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‘My family [British] were living in *** and I had come to visit them from London. I was about twenty-one years old. The house was an old (and very haunted) townhouse in central *** on a fairly busy street. The garden was very small with ten-foot walls and surrounded on all sides by a large apartment block. I was stood on the patio with my father and sister – I think they were doing something, but I was just standing around chatting to them. All of a sudden, I saw and heard quite a large bumble bee and there was very clearly a tiny man riding on its back. He was sat very upright and there were some kinds of reins in his hands. He didn’t look at me and just flew on past and out of the garden. I remember feeling quite shocked but also a giddy sense of wow! I can’t believe I just saw that. I think I asked them if they’d seen the bee but they hadn’t noticed it so I didn’t mention the little man. I can still clearly see the scene as it happened, but because it was a very bright, sunny summer’s day, and it happened so quickly I couldn’t take in much detail of the man other than the reins and that he had dark brown or black hair.’ ‘The man was very tiny. I did have another very strange experience (maybe a ghost or alien) in the same spot, but they felt completely different. There was no fear in this experience, but the other experience was absolutely terrifying.’ ‘I’m not sure [what fairies are] but maybe nature spirits/elementals.’