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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.

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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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