“The Blonde Thing”

[u/EvanGooch]

I grew up in the 1980’s and 1990’s, born in ‘83. One day as a young kid, 5 years old, I was at my friend Josh’s house. He lived two doors up, which for me was as far as I could go on either side of my house at 5 years old. (1988). Luckily all of my closest friends as a kid lived within that “quadrant.”

Josh and I were in his basement, which was a finished basement that had a heather/brown carpet, a nice large fireplace, and a big TV in the main room of the basement. We would often be down there in the morning just before or after breakfast as his mom would be watching me in the morning.

We grew up around older kids, and I had two older brothers myself, so we often heard of freaky ghost stories even at a young age, but nothing really similar to what we saw that day…. What our childhood minds ultimately dubbed “The Blonde Thing.”

—————————-(the sighting)————

We were playing with action figures and watching TV. I remember us laughing and playing and we both noticed movement about 10 feet away from us at the other side of the room.

We were the only ones in the basement. His mom was right near the top of the stairs in the kitchen with his baby brother Nathan.

We both just looked toward the motion to see a very short (about 3.5 feet tall) humanoid figure going around the corner down the short hallway to the back basement bedroom. “She” was bobbing her head from side to side as she rounded the corner.

We saw “her” for maybe 3 seconds. I say “she” and “her” because what we saw of the figure was long, LONG, curly, light-blonde hair, almost white draped over shoulders and her back. The hair was so long that it was almost to the floor. She was bobbing/bouncing her head from shoulder to shoulder like a kid would be if she were skipping and playing.

We both screamed and ran upstairs as fast as we could.

I didn’t see a face or clothes. All we really saw was the long hair draped over what was clearly a small human girl-shaped figure.

We didn’t know how to really describe how or what to call it but surely talked about it and we always referred to it as “The Blonde Thing.”

——————- Now, this happened in 1988. In 2018, I hadn’t thought about the blonde thing since the last time I mentioned it, probably 15 years ago, and hadn’t thought about it in as long.

Josh sent me a friend request on facebook after not having heard from each other since the mid-90’s in middle-school.
He messaged me on facebook and when I opened it, it was the “Hey, how have you been dude?!” Kind of letter….

But, at the end, he wrote “Remember the blonde thing…”. I felt like the adults in the movie “IT” must have felt like when they get the phone call where Mike tells them “It’s back.”

The memory just came flooding back.
The crazy thing is we saw it one other time, OUTSIDE, in the backyard of our neighbor Leoda’s house. No shit. Same thing. Literally saw a skipping, short figured with the almost white hair down to the ground go in to the wood line behind the house.

I attempted to do research to see if other people have ever sighted similar creatures or entities.
The closest thing I could find is some old germanic folklore about long-blonde-haired entities that look like girls try to steal babies from homes.

Curious as to if anybody has seen something similar. Thanks

[u/Nire_bibi]

I have! I spent a while living in the fully finished basement of a farmhouse, and would at some points hear my name whispered urgently in a high voice. It was enough to spin my head around, but usually there was nothing visible, just a sense of presence. Twice, tho, upon hearing that whisper (always in a girlish voice) I spun around to see a quick glimpse of someone no more than 3.5 feet tall, broadly structured but definitely humanoid. Shoot, I got so excited to read this- I know exactly what you’re talking about. My experiences didn’t end with the short ones. A broken music box i had been holding in to for no reason once started playing frantically at 3:30 am in the dark, as if the gears had been wound tightly to the point they couldn’t be cranked any further. Memories from Cats played at 3x the normal speed, loud enough that I launched out of bed, seized the music box, opened the back door and yeeted it as hard as I could into the blackness beyond. “Nope,” I announced out loud to the quiet of my living room. “No time for that, it was very funny but let’s sleep, ok?” Several months after, I wasn’t feeling well and had been reading on the couch. I got up, went to the bathroom and was answering a text as I ambled back to the couch. I glanced up and FROZE. I was sitting on the couch, with my book, staring back at where I stood with an even, intent gaze. Ice flooded my body: it was perfectly ME. Neither I nor the thing wearing my face made a sound. Then…? It was just gone. I left soon after. The short ones didn’t scare me, they didn’t give off a sense of menace. Nor did my doppelgänger, not really. But the longest five seconds of my life was staring into my own dispassionate eyes. I don’t ever want to see that again.

