Do YOU believe in fairies??
Despite being considered a creature of fantasy, there are many reported cases of fairy sightings
and those people definitely believed they were real!!
Here are 11 stories of encounters with fairies.
11.
The Tale Of Neal Colton This sighting takes place in Donegal, Ireland
in the year 1853.
There was a young boy named Neal Colton, who was minding his own business behind his house.
Along with him were his brother and a cousin.
The three were gathering berries together in the yard when suddenly, they heard music.
Music that wasn't coming from the house.
Curious, they went to go see where the music was coming from, and around some big rocks
they found a group of about eight small people dancing away.
While they were observing them, one of the "fairies" noticed the children, and rushed
at them!!
When this tiny fairy "woman" got in range, she lashed out at the cousin, and hit her
in the face.
Now scared, the three ran for the house, but as they did, Neal's cousin fell down, and
dropped dead.
Neal and his brother raced to his father, who heard their tale and called the local
Priest.
The Priest was able to "resurrect" the cousin, and claimed that if it had not been for the
boys, the cousin would've been "taken" by the fairies forever.
Now, the argument here isn't just whether they saw actual fairies or not, but also,
what caused the cousin to "fall dead".
And if she wasn't dead, what struck her to make her fall down and at least be perceived
as dead?
These fairy folk might make nice music, but better not mess with them!!
10.
The Fairy Fossil In the early 1900’s, it seemed like everyone
in the UK was looking for proof that fairies existed.
Many people had stories and so scientists and naturalists went about trying to find
photographic or physical evidence of them.
Writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was amazed when he suddenly came across some photographs of
some young cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths.
Amazingly, they had been able to take pictures of the fairies!!
There were 5 pictures total and while many people assumed they were fake, one of the
girls said the photos were actually of her psyche since fairies can’t appear on camera
because they are spirits.
Both girls strongly believed in the fairies but later admitted that 4 of the pictures
had been faked using cardboard cutouts.
However, Elsie who was 16 when the photos were taken said in her old age that the 5th
picture was actually real.
Conan Doyle continued his search for a live specimen, but to no avail!
As a joke, in 2013, an artist created a fairy fossil and dated it back to 2.6 million years
ago.
While some people say it used to belong to a museums collection, you can get one for
yourself on ebay.
9.
The Tale of David Evans and Evan Lewis In 1862, two men named David Evans and Evan
Lewis were heading home after a trip to Brecon, Wales.
As they were going down the road they decided to take a stop at a local farm in order to
get enough rest to finish their journey.
They were welcomed to the farm, and looked on as the farmers worked the fields.
As they did though, Evans happened to see a hill that was somewhat nearby, about 1200
feet away according to the story, and noticed that there were a string of people walking
up it.
He told Lewis, and the two began to watch what was going on.
As they did, the figures started to dance on the hill.
As these "people" all reached the top of this hill, they danced in a circular pattern, and
with each stride made it closer and closer to the center of the circle.
As they all finally reached the middle, they vanished from sight, despite being in clear
view of Lewis and Evans.
But just as suddenly, the "people" returned, and did their dance one more time before disappearing
into the ground again.
Completely flummoxed by what they saw, they told the story to an old man on the road that
they met later, and he noted that though he didn't know who the "dancing people" were...his
grandfather used to tell him that fairies liked to dance around the area.
No worries, just fairy folk dancing and doing their thing.
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8.
The Tale Of William Martin and the Postman In 1887, a folklorist by the name of William
Martin was going on a vacation to the Isle of Man.
This can be found in the Irish Sea, and is close to both Ireland and Great Britain.
It’s now famous for all of the banks located there!
Anyway, along the way, he met a mail-cart driver, and upon hearing that Martin was a
folklorist, decided to tell him about an unusual occurrence that had happened to him.
The postman was going about his route as usual, getting all the bags from the various areas
gathered into his horse and carriage so that they could be delivered.
And as he was getting close to returning to his base, only six miles away, he came across
a group of fairies.
Or so he claimed.
These particular fairies were dressed in red and they all carried lanterns.
They apparently had a thing for the mailbags.
So much so that they went into the mail-cart and threw the collected bags onto the ground,
then danced around them.
Notice a pattern here yet??
The postman had to ride hard and fight all night against these beings in red to get back
to his base, and the fairies kept messing with him and dancing around until morning
came and they suddenly disappeared.
In any case he arrived late, flustered, and never forgot the encounter.
Was it really fairies?
Who knows??
7.
Mrs. G. Herbert One day, a woman named Mrs. G. Herbert decided
to write a letter to the Transactions of the Devonshire Association magazine to share her
stories about encounters she had had with fairies.
When she was just 7-years-old, she saw a "little man" (not even two feet tall) under an overhanging
boulder in Dartmoor, England.
She described the fairy in great detail, or great detail for what she remembered when
she was seven, but then noted that the fairy saw her and then vanished without a trace.
She was going through the Dartmoor Moors like she had done a thousand times, and got lost.
This was very odd, as she had never gotten lost before and she seemed to have her mind
clouded.
Unable to make a choice on where to go she started thinking that fairies were involved.
Apparently if you think fairies are messing with you, you are supposed to turn your pockets
inside out, so she did!!
And it worked.
