According to her report, the woman describes herself as “pixie-led.”

An anonymous woman became inexplicably lost while traversing a patch of woods in County Meath, Ireland, according to a report published recently by Dublin Live.

The belief that fairies will sometimes lead travelers astray through supernatural means is referred to by this term. The most common folklore remedy for the condition is to turn one’s coat inside out, which is said to break the spell.

Her testimony stated that:

I just needed to get my steps in order for a work challenge. Instead of doing laps around my estate, I decided to go for a nice walk. I decided to go for a walk in the woods because it was a nice day. What was the worst-case scenario?

Everything was fine until the path led through two identical trees. I took a step through and placed my hands on both trees. People are now claiming that this was a mistake. One was extremely hot, while the other was extremely wet and cold. I continued walking and I believe I took a left.

The main path diverged to the left and ended up going nowhere. It went into a very overgrown forest with a lot of weeds and plants. I knew it wasn’t the way to go. There were many people in the area. It’s a popular spot, so I walked back, thinking that this wasn’t the main path and that I should have gone another way.

I took the other route, which also led nowhere. I returned to the fork to begin again. I returned, and I believe I attempted to return the way I came. This also got me nowhere.

I returned to the main path, but it didn’t look familiar. It was also quite cloudy at this point. I had opened Google Maps and had no signal on my phone, which is not uncommon in that area.

I decided to keep experimenting with different paths. I figured since there were only three of us, I’d get somewhere eventually. I continued walking down a path toward another overgrown area. At that point, I heard a very light female voice. I’m not sure how to put it. It was extremely high. ‘Over here,’ she yelled. I assumed she was calling to her children or something. Then she laughed, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up just as she laughed.

My job is very professional. I’m not insane. I’m a logical person, but the call came from the other side of me. Something didn’t feel right.

Something was clearly wrong. My first instinct was to run, but I had no idea where to run. I seem to recall that turning your clothes inside out is supposed to help. So I did just that. I thought it was all in my head. I simply had to do it. I reversed my t-shirt and put it back on. I hoped no one was looking at me because it was an unusual thing to do in the middle of a forest.

I turned around and walked back, almost immediately coming back to the two trees. When I turned around and returned, I was closer to them than when I had been walking in the opposite direction.

I didn’t even think about it. I just wanted to finish. Then I could hear the birds and people again. I had no idea what had just happened.

I examined my steps as I returned to the car. I had done 8,000 steps or something like that the last time I checked my step counter. I had walked an additional 10,000 steps. I didn’t come from a family who would have believed in such things. Certain things just stick with you, which is why I remembered turning the clothes inside out.

The woman was reportedly terrified by the phantom laughter, which she mistook for friendly.

“When she laughed, I was terrified. I don’t think I have any English words to describe her laughter. I’d never heard anyone laugh like that before. Something was clearly wrong. I just had a bad feeling that if I didn’t do something, things weren’t going to end well for me “She stated. “I hadn’t been scared until that point. I knew something was wrong when she laughed. Many people have claimed that it was a “stray sod.” I always thought they were pleasant stories. I like how we, as a nation, frequently acknowledge it as a thing. I have no idea where all of the extra steps on my Fitbit came from. I was surprised at how many people it had happened to.”

Although sharing her story on social media prompted others to come forward with their own accounts and explanations for the phenomenon, the woman was ultimately left with few firm beliefs other than that she had witnessed something very strange and that whatever she encountered appears to have left a legacy in the area that is still felt today.

“We may not believe, but we never want to take the risk,” she explained. “I believe I was simply unlucky. I’ve spent time in those woods before. People claimed that the two trees on the path served as a portal. I don’t have a strong opinion, but something strange happened. We do so many things instinctively on a daily basis. There are open fields, but every now and then, a ring of trees will appear in the middle of one. They will drive around them. They still plough around those trees, even with our modern farming equipment.”

Reports like this one, of changing landscapes leading unwary travelers astray, are not uncommon in the modern era.

Shirley Ivey reported to the Singular Fortean Society two years ago that she, her husband, their teenage daughters, and at least two strangers all experienced a strange spacetime distortion while visiting the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia.

This occurred in the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia on Monday, April 3rd, 2000. We stopped at the Suwanee Canal recreation area on our way to Florida from our home in Michigan at the time. We decided to rent a motorboat and go up the canal to a picnic area for lunch while we were there. The canal is a meandering canal. Because the conditions were “low and trashy,” there was no way to get lost on any of the small tributaries because there was no way to get through. The canal was relatively wide and easy to navigate. We enjoyed the ancient swamp’s dark and mysterious water and moss-draped cypress trees. But then we noticed that the few miles or so to the picnic area seemed to take an eternity.

We finally arrived and walked to the picnic area on the “trembling earth.” When it came time to leave the picnic spot, I made a mental note of which way to go. As we were about to leave after lunch, two young men in another motorboat approached us. They were distraught and asked if they could accompany us back to the concession. They claimed they were unable to communicate. We agreed to let them come with us. I had noticed that they did not appear to be inebriated.

We came to a halt after about 30 feet because our path was blocked by a strip of dry land with tall grass growing on top. Beyond the barrier, I could see the canal continuing. We considered portaging over it, but decided against it in a wild swamp. I even touched the bank’s side, which was solid. We returned our gaze to the two men, who shrugged their shoulders.

We could only do one thing: return to the picnic area to see if we had deviated from our original path. We didn’t.

On the way back, we saw an elderly couple paddling a canoe toward the barrier (unusual because we had not encountered anyone else in a canoe). I tried to warn them about the impending blockage, but all they did was stare ahead as if we weren’t even there.

We decided to try again when we arrived at the picnic area. We not only had no roadblocks this time, but we also appeared to have arrived quickly.

Before I could even discuss the event with them, those two guys got out of their boat and peeled rubber in the parking lot. In terms of information on other people experiencing similar problems, the people at the concession were useless.

Another incident eerily similar to the recent report from Ireland is that of a Springfield, Illinois man who contacted the Singular Fortean Society in September 2003 to report an encounter with seemingly paranormal phenomena while driving home one night. The man described being pursued by a humanoid flying a strange vehicle after hearing phantom footsteps approaching him. Even the trees seemed to be conspiring against him.

“When I got to the outskirts of the woods, the small trees started behaving strangely, kind of spinning in circles on top, for some reason it almost felt like the woods were alive and the trees were going to grab me,” he explained.

Later, when he returned to the same woods during the day, he noticed that a tree he had hidden behind had vanished as if the landscape had changed during his encounter.

Incidents of extreme strangeness, such as those described above, are frequently reported in remote locations.

Other strange reports in the area include an unexplained, haunting melody heard by Angela Nichols and her family one afternoon during the summer of 1987 while fishing on the Saline River in Arkansas, as well as a slew of strange creatures and UFOs allegedly seen by witnesses.

The reported details of these incidents frequently overlap with existing faerie lore, but the nature of the connection, if any, between these phenomena is unknown, and the subject is hotly debated among researchers and investigators.

Source Credit: singularfortean.com