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‘My friend and I had been walking home at dusk after a long walk, we were both either eleven or twelve and didn’t have cell phones yet. I had been out a little too late and thought my dad would be worried so instead of taking the long way home I wanted to take my usual shortcut home through the woods. Although there is a path, the woods were very dark because of the summer leaves. We were both scared and even hesitated, but I convinced us that we would regret not going through the woods like not going on an amusement park ride. On we marched into the woods with both our stomachs in knots. After a short while, we heard crunching directly next to us like footsteps on leaves but also the crunching of an aluminium soda can. All we had were iPods where I could use light from the screen, my friend knew what I was going to do and said ‘don’t do it’. I took my iPod and shone down at the ground where I had heard the sound, what we saw still makes my stomach turn. Only two legs covered in red brown fur with black shiny hooves. I didn’t even shine the light up any higher but I’m sure the creature was at least six feet tall. We both didn’t say a word and instantly started running, we ran so fast all the way out of those woods, from there I don’t even remember what happened besides talking to my dad who was very worried because he also had a bad feeling in his gut and was about to come looking for us. I’m not even sure if this qualifies under the faery side of spiritual encounters, but the town my father lives in typically has these couple hours of the day usually between 5 pm to about 11 pm where things get really weird through the whole town. This isn’t the only encounter me and this same friend have had around the same area but it’s the one that scares me the most.’ ‘Only two back legs of a horse, red brown fur, black hooves.’ ‘Crunching leaves and trash.’ ‘I’ve experienced a lot of weird things in the town.’ ‘With demons you usually hear bells while walking into demon territory and get very dizzy. None of that happened, it makes more sense to be a fairy because in lore there are creatures that are half man half horse, or half goat, or to just look frightening in general and fairies have been known to scare people to energetically feed themselves. This fae could have seen that we were a bit scared to walk through the woods and was either checking out the situation or feeding off of us.’ ‘Just like people, they can be kind, or mean and everything in-between.’ ‘I have had many experiences of Faery. Some more eventful than this. But I’m comfortable sharing this one. An experience somewhere between waking and sleep that wasn’t exactly a dream.’