THINK ABOUTIT ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT
1645: Little people in St Teath, Cornwall, England
In 1645, Anne Jeffries — a nineteen-year-old servant girl in the household of Moses Pitt at St Teath in Cornwall, England — was found lying unconscious on the ground in the garden. When she recovered she described what had happened to her in detail that her employer’s son thought significant enough to record and preserve. She had heard a sound like the ringing of bells. Six small men in feathered hats with brilliantly shiny eyes had appeared before her. They climbed on her and kissed her repeatedly. Then she was floating — transported to a brilliantly lit place of beautiful temples and people wearing splendid glowing garments. The six little men had changed — they now resembled normal-sized humans. The one who appeared to be the leader initiated sexual relations with Anne, and during this encounter she was returned to the garden — accompanied by a loud humming sound — where she was found unconscious. She never experienced another abduction. She did, however, acquire curative healing abilities that drew such public attention that the authorities imprisoned her and questioned her before the Bishop of Exeter. She maintained her account until her death. Anne Jeffries is one of the most thoroughly documented pre-modern CE-IV witnesses in the British Isles record.
Date: 1645
Sighting Time: Not recorded
Day/Night: Not recorded — garden encounter, likely daytime
Location: St Teath, Cornwall, England — garden of Moses Pitt’s household
Urban or Rural: Rural — Cornish village household
No. of Entity(s): 6
Entity Type: Small humanoid — initial presentation; shifted to normal human-sized in the alternative environment
Entity Description: Six small men wearing feathered hats with brilliantly shiny eyes. Initial contact involved climbing on the witness and repeated kissing. In the destination environment they appeared as normal-sized humans in splendid glowing garments. The apparent leader of the group initiated sexual relations with Anne during the return transit. The entities’ ability to shift apparent size and appearance between the initial contact environment and the destination environment is one of the most analytically significant features of the encounter.
Hynek Classification: CE-IV — Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind; physical abduction of the witness with transport to an alternative environment and return; direct physical contact including sexual interaction
Duration: Not recorded — Anne was found unconscious in the garden; duration of transport experience unknown
No. of Object(s): None described — transport method was the entities themselves floating Anne rather than a vehicle
Height & Speed: Ground level at origin and return; transit involved floating
Number of Witnesses: 1 — Anne Jeffries; found unconscious by members of the Pitt household
Special Features / Characteristics: Bell-ringing sound precursor — consistent with the acoustic precursor pattern documented across pre-modern entity encounters; entity size shift — from small to normal human-sized between environments; brilliantly lit alternative environment with beautiful temples and glowing-garmented people; floating transport method; loud humming sound during return; post-contact healing abilities acquired — Anne developed the capacity to heal others which drew community-wide attention; imprisoned and questioned by magistrates and the Bishop of Exeter — indicating the authorities took her account seriously enough to investigate; maintained account until death; documented by Moses Pitt’s son and later by Jenny Randles
Case Status: Unexplained
Source: Jenny Randles, The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs; Moses Pitt (son) documented account
Summary/Description: In 1645, Anne Jeffries — servant in the household of Moses Pitt at St Teath, Cornwall — was found unconscious in the garden after an encounter with six small men in feathered hats with shiny eyes. She described being floated to a brilliantly lit environment of temples and glowing-garmented normal-sized humans where the apparent leader initiated sexual relations with her before she was returned to the garden accompanied by a humming sound. She subsequently developed healing abilities, was imprisoned by magistrates and examined by the Bishop of Exeter, and maintained her account until her death. Documented by Moses Pitt’s son and identified by Jenny Randles as a primary pre-modern CE-IV case study.
Related Cases: 1634 CE Wiltshire England Mr. Hart Elf Encounter | 1656 CE Cardiganshire Wales Little People Bedroom Feast | 1586 CE Grangemuir Scotland Alison Pearson Good Neighbors | British Isles CE-IV Archive
DETAILED REPORT:
Cornwall in 1645 is deeply embedded in the Civil War that is tearing England apart. King Charles I and Parliament are in active armed conflict. The social and religious fabric of the country is under extraordinary strain. Anne Jeffries is nineteen years old, a servant in the household of Moses Pitt at St Teath in the far west of Cornwall — one of the most Celtic and mystically traditional regions of England, where the older traditions run deeper than anywhere else in the country.
She is in the garden when the bells begin.
The sound — like the ringing of bells — is the encounter’s first element. This acoustic precursor appears consistently across the British Isles entity contact record: the 1634 Wiltshire encounter involved all manner of small odd noises, the 1656 Cardiganshire bedroom encounter involved whispers in Welsh. Sound before contact is a recurring feature that modern researchers identify as a consistent element of genuine encounters rather than culturally transmitted narrative.
Then the six small men are there.
