We received this letter from South Africa!

Hi. I'm from South Africa. I've always been fascinated by fairies and angels, and I've had an experience with an angel before, but this is about fairies - somewhat more elusive. I read all I can about fairies and angels, and every possible book and article seems to find its way to me.

My father tells me that I have an arial quality about me, and I recently had a photograph taken in which my sister claims I look like a fairy! I'm beginning to suspect I might have fey blood, like Arthur and Guinevere!

I've had a few experiences when I've thought I MIGHT have seen a fairy out of the corner of my eye, but two undisputed experiences. I'm quite nocturnal, and both experiences occured at night. The first one I felt was of the sylph variety, of the air element. It looked exactly like Tinkerbell, and was completely silver, showing up at night. It flashed by me as I got into bed. The other was more of a fire fairy, of the salamander variety. It also had the Tinkerbell look, but was orange and fiery, consisting of flame.

I'd happily take a polygraph test to prove the authenticity of my story. I'm not lying! Fairies are not a joke. My mother has started seeing them, too.

Love ya, Debbie

Our friend Debbie wrote back in December of 2002 with updates!

Hi there!

I've written before - from South Africa. Just to let you know that since I last wrote I have seen many more fairies - I basically see them every day, sometimes several times a day. There is some exciting news. If there could ever have been any doubt that I was merely seeing things, there no longer is. One of the fairies got pysical with me. I was standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom, and a fairy flew up to me. It was reflected in the bathroom mirror as clearly as I saw it. It flew into my hair with a kind of buzz - it was directly equivalent to having a kind of firefly flying into my hair.

I wrote before of having seen a fairy of the sylph element and one of the fire element. Some of my other highlights have been one made of water. As I once let out my bath water, it rose out of the water. It looked like any normal fairy, but was made of water. I also saw a fairy that must have been of the earth element - it walked about the potplants outside, was big for a fairie, and was completely neon pink. Perhaps it had been eating pink geraniums! It might have been a dwarf or a gnome.

I very often see little electric blue lights or golden-white ones, which other writers have mentioned on your site. They are fairies who choose to appear to us in that form, I have heard. They are fairly bold, and come right up to me. Every year when I have a birthday my sister buys a new fairy book for me, and sometimes a glittered fairy card. A MUST is Suza Scalora's book The Fairies.

Love and fairy kisses,
Debbie

This young Canadian girl is making homes for and helping fairies - with incredible results!

Hi! I live in Canada. My name is Sara. The time I saw a faerie was just today. (11/3/2002) I had made a faerie house and put it in my lilac tree a few days ago. As I was looking at the tree, slowly a greenish-brown figure flew over it. It was too small to be a bird and it couldn't be a butterfly because it's November, and I live in Ontario and it's actually pretty cold out. I told my mom but she didn't believe me. It was the greatest thing ever because I really love faeries. I suspect it was flying to it's house! I just can't believe it!

Faeries forever! love, *Sara*

We received this sighting in 2003 from Kristy in the Yukon

My friend and I really love fairies. For Christmas my friend got a music box with a fairy on it. In the background of the picture was a tree that look similar to one in the woods by our house. We took the music box and went to the tree. When we got there we saw tiny little foot prints. We played the music box and I could have sworn I heard them laugh.

An amazing story from Nova Scotia we received in mid July 2003!

From Nova Scotia, Canada

When I was younger (7 or 8) I lived with my grandparents. They lived in a subdivision surrounded by a forest. I had a friend who I always used to play in the forest with. We'd collect sticks and build tree houses with them and play along the stream.

One day I was in the forest with her and I kept seeing something out of the corner of my eye. It was a little person peeking out from behind a tree, just a bit shorter than me. When I turned to look at them they'd disappear behind a tree. At first I thought it was my brother playing tricks but I went to look and no one was there.

I didn't mention it to my friend because I was worried I was going crazy. I noticed she started to look behind the trees as I had been doing before and I asked her what was wrong. She said that she kept seeing someone behind the trees. I told her about what I was seeing and we went on a search for this person or people. We kept seeing them out of the corner of our eyes but when we looked to see them straight on they'd zip behind the trees. They were dressed in brown.

