Ep 106: Circle of White Beings: Siôn from NW Wales

Siôn from Gwynedd, North West Wales shares some astonishing stories: A circle of beings appearing and reappearing, supernatural attack at a Crossroads, his childhood experience of a being seemingly impersonating his teddy, ‘Pinky’, his encounter with a green ‘wisp’, The Egryn Lights case and local ‘Fairy Lakes’ folklore.

Siôn reveals an encounter that his Uncle’s friend reported around twenty years ago, after walking in a particularly remote, marshy area in the mountains between Llanegryn on the North West coast and Abergynolwyn, North West Wales.


“I was visiting my uncle in hospital at the time and he had just received a visit from this close friend just before I had arrived. The account was fresh in his mind and [my uncle] had no reason to think that his friend would make such a story up, no matter how amazing it seemed…at the time…”

Sadly, his uncle died unexpectedly a short time later and Siôn regrets that he didn’t get to ask him any more about it. He has since reached out to his Aunt who remembers the story her husband told, but is unable to identify which of his friends it might have been.

The difficulty of tracking the person down is made trickier (as experiencers will know) by the fact that these stories are largely kept secret, and only ever shared with those who we feel might understand.

Nevertheless, Siôn remembers the account vividly and shares it with us here.

🌟 Siôn is coming onto our Patreon members live zoom chat in July to speak to us in person. Come and join our community 💫 https://www.patreon.com/c/themodernfairysightingspodcast/membership

Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older. This show is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.

Shownotes

Mary Jones and the Harlech Light Flap/The Egryn Lights
https://www.sufon.co.uk/post/the-egryn-lights

These are the lakes we discussed and some information from Siôn:
Llyn Cynwch
https://nannau.wales/folklore/the-fairies-of-llyn-cynwch/
https://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.com/search/label/Wales?m=0

Llyn Barfog/The Bearded one’s lake (literally=Bearded Lake)
The green clad fairy women and the white cow story …http://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-fairy-women-of-llyn-barfog-north.html?m=0

Llyn Hafod y Llyn (the green wisp experience)
It happened around two miles from Siôn’s brother’s house near a picturesque lake nestled in a forest.

Llyn Hafod y Llyn (The Lake of the Lake Lodge/Shelter!!)
 ‘Hafod’ is the word for a place on high land where the shepherds would stay in summer while tending their sheep. ( ‘Haf’=Summer  ‘Fod’ = place/to be).

Lastly, the story of the circle of beings that I was trying to remember actually happened in Westmeath, Ireland…It’s in Dermot MacManus’s The Middle Kingdom. The circle of beings moves in a similar way to that reported by Siôn. In addition, just like report from NW Wales, this area was also known to be connected with Otherworldly experiences. The description of bagpipes suggest music may have also played an element here. :

“Clonmillan Hill has always had a reputation for being connected with the fairies, including the great Shee as well as the lesser Shee-og… The two girls had not got halfway up when the boys who had only gone on a short distance down the Mullingar Road, heard them call out. When the lads looked back they saw that the girls had stopped and were looking earnestly into the field on their right. After a few moments they saw the girls turn back and run down the lane on to the main road again. On reaching the road, the girls went over to a gate opposite the lane and stared into the field beyond it. Then they began urgently beckoning to the boys to join them there. They boys, who were thirty or forty yards away, ran up at once, little dreaming what an extraordinary thing they were about to see.

Whey they joined the girls at the gate and looked through it, to their utter astonishment they saw, some forty yards away, a group of dark figures of human size standing in a circle about ten yards in diameter. Black capes or shawls were draped over their heads and hung across their shoulders and from there dropped straight down to or into the ground, but with no crease or bend where they reached it. The figures stood so close together that their draperies touched from the shoulders down, making it impossible to see past them. They were quite motionless, even to folds and pleats of their draperies, as if carved out of some black stone, and their heads were erect. Mr Gowran [one of the boys grown up] says emphatically that these black cloaks were not woollen but were made of some very fine cloth that was not shiny, and so could not have been silken either.

Another remarkable feature was that the whole centre of the circle of figures appeared to be covered by a black cloth at the height of their shoulders. From it rose what seemed to be a chest – or though the children did not think of it at the time, a coffin – and it, too, was covered by the same black material, which lay snugly on the chest and showed its shape clearly. The top of the chest was a foot or a little more above the heads of the surrounding figures. And on the top of this chest lay a set of old Irish bagpipes. Mr Gowran can still describe them in detail and can remember just how they lay. There were three drones each about three feet long, one of which lay towards him and the other two away from him. The bag and the mouthpiece hung down over the side of the box. The drones were of unusual shape and were as thick as a big man’s wrist.

