‘My family was on a religious pilgrimage. We were lost. None of us had ever been in this part of the world. It didn’t appear on our map. I was in the back seat of the car. My grandfather left us briefly to ask directions from a man in field. I heard a singing silvery voice say. ‘He doesn’t understand. He will speak French, but your grandfather will know where to go.’ My grandfather returned and said he didn’t understand anything the man had said, but he knew the way to travel. He did. We arrived at a dark shrine in a field. It was open and seemed nothing but corridors of dark stone. Although it was Christian, it seemed to have no wall. My grandmother was kneeling and crawling simultaneously up and down. There was bright singing.’ ‘Bell-like resonance after music.’ What are fairies? ‘Old spirits inhabiting certain places.’
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Quebec, Canada
1950s
Male: Age 0-10
occasional supernatural experiences
on a country road
3 pm-6 pm
two to ten minutes
with several other people, none of whom shared my experience
no special state reported
mischievous
loss of sense of time, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience