WEBVTT 1 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:32.399 Hello everybody, We're welcome back. Thank you very much for 2 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:36.679 joining me. My name is Deborah Hatswell and you're listening 3 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:41.799 to BBR Investigations as the storm swirls outside tonight, and 4 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:45.840 wanted to bring you some modern day fairy encounters, with 5 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:49.719 cases such as Beware the Wrath if you build on 6 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:54.359 their path and Fairies of the Lamp. I'm going to 7 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:57.439 be sharing a number of reports from ordinary folk from 8 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.840 the UK who have had encounters with the faith. The 9 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:04.879 little folk, you know, the we devils, imps, sprites and 10 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:10.000 pixies who play tricks high things, of course our manner, 11 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:15.200 have come fabulation with their antics often portrayed in today's 12 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:18.920 geisters think about like you know, with fluttering wings and 13 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:22.959 a penchant for plants and flowers. They can also be dark, 14 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:27.560 dangerous and can lead many a traveler off a safe 15 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:32.359 path and into the world of the glimmer. The tales 16 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:35.560 that I'm sharing tonight are modern and some you will 17 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.640 not have heard of before. In some of the cases, 18 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.239 I've resourced them from the web, so I've added a 19 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:44.599 link to all of them in the description below. I 20 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:47.879 have added reports from all four corners in the UK 21 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:50.680 and for all of the names will change with the 22 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:54.040 region for purposes of ease, and will refer to them 23 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.000 as the Fay, although each country here does have their 24 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:01.000 own name for them. First, I'd like to start with 25 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.840 the case that happened to my very good friend Deb 26 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:07.680 Singleton that she shared with me several years ago, and 27 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:11.759 you can find the report in her book Strange Things. 28 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:16.199 Deb said several years ago, I had a strange experience 29 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:19.120 in my bedroom my home. Like then, I had a 30 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:23.439 crystal ball nightlight. The ball was made from heavy clay 31 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:26.759 glass and it was filled with air bubbles all shapes 32 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:30.080 and sizes, and it was about the size of a 33 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:35.120 large breakthrough. It sat on top of a small machine 34 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:39.639 that projected colored lights up through the ball. It also 35 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:42.759 had a function which enabled you to listen to such 36 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:47.360 things as birds, sound, rainfall, or the ocean, which I 37 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:50.800 never used. I used the lamp as a nightlight and 38 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.319 I just loved looking at it as I was settling 39 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:57.719 down ready for sleep before turning it off. One night, 40 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:00.479 I was looking at the bubbles within the ball. I 41 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:03.360 was getting ready to switch it off when I saw 42 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.360 what I can only describe as a fairy sitting on 43 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:10.319 top of the ball. Propped back on her hands and 44 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:13.960 she was swinging the legs idly. I was amazed to 45 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:19.199 see her. She had a beautiful, smiling face, long blonde hair, 46 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:23.240 and she was wearing a long, floaty white dress. She 47 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:26.919 was around the third side of a barbie dog. I 48 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:32.639 just laid there staring at her, totally transfixed, hardly daring 49 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:37.000 to breathe. She didn't appear to have noticed me. They 50 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:41.439 didn't move in case I scared her off. As I 51 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:44.479 looked at her, I noticed movement at the far side 52 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:48.120 of the ball, and suddenly a male of the same 53 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:51.919 size appeared. He placed his hands far apart on the 54 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:57.280 ball and bent slightly forward, and he peered around as 55 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:02.240 if he was looking for somebody, maybe the female. I 56 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:06.319 was blown away. I in and Burtley squealed, and they 57 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.960 both jumped in shock and disappeared. It was so sad 58 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:13.120 that it startled them. It was just a reflex action 59 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:17.680 that caused me to squeal. It never appeared again, well 60 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:22.839 not while I was awake. Anyway. What an amazing experience 61 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:25.639 and one that I am jealous of. I would love 62 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.160 to see the fae, especially if they were tiny, you know, 63 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:32.319 and beautiful to look at. It must have been magical 64 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:36.800 dead lived in Yorkshire when this experience happened, and there 65 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:40.000 are reports like this in every county in the UK. 66 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:44.800 In a wonderful block called the Emerald Iole, there is 67 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:48.920 a vast cattalog from Island that covers not only the 68 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:51.920 reports of people who see the Fay, but also has 69 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.959 a lot of information on fairy law, what to do, 70 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:57.519 what not to do, you know, and it explained some 71 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:02.079 of the ancient superstitions around them. I have had an 72 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:06.959 interest in the old connection between the fay, earth energy 73 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:10.199 and our natural plant life, you know, as each planet, 74 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:14.600 bush and tree is utilized by them and also has 75 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:19.399 its own energy. One story that I love anything to 76 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:24.040 do with the half lawn fairy legends. Now let me explain. 