This letter was sent to us in the Winter of 2001 and has been reprinted unaltered.

Hi. I found your site after speaking to my Gran today. She was telling me about a time she saw a group of fairies in her house when she was a child. It was five in the afternoon and she was sent to bed for misbehaving. She told me she could hear a strange kind of chattering so she sneaked downstairs to investigate, It was then she saw a group of fairies chatting among themselves, she told me they then rose to the ceiling and flew away.

My sister has also seen 2 fairies in her garden. But myself and my mum have seen elfin type beings. We lived in a forest here in England. One day when out walking our dog my mum saw a tiny man about 2 foot high with a very large head and strong pointy features, appear by some bushes. He said hello to her and she replied. She said he was dressed in the most perfectly tailored green suit and had the strangest face. He then disappeared.

My own experience was one night when I walking by a neighbours house when I was 14. I saw a tiny elfin woman again around 2 foot high with a very large head, she was dressed in a pretty pink dress but had very thinning and stringy hair. She tapped on my neighbours door and then hid in the bin shed. Around this time many of the neighbours complained of people tapping at the door. It happened in my own house and also at the window of my bedroom. I know its hard to believe in something you havent experienced but beleive me theirs so much more to life than we are willing to accept.

Miss P, Yorkshire, UK

We received this story in September 2002 from a young woman in England.

Hello my name is Anna. I'm 21 now, but a few years ago a friend and I went to Glastonbury. While sitting bored one night we decided to climb the Tor (a big hill surrounded in myth). When we were up there we walked around the building on the top and took some photographs. At some point the weather turned quite bad with strong winds and we couldn't find the path down. When we eventually did, the wind stopped until we were safely down to the next level of the path (if you have been to Glastonbury Tor you will know what I mean). When we got home and had the pictures developed, there were blue lights going from my friends head to the building like lightening, on just the pictures from when we were up on the Tor. I'm not sure if fairies were there but I'd like to think that they kept us safe.

A young lad makes an amazing discovery!

Hello, I am 13 years old and am almost positive I have seen a faerie. A leprechaun at that. I have been told through stories that humans and faeries used to get along well. Some people would even put a small amount of gold on a stump, and the very next day, find a new pair of shoes in place of the gold. So during the summer, I tried this, and at first didn't succeed. But after a 12 days of putting a gold chain on a stump and then waiting at night for something to happen, a small figure appeared and exchanged the shoes for the gold. And then, without a trace, vanished. After it disappeared, the air was shimmering around the stump. The shimmering eventually moved into the woods, and then finally, disappeared altogether.

Keith

A fearless young woman finds a fairy community in Missouri!

Greetings from the land of unknown creatures!

I am twelve years of age and I live in Missouri in the US in a small community called Greenwood Forest. Yes, I do live in the forest, where it is very likely to see an unknown creature or fairy. On many occasions have I seen a fairy, mostly in a deep ravine of ponds and mosses full of turtles, birds, and insects. Last summer I was walking with my brother and mother in the woods when we came across a little set of ponds and mosses. Wow! I thought. This is just the perfect spot for a community of fairies to live in. I looked underneath some of the clumps of mosses to find.....................little places dugout in a circle of which a family of little creatures could fit into to sleep in winter!!! It was most extraordinaire, and on many mosses were perfect little meadows on which little fairy children would sleep.

The same year, in winter, I went back to see if the fairies were there. It was getting dark as I approached the location, so I expected they would be sleeping. But when I got there, and as I got closer, there was wonderful miniature peoples dancing naked on a large patch of moss. They were in a circle, singing the most beautiful fairy song. Some were playing flutes or fiddles, and all kinds of fairy instruments. It was the time of my life, seeing them dancing there, celebrating the----well, celebrating whatever they were.

Your fairy friend,
Lydia

An unseen visitor offers comfort!

My name is Lorraine. I live in Maple Ridge, BC, Canada. My friends and I believe in fantasy things, and we have fairy friends. We can't
necessarily see them, but we can sense them. I will never forget the time when I felt sad and ran into the forest, and felt safe. I make houses and things for the fairies, and the next time I go to the house, it looked as though some thing had used it.

A young woman has an amazing brush with the Fae, bringing her back from the precipice...

I‚m a 16-year-old girl from the east coast of Canada. I live in a beautiful, small town beside the Atlantic Ocean, and the atmosphere has always been somewhat mysterious and 'magical'...

Ever since I was born, I've believed in fairies. When my parents brought me home from the hospital, there were pictures of fairies all over my walls. As I grew up, I can remember cuddling with my mom and playing with the silver fairy pendant that she always wore around her neck...

I have a quilt that some of my parents friends made for me that is embroidered with fairies, my aunt made me a stained glass fairy to hang in my window: in other words, I've been so immersed in everything fae that I've had no reason to ever doubt their existence.