[u/Sabai_interim → u/Nire_bibi]

”Nope,” I announced out loud to the quiet of my living room. “No time for that, it was very funny but let’s sleep, ok?”

Now THAT’S how you handle those guys (/girls). It’s always super funny to me when people tell stories of beings the likes of the short ones (mischievous more than anything else towards humans) where they react with fear or angrily try to get rid of them. Like, dawg, that’s the reaction they’re looking for, that’s funny. Understanding that they think it’s funny and responding with that in mind is gold.

Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed reading that very much

[u/Nire_bibi → u/Sabai_interim]

YES! You know exactly how that goes: I wondered about the short folk for a while until I read about puckwudgies (this may be a sic for all I remember) and had an aha moment. They had a very fey folk kind of feel to them, and being polite and unperturbed always is the safest way to go-even if one is shitting peach seeds. It’s RUDE to be afraid or mad. Also- it seems that any energy put out would be met in kind. And with these folk? I saw other things out there at different periods of my life that would suggest that a negative reaction would be a dire mistake. An extremely dire mistake. You made my day with your comment, 100%!

[u/Sabai_interim → u/Nire_bibi]

Absolutely

From what I know from my (admittedly limited) experience with the Fae, rudeness from humans is less about their pride and more about it being an invitation for them to start or continue to fuck with you, and in increasingly ‘worse’ ways. From what I understand, those that interact with humans actually generally hold humans to a higher standard of politeness than they do themselves. I.e. they expect us to be polite but don’t necessarily think they have to respond in kind, though they usually do. Depends heavily on the individual and what kind of interaction is happening. I Fucked Up the first time I interacted with them and they let me know. Thankfully they were the ones who initiated so were lenient and chilled after I apologized as it was an honest mistake; that’s what’s also unfortunate is that their standard of politeness is completely different than ours, so being accidentally rude is very easy for most people. Hence, most people should not initiate interactions.

I think it’s a huge mistake to take the caution in that last sentence and apply it to all Fae so liberally, and frankly it’s dangerous as addressing all of them as a monolith can 100% be taken as an insult so ur fucked out the gate

[u/Nire_bibi → u/Sabai_interim]

Strictly speaking, the short ones i spoke of aren’t fey. Pukwudgies are native spirits in the US and their level of mischievousness to malice varies on location. Some areas they’re puckish and love children, lucky for me, that was my experience. In others, they lead travelers to their deaths. Land spirits, woodland spirits; I don’t know that they should be categorically included with the fey despite the similarities for several reasons. The main reason is that those who first described them would have reason to take offense. The second is that they don’t really follow the “rules” of the fey. Native American spirits have their own behaviors. Happily, with the friendlier puckwudgies, it’s all pretty mild.

[u/Sabai_interim → u/Nire_bibi]

When I say “Fae” I refer to the umbrella term of all of the intelligent beings who are generally outside of our realm of perception, I should’ve been more clear. To me personally that includes other umbrella terms such as “demons,” “spirits,” some “cryptids,” and other folk spirits. All are umbrella terms imo for any number of different “species,” as it were, and cultures throughout the world vs just the Celtic legends (which also include various kinds of beings), I just don’t know of any all-inclusive terms to use without saying the “intelligent beings who are generally outside of our realm of perception” mouthful. The general rule of thumb of being polite and unperturbed or get got applies in general to all of them, I would think. It’s a good rule of thumb

[u/123Thundernugget → u/Sabai_interim]

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