Connecting the Dots of the Paranormal: Little People and Fairies

Whatever our current, modern thought on Littlethese beings live. He called it "The Lands Beneath"
People and fairies, the fact legends and storiesand said the fairies lived inside the Earth. In the
exist of them in cultures around the world is hardsightings and stories I've read through there
to dispute. No other area is a attached to theseseems to be at least a few where people report
creatures as England, Ireland, and Scotlandtwo different things, or call them different things,
possessing some amazing stories of these beings.but may be the same phenomena. A common
Sightings of Little People and fairies continue toone over time is the nature spirit. In the eyes of
this day, and perhaps even some of our modernthe witnesses the beings share a lot of smilarities.
sightings of things we don't understand could beBut can we trust our eyes with this area of the
this phenomena as well. Here an example of aparanormal?Both of the above books suggest
recent sighting from the book Fairies: Realthat fairies, or some races of them, can
Encounters With Little People by Janet Bord:"Quiteshapeshift. They sometimes use what's called
recently, probably in the early 1990s,"glamor" to change their appearance, perhaps
fifteen-year-old Brian Collins was on holiday in theletting us see what we think we should be seeing.
Aran Islands off west Donegal. While out walkingThis is also a common believe in fairy lore and
early one morning he saw two little men fishingseems to be lending itself to modern studies and
from a bank overlooking the sea. They wereresearchers trying their best to define something
about 3 and a half feet tall, dressed in green withthat may not be definable and simply look how
brown boots. One had a grey beard and a flatour mind tells us it should look. Over the centuries
hat. They were laughing and talking in Irish, andmany common threads can be found with these
suddenly they jumped over the bank. When Brianbeings, glamor and shapeshifting are among them.
went to look for them, they had gone, but theyPeople seeing them dissappear into thin air is also
had left a pipe behind. He took it back to theconcurrent with lots of sightings.The very nature
house where he was staying, but while thereof these beings makes proving their existence
dissappeared from a locked drawer. When Briannext to impossible. Do we really have to prove if
saw the little men again, he tried to photographthey exist or not to get the bottom of other
them and tape-record their conversation, butthings though? We already have mountains of
nothing came out."The point of the modern dayinformation on them going back the last few
sighting is to really show these events still happen.hundred years. It may be time to use the
Fairies vary in size, shape and appearance, butfantastic to help provide clues and missing pieces
when seen the person involved in the sighting isto other areas of the fantastic. Other cultures
aware of what they're looking at. As the abovebesides the Scottish and Irish thought them to be
sighting shows our movie and storybooksfact, such as the Cherokee Indians designating a
depicting these beings as small, sometimesname for them. Perhaps Little People and fairies
bearded, and commonly dressed in green orshould be filed under Cryptozoology to make
brown may be based on sightings and reports ofthings a little simpler. A couple fairy beliefs and
them. The classic book The Secretabilities seen and reported by these creatures
Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies byoverlap with other areas of the paranormal.I don't
Reverend Robert Kirk details the life and cultureknow what the entire picture of this is supposed
of these beings. It was believed he got histo look like, but I hope I'm not the only one
information from local folklore and tales where helooking. In this area one sometimes has to stretch
grew up in Aberfoyle, Scotland. A diary of his hastheir beliefs and believe for a second something
since been found directly regarding this subjectmight be possible. Fact is often stranger than
matter called The Secret Lives of Elves andthings fiction could dream up. Maybe you really did
Fairies; From The Private Journal of Thesee a small being in the corner of your
Reverend Robert Kirk where, if you can believe it,eye.Robert Kreuk is owner of The Future Sight
he says he conversed and visited these beingsMetaphysical Bookstore. See our selection of
where they dwell in the Fairy Realm.Kirk is not thebooks and ebooks aimed at conneting the dots to
only person who has claimed to have gone wherethe paranormal.