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‘I’d moved into my parents’ house shortly after they had both deceased and one night, I’m thinking somewhere between 2 and 3 AM. I awoke suddenly and then decided maybe I had better check to see if there was any lighting in the backyard, as I always worry about someone coming into the cul-de-sac behind me and coming over the fence. I was wide awake by then and I nonchalantly and slowly [opened] the patio door curtain just to peer out and see how dark it was, and if I needed to flip the back porch light on. It was quite dark and yet in the middle of the yard, hovering about four to five feet off the ground, was this luminescent ‘being’. It appeared to be approximately eight to twelve inches in length horizontally. Just a white, glowing creature in the resemblance of a human. I was in awe and in the time, it took me to blink my eye, it flew away faster than lightning, basically in the direction of a pond that is on the other side of the house next to me. I really was in awe and a bit shocked, as I knew it was not a dragonfly! I couldn’t really comprehend what I had just seen, so at that point I just decided to go back to bed. I couldn’t come up with a rational explanation but the more I thought about it, the more I wonder if I didn’t see some sort of fairy creature. I’ve always loved the woods, been a tree climber and garden lover my whole life and the idea of fairies always mesmerized me. I’ve always felt like I was a sensitive, creative and artistic person, but I don’t think in my wildest dreams I ever thought they were absolutely for real. I used to pretend I saw fairies when I was a child, but this led me on a whole new path of discovery and I’m so thankful that in my old age, I have re-discovered something that I had lost touch with most all of my adult life. I’ve told a few close people and of course most think I’m just an eccentric old woman, but it is so comforting to know that others have experienced things similar and that here, I have found a place to share my story. Thank you.’ ‘One more note that I found fascinating is that even since then, I have discovered that my ancestry and my DNA are from Bavaria, Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands and a place called Svalbard, which I had never even heard of. It did make sense to me then that I have always been so attracted to the woods and to Celtic history. Even more amazing is to discover that far back, an ancestor on my father’s side, who is of the Irish and English descent (my mother was German). Well, back in 1636 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire England a woman by the name of Kathryn/Katherine/Katharn(sp?) Garner, was drowned because she was accused of being a witch. I have found several articles about that incident and back at that time there were three Garner brothers and the one accused the other two brothers’ wives of being witches and they were both executed… Hence, the two husbands left for America and the one child that Katherine had, who was a boy of three to five years at her death are my ancestors on my father’s side. Sorry to be so long-winded but finding out all that history in my family made me feel even more connected to that lore and it explains why I’ve always felt the connection my whole life to everything about that area of the world and now I’m stuck in Texas! Luckily however, I’ve learned a lot since I saw that little ‘being.’ ‘Luminescent, white light with the faint shape of a body (I guess female, but not absolute sure) floating horizontally, possibly eight inches long, but no bigger than twelve inches long.’ ‘This event happened probably during the summer, and I don’t remember in the previous fall watch in the backyard with the grass being dormant brown it’s *** and they’re in the middle of the yard was a very small ring of dark green grass probably about ten inches wide at the time I jokingly said it was my fairy ring but after seeing that little creature…’ Why a fairy ‘Because I’d never seen anything like this. It wasn’t shaped like a ghost or an angel, even though it was white and luminous. It had a definite outline of a small human body hovering, a flying creature nothing like a dragonfly. And it flew faster than anything I’ve ever seen. Blink of an eye and it took off.’ ‘I think fairies come in all different categories that I wonder if they are part of the fallen angels but I want to believe that there are good ones and might still be saved