To be a little freaked out?

I used to walk past my DD2’s bedroom when she was about 5 yrs old and I would hear her chatting away, giving someone a piece of her mind. I asked her who she was talking to and she said “”XXX” (my dad who had passed away a few months earlier.) I didn’t know how to respond to that, so just said “Oh….Okay…” She said, “It’s okay Mum, he has to be nice to me now, because I’m the only one who can see him.” (He had been a right prick IRL and had had very limited contact with my kids).

Severance?! I meant Savernake! Tis a bit spooky in itself that it auto-corrected me and I didn't notice 💀

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4617721-please-help-me-find-that-fab-spooky-story

Boy in Nightclub

This is a thread about the Savernake Forest Post 😃 it references a different thread which has the original post. I will try and find boy in the nightclub next x

www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/3484225-Savernake-forest

Hqha yes! Severance! I will try and find it, and the boy in the nightclub one. Absolute classics 🤣

I was surprised my post didn't get a comment. Then I realised I didn't includes Dd's age. She's 17 now & it's only calmed down over the last year (thank puff!).

Oh that story about Savernake wood (? Sp) is awful and scary!

What was the other one about with the boy in the nightclub? Do you have a link to it?

I remember when my three year old used to talk to Mrs Lollypop, who had a red face and no legs 🤣🙈 she’s now six and she sometimes makes an appearance. Absolutely terrifying!

I don't suppose it is any different to when DC's teddy had to sit at the table, have a knife and fork and some food in a bowl for every meal for months. We sometimes had to wait for teddy to finish, sometimes teddy couldn't eat his meal because I'd forgotten to give him a glass of water.

Its a phase although I'd be unnerved enough to leave a small light on

Not quite the same but one day out of the blue my GS said 'when I was little you were Nana C' I asked him to repeat and he did. Nana C was my great grandmother who died decades before I was born. Her name was never mentioned. He was 2 at the time.

My DD started telling me about "the mother I had before" one day. When I pressed for more details about how there was a mother before me she wasn't sure but she was insistent that she had been in a different family with brothers. I get chills when I think about it....! But as my name suggests, I love a new woo thread on MN more than anything! 😅
There is a story that often gets mentioned on here (not about imaginary friends) about The Boy in the Nightclub and also the one with the dogs in the forest. I hope someone can find them; they are freaking awful! 💀

My DD used to talk about 'the scary man in the corner' (only of my bedroom, reassuringly) when she was about 2.5/3.

I think toddlers are just tripping.

My DS had an imaginary friend who he used to talk to often. My DD had imaginary friends too - lots of them! It's funny to look back on now they are adults. Thankfully, their friends are now real life but they do remember their imaginary friends. Very normal, I wouldn't worry at all.

I can’t remember this but my Mum can and retold to a friend a number of years ago.

my aunts best friends daughter and I used to play together - I still remember this 40 years later. We were friends but saw each other only occasionally.

sadly she got ill and I remember going to visit her in hospital. The gymnastics were on the tv in black and white (weird detail I know).

one morning I apparently went down to my Mum and said Carly had come to visit me in the night and asked me to go with her. To which I replied no I want to sleep. You know what is coming next… very sadly she had passed away the previous day but I was of an age that I wouldn’t have been told and I certainly wouldn’t have understood.

it was a very very long time ago now and whilst I don’t recall that event, I still remember her fondly and often wonder what type of amazing woman she would have become.

i think children are often much more receptive than we are. But for the purposes of calming the OP I’m sure it’s their new imaginary friend 😉

I had an imaginary friend when I was that age. It is very common.

He had to sit at the dinner table with us and my parents even had to make sure they had put him in the car with me if we were going out anywhere. If I decided he was missing then they had to turn back and go back into the house to get him. Only then would I settle down into the journey. Same on the way home if we managed to leave him at the place we had been visiting. 🙄

He disappeared when my younger sister was born and didn't resurface as an entity in his own right again.

I'm almost 58 now so it was quite some time ago.

My dc randomly said, "It was an accident and Grandpa is so sad." My dad died years ago, so long before dc was even a thought. My dad had been in an accident that left him with a disability. This has never been spoken about in front of dc and hasn't even been brought up for years. 🤔🫣

Kids say utterly batshit things.

I still remember putting my daughter to bed when she was wee and her saying "mummy, say goodnight to the red man too or he'll be cross". Right you are Regan MacNeil I'll get right on that.

My 1 year old does this thing where in bed he'll suddenly stare at the ceiling and follow something with his eyes then make a growl/back of throat sort of noise a few times. We live in a very old stone house with the usual creaks, apparently the painter decorator before we moved in said there's an old woman in the attic but she's looking forward to new residents... I don't believe in ghosts but at 2am in the dark, when your baby who mimics everything is growling at something it's bloody spooky. Think he's just being the wierdo that 1 Yr old are (I do offer him water before someone thinks he's gasping from thirst 😅). It'll just be their great imaginary play, my sister had an imaginary friend for ages too, I had an imaginary horse 🤣

I've never been one to ignore the elephant in the room! 😂

Perhaps it's an old house?!? 🤔