A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Italy 2010s
Male: Age 11-20 occasional supernatural experiences
in a city 9 pm-12 am less than a minute with one other person who did not share my experience [with one other, ‘he saw something but he didn’t understood what it was’]
no special state reported
no fairy mood reported
no special experience reported

‘It was late at night, we were walking down the road till we passed by a tree which was illuminated by a light pole, and something flew right in my face. It didn’t hit me but was at five to ten centimetres from my face. It stopped just in time to not hit me and it flew away. At first, we didn’t understood what it was, then we thought it could have been a bat. It could have been, but in that second that I saw it right in my face it looked like a tiny human body with wings to me. It didn’t look like a bat if I am honest with myself. But I kept my opinion to myself. Oh, come on fairies! My friend would have laughed at me. Though that thing didn’t look like [fairies] in the fairy tale, but was made of a light brown, how can I describe it… It is much easier to draw it to be honest. I did some research on Google and I found something much closer than a bat. I didn’t know fairies could looks like that, but it was too similar. I still ask myself if I wasn’t confused and maybe it was a bat, but when a think about it and I pictures what I saw, I can’t stop asking myself, ‘and if it wasn’t a bat?’’ ‘How can they hide so well? Why are they so difficult to see? Are they intelligent as we are? It makes no sense.’ ‘A little brown elf with wings I guess. I didn’t see the details, just a human form with wings. Slightly thinner maybe?’ Why a fairy? ‘because I don’t know how else I could describe a little physic humanoid form with wings.’