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What’s the creepiest thing your child said?

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raspberryjuiceandpompoms · 09/12/2023 20:53

my DS6 came running downstairs today holding a towel in his hand saying that there’s someone in his room and he wanted to whack him with the towel but that person dissolved into thin air. Apparently the intruder was white, wearing a long robe and did not have any feet. Luckily we’ve instilled a strong disbelief in supernatural in our son but I’m secretly freaking out haha

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raspberryjuiceandpompoms · 09/12/2023 21:58

@medianewbie honestly, I would absolutely freak out if my child said there’s someone on the sofa next to me. Probably hide under the blanket and cry 🙈

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Twasthenightbefore · 09/12/2023 22:06

From a different perspective, I had an 'imaginary' friend when I was little called Alex. I used to chat to him and play with him. DM & DF used to go along with things nonchalantly, accepted I had an imaginary friend - as you do I suppose! However, as mad as it sounds I vividly remember him being a real human child. I can picture him now (though not his face in any detail, strangely) but he had dirty hair, a flat cap and dirty raggedy clothes with no shoes. If you were to imagine a Victorian chimney sweep he looked like that. Interestingly I remember seeing him sitting on my neighbours roof one evening when we got in the car to go and collect my DF from work. We waved to each other. 😶

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vidflex · 09/12/2023 21:16

My then 6 year old dd got emotional walking past an old building. She told me that's where people used to wait to go to heathen. She was hysterical. Every single time we went past it she would be so upset.

We looked into the buildings history . In the 1800's there was a cholera outbreak that caused so many deaths that the bodies were stored in this large house till they could be buried.

😲😲😲 Bless your spiritually connected child!!! Don't tell her this till she's at least c. 25- that is head ducky stuff! Xxx

Harveyrabbit76 · 09/12/2023 22:14

We used to rent a really old farmhouse and my daughter (2 at the time) used to say there was a little girl called Alice who danced on the ceiling in a white dress. They were best friends. We used to hear her having conversations via the monitor, one night she said 'no Alice, I can't do that they are my mummy and daddy' 😱

KissTheRains · 09/12/2023 22:15

My daughter had an intercom in her room until she was about 5. It was useful for her to shout me up the stairs.

Anyway.

When she was little.little she had a toy bear with buttons on the front that played music when you pressed it.
I'd hear it sometimes in the night and assumed she'd rolled on it or woken up and was messing with it.

She put grew it eventually but didn't want to throw it away. So I took the batteries out and put it on a shelf with a couple other not played with toys. She can reach the shelf, but it's a stretch so she doesn't tend to bother.

She gets to about 5 and we're sat watching TV one night and the lights on the intercom flash up to Red, I get up and turn the volume up, we can hear the bear...
The bear with no batteries..
the bear with no batteries on a shelf she doesn't mess with..

I'm a bit weirded out at this.
So I say to her,
"Have you been messing with your old bear toy?"
"Not me, Lilly has though"
"Who is Lilly?"
"She's the girl that visits sometimes. She's used to play with that bear when I was asleep."
"Oh. I see...."

The intercom was gotten rid of the next day and we put the little bear in the loft with some other toys and a little Frozen Foam chair for Lilly. My daughter is 10 now, she doesn't remember Lilly, but I'll not forget.

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raspberryjuiceandpompoms · 09/12/2023 22:42

@KissTheRains may I ask why did you put the bear in the loft instead of burning it? 😄

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raspberryjuiceandpompoms · 09/12/2023 22:44

@Twasthenightbefore thats an interesting perspective! I guess if your imaginary friend was nice enough then it’s ok.

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raspberryjuiceandpompoms · 09/12/2023 22:46

@Harveyrabbit76 did you ask your daughter what did Alice say? 🙈 I’d sleep with one eye open!

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Tisfortired · 09/12/2023 22:48

A few years ago aged 5 my DS was looking out of his bedroom window and said ‘why does that old lady always stand in the corner of our garden?’

mollyfolk · 09/12/2023 22:51

My DD insisted she saw a woman at night standing in the same room (her bedroom at the time) that her great grandmother died in. She wasn’t scary to her / sometimes she would be looking at her when I was there. I just think that kids can see the dead after that experience.

mollyfolk · 09/12/2023 22:56

vidflex · 09/12/2023 21:16

My then 6 year old dd got emotional walking past an old building. She told me that's where people used to wait to go to heathen. She was hysterical. Every single time we went past it she would be so upset.

We looked into the buildings history . In the 1800's there was a cholera outbreak that caused so many deaths that the bodies were stored in this large house till they could be buried.

See I really think kids are closer to this stuff. They can see the dead and sense all the feelings.

mrsed1987 · 09/12/2023 22:57

Fixesplease · 09/12/2023 21:17

That before he had me as a mummy he had another one and named her..he was 3 and I had birthed him!

