‘I was lying in bed with no lights on in the room while listening to music with headphones. I was not asleep or close to sleep. I saw a round green light through the closed blinds. It bobbed up and down like a bug would do, but this light was a brilliant grass green and glowed more brightly than any firefly I’ve seen. Also, the size of the light ball was perhaps the size of a large grapefruit. In TX the only luminescent creatures we have are fireflies and this was too big and too green to be one. I did not immediately go to the window because I was kind of stunned and puzzled into inactivity, so I never saw more than the round shape and color of the light. But it was obvious that it was not something you would see on a National Geographic nature special. I’ve always wished I would have been able to see it but it darted away before I could get to the window.’ ‘It just seemed like a fairy, even though all I saw was a ball of green light. The way it moved was like the fairies I’ve seen in movies. They move like bugs but are surrounded by a glow of light. I don’t know what it was, and it could have been something else, but my mind just seemed to catalogue it as a fairy.’ What are fairies? ‘They are just part of that fringe of human knowledge, we have legends and stories but for some reason nobody can get concrete proof. Aliens, angels, ghosts, etc are also in that category. The experiences humans report with these things are always just short of being concrete but there has to be something real there or we wouldn’t have the stories.’
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Texas, US
2000s
Female: Age 11-20
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
inside a private house
6 pm-9 pm
one to two minutes
on my own
you were very sad
neutral
a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you