77 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.639 The Hawthorne is often associated with the realm called the 78 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:33.480 alter world or the fairy world, home not just to 79 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:38.120 the Fay, but also mythical creatures or mental spry, satyrs 80 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:42.639 and paths. It was believed that the Hawthorn acts as 81 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:47.399 a doorway between our world and the mystical realm. Legend 82 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:51.519 has it that fairies reside within the Hawthorne and disturbing 83 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:56.639 them can bring about some serious consequences. Hence it's known 84 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:01.920 as the Fairy Tree. One tailor is called beware the 85 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:05.000 Wrath if you build on their path, and it can 86 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:08.360 be found in the blog The Emerald. Though. There was 87 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:11.319 once a farmer in County Kera who had built a 88 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.160 little cottage for himself and his wife. But the thatched 89 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:19.079 roof was in a terrible state of disrepair and unlikely 90 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:23.519 to last another winter. Unlike the stonehouses and cottages in 91 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:27.439 the West, Kerry cottages were less sturder, and so he 92 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:30.120 knew we had to build himself another place to live. 93 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:33.240 He searched through the plot of land he was renting 94 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:36.759 and until he came upon a likely spot, and he 95 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.560 gathered the neighbors to help with raising his new house. 96 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:43.160 And was you know the way back when people helped, 97 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:46.920 didn't They? They came, and soon the house was almost done, 98 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:49.519 so they stopped to take a mite to eat and 99 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:52.680 have a drink. It happened that an old man was 100 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:57.600 passing by, and he paused to survey the work. Shaking 101 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:01.399 his head, he proclaimed that nobody he stayed in that 102 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:05.240 house would get a full night's sleep, and he made 103 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.879 off before he could be questioned about such an outlandish statement. 104 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.920 That very night, the farmer and his wife were settled 105 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:17.680 down fast asleep, and just after midnight they were awakened 106 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:23.040 by a terrible battering and rattling sound, as though the 107 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:26.120 cupboard had come down from the wall and the table 108 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.759 was dancing around in the kitchen. Scrambling out of bed, 109 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:32.439 he looked at the door to find everything looked the 110 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:36.959 same as it had before, nothing had moved. So shaken 111 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:40.439 he went back to bed. Well. Twice more that night 112 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:44.040 the same thing happened, so the couple got no rest 113 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:47.439 at all. The next night he was ready and he 114 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.759 wore his clothing bed, and sure enough, when the racket 115 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:54.319 began again, he sprang out and grabbed his stick, went 116 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:57.199 to the front door and back door, hoping to catch 117 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:01.639 the blackguards who were battering on his walls. Look, not 118 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.360 a soul was in sight, only the silent darkness of 119 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:10.240 the countryside. Even while his crockery toppled from the shelf, 120 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:13.800 he saw nothing. He was at his wits end, but 121 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:16.959 his wife suggested they should have gone talk to the priest, 122 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:21.600 a man with a fearsome reputation, and if he wouldn't 123 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:25.000 do it, she would, And so she did, bringing the 124 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:28.959 priest back with her. The next day, the priest arrived 125 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:30.879 at a mass in the house, so their husband and 126 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.000 wife went to sleep that night with an air of 127 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:38.039 cautious optimism. There was no avail for again. The whole 128 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.960 house shut and rocked. Night after night. It went on 129 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:46.399 until the farmer was in a wretched state. But he 130 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:48.960 had to bring his cattle to market, where he'd have 131 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.759 been out on his ear. So the next day he 132 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:56.559 pulled himself slowly to the nearest town and managed eventually 133 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.879 to sell a few head of cattle. He decided he 134 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:01.799 stop off at the pub for the rest on his 135 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.279 way