‘I was about four years old, camping with my mother, stepdad and friends. We were preparing lunch and I was curious to find one of the family friends sitting below a tree staring into the tree. From what I saw nothing was in the tree but yellow buds. I sat with her and asked what she was doing. She said she was watching the fairies. I was very surprised and remarked there were none. She told me to look closer. I focused on the yellow buds and saw there were about ten tiny pixie-like men fluttering about, they were all a bright golden yellow. I was so excited and shocked I bolted inside to show my mum the fairies and begged her to come outside and look but she dismissed me as being silly. I sat back out with the friend, and she gave me a tiny clear crystal-like orb with rainbow colours in it and said they had given it to her but wanted me to have it. I kept it until I was about six or seven, but it just disappeared one day. I never gave doubted this experience and have remembered it vividly since it happened.’ ‘I was young, it felt like an innocent safe experience, very joyous and I saw it all very clearly.’
§945
Victoria, Australia
2000s
Female: Age 0-10
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in woodland
9 am-12 pm
two to ten minutes
with one other person who shared my experience
you were extremely happy
joyful
profound silence before the experience, unusually vivid memories of the experience