Headed by a Canadian based research team, the ‘Elemental Life Form Encounters in Nature’ Project seeks to study real life encounter experiences between people and nature spirits. To quote the site, “The ELFEN Project is an exploration into the sociological phenomenon of “fairy” in modern society. It is a search for truth, reality and understanding from a field of information derived largely from contemporary encounter events.” The study is primarily concentrating on North America as folklore concerning the Little People in places like Scandinavia and the British Isles is already well documented. Through the gathering of questionnaires and research into ethnographic records and folklore the Project is building a profile on American and Canadian native elementals interact with humans and their surroundings.