My mother once lived in an old house in the Hills of South
Australia in a small town called Nairne. In the school
holidays I would go down and see her and usually stay for
two weeks.
A visit to this house was very unusual. My mum
had a little gift shop which was set up in the front part
of the house (it was a really long house with 6 bedrooms)
the first 4 bedrooms were made into little showrooms where
she had on display little ornaments and country style gifts
like cushions, dried flowers and little gifts like that.
She was very particular in how things would be on display
(being a interior designer she was good at it.) It was a
very cute little shop and used to do alright for its
location.
Just after one of my trips down there I spoke to her on the
phone and she told me that some weird things have been
happening. Firstly she noticed a very strange ring of
mushrooms that were coming up around a single rose bush she
had growing in the backyard, the second thing she noticed
was that little ornaments in her shop were being moved.
At first she thought it was her partner moving things
around to trick her but when she confronted him about it he
said that it wasn't him. She also thought that maybe it was
customers moving things around but that wasn't it because
every night after closing she would tidy up and replace
things to just how she wanted it.
After this was happening for a while she thought she would
try a few experiments, after closing she would tidy up as
always and place some ornaments in specific spots around
the shop, in the morning she would get up and first thing
check to see if the ornaments were moved sure enough they
were moved. Some were on completely different shelves and
some were in other rooms. Mainly ornaments of pigs and cows
would be moved but every night there was always something
moved.
This eventually got to her and she was finding it very
frustrating. She started to talk about it to a few of the
locals and one of them knew exactly what she was talking
about. She was an older lady and had been in Nairne for
many years, she asked mum if she had any mushrooms growing
anywhere and mum remembering about the mushrooms around the
rose said that she did.
The lady smiled and said that mum had a Fairy Ring, she
said its just the Fairies moving things to how they think
the ornaments should be displayed, to get rid of them you
just have to tell them to leave everything alone and that
you are happy with the way things are.
So that's what mum did, she closed up the shop and cleaned
up and then stood in the middle of each room and said
exactly what the lady told her to say. Feeling very stupid
she did this in every room just how the lady explained to
do it.
The next day she got up went to have a look and to her
surprise nothing was moved, she checked every little
ornament that she placed and not one thing was touched. She
went outside to check the mushroom ring, and sure enough
that was gone too.
Well I did not know what to make of this interesting story
I laughed it off and never really thought about it again
until... I was up there for my usual school holidays and on
the last day I packed my bag to come home.
I was already to go but still had to brush my teeth, I got
my toothbrush out of my bag and put it on top the bag. I
left the room for about 5 minutes and when I returned to
get my toothbrush I didn't find it on my bag where I left
it but I actually found it on the bed, I am 100% certain
that I left it on my bag because I remember thinking that
it could slip off onto the floor.
I brushed my teeth and on my way back to the room I looked
outside and sure enough I saw the start of some mushrooms
coming up around the rose bush...
Very interesting!!
Thank you I hope you enjoyed my story.
Submitted From: