‘My friend and I visited the stump of a recently fallen, beloved old willow tree in my backyard. We encountered spheres of colored light rising from the stump and floating around it. They behaved playfully. On subsequent visits to this spot, I’ve repeated the experience many times, although frequency diminished over a period of several years. They seem most active from May Day to Halloween but can also be seen in winter.’ ‘[Fairies] generally take the form of balls of light, but on rare occasions briefly assume anthropomorphic form.’ ‘[Why fairies?] The beings seem closely tied to plants or trees, so a nature spirit or fairy paradigm seems a better fit than aliens/ghosts/angels.’ ‘[Fairies are] Nature spirits with subtle energy bodies capable of assuming forms we can understand.’
§787
Minnesota, US
2010s
Male: Age 51-60
occasional supernatural experiences
in a garden
9 pm-12 am
ten minutes to an hour
with one other person who shared my experience
no special state reported
friendly
loss of sense of time, profound silence before the experience, hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life