The children had stood looking at this curious sight for a considerable time, probably two or three minutes, when they saw Dan Jackson, the owner of the field, and his eighteen-year –old son approaching from the field beyond it, which was divided from it by a small ditch and strolled unconcernedly on. It seemed as if they were going to walk up to the figures, but it was soon clear that neither of them saw anything unusual, and after passing within six feet of the dark silent figures, they approached the gate.

Afraid of being asked awkward questions, and being rather alarmed at what they saw, the four children ran off towards the town just before the two men reached the gate. But the two boys, being bolder than the girls, stopped after they had gone a short distance and peered through the hedge again. They were now alongside the next field and so had to look through the side hedge as well, but they found a gap and saw that the mysterious figures were still quietly standing, but the circle had moved some ten yards further away and was now close to the ditch of the next field, covering the track along which the two men had just passed.”

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Recommendations for Wellbeing:

Pathworkings/Meditations for Wellbeing:

My ‘Connecting with Ancestors’ meditation is free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/94431793

My mindfulness meditation free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/96431208

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Ep 104: Willa and the Forest Spirits

A delightful chat with Willa, an Australian woman who has made her home in Zürich, Switzerland. Willa’s encounter took place five years ago in the Tarragona region of Spain.

Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older. This show is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.

Early one morning, she took a stroll through her friend’s garden and came face to face with some beings, whom she describes as ‘forest spirits’, sitting in three trees growing inside a spiral of arrangement of rocks. As Willa described: “I saw them, they seemed to be “looking” at me. My impression was they were aware I could see them. The situation…lasted only for about a minute before they seemed to fold in on themselves and disappear.”

This is an image of the beings that Willa drew recently. She said “here was a hint of wandjina about them.”

Describing herself as a lifelong ‘skeptical person’, we discuss how coming into contact with these beings has made a subsequent impact on Willa’s life and how she feels about visiting this location in the Tarragona region again, later in the year. We also discuss Willa’s call, to aid people like me and you who have become homeless.

Here she is volunteering during lockdown in the kitchen of the Pfuusbus in Zürich. If you would like to donate or find out more about the Pfarrer Sieber organisation here’s the website: https://www.swsieber.ch/

In the UK there are several homelessness charities including Crisis, Shelter and St Mungo’s.

The other episode which I refer to re Tree Being:    • Call to the Otherworld: Encounter in Alber…  warns why we shouldn’t seek out a fairy beau!

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This episode also released as a video on YouTube

Recommendations for Wellbeing:

Pathworkings/Meditations for Wellbeing:

My ‘Connecting with Ancestors’ meditation is free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/94431793

My mindfulness meditation free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/96431208

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Ep 103: Rose Aurora, Fairy Seer and Sorceress

🌹Rose is a fairy sorceress and seer, specialising in Fairy, Elf, and Troll-related issues & spiritual needs. She comes from a spiritual lineage of Celtic origin and has trained in other traditions including ‘Trolldom’, apprenticed under Johannes Gårdbäck. Here, she shares some of her earliest experiences with spirits.

💫 We also hear about the meaning and history of fairy traditions and lineages and original mythologies. Rose goes on to describe some of her interactions with The Good People, and warns why we shouldn’t seek out a fairy beau!

🌟 BONUS Over on the exclusive full-length version for Patreon Members

Rose talks about:
• the different kinds of fairies that she meets
• her thoughts on where we are at the current time, in terms of human and fairy connections
• what fairies might think of AI. 

Sound Quality: Very sorry for the lack of quality in my audio – there was an issue with my mic.

Shownotes

Check out Rose’s previous interviews here (https://linktr.ee/rose.aurora)
My faves are with Chad from Radical Elphame and Darragh from Spirit Box Podcast.

Connect with Rose on Instagram:

Rose provides readings (scrying & cartomancy) spellwork, scrying, coaching and ongoing mentorship in the magical arts.

She will be presenting at Salem Witch Fest later this year: https://www.salemwitchfest.com/ and June 6th at the virtual Northern Folk Traditions Conference (https://school.ritualcravt.com/class/starlight-forge-fire-and-hearth-embers-the-elves-trolls-dwarves-in-scandinavian-folklore-and-practice/) !

https://school.ritualcravt.com/class/starlight-forge-fire-and-hearth-embers-the-elves-trolls-dwarves-in-scandinavian-folklore-and-practice/

In this episode I also mentioned Pam Gregory‘s Sunday/Daily meditation 7pm GMT https://youtu.be/h1gZTkw04E4?si=cTIf1us-lntWKVPL S U P P O R T T M F S P

Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older. This show is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.

Recommendations for Wellbeing:

Pathworkings/Meditations for Wellbeing:

My ‘Connecting with Ancestors’ meditation is free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/94431793

My mindfulness meditation free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/96431208

Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

SUPPORT THE PODCAST: The Curious Folk tier is available to join with a free one week trial!

