‘Me and my brother were exploring in the woods. We saw a tree maybe twenty feet off the trail which was so hollowed out you could sit inside it. We investigated it for approximately ten to twenty minutes and when we went back to the trail it was gone. We looked for the trail for over an hour and never found it. Totally lost, we wandered around the woods for hours before finally coming out to a road. I am convinced it was a wood spirit of some kind that was playing a trick on us or just being mischievous.’ Fairies are ‘spirits that have inhabited the earth for a very long time’.
§846
Oregon, US
1970s
Male: Age 0-10
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in woodland
9 am-12 pm
ten minutes to an hour
with one other person who shared my experience
no special state reported
mischievous
unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life