My son is 4 and talks about his old mum and dad all the time. I also birthed him. It was creepy at first but I just let him waffle on about it now lol

Starrydream · 09/12/2023 22:58

When DS was 3 I took him to stay for the weekend at my aunt’s house. On the second night as I kissed him good night he said ‘I’m not afraid of the ghost you know.’ I said ‘oh ok’ and he didn’t mention it again. I didn’t tell my aunt in case she got nervous but I don’t like things like that.

He also said around age 3-4 at home that a young girl with dark hair would walk backwards and forwards in his room at night. He remembers it even now at 8.

When I was 10 I woke up suddenly in the night and something told me to turn over. I saw an old man in shimmering blue standing next to the bed, with a long beard and bulky cloak or coat. No one believed me except my friend’s mum but what was also odd was that I never, ever woke up at night - to the extent that I was still a bed wetter because of this, so this was highly unusual. Forty years later and I still remember what I saw. Weird.

Lopella · 09/12/2023 23:00

Not along the lines of previous posts, but my 6 year old presented me with a picture made entirely out of my old contact lenses that she'd be sneaking out of the bin and stashing until she had enough.

Clawdy · 09/12/2023 23:03

DS when he was about six, and feeling unwell, pointed to the corner of his bedroom and cried "Go away, horrid face!"

FatFatMary · 09/12/2023 23:07

Starrydream · 09/12/2023 22:58

When DS was 3 I took him to stay for the weekend at my aunt’s house. On the second night as I kissed him good night he said ‘I’m not afraid of the ghost you know.’ I said ‘oh ok’ and he didn’t mention it again. I didn’t tell my aunt in case she got nervous but I don’t like things like that.

He also said around age 3-4 at home that a young girl with dark hair would walk backwards and forwards in his room at night. He remembers it even now at 8.

When I was 10 I woke up suddenly in the night and something told me to turn over. I saw an old man in shimmering blue standing next to the bed, with a long beard and bulky cloak or coat. No one believed me except my friend’s mum but what was also odd was that I never, ever woke up at night - to the extent that I was still a bed wetter because of this, so this was highly unusual. Forty years later and I still remember what I saw. Weird.

This is interesting to me because when I was a child I had an out of body experience and my body was made out of shimmering blue light. Maybe you met an astral projector

MadeOfAllWork · 09/12/2023 23:12

Why did I read this late at night?

Messyhair321 · 09/12/2023 23:19

When my DD was about 2 to 3 she told me without any hesitation that she used to be a boy, & she missed her toys. She said this daily for months.
She said that she used to play with a boy toy (I think she meant an action man) & she also talked about toy cars- we didn't have any toy cars: & we never had any action men in the house. Freaky.

KissTheRains · 09/12/2023 23:22

raspberryjuiceandpompoms · 09/12/2023 22:42

@KissTheRains may I ask why did you put the bear in the loft instead of burning it? 😄

That was my daughters idea tbh.
Didn't want Lilly plying with it and disturbing her in the night so she said to put it up in the loft where we'd put the Christmas decorations a few weeks earlier.

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raspberryjuiceandpompoms · 09/12/2023 23:31

@FatFatMary ah thanks for unlocking this childhood memory for me! Indeed, when I was travelling in my sleep as a child my body too was made of shimmering blue light ☺️

@KissTheRains your nerves must be made of steel!

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raspberryjuiceandpompoms · 09/12/2023 23:32

@Lopella that's actually very sweet, creative and thoughtful… and yes, a little creepy too 😅

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FatFatMary · 09/12/2023 23:34

raspberryjuiceandpompoms · 09/12/2023 23:31

@FatFatMary ah thanks for unlocking this childhood memory for me! Indeed, when I was travelling in my sleep as a child my body too was made of shimmering blue light ☺️

@KissTheRains your nerves must be made of steel!

That’s so cool! I’ve never met someone before that’s had this same detail

grundvig · 09/12/2023 23:52

Harveyrabbit76 · 09/12/2023 22:14

We used to rent a really old farmhouse and my daughter (2 at the time) used to say there was a little girl called Alice who danced on the ceiling in a white dress. They were best friends. We used to hear her having conversations via the monitor, one night she said 'no Alice, I can't do that they are my mummy and daddy' 😱

Was this in East Anglia perchance?
DD, two and a half, had Alice, Chloe and Ben. Chloe was not nice at all, DD and her did not get on, eventually she was flushed down the loo. Ben and Alice were nice but Ben left one day, he 'just had to go away' which made DD and Alice sad. All rather 😱

Notthatcatagain · 09/12/2023 23:52

Age 2ish, first ever sentence was "Its under there" I looked but never found it

Copperoliverbear · 09/12/2023 23:53

My son had a pound coin, when I asked him where he got it, he said your grandad, he gave it to me from his brown bag.
My grandad carried a brown paper with change in it, due to his work.
My son never met my grandfather, he died twelve days before he was born. X