Feathered hats. Brilliantly shiny eyes — not described as unusually colored or unusually shaped, but shiny, with a quality of luminosity or reflectivity that distinguished them immediately from ordinary human eyes. They are small. The account does not give precise measurements but they are clearly small enough that their climbing on Anne and kissing her constitutes a physically anomalous interaction — multiple small beings making physical contact simultaneously.
Then she is floating.
The transition from the garden at St Teath to the destination environment is described as floating — not sudden, not blacking out, but a physical transit through which Anne maintained some level of awareness. She arrives somewhere brightly lit — brilliantly lit, the account says, a quality of light beyond ordinary daylight. She sees beautiful temples. She sees people wearing splendid glowing garments. She is in a different place that is architecturally ordered, aesthetically impressive, and populated by beings who now appear as normal human-sized people rather than the small men who brought her there.
The size shift is one of the most analytically distinctive features of the Anne Jeffries case. The six small men in feathered hats who made initial contact in the Cornwall garden are, in the destination environment, normal human-sized beings in different clothing. This is not described as a different group of beings but as the same beings in a different apparent form — a shift in presentation between the contact environment and the home environment that mirrors accounts from multiple cultures and eras of entities who appear in different sizes or forms depending on the context of the encounter.
The apparent leader of the group then initiates sexual contact with Anne.
The return occurs during this interaction — she is transported back to the garden accompanied by a loud humming sound, found unconscious on the ground by members of the Pitt household, and recovers with her memory of the experience intact.
She never experienced another abduction.
What she did experience afterward was a significant change in her capacities. Anne Jeffries developed healing abilities. She could cure sick people — and people came to St Teath from across Cornwall seeking her help. The community-wide recognition of her healing powers drew attention that ultimately brought her to the notice of the authorities. She was imprisoned by local magistrates. She was examined by the Bishop of Exeter. She was questioned about the nature of her abilities and their source. She maintained her account of the 1645 encounter consistently throughout all of this scrutiny — and throughout the rest of her life.
Moses Pitt’s son — who grew up in the household where Anne Jeffries worked and witnessed the aftermath of the encounter firsthand — preserved the account. Jenny Randles, in The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs, identified the Anne Jeffries case as a primary pre-modern CE-IV case study — one of the most detailed and well-preserved pre-modern abduction accounts in the British Isles record.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES:
The Anne Jeffries Case — Bell-Precursor, Size Shift, and Post-Contact Healing Abilities
- The Bell-Precursor as Classification Indicator: The ringing-of-bells sound that preceded the entities’ appearance connects this case to a specific acoustic pattern documented across multiple pre-modern British Isles encounters. Modern researchers including Jenny Randles identify this precursor sound as corresponding to what contemporary abductees describe as a vibratory hum or electrical sensation preceding contact. Its consistency across independent accounts separated by centuries argues for a genuine environmental or neurological phenomenon associated with entity proximity rather than a culturally transmitted narrative element.
- Entity Size Shift Between Environments: The transition from small entities to normal-sized humans between the initial contact location and the destination environment is one of the most analytically provocative features of pre-modern entity contact. It appears across the British Isles record, in Celtic fairy tradition, and in scattered accounts from other cultures — beings who are small in one context and normal or large in another. Whether this represents genuine size variation, different beings at different locations, or a perceptual phenomenon in the witness, it is reported consistently enough to constitute a recognizable feature of this category of encounter.
- Post-Contact Healing Abilities: The acquisition of healing abilities following a CE-IV encounter is documented across multiple cultures and eras — from Alison Pearson in 1586 Scotland receiving a salve from the Good Neighbors that she used to cure the Archbishop of Saint Andrews, to multiple modern contact experiencers reporting enhanced healing intuition or energy sensitivity after their encounters. Anne Jeffries’ documented healing practice — sufficient to attract community-wide attention and official investigation — is one of the most publicly verified post-contact ability changes in the pre-modern British record.
- Institutional Documentation Chain: The Anne Jeffries case has an unusually strong documentation chain for a 17th century British encounter. Moses Pitt’s son documented the account from personal knowledge. Magistrates formally investigated it. The Bishop of Exeter examined Anne personally. The case was documented by Jenny Randles four centuries later. Each institutional layer adds credibility that distinguishes this case from unverified folklore.
Anne Jeffries heard bells in a Cornish garden in 1645 and six small men with shiny eyes appeared and took her somewhere brilliantly lit where temples stood and people wore glowing garments and the beings were normal-sized. She was returned to the garden during a humming sound and found unconscious. She developed healing abilities. She was imprisoned. She was examined by a Bishop. She never changed her account. Moses Pitt’s son wrote it down. Jenny Randles identified it as a foundational pre-modern CE-IV case. The archive holds it now — every element of it present and precisely documented across four centuries. The bells, the shiny eyes, the feathered hats, the floating, the brilliantly lit alternative environment, the size shift, the humming return, the healing powers, the imprisonment, the consistency. Anne Jeffries told exactly the same story from 1645 until she died. The authorities who imprisoned and examined her could not explain it either.