‘I saw what looked like a dark red dragonfly flitting in and out of the branches of a holly tree by the side of my house, which also bordered on a church – but it turned its little head to face me, and I saw a human-like face, and then human-like arms and fingers. I watched it for a few moments and then it flew deep into the tree and didn’t come back out.’ ‘A dark red dragonfly with human-like face, arms, hands and fingers.’ ‘At the time it looked close to what I knew of fairies from books and movies, but not quite – not really properly clothed but not naked either. It was more like an insect-human.’ ‘The answer to that question [what are fairies] changes over time. At the moment I think there is something untapped in our brains that allows us extra-sensory abilities and also an extra strong ability to inspire, bewitch or engage others and to explain this we may say these abilities come from another world and another race. But maybe there is no other world, no other race – maybe it is just us, and we label it as some other-worldly thing because we are not ready to accept it of ourselves just yet. Or maybe there is another world, and other beings.’
§943
Victoria, Australia
1980s
Female: Age 0-10
occasional supernatural experiences
in a garden
6 pm-9 pm
less than a minute
on my own
no special state reported
‘startled, curious and a bit annoyed’
loss of sense of time, profound silence before the experience, hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience