‘I was driving to a friend’s house one evening before dark (before dark is important) and I saw lights on the side of the road. I’m driving near somewhere that doesn’t have electricity as one side of the road has a field and the other has some woods. The lights are on the side of the road with the trees, right on the edge of the trees. It’s slightly shaded but the sun is still peeking through. I slow down to make sure I know what I’m seeing and there’s nobody else around. It’s not a very busy road at that time of day. The lights look like lightening bugs but something in my mind says they’re not. It’s too early for them to be out and they were in a sort of cluster like I’ve never seen before. I’ve lived in areas all my life where there have been lightning bugs, but they don’t cluster like that. The lights also stayed on with the occasional one going out and coming back on. That’s not how lightening bugs act. They usually go on and off quite frequently. I watched them for maybe a minute and then continued driving. I checked in my rear-view mirror, and they were still there. The glow [was] still constant. I made sure to drive home that way and the lights weren’t there anymore.’ ‘Fairies are intelligent oftentimes humanoid beings but not always. There are lots of different kinds of fairies that take on many shapes.’ Why a fairy? ‘It just doesn’t match anything else. That’s not how ghosts act. I don’t know much about angels and how they act. I try very hard to know nothing about aliens.’ ‘This is the first time I’ve ever told anyone anything that I’ve seen. Not that I didn’t want to, just that I’m still unsure of what I saw was [sic]. I’m very sure what I saw. I know exactly what I saw I just don’t know what it was.’
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Ohio, US
2010s
Female: Age 21-30
no supernatural frequency reported
in woodland, in open land (fields etc), on a country road
6 pm-9 pm
less than a minute
on my own
no special state reported
no fairy mood reported
hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience