Yet massive discrepancy resides between such early stories and todays "eyewitnesses". The eyewitness reports have kept up with the changing literature, which strongly indicates that suggestion influences the phenomena.

The rest are found here. http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/shiherostar/Faeries/
The first one I took on the way to a the beach and we stopped by to check out that waterfall. We went back months later and the Faerie that looks like a tree stomp was not there. Hmmm.

The return of Starchy!

No, I don't think so... these aren't really his style of sightings... but then again I could be wrong...

The first picture is quite intriguing. It's one of the clearest fae pictures that I've seen in long while.
Is it real? I don't know, but it is enchanting to ponder about.

I've seen the bottom 3 pictures posted on other websites over the years so I know they're not Starchy's.

The first one is my picture. The others are ones I found on the internet. I don't know about the other ones, but I can tell you that I took that first one and its untouched (except for the red outline and arrow).
My boyfriend (who does not believe in the Fae) actually freaked out when he saw that picture.
We went back to that spot months later to see if the fae looking crature was a tree stump and there was nothing there
that resembled it.
Pretty crazy. I have had one other experience w/ the fae as well. I didn't see them but heard them in a forest near the beach on oregon. My boyfriend was with me at that time too. He never believed in that sort of thing and thought it was horse sh**!
Well he believes now! Pretty crazy stuff. I don't know how I feel about a lot of these photos floating around the net, but I know mine is real!

Well, it's a beautiful serene looking place in the picture, if I were an elemental, that's the type place I would hang out.

I've seen hundreds of pictures on this subject, but very few are clear and immediately identifiable as something being there. This picture is certainly something for you to smile about because you know it's real.

I don't think it's crazy or anything like that, I've heard several accounts such as yours and I've read hundreds of accounts in my ever growing collection of books on the elementals subject and the one thing most of them have in common is the unexpected encounter and then the mystery sets in...

Welcome to UM.
Thanks for sharing your account and your intriguing picture.
It's a honey of a mystery for you and most everyone enjoys a bit of mystery in their life.
Cool!



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I noticed a wing and a gorillas face in that pic too,along with many other 'anomalies'

That first picture is indeed intriguing, though I still think it's perhaps just a clump of leaves and moss.

I know you said that you went back and nothing was there, but could you possibly go back and take another picture to confirm it?

The last four look like bugs to me, I've got plenty of them. Well, I don't have plenty bugs, but I have plenty pictures of them.
Your pic however is extremely interesting.



I wish you'd taken another pic on your second visit so you could show us what was there. Ahhh well, Thanks for posting this!

After snapping this photo I got pretty intrested on the subject of Faeries and have read a lot. I too have not seen anything as clear as the picture I snapped.
The next time I am on the way to the beach (which should be soon since its summer) I will take another photo.
Its funny, its just a little waterfall off to the side of the road on the way to the beach.
I think the coolest thing is being able to make out a little hat, eyes, nose, mouth and chin.
I just hope I am not doing the wrong thing by posting up the picture. I don't want to break any sort of faerie trust.

I would not lose any sleep over it...........

That would be great!

It's a beautiful spot and if I were a fairy, I'd hang out there all of the time!

Like psyche 101 said, I wouldn't worry too much about it. This little fella doesn't look like a web surfer to me.

I need to ask a favor:
I wanted to send the picture to another website. (its a lady thats very into the fae)
My computer is really weird right now and I thinks its because a friend installed a bootleg copy
of Windows Xp (service pack 2).
Anyways...I need to get the e-mail address off this website:Fae or Faery
The e-mail is near the bottom.
I would really appreciate it!

Check your PM

Thank you.
For some reason it didn't work.
Oh well!

Yup, the only thing that could possibly be is a secretive type of new species of hominid. There is no way in hell that could just be blur, a fake, or a log. I call it a fake, obviously.

Awfully touchy about it aren't you?

It's okay if you think it's something other than what hometak thinks it is.
But there's no reason for you to be so sarcastic in your response.

I used the sarcasm just to drill in the point about how mronic the idea of fairies is.

Can you say 'Ironic'???
Learned to spell while spouting your passion... It's spelled Moronic.

I won't quibble on the existence of fairies, your opinion of fairies is shared by many, but not by all.

I am extremely sorry for accidentally missing out the first O in Moronic, I did not realise that mispelling instantly makes somone an idiot. But gee, it's probably the end of the world now that I've missed out that Oh so Important letter...

Well, there now you've done it, now you've doomed the world because of your lack of spell check... ~rofl~
You are a true character.
Nope, you're not an idiot, you're points were well taken.
I was just messing with you. Trying to keep it light... You know...

Hmmm well I don't know what it is, but its not fake.
May it be a stump w/ some moss and such. Its still not fake.

Oh and I believe that anything is possible.
There are lots of people that have had encounters w/ the fae.

Are there any other pics of faeries in the forums?

I've looked at a whole bunch of books on faeries, like twelve of them, and one thing that's in common with them all is that the encounters they supposedly have are never a tangible thing. It's always that you have to go into the forest and sit with your eyes closed waiting to get in tune with nature. Then the faeries are supposed to visit you in your head, making you hear weird noises and see weird colors while your eyes are closed.

It all seems too suggestive to me, like it's just self delusion.

I love fairys!!! I totally believe in them, and have always since I was a little girl!
I have seen one only once about 5 years ago and wish that I had a camera with me at the time...
It was positively a fairy no matter that no one believes me I saw it with MY own eyes and no one can
tell me I saw differently because no one else was there!

yeah, I wish I've seen some fae. I think though that I may already have. it's hard to tell when you do because books and stuff are like, 'And they have a special fairy glimmer or whatever so it's hard to see them'.

Urgh. I don't know.

I hate not knowing.

................ah......................how convinient....................yes?


think ill leave it at that

haha whatever...
I wouldve given anything to have had a camera...Im not trying to convince YOU.
Im just sharing my story.

and i respect that. its just hard to believe it in some cases, when people claim to see fairies. especially since almost all those pics have already been proven hoaxs

I do believe in Fairies

I do believe in Fairies

I do beli....

nope, guess I don't.

The thing is tho, a hoax is when someone is trying to get ppl to believe something that is not true...
I never took pictures or sold my story to the tabloids... Im not trying to make someone believe me, true or not true.
I just simply said I saw one once...thats it. There is no gain for me to tell you ar anybody that I saw one. I couldve kept it
to myself and been just as content to know that I saw it.
Im sure ppl vary in their beliefs...thats cool. But why would I even say that I saw one? how would it benefit me to lie to some
random ppl on the internet?

No disrespect intended, but there are a whole variety reasons why someone would lie to random people on the internet.

But, ultimately, it will never matter if they do or don't.

If you truly believe that is what you saw, no one will convince you otherwise. I do have respect for your opinion, but please forgive me if I take it with a grain of salt.

I believe.

Most pics are fake. Especially if it is like looking for ghost orbs. If you did not see them clearly flying around snapping pics into the forest and reviewing them later is not how it works. So what did you see?

Faerie as most think of them are maybe a Victorian era invention if I remember right? It does not matter because people see what they see if they know how to look.

There are others. The older faerie. When one crosses into their world it might be a house, a castle, or just a tiny place in the woods. If you are nice to them they will repay you in time with something great. If you disrespect somehow even if you do not mean to they might take offense and be very cruel. They will look and talk like us. But they are not us. And their places are not there when we try and go back. One has to be careful if they ever step or are taken into Faerie like that. Never eat anything they offer. Dangerous things can happen. You can get lost there and another will take your place in the real world. Another who is not you but everyone thinks it is but somehow different, somehow sick, and wasting away. Then when it dies they think you are dead. But you are still in Faerie. This is how the old tales go of Ireland.

Look, a dragon and a squid. I have proof.
Yeah, maybe I'm being a bit harsh. But I can't see anything in those pictures. Fairies, dragons, bigfoot, nothing.

Its cool.... thats why im on here... to hear opinions and stories

It was small and had a long white almost sheer dress....almost like a cherub rather than a womanly figure, but still grown looking...about the size of my pinkie nail...and when i got outta my car in my driveway it just stopped in front of me so I held out my hand and it lighted right above my palm!! It never landed but just looked at me! it really looked like a little 'grown baby'...if that makes sense...
I knew right away what it was....it was so beautiful!!
it stayed about an inch from my palm no more than half a foot from my face for at least 30 seconds!!! I would give anything to have taken a pic or to be able to see one again.

