A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Washington, US 2010s
Female: Age 41-50 occasional supernatural experiences
in woodland 9 am-12 pm one to two minutes with one other person who did not share my experience
no special state reported
friendly
profound silence before the experience, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life

‘It was back in December 2012. I had gone with my husband to the *** Reserve on *** Island. It was a clear day. We had decided to take a different path than our normal route (as we would go there often). I remember walking past this area that was quite dense with foliage, but in the near distance was a tree stump covered in moss and other plants. I remember having a strange feeling that something was watching me, I got my camera out and took a photo, I didn’t zoom in on anything, just a simple point and shoot photo of the area I was looking at. I really didn’t expect to find anything on the photo, but the feeling was very real. I get home, and upload the photo to my computer, to take a closer look, and wow. I even get goose bumps remembering what I saw. It was a face looking back at me, but a masked face, like the Fairy had a mask that was almost cat like, but all green, maybe a Green Man face mask. I have looked at my photo so many times. Also, I have been back to the gardens but for some reason I can’t find the area I took the photo in! which has added to the mystery.’ ‘I do feel it wanted me to see it, or take a photo and then find it within the photo.’ ‘It was an experience that actually led me to research Fairy folklore much more closely and then find the connection with Alien experiences people have had. It changed my whole UFO/Alien research, for the better! and it opened my mind to a much deeper way of thinking about these strange phenomena that people experience.’ Fairies are: ‘Another race of beings that we are yet to understand fully.’ ‘My main area of research is about UFOs and Aliens, also Bigfoot, this was not like any of those experiences. I have always been interested in Fairy Folklore and its connection that some have put together regarding Fairies and Aliens, Jacques Vallee to name one of them. The only other time I can say I have seen a Fairy is when I was very little, in my bedroom, he was a tiny man with a red and white stripe jumper on, blue trousers and was dancing and playing a flute.’