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‘I [American tourist] was staying at a bed and breakfast with a group. After dinner I went outside to walk along the river next to the building. I walked about a half mile down then turned back and closer to the building I went to the shore. It was night but the lights from the building illuminated the area well enough. Standing at the edge of the water I looked out and saw an older looking man dressed all in black standing hip deep in the water. He had a fishing rod and was casting, reeling in, and casting again without stopping, and walking forward towards a waterfall downstream. There was something eerie and otherworldly about him and it was unnerving. I froze where I was standing. He kept walking until he was perhaps a dozen feet from the waterfall, then he disappeared. He did not get out of the river on my side, the other side was a nearly sheer hillside; he simply vanished from sight. When he disappeared the tense air went with him and found I could move again. I walked on the shore downstream a bit past the waterfall, but he was completely gone.’ ‘About six feet tall. White hair. Black clothes.’ ‘I could only hear the water.’ ‘I found out later the area had a reputation for the presence of the alfar.’ ‘The being seemed tangible, I could see the water flowing around him. He didn’t seem like an alien or angel but was not human’. Fairies are ‘otherworldly beings’.