A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Texas, US 2010s
Female: Age 21-30 never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in woodland, in open land (fields etc) 9 pm-12 am one to two minutes on my own*
no special state reported
angry, aggressive, malicious
hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience

‘It was very dark and walked past the small treeline about two houses wide toward the meadow which is dimly lit. I started getting this really strange feeling and looked near a curve that goes in making a little concave clearing in the treeline about six yards away and this small thing, was stepping just barely out of the shadow with a really aggressive stance. It was like a bone white in the light, with a short torso and skinny limbs. Couldn’t make out the head shape in the shadow but about a foot and a half or so and thin. It had its shoulders pulled way up in a hulking sort of way. I actually got a terrible feeling when I saw it, even felt kind of sick, and immediately noped [moped?] away without looking back. It didn’t seem defensive per se, the posture, but outwardly aggressive. The way it moved I have no doubt whatever it was would have attacked me had I been close.’ ‘Thin limbs but long, with a short torso. Almost two feet tall, standing on legs with shoulders hunched upward in an aggressive stance, fully tense. Pale.’ No noise ‘but leaves’. ‘I have no idea what it was but [it] appeared to be a diminutive humanoid.’ Fairies are ‘intelligent animals such as us. Some more intelligent than others. Reclusive races of animals.’ ‘It was just an unsettling experience and me cai mal. It frightens me a bit that I immediately felt sick and threatened when I saw it despite its small size. It was such a feeling as one would have around an intelligent predator or would-be assailant. I would like to learn more about such things in North America and also from a scientific point of view as a biology and nature science enthusiast.’