back, But no sooner had he ordered his pine, 136 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:08.720 he saw the same old man you'd made the odd 137 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:12.879 comment while the house was being built. Quick as a flash, 138 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:14.679 he went out the door of that pope, and he 139 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:17.840 asked the old man why he'd said that they would 140 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:20.600 never sleep in the house in peace. And the old 141 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.120 man took in his appearance and said, you look like 142 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:26.639 a man who hasn't been getting much sleep. But I'll 143 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.960 tell you what. Finish up your pipe there and will 144 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:32.919 take a look at your house. And so he did, 145 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:36.799 and the farmer told him everything that had happened. They 146 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:39.639 went back to the farmhouse and the old man stood 147 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:43.240 at the back door pointing outwards. What is that that 148 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.879 you see, he said. Why, it's a white thorn tree, 149 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:49.840 said the farmer, and then the old man repeated that 150 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:53.240 at the front door. What do you see another white 151 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:56.519 thorn tree? Said the father. What did you expect, said 152 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:00.000 the old man. You built your house between two hoarfs, 153 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:04.039 arms each split into three bushes from the one trunk 154 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:07.840 that it's well known that the fairies will troop between 155 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:11.320 two trees, and they've been doing so since the land 156 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:15.639 itself was young. You've built your house or a fairy path, 157 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:19.360 and that commotion that you hear nightly, it's nothing but 158 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:22.240 the fairies trying to get through your house and running 159 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:25.039 into the wall. Well, what can you do about it, 160 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:29.919 asked the farmer. He said, well, what you must do 161 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:32.600 is leave your front door open when nightfalls, and the 162 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:35.759 back door as well, so that the fairies can pass 163 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:40.000 through without hindrance. If you do this, the fairies won't 164 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.480 trouble you again. So, taking the old man advice, and 165 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:45.679 the farmer left the front and back doors open in 166 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:49.799 his house every night and never again because he bothered 167 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:53.360 by the fairies, and to this day the doors of 168 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:57.080 that house will never quite close fuller, and that door 169 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:01.919 can be found in the home even now. Now I 170 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.200 know hawthorn as a bread and cheese plant, as parts 171 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:08.159 of it can be eaten all year round. The young 172 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:12.799 leaves are lovely. It takes a bit light like hazels 173 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:16.840 or cobnuts. There are hawthorns in England that are around 174 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.080 six hundred year old. It's a plant that needs very 175 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.519 little care and it can grow on the worst of soils. 176 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:27.600 Its medicinal properties are extensive, so it's no wonder The 177 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:31.960 hawthorn is known as the guarded tree now. In nineteen 178 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:34.799 ninety nine work was interrupted on the main road from 179 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:38.759 Limerick to Galway because a fairy tree stood in its path. 180 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:42.159 The road had to be re rooted and construction was 181 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:47.120 delayed by ten years. In County Tyrone in two thousand 182 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:50.840 and nine, a hawthorn tree was cut down and locals 183 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:54.679 reported numerous sightings of a ghost that had been bottled 184 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:59.039 beneath it. One told a reporter from the Belfast Telegraph 185 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:02.200 that it was a common thing round here. The local 186 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:05.519 priests would have come round exercised a place and put 187 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:08.039 the spirit in a bottle, and then that tree would 188 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:10.440 have been planted on top of that bottle in the ground, 189 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:14.120 and now they've cut that tree down. Now there's also 190 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:17.360 a connection between Hawthorne and the fairy lights some people 191 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:21.039 report seeing. And the next case seems to prove that 192 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.600 when fairies call your name. Now there's always seemed to 193 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:29.639 be a sense of magic to our garden, said this witness. 194 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:33.519 I'm looking to own five acres of land. And it 195 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:36.200 was a few days before Halloween in twenty ten when 196 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.759 I had my first experience with what I believed to 197 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:42.120 be the fair I remember a bright full moon of 198 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:45.120 white light and that was beaming through my bedroom window. 199 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.919 It was remarkably bright, and I had troubled them to sleep. 