Maria- age 36, Victoria, Australia

About three years ago I had my gallbladder out and normally its a routine operation but during the procedure I started to bleed and what was meant to be an hour took 4 hours with them eventually cutting half way across my stomach. That night while I was lying in my hospital bed every time I closed my eyes strange and weird lines would appear in my minds eye. Then it would've been about an hour later out of nowhere I suddenly saw, in the doorway to the bathroom, a fairy flying in circles. It had no color and was transparent like a silvery white and was quite large about the size of a basketball. It just kept appearing in the doorway and at times I felt it touching my hand and nose and felt also it was healing me after the operation as to not get worse. This continued on for the whole night and half way through the next day and in the afternoon it gradually faded away. Ever since that night I have seen many faeries. They are never clear but just clear enough to know it is them.

35 yrs. old, Texas

I live in the redneck capital of Texas. I'm an Electrician by trade. I don't believe in the Lockness monster and I don't believe in Big Foot. I do believe in fairies or little people...I have seen one. I don't believe they exist. I know they exist.

It took place 22 yrs. ago, but the memory of the encounter still weighs on my mind. It's as vivid today as if it just happened. I was 13 years old and my mother had passed due to cancer. My father remarried and my stepmother came with two daughters - all of them older than me. Together they came from the cornfields of Indiana.

We were getting ready for a trip to meet my new step grandmother for Thanksgiving who lived on a very large corn farm. My stepsisters and mother were talking, a few weeks before the trip, about growing up around the farm. My stepsister started talking about the little men she once saw as a little girl. She swore she was telling the truth. We made fun of her despite her growing anger.

When we got to grandma's‚ house, my younger brother and I stayed with my step grandmother in the trailer, which was in better condition than the old house on the property. My little brother and I were to sleep on the floor at my step grandma's trailer. It really was a small trailer. The kitchen was at one end of the house; you would walk through the living room to come to a door that opened up to a hallway and that led to the bedrooms and the one bathroom.

Friday night everyone went to bed early my younger brother and I were left alone to watch TV. The door to the hallway and the bathroom were closed. After Miami Vice was over I got up to go to the bathroom. As I opened the door to the hallway I turned on the hallway light. As the door swung open I watched, in growing fear, a man, by my estimates, about 3" tall, run across the floor. He had a hat on his head, a white jacket with tails, green pants, like the kind kids wore in the 20's, and white knee high socks with black shoes. He was running quite fast. He ran from one side of the hallway to the other. I had a good second and a half to watch him. He dove under the door. As I pulled it back to see if he was behind it, I glimpsed him again when he slipped down into the a/c duct in the floor. I was scared beyond belief. I could not believe what I had just seen. I lost the desire to brave the hallway and go to the bathroom. I would hold it till the morning. I didn't wake anybody because I knew they wouldn't believe me.

When I told them the next day I was right they didn't. They told me it was my imagination- that I was sleepy. It must have been a post hypnotic suggestion from our conversations before with my stepsister. I resigned myself to the ridicule, but I know what I saw. I have only told a few people about this over the years because of my fear of ridicule. My stepsister believed me as she had once seen them too. I know what I saw and he was real. I've told my wife and my children about my encounter. My wife patronizes me and the children (all girls) believed me when they were younger but not anymore. I've gotten used to it, but to this day I still look for another glimpse, everywhere. One day I will see another because they are real. There is no belief, there is knowing, and that makes all the difference in the world.

Aaron - 36 - USA.

Recently on a trip to southern Oregon, I took a few pictures of a nearby creek. When I got home and downloaded the pictures to the computer, I noticed a "water spirit" in one of the pictures. I decided to browse through most of my other pictures, and found a few with what looks like a couple of fairies flying. These pictures were taken a few years ago when a a few friends and myself were in the woods riding ATVs in northern Oregon. I remember that I almost deleted them, because of the poor quality. I am glad that I did not, because these are incredible. Look for yourself... These pictures have not been altered.

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Marie - age 50.Long Island, New York, USA.

This past summer, on a lovely sunny day, a friend of mine asked me to take a ride with her to pick up her paycheck. She worked for a woman who was owner to a large and lovely catering facility. This is a place of hope and joy as many weddings take place here. I waited for her in the car while she went to get her check.

We were parked adjacent to the water fountains that were not on when we got there. As I waited, the fountains came on. And the joyful sounds from it caught my attention. It was like laughter, only in miniature. I watched as the water tumbled down, first shooting upwards before it's tumbled. Upon closer examination of the top of the water shooting up from the fountains, saw what I believe are water faeries. They took many different forms, but always water was their skin. They became dolphins, and humans diving, they rolled up in balls and even did cannon balls into the water below. All the while I could hear giggling and laughter. It was such a sight to behold. Inside I felt joy and refreshed. I will never forget this as long as I live.

My encounter was the most exciting yet the saddest tale you'll ever hear.

I was fifteen at the time and still living with my parents, not married and still had the magical essence of being a virgin still (In most books and religions being a virgin gives you magical insight, like the ability to catch a unicorn.). I had been terribly sad and depressed for weeks because I had just had my heart broken. I was a active girl and had just learned of my witch heritage and abilities. My best friend Sandra had invited me over for the weekend with hopes of lifting my spirits. The very second I walked into her room it felt magical and active. Like a feeling of some prank you just did and your in the small moment of laughing or the feeling of getting a thoughtful gift and your just about to say.."Aww". I saw so many tiny colorful lights shoot here and there. I assumed it was my eyes adjusting but I felt that it was fairies. In one corner of her room we learned later she had some type of door or portal they'd come through. (Or it was a favorite spot).

That night as I went to bed, I had told her I felt like the world was cruel and cold. I told her I felt robbed of my innocent happiness. Within' two minutes I noticed a flicker of something in the reflection of her posters above her bed. She had light blue Christmas lights that stayed on in her room over the bed. I assumed once again I was seeing something but not sure what. When Sandra made the same comment about seeing it too within' thirty seconds of my noticing...I really got nervous. I stood up and waved my hand by the flickering object. Nothing there but a slight breeze of flapping wings. It felt like a dragonfly was hovering next to my hand. Now that I was up where I could see the object. It was about maybe six inches at the most tall and at the lower hips 2 and a half wide. It had the head of one of the Gremlins from the movie Gremlins. It was dark and had no chest to show if it were female or not. it turned out it was. We got to over the next three days talking to her through the flickering of her wings. She had dragonfly wings and it got to where we could entirely interpret her.She had gotten lost and was looking for the way towards Canada and then was going to fly to Ireland.

She was a drow fairy and did cause mischief around the house. She pushed off plates and made two break. But, now I am seventeen and I feel I have lost my gift. I am also married.