, it was fluttering up and down almost as if it were dancing or showboating, actively conveying the message like ‘Hey I’m right here, I’m right here! Do you see me? Do you?’ It was orb-shaped and looked to be about like one foot in circumference, and its color was a really bright pink. Astonished, I asked my friend many times if he could see whatever this entity was, and he couldn’t see it even though it was right in front of us, several feet away. For whatever reason I was only able to perceive it. It continued to flutter around for an instance after I asked my friend if he can see it or not, then it moved further away from me. It stopped jigging and moved further away from me, several more feet, remained idle for a moment, then just zipped down the coastline and then I never saw it again. Its speed was supersonic. It almost looked like it teleported it was so fast. Also it was silent.’ ‘It was like a bright pink orb almost as big as a basketball.’ ‘I wouldn’t know what to classify it as, but research says that it was most likely a fairy, spirit, or angel.’ Fairies are ‘cute, pretty, and really elusive.’ ‘I want to join a community based on supernatural things, but I have no friends that believe in this sort of thing sadly.’ ‘I know what I’ve seen. This wasn’t a hallucination as I’ve seen these while sober. This one in particular stood out the most.’
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Massachusetts, US
2010s
Male: Age 21-30
occasional supernatural experiences
on or near water
12 am-3 am
less than a minute
with one other person who did not share my experience
you had taken alcohol or a medicine or drug, you were extremely happy
curious
hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, 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