200 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:53.080 When I realized I hadn't even closed the blinds, a 201 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:56.279 sleepily went to close them before I gazed upon a 202 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:01.240 luminous garden, lawn and flower beds, and suddenly I noticed 203 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:06.080 four soft lights leading into our woods entrance. They weren't 204 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:09.840 moving as such yet they grew bigger and brighter and 205 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:13.480 more easier to see. The center light seemed to be 206 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:19.279 the brightest. They were white, yellow, and light pink. All 207 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:23.559 of which were ordered in a small line. I wondered 208 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:27.279 whether they were light reflections, and before I realized that 209 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:32.519 reflection light isn't bright, glowing, yellow or pink. I also 210 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:36.919 considered the fireflies, yet they're not native here. I watched 211 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:39.240 them for about half an hour until I went to 212 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:42.840 check at the time, came back finding them gone. The 213 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:45.080 next day, I decided to go outside and visit the 214 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:49.080 area where I'd seen the lights, mysteriously finding a fresh 215 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:52.240 bunch of mushrooms where the lights had been, and it 216 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:57.759 finally clicked fairies. As I walked away past the hawthornhead, 217 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:04.200 I swear I heard a very playful voice whispered my name. Now. 218 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:08.799 I took a report in the nineteen nineties. I didn't 219 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:12.080 take it in the nineteen nineties. I took it about 220 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:14.559 three years ago. And it happened in the nineteen nineties. 221 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:17.279 And it happened in an area called Heally Dell, which 222 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:21.279 is kind of Rochdale Way Oldham Way now at Heely Dell, 223 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:24.240 there is the legend of the Healy Dwarf and that 224 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:27.200 is represented by standing stone in the middle of the 225 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:31.240 river at the waterfall. And it said that the dwarf 226 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:35.039 covacid with fairies there and told them he never wanted 227 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:38.720 to leave, so there he still sits. The dwarf was 228 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:41.279 said to be the size of a small child with 229 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:44.559 a huge ginger beard. He was always dressed in green 230 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:47.879 and brown, with check trousers and white shirt rolled up 231 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.600 at the sleeves. Visiting the area was a treat for me, 232 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:54.600 and I can attest to just how magical lows Woods were. 233 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.919 Our witness is named Sam, and he said the story 234 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.720 I'm about to relate, and sometimes in my late teens, 235 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:05.000 in the late nineties, it was dusk, a friend and 236 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:07.960 I had been walking on the hills. We descended into 237 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.440 the woodlands of Healy Dell, an ancient woodland now a 238 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:15.919 nature reserve near Rochdale and Lancashire. As we walked deeper 239 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.720 into a remote part of the woods, we became aware 240 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:22.879 of a strange atmosphere, the kind of weird mist in 241 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.879 the air. It was like stepping into something from a film. 242 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.159 Everything seemed to take on a feeling of surreal a 243 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:39.519 stage set reality felt fake in some way. This derealization, 244 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:45.840 you know, is something of experience during other paranormal events. Strange, 245 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:50.120 you know, but it feels familiar. Both me and my 246 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:53.639 friend went into a strange, playful move. We both explored 247 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:58.840 the woods like you would as a child, dreamy, almost intoxicated, 248 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.519 going one way and I was going the other. Became 249 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:09.279 aware the sound of voices, like children's voices. They seemed 250 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:14.000 happy and cheek I followed the sound, concentrating on it 251 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:17.240 until I came to a stream, and it was then 252 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:21.360 I realized the sound of the voices was coming from 253 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:26.720 the stream itself. I listened intently for a moment entranced 254 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:29.960 by the way the babbling of the water and the 255 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:34.519 sound was kind of playful. After a short time, I 256 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:38.759 called my friend, who was some meters away, enthusiastically but 257 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:41.919 in a hushed tone, telling him to listen to the river. 258 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:46.639 We bolt knelt down, quietly, paying attention to the sound. 259 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.360 Before I had time to ask him what he made 260 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:53.639 of it, we both got sight of something on the 261 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:57.320 other side of the stream. This part of the story 262 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:01.440 is hard to describe. We both silently watched as a 263 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:05.960 group of lights, maybe seven in total, danced around before 264 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:09.000 us on the other side of the stream. The lights 265 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:15.160 were animated, seemed strangely intelligent, dancing around and interacting with 266 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:19.000 each other. Had the distinct feeling they could see us, 267 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:22.519 and they wanted us to see them. There was a 268 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:27.680 feeling of communication between us. I hesitate to call them fairies, 269 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.119 as they had no distinct features. They looked like orbs 270 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:34.920 of light, and then moved in a way reminiscent of 271 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:39.400 a group of animals. The whole atmosphere was dreamlike and surreal. 