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‘My boyfriend and I met while solo traveling [as tourists in] Central America. After meeting we decided to do the last country together and went to Costa Rica. We were leaving to go back home two days after this experience so we didn’t know if we would see each other again as we were not from the same country. (We did). It was our last day on the coast before heading to the capital for our flight. For our last day we decided to do a magic mushroom trip as a therapy (in a spiritual mindset). So we went to the most beautiful and secluded spot we found the day before and ate the mushrooms at the start of the afternoon. We spent the afternoon on this beautiful journey, feeling emotions and working on our mindset to be ready to go home after five months on the road. The sunset was one of the most beautiful sunsets I’ve seen. Setting above the ocean, golden rays of light passing through the clouds. We were in a total state of bliss, and we were feeling connected to the earth, the universe, the Now. Just after sunset, an old woman arrived from nowhere. She didn’t look at us. We [she?] walked to the edge of the cliff and started chanting (?) or saying things in a language we didn’t understand. She had her eyes closed and she was throwing something in the ocean. At first, we thought maybe it was ashes. We observed her for a moment, completely fascinated by it and we both felt that something very special was happening, that we were ‘supposed’ to see her. But we were also aware that we were still tripping from the magic mushroom, although a few hours had already passed so we were towards the end of the trip. It was getting darker so we decided to head back to the carpark, where we had our scooter parked. (I know, driving a scooter while tripping on mushrooms isn’t a good idea, but we were at the end of the trip and feeling ‘normal’ enough to drive, and, hey, we’re alive.) Anyways we started walking and we had to go through a kind of forest patch with big trees everywhere. We were walking with our phone torches on. But we turned them off when we saw some fireflies flying around. We stopped and watched them for a moment. I turned my light on again and we started walking when we saw something different. At first, we thought that it was a firefly but it was much bigger. I turned my light back off as this ball of light the size of a bat or a small bird flew towards us. We both stopped and were completely silent, just observing. The ball of light flew around us and I’m pretty sure I saw small wings and also heard like a vibration. When we saw it, it was like time had stopped. It was like this ‘being’ wanted us to see it, like it was showing itself to us, like it was telling us a secret. It flew around us and around the trees nearby, came back, then flew away and disappeared in a nearby tree. My boyfriend and I stayed silent for a few seconds, not really understanding what had just happened. The first thing we both said was ‘what the f*ck was that’. For the next couple hours, we kept talking about it. We both saw it and we both felt the same feeling about this being. We tried to look for answers on the internet but never found anything (until today thank you). But we know what we saw and every time one of us is feeling a bit down because of work or something not very important in the big scheme of things, we remind each other that we saw a ‘fairy’, and that ‘magic’ is real, in the sense that it is not because we humans can’t see certain things, it doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. Sometimes we get to peek into the hidden world, and we realize that there is a lot that we still don’t know.’ ‘It flew around us like it wanted us to see it.’ ‘This day changed a lot of things spiritually.’ ‘I’d like to see more of them’. ‘We called it a fairy to put a word on it. We have the feeling that it was a mystical ‘being’ or ‘creature’. Not a ghost or alien.’