Following the trend of the "Do you believe in..." threads
 

At the expense of anyone here ever taking me seriously again...

Do you believe in faeries/gnomes/elves/other magical creatures?

Anyone who's RPed with me is bound to have noticed my insane obsession with all that is fae. I can't really explain why I love them so much (Okay, well, I could, but that would just make things worse, so pretend that you never read this sentence.), but I am convinced they exist.

Cold, hard evidence? No. And there probably never will be, because faeries are tricky, clever little fuckers that like to mess with your head.

Anyway, I DO have my own personal experiences, and those have convinced my friends and myself...because some of my friends have seen this stuff happen. Stuff in my house disappears. I can turn rooms upside down, search every nook and cranny, everywhere and still not find the missing item. Later, usually after I ask for the items to be brought back or make some kind of appeasement offer, the purloined item shows up in a place I've looked ten times over. In plain sight. It's not just me blatantly missing something.

Most recently, my cell phone disappeared. I turned my rooms upside down, checked all the pockets of every pair of pants I own (which isn't many), checked all my drawers, cleaned out my friend's room, my car, everywhere. I checked all my coat pockets, all his coat pockets at least three times, as did he. After making an appeasement meal and an apology note asking for my phone back, he found the cellphone in the pocket of his coat. One he and I had worn since the phone had disappeared. One we'd checked at least three times. Another time, I lost a CD at school, and looked all over my office (yes, I had my own office in the library) for it. After twenty minutes of looking, I asked for them to give it back, then said fuck it and went to the bathroom. When I came back, the CD was sitting label up on top of a book on the middle of my desk. A book I'd moved, picked up, flipped through and sat down on the desk. I asked my librarian if he or anyone else had been in that room while I was in the bathroom, and no one had.

This kind of thing happens all the time...I have countless stories of this sort of thing happening.

Of course, I don't know that it could be faeries. I just believe it is, for a few reasons.

First, it started after I began feeding them. I would leave food that was selected for fae palates out for them, out of reach of my dog. If I forgot to feed them for a while, my dog would act weird and refused to go outside until I fed them again, immediately after which he'd go back to his normal behavior. Secondly, I've seen little orbs of light flying around. One was scurrying away from an open pomegranate I had sitting on my desk when I walked in the room. Also, I address them as faeries, and they respond to that. Finally, the way they behave has fae nature to it.

So yeah. The rest of you...yea? Nay? Maybe? Any experiences?

Of course I believe in faeries. They edited that poll and then made it look like I did it! Damned unseelie bastards! I'll get them, and their little dogs too!

Also, I'd like to believe... but I'm not really sure. I haven't had many full experiences that I could attribute to them myself. Probably because I keep threatening to force feed them iron powder.

nope, don't believe in any of the above. my belief in ghosts is mostly rooted in scientific fact and personal theories; and i've yet to come across evidence of magical creatures.

well, except gremlins i guess. the little bastards who fuck with machinery and make it break down and spontaniously work again; my work has them. washing machines refuse to open, driers break down all the time, lights burn out and come back on, exercise bikes stop working when nothing is wrong with them, then start working again after no one has done anything to fix them.

Sorry, I just can't say that I do. At least, not on this planet. If, by chance, I do believe in such magical creatures, then I'd also have theories, though indirectly, that creatures such as Pegasi, Dragons, Centaurs, and really big versions of various bugs exist, and that all these creatures are alien life forms, existing on other planets that are capable of at least supporting life.

So I do believe in them, but I don't believe they exist here, of course.

Only 2 possible "magical" creatures can exist, imo...

- Dragons: Highly evolved reptilian creatures
- really, really big bugs: Hey, apparantly, they filled our ocean at one time.

I believe in fairies. Or, what they used to call fairies back in the dark ages. I think that they were actually elves. But back to why I believe in them. My family has a legend that deals with on of my ancestors marrying the fairy princess and her father giving him a flag to wave when they needed help. Heh, they used it twice and it worked, so I'm gonna have to believe that there was something about the flag, and I'm thinking it was the fairies.

You Scots and your strange legends ;)

I believe only in the keyboard gnomes, whom are the cause of typos in otherwise good typists.

In terms of mythic beings, I also believe in Saint Dogbert. He heals broken technology with his left paw, and drives away the demons of stupidity using the scepter he holds in his right paw.


Edit:
V: This coming from the people who wear skirts.

Re-Edit in response to Elminster's Edit:
Hey! I'll have you know I'm only Anti-social, capitalist, and sorta-mexican! There will be no confusing random people on message boards, you transvestite transexual self-worshipping ex-KGB anarchist munchkin hater!

Beaners like yerself shouldn't call Scottish legends strange.

Edit in response to Shu's edit: This coming from an anti-social, communist, nazi, jewish, capitalist, canadian, mexican, inferior asian, sword-chuck hater!

No, I believed in Aliens and Ghosts but not any Gnomes, Lawn Ninjas, Faeries, and or elves.

Platypus!

At first I sort of believed in them. Over time I realized that it could all just be stories that would sound cool to have happened. Now I just don't care. I voted maybe. Maybe they existed, maybe they didn't, who's to really say.