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‘I was playing games with my cousins in the backyard at night time. We were playing a game where we pretended to activate superpowers, and to do so we stood in a circle and held hands. Something told me to look behind me. I’m still not sure what it was. I did so, and what I saw on the small tree behind us was a tiny figure just a few inches high, with wings, definitely female, a small dress. However, she was really a silhouette, rather than a freely visible being. I screamed ‘fairy!’ She threw her arms up in surprise and immediately disappeared. When she vanished, silvery bubbles, irregular in shape, almost like the bubble in a spirit level, took the place where she had been, and floated down onto the slender branch and burst in little balls of light. No one believed me, of course. I’ve had several other encounters which I might enter into this survey as well. They were all as a young person.’ ‘At the time, I didn’t believe in Ghosts or have any interest in horror topics. I didn’t really think about aliens or Angels. I was pretty much obsessed with fairies and fairies alone. I’m not sure what I would have made of it if I had seen a ghost. She certainly looks like a fairy, textbook almost. Only a couple of details were different than what I expected, for example her surprise seemed somehow human.’ ‘[What are fairies?] I don’t know. If I had to say I would say that they are various species, some physical and some spirits will, which live in and around our world. By ‘around’ I’m referring to the other world. I don’t believe they’re all good I don’t believe they’re all evil, I don’t believe they’re the spirits of the Dead, and I don’t really know what else to say. My belief in them is based largely on my experiences of them in real life. That’s probably the only reason I still believe in them as an adult. Couldn’t even begin to tell you what they really are.’