Subscribe, rate, review and share the wonder ❤️✨

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Modern Fairy Sightings joins SpectreVision Radio

I am delighted to announce that The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is joining SpectreVision Radio alongside Greg and Dana Newkirk’s ‘The Haunted Objects Podcast’ and legendary occult academic, Mitch Horowitz’s ‘Extraordinary Evidence’, ‘Euphomet’ and Daniel Noah and Elijah Wood’s ‘Visitations’ Plus many more amazing shows!

📡 SpectreVision Radio network is part of a production company led by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Lawrence Inglee. It’s a home for podcasts focused on film, music, the arts, and esoteric subjects.

Thanks to all my listeners and supporters. Hollywood producer, Daniel Noah will be coming to meet the Patreon community in May and chatting with them about why he feels talking of these experiences is important.

After living most of his life as a skeptic, Daniel began to have his own personal, inexplicable experiences. I’ll be speaking with him and Elijah in the coming months in an interview release.

In the meantime, I am looking forward to getting to know my new Pod-fam!

Come and join us on Patreon to support the show and get access to bonus episodes, a ton of other bonus material in the back catalogue, monthly group events online and a private Discord community discussion. It’s a warm, inclusive, loving and supportive bunch of folks ❤️

Ep 101: Lodge Tales: Shapeshifters and Talking Owls

It was so great to finally meet with R O D W I L L I A M S O N from Lodge Tales Podcast – one of my favourite shows. Rod speaks to fellow members of his Native American community about their strange experiences. The conversations are absolutely wonderful and give a great insight into what we have largely lost in our material-paradigm-focused, modern Western society.

https://lodge-tales.podcastpage.io

We talk about what it was like for Rod to grow up in the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, – one of the largest reservations in the US – with parents that understand about Otherworld…and others in the wider community who no longer remember their connections with these worlds.

It was an honour to hear about Rod’s experiences including talking owls, a shapeshifting cricket, Little People, the backward speak of Otherworld, a talking eagle speaking Blackfeet.

He tells the terrifying story of the time he went down to the creek with his first cousin and her legs were pulled by an unknown force back beneath the waters.

We discuss shapeshifting in general, how we might relate to Spirits and how we feel about the West reawakening to these ways of seeing the world.

Huge thanks to Rod, please consider supporting his show and helping it to grow.

Support Lodge Tales on Patreon

Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older. This show is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.

This month on Patreon we join for a Quiet Saturday morning meditation soothing healing with the Pink Full Moon and later in the month, our community member, Emily is running a ‘Communicating with Plants’ workshop where we will meditate with herbal teas made from plants in our local area.

Recommendations for Wellbeing:

Pathworkings/Meditations for Wellbeing:

My ‘Connecting with Ancestors’ meditation is free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/94431793

My mindfulness meditation free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/96431208

Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

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Want to report a sighting?

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Body Mirror System Class, Bristol November 22nd & 23rd 2025

Annick Brofman will be visiting Bristol to teach a weekend course in the Body Mirror System of Healing November 22nd and 23rd 2025

The class starts both days at 9:30 AM and ends around 8:30 PM
on Saturday and around 7:30 PM on Sunday. Registration starts
on Saturday morning at 8:30 AM.

The class will be held at :

The Sycamore Studio
Penny Brohn UK
Ham Green House,
Chapel Pill Lane, Pill
Bristol
BS20 0HH

0303 3000 118

https://pennybrohn.org.uk/our-centre/visit-us-in-person/

Getting there: There is plenty of free parking on site. If you are using a Sat Nav, please use the postcode BS20 0HH

If you are coming by public transport, you can catch the X4 bus to get to Pill and the stop to get off at is the Anchor Inn. It is then a short walk (5-minute) walk to the centre, which is signposted.

The Body Mirror System

This system of healing developed by Martin Brofman, is a
synthesis of Western psychology and Eastern philosophies based
on the chakras (energy centers found in the Hindu traditions).
Because each of these chakras can be associated with certain
parts of the consciousness as well as certain parts of the
body, they allow us to read the body as a map of the
consciousness within.

Thus, tensions in the body are seen to reflect tensions in the
consciousness, and the chakras can be used as a vehicle to
understand the Body Mind Interface and its implications for
healing. You will find more information on
https://www.fondation-brofman.org/

The Class During the class, you will exchange 5 healings with other
participants, using various techniques you have been taught,
and at the completion of the class, you will be able to:
1. Understand and experience yourself as a Being of energy.
2. Feel and direct energy, and see energy (auras, chakras, thought
forms.)
3. Understand the relationship between your body and your
consciousness.
4. Understand how symptoms in the body reflect tensions in the
consciousness.
5. Read the body as a map of consciousness, understanding the
inner causes to outer symptoms.
6. Understand the chakras and their associations with specific
parts of the consciousness and specific parts of the body.
7. Use various tools designed for healing (White Light, colors,
thought forms.)
8. See the results of putting these techniques and tools to use.

