‘When I was ten years old, I stayed at a friend’s house. My friend had to leave the room for a moment, so I amused myself by looking out the window. In one of the neighbouring backyards, I saw a giant ginger cat. It looked identical to any normal pet cat, only the size of a fully-grown human. I called over my friend’s younger sister, around five years old at the time, and she saw the cat too. It lazily crossed the entire garden and entered the greenhouse, barely fitting through the door. I kept watching for a while, but it didn’t come out again. When I later told the story to my friend and her mum who were quite incredulous. Of course, the younger sister said she didn’t remember seeing anything. Later that day I told my mum about the encounter, and she confirmed that when she was around my age, she too saw a cat in her grandma’s village. Looking out the window she spied a human-sized cat passing by, its head and back protruding over the garden wall.’ ‘It seemed more plausible to me that the cat was a nature being somehow, rather than an alien, etc. I don’t believe in angels.’ Fairies ‘may exist. Definitely fascinating.’
§973
Germany
2000s
Female: Age 0-10
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in a garden
6 am-9 am
less than a minute
with one other person who shared my experience (‘later when I told the story, however, they said they didn’t remember anything’)
no special state reported
aloof
profound silence before the experience, hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life