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The original was posted on /r/paranormal by /u/SideshowBiden on 2025-06-17 23:38:15+00:00.

A couple of years ago I lived in my grandparents summer cabin (for complex reasons involving bankruptcy) up in the rural parts of West Maine. This was back in around 2022, since covid lockdown was being relaxed in some places.

I was on a hiking trail in a kinda seculed area of the forest, left to become overgrown as not many used it due to weather recently. I brought my own backpack with food, emergency supplies such as medkit flare. I’m a careful hiker as everyone should be. And then when I was beginning to get to evening I saw a weird light

I assumed it was just another person of course, because why wouldn’t I just assume its someone’s torch. But I noticed the light seemed to be following me behind, not even bouncing up and down like a torch beam would (used by someone walking). Instead the light was floating steady and smooth.

When I started to get scared I stopped and had to force myself to turn around to face whatever it was. There I saw what I at first thought was a firefly. It stopped there hovering in front of me. For some reason I was frozen still, couldn’t move from the sense of fear, like an aura of fear was around me

The thing floated closer to me, like investigating me and interested. I swear it had the shape of a mini humanoid, but glowing yellow. It had wings going so fast like a bee, but the body of a tiny person. I couldn’t see it’s eyes because the glow was too intense I couldn’t barely look at it because it’s so unnatural and flight or flight inducing. Anyway it flew away. I’ve never seen anything like it before or since and I’m just wondering if anyone had seen something like this in the Maine area or surrounding states.