Jade - 24 years old, El Paso, Texas.

I've always believed in fairies, but never gave them much thought. I just knew they existed, even if I couldn't see them. After finding your sight I began to think about them more and more, wishing that I could be blessed enough to encounter one.

A few nights ago I believe I may have had such an encounter. It was late and I was laying in bed, trying to go to sleep, thoughts of the fey running through my mind. I was staring at the top of the mirror on my dresser, thinking how easily a fairy could sit on the top of it, or even in the little decorative holes along the top, when I saw a dark shape fly by in the mirror. I only saw it for a split second and it was gone, but it was too big to be a bug, and there were no bugs in the room that I was aware of. Its location in the mirror would have put it above my head. As soon as I saw it my mind snapped to attention and declared, "That was a fairy!" I felt an overwhelming sense of peace and happiness at that moment. I've heard that fairies often appear out of the corner of our eye, and I realized that I may have been seeing them all along but never thought about it. I see flighty movement out of the corner of my eye all the time. I also see what I call "sparkles". Little lights, very tiny, that zip across the walls. They come in all different colors. I have no idea if they have anything to do with the fairies, but I'd like to believe they do.

Lisa and Elizabeth- September 10, 2001.

I was driving to work one day and I had the music on. All of a sudden a fairy appeared to me right in front of my face. I never thought of fairies or was even interested about fairies at the time. She looked like a little girl and had wings that fluttered like a hummingbird. I was stunned looking at her as she started dancing to the music I had on the radio. It was a fast upbeat tempo. Then the fairy all of a sudden twirled around and said the words, "Integrity," I did not understand why she said that word, she was still dancing and then she had all of a sudden disappeared.

I continued driving to work thinking to myself, I must be going nuts or something. As I arrived to work, my husband was on the phone as I walked in. He never calls me unless it is an emergency with the kids or something. He said to me, "guess what?" I reply with is everything O.K.? He explained to me that Integrity Casting called for our daughter to sign her up to do acting and modeling. At this point my jaw dropped and I replied with you will never guess what I saw on the way to work. I told him I saw a fairy and she said the word integrity and no I am not drinking. I do not drink anyway. This blew my husband away.

I now receive guidance from the fairies for manifesting. We are usually guided by the fairy realm whenever there is acting auditions and anything that has to do with living your dreams. My daughter now is a Hollywood Manager and has been in film, commercials, and TV.

This fairy story is being published with Doreen Virtue in her new book Fairies 101 due out in 2007. My daughter and I also came out with a book called "How to Make Fairy Dust" Our book "Angel Academy: Where You Discover Your Dreams and Talents," came out this week and we have fairies, mermaids, unicorns, and angels in the book. A live your dreams book for children of all ages.

Anonymous age 20 plus

All my life I have been quite sensitive to the paranormal and have seen and experienced many odd things, but only once have I actually seen a fairy.

My experience took place when I was about five or six years old. It happened in my grandparent's backyard in a small Central Texas town. It was a beautiful yard with huge, towering old trees, squirrels that were so tame they took food from my grandma's hand, and wonderful, lush flowerbeds going all the way down one side of the fence. I loved playing there amongst the flowers and amidst nature.

One summer morning as I was looking at the flowers, starting to pick a few to take inside, I stood still for awhile, feeling the warmth of the sunlight, and hearing the sounds of insects and birds. It almost felt as if the air itself was buzzing or humming-like there was life all around me. Then something fluttery caught my eye around the rose bush in front of me. I looked closer and saw what I thought was a little butterfly going into one of the blooms. I slowly and carefully reached out to try and catch it with my fingers, when I realized it was NOT a butterfly, but a tiny little girl! I stood there mesmerized, staring. She let out a tiny giggle, like a high-pitched chattering sound. She was beautiful, shimmery, and had an odd-looking but pretty and human-shaped face. She honestly looked like she was part human and part insect, with a tiny, pointy nose and green eyes that had no white and no pupils. Her skin was very pale pink and iridescent, like you could almost see through it. She had some hair, but not a lot. It was a silvery pale blonde color. Her wings were shaped like a butterfly, but translucent like a dragonfly. I don't remember any clothes on her. She reached out her hand and sort of waved at me, and I smiled at her.

Suddenly, I heard my mom yelling at me from the back door, and the fairy just disappeared before my eyes. I told my mom I saw a fairy in a rose, but she didn't believe me and told me she had been yelling at me for a few minutes. She scolded me for ignoring her! I only heard her call me once. I looked for that fairy every day for the rest of that summer, but I never saw her again.

Nobody that I told believed me except for my great aunt, who was around 80 years old at the time. She lived next door to my grandparents, and had beautiful flower gardens too. When I told her there were fairies in the backyard and I saw one; she got the most amazing look on her face and said "I know-I've seen them too!" To this day I can remember everything about that day as if it only happened yesterday. If I live to be 100, I won't ever forget it. And I'll still be looking for fairies..

It was my 26th birthday, and I was given a gumball. It looked like any ordinary gumball, except that it was 4 times the size of a normal gumball. After a little bit of difficulty fitting it in my mouth and some clapping, I took a bite and something flew out at me. It was a shiny lavender flash of light and I heard the soft giggle of an angelic sounding child. That's all I saw but it was enough to make me a believer in the fairy world for the rest of my life.

