Modern Fairy Sightings: Personal Encounters in Extraordinary Times

The Other Realms are closer than we had imagined.

From stick men striding through forests to gnomes in people's homes, reports of fairy encounters are on the rise--and the people experiencing them are just like you and me. Reports of fairy sightings have become curiously common.

When folklore and fairy researcher Jo Hickey-Hall spotted a small green man in a nature reserve in Jersey in 2007, she didn't dismiss it. She followed the thread, and it led her into a world far stranger, richer, and more alive than most of us dare to imagine.

Drawing on the most compelling stories from her acclaimed Modern Fairy Sightings podcast, including accounts never shared publicly before, Jo gathers firsthand encounters with the full range of otherworldly beings that have appeared throughout recorded history. These enlightening testimonies aid our passage through unprecedented, liminal times and are slowly helping us to realign our understanding of this Universe.

Some of these stories are beautiful, moving, and uplifting. Others are deeply unsettling. All of them will make you question what you thought you knew.

Who are these beings? Why do they appear to certain people at certain times? And why, in our hyper-connected modern world, are sightings growing more frequent?

Modern Fairy Sightings invites you to look again at the edges of the world you think you know and at the extraordinary beings that may already be looking back.

Author: Jo Hickey-Hall
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Watkins Publishing
Published: 11/10/2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.01w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9781786788276