272 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:43.880 We seemed to be in some sort of trance. We 273 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:48.319 watched the lights in stunned silence for and indeterminate amount 274 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:52.440 of time, and eventually I became unnerved and I said 275 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:56.319 we should leave. I had half remembered local tales of 276 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:59.519 fairies taking people away. I thought it was best to 277 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:03.839 go out of them. Although looking back, there seemed nothing 278 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.319 benevolent about the encounter and the folk tales I'd heard. 279 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:12.079 It never struck me as frightening, but it was still 280 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:16.240 very unnervoy. We retreated, mind our way back up the 281 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:18.640 bank of the tree line and into the fading light 282 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:25.119 the evening. The strange, intoxicating feeling lifted as quickly as 283 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:28.680 it had come on. We sat on the hillside, exchanging 284 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:32.920 only a few words in a kind of bewildered, sharp 285 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:36.960 as we sat there in that state, a white feather 286 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:43.400 drifted down beautifully from side to side before our eyes. Eventually, 287 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:47.599 and then it landed softly on my friend's knee. It 288 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:52.279 so totally absorbed our attention that we were again in 289 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:59.359 a kind of trance, a stunned catatonia, reality seen somehow 290 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:02.759 fake or like a play was happening of some kind. 291 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:06.680 We related our story to friends the next day, and 292 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:09.079 a group of us went back to the spot. The 293 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:13.279 atmosphere I felt normal, mundane, There's nothing strange about it 294 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:18.920 at all. It seemed quite absurd. An enthusiastic friend even 295 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:24.400 brought a camera along. Before and since I experience. I've 296 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:27.960 had many mystical and paranormal events, some of which have 297 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:32.039 been utterly live changing, but this one seems relevant to 298 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:36.480 shardev over the past few years, and I've taken to 299 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:38.920 going back there, you know, and go to the same 300 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:43.319 spot around Christmas time to recognize the event. We sort 301 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:47.440 of become a ritual giving thanks for such a strange 302 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:53.160 and beguiling encounter, whatever it was, And that's my story 303 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:59.559 tis most true and faithful. The question has to be asked, 304 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:04.039 were those lights trying to lower some away Neally Dell 305 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:07.599 is almost like a ravine, and it's very steep sided 306 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:11.680 the embankments and rocky ledges and not easy to climb. 307 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:15.640 There's also heavy spray and miss from the waterfalls along 308 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:19.599 its stretch because the River Spodden runs through, and it's 309 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:23.319 a beautiful and atmospheric place. Not only will the Fai 310 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.920 lead you away and into danger, they may also shade 311 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:31.680 their image or change their appearance to something inviting and nice, 312 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:35.440 only to switch on you in an instant, showing its 313 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:39.400 real a gender and fear. Now there's a case it's 314 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:42.799 written in the fairy Farroom that seems to feature this 315 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:46.000 kind of activity. The person there said, I've seen this 316 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:49.559 creature several times now, but it has fully shown itself 317 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:52.519 twice to me. The first time was when I was 318 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:55.200 getting out of the shower. He had at least six 319 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:58.400 rounds of teeth and it was no taller than four feet. 320 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:02.079 But it reminds me of that creature, the precious, the 321 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:04.839 thinking Lord of the Rings. I don't know what that is. 322 00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:08.440 The only thing different between that and what I saw 323 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:12.240 is its teeth. The second time I saw him, I 324 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:15.519 was trying to talk to her young female health before 325 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:17.720 she could speak to me. The thing took her place 326 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:21.720 and bared its teeth. Does anyone have any idea what 327 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:26.119 this thing could be? It concerns me. The little girl 328 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:29.039 Elf was trying to speak to me, you know, maybe 329 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.759 getting harmed, and I would like to help her. We 330 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:36.519 do have a lot of uncly around here, but I've 331 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:39.319 never seen this. Now I had to look that up. 332 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:44.920 Uncly fay normally reported in Scotland scottage folklore. It's not 333 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.599 a good idea to cross them, and that is still 334 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:52.440 taken seriously to this day. Controversial fish farm plans were 335 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:56.480 rejected after campaigners worn fishermen could be lowed to their 336 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:59.599 desks by fairies in the deepest part of the ocean. 