‘My grandma who is a witch had a huge garden of flowers and vegetables in the roof of our home. She used to water them at twilight. She asked [me] to join her and started to tell me how the fairies help her to keep the flowers beautiful. She then told me to listen to the church bells and focus only on the sound. Then the usual breeze of the evening started to blow, and then she told me to ask permission to see them. She started to sing like a whisper, and then I could see two fairies moving between the roses. They would kind of show themselves and disappear, and lasted a couple of minutes. My grandma says she sees them constantly and she was always talking to them. She also says that during the night she is taking [talking?] in her sleep and they teach her many things mostly how to heal with plants. My house was full off fae activity. Some were kind. Others were not. I heard them running during the night and breaking dishes. But this was the first time a saw them clearly. They were white and pink and had some golden sparkles. I was so young so I can [not?] detail it but that is what I remember.’ ‘They had the color of the roses in the bushes where they were. I remember seeing two that had the head looking like a rose bud.’ Fairy music? ‘I didn’t [hear] on this occasion, but a few times I’ve heard them. But in Finland where I live now and its drums and wind instruments mostly. Sometimes there is a female singer.’ Why do you think your experience was a fairy experience, as opposed to a ghost or an alien or an angel or some other type of anomalous experience? ‘Because I have had experiences with other creatures, and I can tell the difference.’ Fairies are ‘beings that can move freely between dimensions and have a deep connection with earth’.
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Colombia
2000s
Female: Age 0-10
regular supernatural experiences
in a garden
3 pm-6 pm
one to two minutes
no special state reported
friendly, joyful
hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, a sudden chill before the experience