‘I [western tourist] was watching out the window of a train in Japan, and saw standing upright, unsupported, on a path between fields, a closed black umbrella. There was no one around and the full handle was visible above the ground. I glanced away and back, and it was still there. My companion was reading and missed it, though I tried to alert her.’ ‘A closed, black umbrella with a wooden handle. In Japan, hundred-year-old objects are known to become or be possessed by fairies.’ ‘I knew [fairies] existed in Japan and have a reputation for being common there.’ ‘Japan in particular has a reputation for objects that gain sentience. Other than that, it was standing upright and unsupported, it looked like an ordinary umbrella.’ ‘Flesh and blood entities, possibly capable of possession, able to hide very thoroughly and bend spacetime.’
§982
Japan
2010s
Male: Age 11-20
occasional supernatural experiences
in open land (fields etc) [‘as seen from a train’]
9 am-12 pm
less than a minute
with one other person who did not share my experience
no special state reported
no fairy mood reported
no special experience reported