ADVANCE BOOKING is ESSENTIAL

Tuition for the class is £ 290.

Early birds attending their 1st class receive a £50 discount if
registering at least one month before the class.

If you would like to enrol for this class, you will need to
pay a deposit of £100. You can pay the deposit by bank
transfer or Paypal (please contact scarlettofthefae@gmail.com for bank transfer details)

Paypal: joelizabethhickey@gmail.com
Please remember to include your name, and mention “Class
Bristol November 2025″.

You will pay the balance for the tuition when arriving on
Saturday morning during registration which starts at 8:30 AM. 

If you would like more information, you can contact me at: 

scarlettofthefae@gmail.com

The Brofman Foundation for the Advancement of Healing
Visit their website at http://brofman-foundation.org for
information about chakras and healing.

Worldwide calendar of classes in the Body Mirror System of
Healing and A Vision Workshop

We are all healers
Love heals
Anything can be healed

Ep 94: Otherworldly Hiking Encounter (Sedona, Arizona)

I chat to Tim about a strange interaction which took place during a hike and tapped deeply into his psyche.

This marked both a shift in Tim’s life direction and a return to his underlying sense of ‘true’ self and an openness in life which had slipped away during adulthood. It continues to hold meaning in his current relationships.

We discuss how our home environment as a child shapes how we interact with the Otherworld and how, as an adult we can lose our sense of ‘being’. I hope you enjoy this discussion.

The discussion he watched between Patrick Harpur and ‘a philosopher’ was the interview between Patrick and Bernardo Kastrup. https://youtu.be/r4hEOJQpbiw?si=NTraD-Iog8xMCEzx

Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older. This show is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.

Recommendations for Wellbeing:

Pathworkings/Meditations for Wellbeing:

My ‘Connecting with Ancestors’ meditation is free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/94431793

My mindfulness meditation free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/96431208

Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

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Want to report a sighting?

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Ep 93: Fairies of Hedges and Homes (Sheffield, England)

This is the story of a woman from Sheffield in the North of England, who experienced a fairy flying out from a hedge near her home, in an area which had already felt particularly special to her. She later encountered an imp while staying in a holiday cottage with her family.

With a history of mediumship that seems to have been passed down her ancestral lineage through her great grandmothers (listen to the full extended version on Patreon for a discussion on her mediumship experiences) , Corinne shares how her abilities showed up initially and how she was ultimately able to use visualisation to release a fairy being who appeared to be unwittingly ‘stuck’ in this material plane.

This episode was recorded in July 2024.

⭐️ BONUS ⭐️ In the extended full length P A T R E O N version we also hear about our guest’s encounter with the Angel Metatron and how her experiences with the Otherworld continue to inspire her artwork. 

Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older. This show is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.

Recommendations for Wellbeing:

Pathworkings/Meditations for Wellbeing:

My ‘Connecting with Ancestors’ meditation is free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/94431793

My mindfulness meditation free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/96431208

Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

SUPPORT THE PODCAST: The Curious Folk tier is available to join with a free one week trial!

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Ep 92: David Halpin: Irish Folklore – Children, Fairies and Cillíns

Writer, David Halpin is a specialist in Irish folklore, fairylore and mythology in general and ideas around consciousness.

David looks at the Irish stories and fairy folklore in a refreshing way, through the lens of writers such as Jacques Vallée and John Keel. His group, Circle Stories on Facebook is an excellent resource and there is a shortened version of Circle Stories on Instagram.

We discuss some of the stories on Duchas.ie Schools Collection (see link below) which relate to children. Some of these involve children being taken to fairyland NB. these are not changeling stories which are a separate type of fairy lore. We also talk about unconsecrated burial grounds called ‘cillíns’.

Please give him a follow!

⭐️ B O N U S episode on Patreon releases Monday 16th November 2024

Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older. This show is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.

SHOW LINKS:

Circle Stories on Facebook

Circle Stories on Instagram

The Schools Collection Duchas.ie
A collection of folklore compiled by children in the 1930s

The story about the child taken by the red fairies is here on Duchas
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5044715/5033787/5136106

David mentions this graveyard during our discussion.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/kilranelagh-inspiration-for-ancient-saga-and-modern-detective-series-1.4297546

Cillíns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cill%C3%ADn

Recommendations for Wellbeing:

Pathworkings/Meditations for Wellbeing:

My ‘Connecting with Ancestors’ meditation is free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/94431793

My mindfulness meditation free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/96431208

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SUPPORT THE PODCAST: The ‘Curious Folk’ tier is now available to join 

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If you enjoy the show, please consider sharing your favourite episodes with friends. Don't forget to rate and subscribe wherever you listen, and if you can, please support by joining The Curious Crew on Patreon

Want to report a sighting?

Contact me at: scarlettofthefae@gmail.com
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