Ghost, Cryptids and the Fey.

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Laurie

January 29, 2021 3:25 pm

Man steps into Fairy Forest Now I know how this title sounds, and i agree. Sounds stupid in a way right? Who the hell takes those often friendly, likely harmlessly mischievous, small spirits as being ... View MoreMan steps into Fairy Forest Now I know how this title sounds, and i agree. Sounds stupid in a way right? Who the hell takes those often friendly, likely harmlessly mischievous, small spirits as being malevolent? Probably very few, though I reckon that depends on the culture. Eastern European culture has some particularly....colorful ideas of certain types of fairies. Anyway, not my point. My story happened in North Carolina. It wasn't my house, but a close friends. He had just gotten off work, and living in a rural area, drinking tended to sum up his idea of fun if and when he wasn't hanging out with anyone. I wasn't a local, but I knew some of the area fairly well. The woods around my friends house, while i hadn't explored it all, I had been in and around it fairly often and i knew the majority of the nearby trails and where they led to and ended up at to a certain extent. I knew enough to feel comfortable walking alone and I knew where to stop and turn back since I lacked knowledge of the area, and also because at certain points, peoples property starts intersecting and while no one has ever pointed a gun at me or anything, I have seen large dogs on the edge of places like this and they growl quite a bit. They seem to get more aggressive the closer I approach, but if i turn away, they also turn away. Weird but okay. You can train dogs to be like that and to attack only if you approach within a certain range so thats typical. Anyway, I went a different route, and when I say diferrent, I mean that loosely. I went a familiar route, but then decided to go off path a little. There is a stream that connects to a nearby lake, but the stream sort of circles around the entire neighborhood, and in some places, continues on into the town itself that my friend lived outside of. To be a small stream, it's pretty long and flows all year long. Whelp, at one point while off trail, I found where a large tree had been knocked over and had formed a bridge I could cross. i had never walked on that side of the stream before, and curiosity got the better of me since while the stream could be jumped across if I got a running head start, it just hadn't even occurred to me to walk on the other side. Had never thought about it before. I still knew where about I was and could still remember how I had gotten to where I was and therefore knew how to get back. Anyway, I don't know when it happened. I don't remember leaving the stream. I had been walking next to the stream, just following it, when suddenly I was surrounded by woods, no stream, not even the sound of running water. And it was silent. Made no sense. I tried finding my way back and then the next strange part happened. I came to this place where everything was just....beautiful. I can't explain what I mean any better. Everything was PERFECT. The trees seemed taller, more vibrant, alive almost. Flower bushes, beautiful plants I can't describe with exotic colors of fruits, leaves, and flowers, chirping birds, chittering squirrels, so much COLOR. It was so beautiful, it seemed fantasy and unreal. I mean I'm leaving stuff out since I'm not good at describing this sort of thing...but it felt so EXTREMELY peaceful. I felt like I had walked into the literal Garden of Eden. Then as I started looking around, I noticed I couldn't move. I mean it was like my feet were glued to where they were. I could move my arms, legs, and head and so on, but I couldn't take a step further into wherever this beautiful place was. I also noticed I kept seeing these little "things" moving around me. Smaller than birds, but larger than any insect, and there were many of them, and I swear it, but they seemed to be TALKING, but all hushed so I couldn't understand them, or even hear if they were speaking any language I could possibly have known, but I could hear them. It was like whispering, but also like the sound was being carried all around me like it was echoing or something. It's hard to explain. They never seemed to come close enough for me to make out what they were, and I couldn't move a step towards them, but they always remained just on the edge of my eye sight, and curiously enough, any time they grew even slightly closer, my eyes would sort of blur and it's like my vision would lose focus and I wouldn't be able to see exactly how they looked. So they remained these....small, flying things that sort of seemed like they were talking,, whispering, flying, larger than an insect but smaller than a bird. Somehow, I wasn't being allowed to see whatever they were, or traverse into wherever I was. I don't understand it. Next thing I know, I'm standing by the stream again, with no memory of returning. The sun is setting also, which means I've been out in the woods for most of the entire day, when to me it felt like it had only been an hour, maybe two. Instead, 8-9 hours have passed since I got at my buddies place before 10 AM. Idk. I have no explanation for none of that, but it sure seemed like fairies to me.

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