I just wanted to say that that is a spectacular Hedychium. Is that yours?

I believe, and you, sir, are one lucky fellow.

I see them but they look more like sewn dolls to me then faeries.

This topic reminds me of a picture I took years back. It was in april of '98 when me and my family went on a trip to Switzerland. We stayed in an old house just on the edge of a huge forest, I can't remember the name of the village though. We arrived on monday, and in the late afternoon we decided to take a walk to check out the environment . There was nothing special about it at the time, and we just took some cool pics and went home. It wasn't untill a few years ago that I noticed something strange. I was scanning the pictures on my computer to save them - offcourse there weren't any digital camera's at the time. Some I had to adjust in photoshop to correct the brightness etc., and on one of the pictures I noticed 2 feary shaped little humanoids. I noticed them when I tuned the brightness up. I don't know what to think of it. Just take a look:

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/1021/fearyproofdg3.jpg
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/8168/fairyproof2nw1.jpg

I know everybody feels they are entitled to believe in something. As long as the belief is socially resonsible, that is indeed fine. False hope and belief is a very different thing however.

So why do we not all still belive in Santa? Faries too have a definite history and it can be traced. It may be an older story than The Hulk, or The Smurfs, yet the origins remain to be the same, so why the belief in Tinkerbell type creatures?

Some people claim to have seen these diminutive sapiens, yet ultimately, according to history, scientific record and common sense all say the realm of Faries is purely an imaganiative realm. What is it people believe they see? Many stories seem to be from decades ago, only now coming forth with the tale. Have these people talked themselves into a belief?
I have actaully met a couple of people now that claim to have seen faries, and these people are the type that are always looking around the corners of life for a better alternative. It seems they are not satisfied with what they have, and wish their belief to make a bright contribution to the world. You know, people into alternate medicines, new wave cults or religions, always changing faiths, jobs etc. etc. They tend to re-invent the wheel over and over with the same square designs.

Of those people I would ask - Have you considered the feelings of the person who wrote the original tale? How would you feel if this person(s) were rollling in his grave in disbelief of the extreme direction his tale meant to delight children has taken? Have you simply plagerised an ideal to make your world a little brighter? Is that fair?

I realise that "Little People" such as Ebu Gobo did indeed exist, as Flores is tribute to that, but savage tiny sapiens do not a Fairy make.
Interesting that the Fae manage to keep in with the latest in human fashion for the time as well.
Many people who "study" the Fae seem to be happy to stop at where it suits them. Should you continue to delve into these "ancient" stories of Magical little people just a little further, the author of the train you are researching will becom apparant, yet this detail never seems to be revealed on Farie sites. Just a little more than misleading I would say, and I detest people, (creationsists are another that use similar tactics) that use such tactics.
What reason is there to believe in such creatures? Surely the photoshop getting around the net is not enough to convince any more than the simplest of minds, stories are but stories, no real evidence of any kind abounds for a creature apparently hiding in the underbrush for centuries. Surely one would have been squashed across someones windscreen by now?
I remain perplexed...........................

I absolutly agree with that. Excellent post Psyche.

that first one looks like you just copied the pic onto a pic and made it transperant.

Fairies wear boots.

So I've heard.

Starchy, does your camera lack a "focus" feature?

i dont know how you guys dont see them, great pics

Id really like someone to dig up info on Fossils

Faeries are nothing more than spirits. There will never be fossils or anything of the sort for they live in the spirit realm. Spirits have different cultures some appear as what we consider faerie types, there is more than one, some appear as what we consider ghosts, human spirits pass on and do not remain here for long the rest are masqueraders, some appear as ascended masters when others channel them, and some appear as demons. This is my theory anyways nothing based in science.

haha thank you but i am a lady...not a fellow.

Alisa, I think it's very sweet what you're doing with your photos. You seem like a wonderful person. I DO, in fact, see what you're seeing. But I really just think the shapes of fairies you're seeing are just odd shapes created in certain areas of the leaves and, what? The fence, maybe, that's behind them there?

I don't expect this to change your mind. I just wanted to offer my opinion on one of your threads. Bless you, sweetheart.