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it was a fairy good evening back in the

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summer of 2005

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i had a very unusual sighting yet it was

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almost something of a blessing to

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witness

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especially having such high hopes for

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such an existence

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myself and an entire group of people

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witnessed a fairy close up

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nobody knew what to say it started with

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a phone call from a friend

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inviting me and my girlfriend at the

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time out to his parents house in the

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country areas of chicora pennsylvania

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which has had many other odd occurrences

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and sightings bat squishes i can most

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recently recall

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we accompanied a gathering of about

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seven or eight of us in total

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it was a casual evening nothing crazy

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and no drugs to induce any

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hallucinations

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we sat on his parents back porch as the

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sunset behind the trees

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it was a nice house set in a thick

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wooded area and carried on conversation

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amongst friends

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night came and nothing much else changed

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this porch was more of a deck

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it was roughly 10 by 15 which was a nice

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spread for all of us to gather around a

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table on

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to the far side of the deck which was

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right across from where i was sitting

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my friend's mom had a huge pile of pots

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and plants that rested against the

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railing of the deck in the house

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all of which sat right under the

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spotlight for the deck sore area of the

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deck was very clearly visible in the

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dark

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at this point it was probably around 10

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pm considering that it was almost pitch

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black outside

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suddenly during one of those odd quiet

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moments in conversation

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we heard a pot tink as if it were

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lightly bumped

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being out in the woods in the dark all

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of us turned to see what kind of animal

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was spying on us

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to our surprise as we all turned to look

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and mind you i had a front row seat the

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whole time

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we saw what looked like either an

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enormous moth and i've seen big moths

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this thing was more like a squirrel size

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or a rather large bat shoot straight up

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from the pile of pots

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however this thing obviously had wings

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that were wrapped around its body like a

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tortilla

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but i immediately noticed something that

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blew my mind a human head with extremely

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long pointed ears

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almost as if they were to be disguised

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as antennas however

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there was no human hair on this creature

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so it shot straight up from the pile of

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pots

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but what happened next totally threw us

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all in a spin it reached its maximum

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and hung suspended in midair for about

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half a second

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when suddenly its wings burst open into

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a full spread

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right in front of the porch spotlight i

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could not believe what i was seeing

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it was a perfect slender human female

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body with wings attached along the

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entire side of its body from fingertips

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to toes and then some

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her body was solid and silhouetted

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against the light but her wings

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resembled the skin of an earlobe

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almost like a bat's wings being in front

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of the light

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i could somewhat see through her wings

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and actually saw the veins that carry

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blood throughout her body

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her skin i assume was a pale green

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pigment and i say assume because her

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entire body and wings were covered in

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what looked like tiny white hairs

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but there was something magical seeming

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about her hair because it carried a

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definite soft green glow around her

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entire entity

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i drew pictures to try to describe how

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she had first appeared wrapped up in her

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wings

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and then how she opened up to a full

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spread-x figure she was a combination of

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human and butterfly

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with a biological twist of bad now

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biologically i'd say she had the body

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density and weight of a good sized

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squirrel

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proportions that seemed identical to a

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the wings were so oddly beautiful and

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designed the way they attached to her

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body and stretched at full wingspan

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which she had to do by opening both her

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arms and legs to get this full effect

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now here's the next part that just

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doesn't make sense

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like i said when she first shot out of

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the pots she hit a high point where she

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was suspended in midair for about half a

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second

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and the burst open in an instant to

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reveal her truly graceful form which

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again she hung in midair for another

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half second

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making an overall 1 to 1.3 seconds of

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hang time

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i try to be so accurate with timing

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because i am an animator and it's all

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about timing

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so i think i should be pretty accurate

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with that guess

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but after she showed herself in this

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full spread form as heavy as she seemed

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to be

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having the seemingly biological makeup

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that i observed

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she defied gravity and fluttered right

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over top of the table

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over top of all of us about four feet

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above the table

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and off the deck and into the woods from

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point a

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the pops on the porch to point b the

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woods she probably fluttered for about

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seven to ten seconds

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it was dark outside so once she left the

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confines of the porch

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she left the radius of light that we

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could see in from the spotlight on the

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porch

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she was gone in an instant once she

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crossed that line

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all of us sat silent for about 30

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seconds jaws wide open

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until someone burst into holy crap and

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the sword

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we all fumbled for an explanation for

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about five to ten minutes

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before we all just decided to accept

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what we saw a fairy

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not one of us thought at anything else

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like i said

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it for one split second well wrapped up

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in its wings

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resembled a giant mother bat but i could

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see that human head

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and instantly knew it was a humanoid and

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once she opened her body

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to reveal her true form there was no

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mistake it was a real life fairy

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absolutely beautiful about an hour later

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my girlfriend and i left my friend's

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parents house and headed home

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the whole ride home we could not stop

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speaking of what we saw

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and how it altered our perception of

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reality and the unknown

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her lost magics of this world when i was

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younger

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i used to spend most of my time and

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solitude in the forests and wild areas

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that people rarely tread i would hear

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music coming from the streams and

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whispers in the wind things that poets

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write of

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but these things i truly heard and felt

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in time

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as i grew older i became involved in

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man's world and feel

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that the sixth sense if you will has

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slowly faded from my being which breaks

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my heart to think about

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especially knowing that magic and beings

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of lord do still in fact exist

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do not ever stop believing and never