As a child, I'd play on the beach and in the forests around my home. I can clearly remember always feeling some sort of unexplainable force pulling me towards certain places in the woods where water trickled over pebbles and moss covered the larger rocks. These places always mystified me, and I'd build tiny little chairs, beds, and gardens using twigs and flowers...I'd always leave feeling strangely calm, as if I knew something that others didn't.

Fast forward to the summer of 2001: I had become an extremely depressed teenager with an uncanny ability to cover all of my feelings and make everything seem normal. My family life was wonderful, my friends were all I could ask for and more, my life was beautiful... and yet I had fallen into a downward spiral: one that would eventually lead me under a concrete bridge with several bottles of high strength prescription drugs and the desire to end everything. I swallowed the pills, lost consciousness, and fell into the water. I don't know how much time passed, but miraculously I came to and managed to throw up all of the pills I had ingested... remember those magical places in the woods? This bridge was situated not 2 minutes from my mystical forest.

When I awoke from my now terrifying attempt at suicide, I felt something on my cheek. When my eyes opened, I saw three tiny human bodies, each with transparent wings that looked like tiny pieces of silk, but glinted like those of a dragonfly. Stranger still was that often times in near death experiences, people's lives "flash before their eyes". I experienced this phenomenon, but in a slightly different way. Every memory I had of playing in the forest flashed into my mind, but as if I was watching as an outsider. I saw myself making those tiny twig creations, and behind trees, sitting on branches, and even beside my head, fairies had been with me. One particular image shocked me a little more than the others. It was my mom and my 7 year old self sitting together in the grass beside a brook watching butterflies. As I watched this memory replay itself in my head, I saw my mom look over her shoulder... just as a fairy was flying into a tree overhead.

After I was able to discuss my situation with my parents and get help, I asked my mom if she'd ever seen fairies. A smile I'd never seen before wiped across her face, and she answered "yes... and you have too." to this day I don't know how my mom knows what I saw that day under the bridge, but I am convinced now that my town is more magical than I ever imagined, my mom is a much deeper character than I thought, and somehow... in some beautiful way, fairies saved my life.

*Caleigh

We received this amazing story in the Winter of 2004!

My fairy sighting happened when I was about 6 or 7 years old. I remember that I was sleeping on my bed in a completely black room. I woke up for no apparent reason and to my surprise I saw about 3 fairies that were lightly dancing on my stomach. I didn't know what to do or really what was going on, but I remember a soothing feeling come over me and I drifted back to sleep.

A treasure found tucked in the back of a shop brings a treasure into a friend's room!

This year, I spent a week at my friends house.when she was away, I walked to the town and went to the toy store. As I looked around, I saw a pack of fairy dust that I had been wanting for a while. Since it was on sale, I bought it and rushed home.

When I reached my friends bedroom, I sprinkled the fairy dust everywhere and said the chant over and over. I didn't see any fairies then so I put the dust away and watched TV.

That night, as I was going to sleep, I noticed a small glittery light, hanging from the ceiling. I nudged my friend and pointed to where I had seen the speck of light. She gasped, and saw it too. For that moment, I realized that this must be a fairy. I couldn't believe that I was encountering a beautiful creature like this.

From then on, I had continued to sprinkle fairy dust in my room. And until this day, I have always seen my good friends the fairies.

Sara- 2004 , age 12

The fairies have reached NEW ZEALAND

I live in the North Island of NewZealand, near the sea. Fairies live in our garden at last! It has taken five years to grow a garden the fairies like and this Spring we began to see signs that some fairies have at last moved in. The wind chimes have made music when there has been no wind.

There was something that looked like a tiny, tiny cake of soap on the edge of the bird bath. And someone has been taking bluebell flowers off the stalks!!!

From a young believer in the UK

Hi!

I am a twelve year old from England and I have believed in fairies for years and years. In the summer of 2000, May 13th, when I was nine years old I definitely saw one.

It was that time in the evening when the air is fresh and the sky is still bright around 8:00pm. I was the only one in my front garden and I was sitting on the doorstep looking at a rose when I felt a presence behind me. I turned around I firstly thought it was a butterfly with beautiful purply red wings sitting on the fence. Then, I noticed, it appeared to be sitting. As I looked closer I saw dainty little legs over the edge of the fence. I gradually saw slender arms and a perky little face with a cheery grin. I stared in wonder and felt as if I had left this world. I felt all happy and peaceful. I blinked and it was gone! I searched for it until my mother called me in for supper. No one believes me except my cousin, because I am just a child and grown ups just think I make it up for attention or that it was just my imagination. But every day I think of my fairy and I know what I saw.

From a believer, B.D.