337 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:03.559 Ancient folklore was cited as a reason for planners to 338 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:07.839 turn down the application. Pharm One man had a frightening 339 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:12.400 encounter with a set of shadow stealing fay close to 340 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:16.640 the Crystal Mountain at Shalen. He shared his experience in 341 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:20.240 a film featuring modern daily reports of the fay and 342 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:24.799 he said, this is a rare modern fairy description from 343 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:28.519 the edges of Persia. This event took place at the 344 00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:31.680 base of Shahelion, the fairy Hill and the count is 345 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:35.480 from a modern fairy documentary, The Fairy Face, that I 346 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:39.240 took part in many years ago. Now, he said, I 347 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:41.640 was visiting the bogs at the bottom of Shahellion at 348 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:44.400 the time. It was just as I was sitting down 349 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:48.119 watching the beautiful views, around five pm in the evening. 350 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:52.559 As I sat in drifted the mist and a small 351 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:55.920 amount of dew in tiny rain drops was all around me. 352 00:22:56.920 --> 00:22:59.160 You could see a rainbow within the mist. I think 353 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:02.039 it was a privileged to be there whilst this display 354 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:05.920 was going on. I was watching the stream, listening to 355 00:23:05.960 --> 00:23:10.279 its rhythm, how it flowed in an almost musical way. 356 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:14.119 I felt almost in rapture at the beauty of it all, 357 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:17.759 and noticed movement on my left on what I can 358 00:23:17.799 --> 00:23:21.759 only describe as a little fellow was standing there. He 359 00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:24.920 was around four feet in high, and to my disbelief, 360 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:28.640 he had hold at the top of my shadow and 361 00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:31.559 he held the scissors at the head part and he 362 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:34.039 was trying to roll it up as he would roll 363 00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:38.119 the newspaper. He was around forty yards away from me 364 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:41.880 and we locked eyes. And at this point I saw 365 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:46.640 a similar, smaller female figure down at my feet, and 366 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:48.960 she was trying to cut out my shadow with a 367 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:53.759 pair of shares. I couldn't believe my eyes with instincts, 368 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:57.480 I said, oh, very loudly, at which point they both 369 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.960 looked at each other and vanished gone. And I was 370 00:24:01.079 --> 00:24:04.400 left with a feeling of astonishment. And to be honest, 371 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:07.920 I thought, your cheek, you eat bastards. I wasn't frightened 372 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:10.960 or scared. I was more astonished at the cheek of them. 373 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:15.319 They reminded me of the bog people, you know legend. 374 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:18.880 They were filth, the dirty, struggly hair, and they were 375 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:23.319 covered with cruel small buckskin, like a shammy cloth of 376 00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:27.279 some kind, which in itself was monkey with filth. The 377 00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:30.559 dirt was very ingrained on the cloth and on the 378 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:33.920 figures themselves, as if they'd come out of the bog itself. 379 00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:37.920 Now there is a legend at the very hill of 380 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:41.200 the vanishing children, and it's told that it was said 381 00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:44.319 by the villagers in the nearby town of averyfel day 382 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:48.839 that we folk controls inhabited a cave below the waterfall there. 383 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:51.960 Animals that wandered up that way were never seen again, 384 00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:56.279 and children were forbidden to go there. Of course, when 385 00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:58.400 she'd forbidden her child to go anywhere, and that's where 386 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:02.200 they're going to go. And they did and disappeared, which 387 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:05.559 isn't the end of the tale, but only the beginning 388 00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:10.359 of a mystifying storer. The children were found on a 389 00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:14.480 regular basis near lot Ranick, on the other side of 390 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:20.759 Mount Jahallion. Tradesmen traveling between Ranik and Overfelder would restore 391 00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:24.359 these missing children to the families. No one could explain 392 00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:26.920 how they turned up so far away and in such 393 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:31.599 short time. The children themselves remembered nothing, and so they 394 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:35.920 all said early on. The conclusion was that the fairies 395 00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:38.920 carried them there, you know, that the little people load 396 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:43.279 the children away. Later, tunnels were found leading from the 397 00:25:43.319 --> 00:25:46.200 back of the cave that we rocked to parts unknown. 398 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:49.559 No one care here to follow them to the end, 399 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:53.559 but it was speculated that they might extend for miles. 400 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:57.480 Some people began to discount the fairy and the trolls theory, 401 00:25:58.039 --> 00:26:01.359