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turn your head from nature

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wood fairy i was at my summer cottage

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near lake erie in western new york state

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i was walking my dog out at about 8 p.m

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the sun was just beginning to go down

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behind the trees

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casting a beautiful fractured light on

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the front of the house

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in the distance could be heard the sound

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of my neighbor's atv

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driving around the undeveloped wetlands

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adjacent to my property

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suddenly my dog began acting erratically

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pulling on the leash to go back inside

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and turning his head toward the sky

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looking this way and that i spoke to him

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asking what was wrong and looked around

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to see what was disturbing him

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other than the noise in the woods that

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is when i saw a peculiar wing creature

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flying from out of the woods across the

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front of the house

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the creatures wings were about three

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inches across

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the wings were transparent and rounded

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at the ends

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if you formed a c with your thumb and

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forefinger and then touched your

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thumbnails together

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you would have a rough estimation of the

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shape of the rear wings of the creature

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the wings were not fluttering like a

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butterfly are vibrating like a dragonfly

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which are two common insects in my yard

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the creature was gliding

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with perhaps a slight vibration i only

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saw the creature for the length of time

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it took to fly to the end of the house

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once it got beyond the house into the

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open area of the front yard it

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disappeared

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my eyes were on it the whole time i was

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not able to see any of its body

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just the back wings from below as

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described above

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by the shape of the wings i assumed it

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was a four-winged creature

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my thought after the being disappeared

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was that must be what people see when

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they say they have seen a fairy

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i felt late at seeing this creature it

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was nothing i had ever seen before

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was it a leprechaun one day in the late

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1988 to be precise i was on my way to an

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appointment in london's southeast area

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i was traveling through oxford circus to

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get to the line which would take me to

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my

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station in oxford circus subway there

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are at least three levels which are hubs

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with various lines that run through them

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and i was on the second level heading to

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my eastbound train

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i passed through the main hub of that

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level which had escalators going up to

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the street level

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and a series of other tunnels branching

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off of it as i approached the main

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chamber i was overcome by wonder and

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curiosity because there was a sound

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coming from there that i could not

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really comprehend

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it was musical and yet at the same time

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it was not

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the sound was very enchanting and i was

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becoming more and more curious by the

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second to see what was making it

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entering the main chamber on route to

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the other tunnel i looked over to the

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source

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and this is what i saw in the few

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seconds it took to cross that chamber

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there were two very long escalators

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going up and down to the street level

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and in the center between the two stood

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a little man upon first glance i noted

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that he was cherubic in stature with

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stocky arms and legs and face with rosy

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cheeks

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and even at my location a few feet away

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i could see his eyes were extremely blue

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off-worldly in color and twinkling his

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lips were red and he had a white

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mustache and beard

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and his hair was blonde silver in color

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these details were striking in relation

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to the others that were in evidence

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in his hands he held a delicate silver

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flute from which that sound all music

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if you could call it that was emanating

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from it was enchanting in the sense that

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one's mind would try to resolve it to a

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melody or a harmony

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and then it would dance away to become

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something else his dress was very much

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what you would imagine were you to see a

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leprechaun in real life

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drab in color with beige earth green and

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khaki brown tones with boots that looked

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made of felt and the like

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and even a small felt khaki green hat on

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his head with a feather in it

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okay so he could have been dressed in a

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costume and that would have been the end

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of my curiosity were it not for what was

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happening around him

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crowds of people going up and down those

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escalators on both sides

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were reaching in their pockets and

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wallets and dropping money into his bag

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yes he had a bag which was a plain old

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plastic shopping bag

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but it was filled to overflow with coins

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this bag was bulging on all sides with

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coins and paper money and it was

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overflowing through the handles part

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onto the floor

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that was what caught my attention the

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fact that the people who were tossing in

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the money

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were not even looking at him it was like

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they were in a trance

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he was looking at me the whole time

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watching me see what was going on and i

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must have registered some astonished

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awareness on my face

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because he smiled in the middle of his

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playing and gave me wink and the nod

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he continued to play on that eerie music

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filling the hole in the ears and mind

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and the people continued on like

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sleepers not paying attention just

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digging in their pockets and dropping

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money into his

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bag i continued on to my connecting

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tunnel and not a few feet down that

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tunnel i encountered a young man playing

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an electric guitar with an amplifier

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and who was being completely drowned out

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by the eerie sounds coming from the

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adjoining chamber

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i looked into his guitar case as i went

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by and saw that he had only a few coins

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in there

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i looked at his face and he gave me a

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look that bespoke amazement and

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irritation

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that his music should be drowned out by

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that off-worldly one coming from the

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main hall

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feeling badly for him i dropped a pound

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coin into his case and continued on my

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way slightly befuddled by what i had

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just seen and experienced

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i later shared this with some friends

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that i had seen what i thought was a

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real leprechaun and told them the story

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they laughed at me and thought i'd lost

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my marbles

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then about a week or so later one of my

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friends came up to me at work very

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excited

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she said she had just seen my leprechaun

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in the same place in the exact same

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situation as i had described

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everything was the same down to the

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people in a trance dropping money into

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his bag

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she said when she had seen him her mouth

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dropped open in amazement as she

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realized i had been telling it exactly

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as it was and he too had looked over to

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her during that moment of astonishment

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and given her a wink in the nod

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we never saw or heard of him again after

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that so perhaps he got what he needed

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