For most of the summer we'd always go into the woods and try to see these people. It became a game like hide and seek. We never did see them properly though. Every time I'd go inside I'd have a weird feeling. The only way I can explain it is if you've ever been woken up in the middle of a deep sleep and a vivid dream and then have to get up and go about your mundane life. It's like you're still living that dream. At our age we thought they were Santa's elves checking up on us.

The second story you might like for faery encounters.

Being a believer in faeries, I decided one day to leave them a gift. I had a little seashell and a shiny glass bead and I laid them on a rock at the edge of my yard. I said, "This is for you good faeries", and turned and walked away. As I was walking away I noticed my cat was walking towards the spot where I'd left their gift. Not wanting to have a faery massacre I turned around to call my cat back and I saw a faery! It was almost like a giant yellow butterfly that kind of soared or swooped from the spot where I'd left the gift into the top of a nearby tree. I considered the possibilities of it being a butterfly or a bird. It couldn't be a bird because it had butterfly wings and it had no body... and it disappeared when it got to the top of the tree.

If it was a butterfly it was huge and an amazing flyer. Each wing was about the size of my hand and instead of fluttering like a butterfly it quickly swooped. I went inside to think about what I saw then went back outside and sat on my deck. Something fairly big kept swooping around my head. It was too quick to see properly and was much bigger than a bug. It was probably too quick for a bird. All I noticed was that it was a brownish color.

A fairy helps a young person on a family outing!

I am a 12 year old believer of fairies, I want to tell you my story. I was on vacation with my family in Colorado and we were going to Pike's Peak and I was excited. I was happy to go, but when we got there, I began to feel short of breath and I was worried that I might pass out. Then I saw this small light and I didn't know what it was and so I just left it alone. Soon it came closer and then it flew off into the distance...then I could breath. I believe fairies have healing powers

Check out this amazing discovery made during wintertime frolicking!

This had happened when I was twelve just a couple of months ago. It was in January and we had a lot of snow. My neighbor, my sister and I were all playing in the snow, playing hide and seek when I saw the faerie. I was the person who was seeking the other two. I was going around my yard looking for them when I heard this little giggle from behind a tree. When I looked under the tree, I saw a blue light glowing thing and it then flew away . I thought it was my imagination so I went on looking for my friends but when it was my turn to hide I went behind a tree and saw the blue glowing thing again flying away! I was convinced this had to be something supernatural because I'm sure nothing normal looks like that. I aslo heard this really weird noise. If I had to describe the closest sounding thing that was like it- I would have to say it was like a bee buzzing along but the faerie's sound was much more soothing. To check to see if I wasn't imagining all this I took like flower petals ( I had heard that they eat those sometimes) and put them under the tree where I had seen it the first time. When I checked on the petals I saw one was bitten out of. Of course it was a very small bite though because the thing I saw couldn't have been more than 5-7 inches!

A strange sighting in a backyard!

I used to live in Calgary, Alberta and I believe I have seen a Fairie or little person. I have a large window leading into my front yard where I have three large pines. I was just casually walking by the window where I swear I saw a guy, with a brown beard dressed in blue or grey partly hidden by the tree, staring at me. Then he moved impossibly fast behind the tree and vanished. I later did the measurements and from what I saw this fellow was about thee or four feet tall! Now I have seen some strange things but that has to be one of the stangest.

A bat or a fairy? A mysterious nighttime visitor fill a girl and her friend wonder...

My best friend and I think we saw a fairy. At first we thought it was a bat because we had seen a lot that night. We were walking in my neighborhood when we saw it. It was flying around this big old tree. I figured it couldn't be a butterfly because it was around 10 at night and it was too big to be a butterfly. The wings were kind of a lavender color. We didn't really see a face but we noticed what looked like to legs. When I flew in front of us we got scared and ran because it was right in front of my face. I feel bad because we might have scared it away. I'm not sure if what we saw was a fairy but I'm hoping it was. Deanna

Our young friends Amanda and Nikki shared this story with us in summer 2003.

We build a faerie pavilion surrounded by a little fake muddy lake, and had left them Fruity Pebbles and one was gone the next day.

We saw them through my window and decided to stay inside so we didn't scare or annoy them. Their wings sort of looked like butterfly wings. One must have been a light faerie or one of the water element. It flashed blue and white.

Amanda and Nikki