Kelly Pennsylvania - USA

A few weeks ago, I went to my daughters crib and I seen these blinking lights all around here I shook my head and picked her up thinking, I just woke up I'm seeing things well 2 nights ago she was crying so I went to her crib. There were blinking little lights again, I shook my head thinking I was seeing things again, I open my eyes up and blinking was still there. So I pick my daughter up to find out her diaper was wet so I laid her on the bed to change her, and her clothes. When I unzipped her body suit a blinking light like flew out, that's when I knew I wasn't seeing things. For the past few days I have been wondering if it could be static, but these objects don't seem to be all the time on her, and the one flew out.

Hannah, age 30

When I was 12 we lived in Washington State on the top of a small hill. Our house was the highest and behind it were miles of thick forest. I used to wander through it, especially when it was drizzling, enjoying the peace and the closeness of nature. One day I pushed aside a branch that had completely covered my view. What I saw was as if some kind of other world had frozen in time. It was a frozen waterfall (about my height though it seemed it should have been much larger) surrounded by icy rocks and shimmering icicles. The whole scene was shimmery silver as if it did not belong at all in that spot. I did not see any faeries, but I felt as if I had intruded upon something and had been spotted. It felt that activity had halted the second I pulled back the branch. As I gasped I let the branch go. When I pulled it back again there was nothing there but forest and trees. I feel that I cannot deny the existence of fairies and the fairy world and feel blessed to have encountered it even if but for a few seconds.

Sam - 20, Portsmouth England

I was about 11 years old so this was about ten years ago, in Herts, England. I was laying on the sofa as I was not well. Iwas in the living room and something caught my eye. I looked down to the floor and saw a small light about the size of a 2 pence piece jumping across the floor. The light was mainly orange but seemed to have some blue edging.

I didn't move as I was stunned and just watched it jump across the room to behind the television. I waited for a while (about 5 seconds) and the light jumped back out but this time appeared to have legs which had a dimmer light to them then it quickly disappeared back behind the television. I shouted for my dad but when he inspected behind the television there was nothing there.

Beeke,-25 year old student from Germany, now studying in the Netherlands (Groningen)

I remembered an incident in France in 1995. I was in Dinan in the Northern province Bretagne, due to a school exchange with a French school. Dinan is a medieval city of incredible beauty. I was wandering along, crossing an old bridge built of big grey stones and stopped to take a photo of the river. In a small gap on the stone wall of the bridge, about two meters above the surface of the water, a small bush with flowers grew. And there I saw something. It was about the size of a small bird, definitely colourful and fluttering with its wings incredible pace, faster than any normal bird and more like a bee, flying from one blossom to the next, flying forwards and backwards and sometimes hovering in midair for a second, but always to fast to have a clear view. I thought, of course this must be a kolibri. You know, these very small birds who move their wings in a different manner than others birds. I think, in English they are called hummingbirds. I tried to take a photo (which is now in Germany and therefore I cannot scan and upload it), but it showed later that it was quite blurry. Also, I found out that kolibris are typical only in the two Americas, Africa and the Caribbean. So, what do you think? Could it have been a fairy? Do they collect nectar from blossoms?

I am sure that it was not a normal bird and definitively too big for an insect whatsoever. My thinking of seeing a kolibri in the first moment shows, as I believe, that it must have been something else than bird or insect. Plus, once I had taken the picture, it was gone. I can only say what I have told above: It was colourful and flying very fast from flower to flower.

Dawn-

Look at this photo and zoom in on the glowing light to the right of the tree. I took this picture on the way into an old graveyard that my husband and I (we've been best friends since we were 10) used to hang out and play in ever since we were little. We would sometimes feel perfectly at home and at other times we would just all feel real strange like we were being warned to leave. So when we were back home visiting family we decided to go back to the graveyard with a camera. We wanted some pictures to show our kids and maybe see if there was anything to the old graveyard. We were thinking spirits though and not sprites. Our first trip over was when we took this picture. The place felt alive with activity so I took six photos and we left. On the way back to my grandmother's house we tried to review the photos and they were all gone. So we went back and took ten more. It was different there that time and just felt quiet and peaceful.

When we got back to Florida and I downloaded my camera there were 16 pictures from the graveyard even though my camera was showing 44 pictures taken it downloaded 50. Those 6 photos are still on my camera no matter how many times I erase all the pictures or buy a new memory stick. In any event, zoom in and let me know what you think. I will not tell where it was taken or even what state it was taken in and if you love the idea of faeries you'll understand why.

~ Photo coming soon! ~

I am nearly 30 years old but when I was around 7 my eyes were opened to what seemed like an overlapping world for a fleeting moment. It was at a school camp at Lake Okataina. The previous evening there had been tales of ghosts haunting the area and I must have been scared so I prayed that God would protect me and sent a sign to show I and everyone around would be safe. I did not imagine that it would be anything out of the ordinary, maybe a reassuring word from one of the parents or teachers. Because I was a shy and unpopular child I got a bunk bed away from the other girls in my dorm facing the door. When I woke up in the morning I looked up and relaxing on the heater over the door was a small colourful person, transparent with large butterfly/dragonfly like wings enfolding her body (I seem to think of it as feminine) and extremely beautiful and seeming perfect I remember feeling quite ugly in comparison. She was not looking at me I do not remember her saying anything. I felt I was seeing something that humans are not supposed to see and I was scared in a way. Also I knew I was seeing this because of my Prayer and Wish and not to be scared of anything or anyone hurting me. I was so scared I closed my eyes and drew my sleeping bag up over my head and went back to sleep. When I woke up she was gone.

This was not my imagination or a dream this really happened. I have very vague memories of seeing fairies and angels before I was five. I would love to just talk to someone about these things apart from my husband who sees their world a little more clearly but I just haven't found anyone yet I feel willing to talk to. I would like not to be frightened if it ever happened again.