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‘I was out on a commercial fishing boat with my best friend and her family. The night before we had seen a strange light in the sky – the adults were scared but us kids were fine. The next morning, they dropped us off onto a marine reserve island so we could run around – me, my best friend (same age nine) and her older brother twelve or thirteen. Since it is a marine reserve, you are not supposed to go on it but I guess they didn’t pay too much attention to it. We rowed over in the dingy, beautiful clear and calm day in summer onto a smallish island that was covered in trees. Just us kids landed onto the island and once on the beach we decided to play hide and seek. We all split up and I remember walking through the bush – wasn’t dense just a lot of trees – up towards a hill. As I got closer everything seemed to fuzz but also get clearer and brighter as I came to the top of the hill there was a beautiful green huge tree, at the base of this huge tree were three beings: a tall long-haired blonde man to the right, a small ball of light like tinker bell to the left and in the middle, there was a wee brown man. For lack of descriptive words, he was brown all over his face, his hair and his clothing which was old fashioned looking with big brown buttons and his hat was old and battered, his pants and shirt were coarse looking material but well worn. He had kind but twinkling eyes – mischievous but definitely kind. Of the three this was the one I was most drawn to but it was the tree that I had a conversation with and the wee brown man (maybe half a metre tall with his hat stocky but all in proportion) and I agreed to do something for them – all three of them that had something to do with trees but I can’t remember what. I just remember after that I was always talking to trees and very respectful. It only seemed like a few minutes but what made me leave was I heard my friends calling for me and they sounded scared. I said my goodbyes and turned away happily to go see my friends. Apparently, I had been gone a good half an hour and they had been yelling for ages but couldn’t find me. I didn’t say anything to them, and we wandered back to the dingy and went back to the boat.’ ‘Very tall slight blonde man, very short wizened brown man and a shining light.’ ‘I’ve had ghost experiences, they run in my family on my mum’s side – not keen on them and tend to just be respectful and ask them to go away.’ ‘I believe in fairies but don’t always believe when other people share their experiences.’