Seriously freaked out

[Dodgylooking]

I hope im posting this in the right place because im seriously freaked out but this is something i havent got a clue about. So DD is 3 and for about a year has been telling me about "scarf man". Ive never really thought much of it tbh and just passed it off as a toddlers imagination but in the last couple of months she started going into more detail and its starting to freak me out. Out of interest i asked her what scarf man looked like and she said she didnt know because the scarf covers his face. This scared the hell out of me because anything hiding its face cant be good. She told me he keeps waking her up and talking to her, i asked what he said and one of the things she said was he wanted her to close her bedroom door (we leave her door ajar at night) although she doesnt seem to be afraid of him, more inconvenienced than anything. By this point i was suitably terrified by this point but was trying not to give it to much thought until DP told me that tuesday night hed had a very restless night with lots of nightmares and had woken because DD was stirring abit to find a man with a scarf over his face stood in the doorway of our bedroom. He says he only saw him for a second and then he was gone, then looked at his phone to check the time, it was 6:15. Over the last few months ive been waking up at 6:15 (not anywhere near my normal wake up time and i work lates so normally sleep till my alarm at 8) and cannot get back to sleep. Fwiw ive never really given anything of the supernatural much thought, dont know whether i believe or not and have never experienced anything so i really have no idea what to do about this but im scared he may be some kind of threat to my daughter. Any advice from anyone?

Sorry, I have no answers for you, Dodgy, but did you post this in another topic earlier? Because if not, then I would be seriously freaked out, because I'm sure I read your OP this morning!

I hope someone will post some reassurance for you soon; at least I've bumped this for you.

Lock your front door?

Move

Burn some sage and command scarf man to go away and leave you all alone.

Reddit/nosleep might help too.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_unexplained/3508223-seriously-freaked-out?msgid=84941172#84941172

Burn the house down and flee the country.

Seriously though, no advice but I love all things spook. I’d say Not a threat, would think he would have made that evident now? Who knows!

Well you’ve just scared the crap out of me, thanks for that!

Reasonable me would say it’s a child’s overactive imagination spilling over into your husbands subconscious. The 6:15 thing is just a coincidence, I often go through spells of waking up at the same time to the minute in the middle of the night.

Bloody hell OP that would freak me the fuck out too. I agree with Rocks suggestion on other thread.

No advice OP but my DC (5 and 3) are always telling me about the ‘clear man’ they see in the night. Apparently he looks ‘like a man but kind of see through’. I ignore them so that it doesn’t freak me out

In the nicest possible way, calm down, OP. You have an ordinarily imaginative toddler, you’re clearly a susceptible, easily -alarmed person to not dismiss it as toddler imagination, and your husband had a nightmare about it because your daughter had been talking about the scarf man. You wake up around 6.10 because something — a noise outside? Birdsong? The central heating? — is waking you.

Isn’t this more likely than a magic burglar or a ghost with a cold?

Bit relieved that I'm not imagining things, or having a 'woo' moment, thanks Utterly

ChrisPrattsFace ive seriously considered that!

Ive tried so hard to not let it freak me out and im really not much of a believer in these things but shes so consistent and its been going on so long! I never overreact in front of her because i dont want her to know it freaks me out i just respond like i would if we were talking about nursery but its really starting to creep me out

Check no ones squatting your attic !

That would scare the shit out of me. I’m generally not woo but I get easily frightened by these kinds of things. Too sinister.

It sounds like your DD has an imaginary friend which is quite common and perfectly normal. It does not mean you have a ghost in your house.

Your DH dreamed about it, and was half asleep when he saw the figure in the doorway, because he'll have been hearing about it from DD and then hearing you stress about it.

I was petrified of ‘the black witch’ in my bedroom for ages when I was five — it was my mother’s dressing gown hanging on the back of the door, which I never identified as the same thing in daylight, so it never occurred to anyone to take it down. Another poster on here talked all the time as a child about ‘the man’ (‘green man’?) and only some adult who got down to a child’s eye level grasped that it was a man-shaped paint-blotch or stain on the underside of a table or shelf that was invisible to adults.

Something ordinary will have given your DD the idea for the scarf man — could be anything from a cartoon mummy on tv to someone wrapping up on a cold day to a Chinese or Japanese person wearing a surgical mask on the street.

DP...had woken because DD was stirring abit to find a man with a scarf over his face stood in the doorway of our bedroom. He says he only saw him for a second and then he was gone, then looked at his phone to check the time, it was 6:15.

And he didn't shout/wake you/ jump out of bed to go to DD ...???

RaffertyFair He said he blinked and he was gone then he went straight to check on DD who was still fast asleep

Are you saying that you hadn't discussed 'scarf man' with your DP despite you being terrified by what your DD was telling you?

Or that you had discussed it but when your DP actually 'saw' him, he didn't tell you?

It's Mr Pipes

Parthenope I agree.

Do you know this children's book by the fabulous Chris Riddell? It tells the story of a dream and when the boy wakes up you can see where the origin of all the characters and features of the dream are in real life. (or, as the book suggests, maybe its the other way round ...)

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1405090286/ref=asc_df_140509028658515526/?hvlocphy=1007014&linkCode=df0&hvptwo&psc=1&hvnetw=g&hvadid=310850997089&creative=22110&hvpone&hvlocint&creativeASIN=1405090286&th=1&hvpos=1o1&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl&hvqmt&tag=mumsnetforum-21&hvtargid=pla-452718202993&hvrand=805826613717079579

Does your heating come on about 6.15am or a neighbour leaves for work then?

Jesus Christ

my DC (5 and 3) are always telling me about the ‘clear man’ they see in the night. Apparently he looks ‘like a man but kind of see through’.

I saw one of them when I was around 3...