The moment she did, everything made sense again, and she was able to get out of the
moors.
Thank goodness because there’s lots of strange stuff going on in those moors and its said
to be haunted by other creatures as well.
Like Hounds.
Was it fairies, or was she just distracted?
I can’t imagine using that excuse now….oh I’m so sorry, the fairies clouded my judgement!!
Fairies are said to have magic, was this the case for her?
6.
The Latham Brothers In 1913, three brothers, named Silbie, Sid,
and Clyde Latham were doing work at their family home.
Suddenly, they heard their two dogs barking as if something was wrong.
They went to investigate what was going on, and when they did, they saw the dogs barking
at a little green man.
By their description, the "little green man" was 18 inches tall, and completely green from
head to toe, wearing a large, strange hat on his head, and its arms and body were unlike
anything they had ever seen before.
Before they could do or say anything to the little green man, the dogs attacked him and
started ripping him apart!!
The guard dogs don’t mess around!!
The brothers weren’t sure what to do so I guess they went back to work, ignoring the
whole violent situation, satisfied the dogs had taken care of whatever it was….who knows?
Not long after, the dogs came back, and they appeared to be very afraid.
They checked the spot where the little green man had been attacked multiple times to see
if he was still there.
But when they went to prove it to their parents, it was gone without a trace.
Who the heck was the little green man?
A fairy?
A leprechaun?
Who knows?
It sounds like the dogs just got really out of control...
5.
The Fairy Investigation Society of England Because of all of these fairy sightings in
the UK, in 1937, there was a group of people dedicated to the finding and investigating
of fairies.
And they were called...the Fairy Investigation Society of England.
In that same year, they received a letter from a woman claiming a fairy encounter.
According to her, she was staying in a big old house that had a garden that reached to
the nearby forest of Birdlip Beeches.
After washing her hair, she decided to take a walk around in order to let it dry.
And as she did, she felt something in her hair.
It turns out it was a tiny man, about 9-inches tall.
And apparently he was very ugly.
The little fairy man had a complexion similar to "dead leaves", and he was not happy with
the woman, yelling at her that "she had no right to be there".
The two struggled against the other, but when the man got free of her hair, he vanished.
Convenient story?
Someone pulling the leg of the society?
Or something more?
4.
The Tale of E.J.A.
Reynolds When E.J.A.
Reynolds was ten years old in 1948, he had an experience that he couldn't really explain
to those who didn't believe in fairies.
He was in Horsham, England on vacation, and went out one night to set some rabbit traps.
Then like any good hunter, waited to see what he would catch.
While waiting, a nearby blackberry bush rustled, and so he turned and looked, and a tiny man
came out.
He was about 18-inches tall and hairy!
The fairy, for lack of a better term, didn't notice the boy, so it went on its merry way.
After telling his parents about the tiny, hairy man, they laughed.
So he didn't tell anyone else.
But then, a little while later, he was on a bus headed back to his school and he saw
the little hairy man again in broad daylight.
This time, he was going through a garden.
Who are all these tiny people walking around??
3.
Mary Treadgold Mary Treadgold was an author who lived in
England and was going on a trip through Isle of Mull in April of 1973.
The road wasn't very wide, so the bus she was on pulled over to let a car by.
As it did, she looked across a peat bog and saw a man digging a hole.
There were two problems though.
Though the man had clearly been digging a hole, he wasn't moving.
As if he was trying to appear like a statue.
And again, she reports that he was only about 18 inches tall.
The man had a white shirt and overalls, a shovel, a sack on the ground next to him,
curly brown hair, and his body seemed to glow.
But he didn't move while she watched him.
The bus then started to move, which shook Mary from her staring contest, and when she
turned back to the spot, she couldn't see him again.
Did she really see a fairy?
And if not, what did she see?
2.
The Tale of J.F. and Friends In 2005, in Chicora, Pennsylvania, a man who
just goes by the name "J.F." was spending the night with some friends.
The house was next to some very thick woods, and the only light outside of the house was
a simple spotlight.
As the night drew on, the friends heard something odd coming from some nearby flower pots.
They watched the pots, when suddenly a creature emerged from it and got in view of the spotlights'
rays.
It was about a foot tall, and had female like features, outside of her wings, which she
unfolded and showed them in full light and glory.
They were a mixture of bat and butterfly wings, as they had qualities of both, and seemed
to actually glow in a pale green light.
After lingering for a bit, the creature darted away and headed for the woods.
When the friends asked each other what they had just seen, the answer was clear: A Fairy.
1.
The Tale of Cynthia Montefiore FATE Magazine is a bit of a curious one, as
they like to print stories that are supernatural or "odd" . So in 1997, they printed off a
story belonging to one Cynthia Montefiore, who had an encounter with fairies at her mother’s
home in Somerset, England.
While helping her mother in the garden, they were standing on opposite sides of a rosebush.
Suddenly, her mother leaned around and signaled that they should remain quiet.
The mother then told Cynthia to look at a nearby rose bloom, and right next to it was
a 6-inch tall miniature woman with sparkly wings, silvery hair and a wand.
It was focused on the flower in front of it, and didn't notice Cynthia or her mother.
The two watched the fairy for several minutes, and then, it vanished without a trace.
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