‘I was walking our neighborhood with a friend, and I was telling her that my family came from a long line of people who lived in the woods. In the story, I told her that we hid from people at first, but then we got used to being with others and so we gradually came out and decided to live among people. My friend looked at me funny, and I said, ‘no, it’s true! I can even talk with the little people who live in nature. See this puffball? I’ll knock to see if they’re home.’ And I knocked. The damn thing knocked back. Two quick short knocks. I was shocked, she was shocked and said that she didn’t believe me until she heard the knocks herself. I was making the whole story up.’ Fairies are ‘part of the unseen world, natural beings.’
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New Jersey, US
1970s
Female: Age 0-10
occasional supernatural experiences
on a country road
3 pm-6 pm
less than a minute
with one other person who shared my experience
‘I may have been lonely, I was an awkward kid’
mischievous
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