to find this really really creepy? (Woo related)

[Objection]

I've just come off the phone to a friend of mine who was chatting to her 3 year old about the house earlier. She told me that he said to her:

"Before I lived here I had a sister. She and my other Mummy are really old now. They were okay when the car was on fire but I wasn't!"

I love a bit of woo (please share if you have some) but this gave my shivers!

I'm sure I've read this before.

Ooh, spooky deja vu!

This has totally spooked me out!

I've read this before, maybe you were in the

Who do you want to hear from?

People saying, "Oh that's creepy...let me tell you about what happened to my Aunty Gladys...."

Or people with a bit of common sense?

Children are imaginative. That's it.

My brother, from a very young age, started every sentence... 'when I was a racing car driver' and often mentioned a wife and named his children...Freaked my Mum out and she still can't talk about it. It went on for years but he has no memory off it.

My ds is always talking about when he was x y z, his best one is mummy, when I was your age I was a policeman.
However I have read a story like that on faceache, virtually word for word

Seriously, this story was written word for word on another website, (google creepy things kids say) so either your friend is having you on, or you're having us on.

???? Why do we have one of these? Does someone in MNHQ have a crush on the DR?

Oops cross post

Can't any of these events be checked? Especially when kids 'know' names. Isnt there a story on here where a kid got hysterical by a graveyard and said it was cokd and dark and lonely there until their sibling came to be with them. Reader, there was an ivy-covered grave of two children there...

its for the 50th anniversary

My 9yo ds, when he was 3-5 he was convinced he came from china. He was often trying to go back 'home'. He even told me his chinese fathers name. Which was chinese!! I cant remember it now though.

My nephew when he was 4 used to tell us about the times when he was on the ships, and how he died at sea but its ok now because he has a new family now.

I can't believe people give any credence to the crap little children spout out!

It doesnt matter to me whether they are believable stories, or whether they are true or not.
I look at them as interesting to listen to, even more so knowing they are coming out of little kids mouths :-)

Almost every day my ds will start a sentence with, 'When I was a big man, before I came to live with you and dad . . .' He's also told us the names of his children and said he went up to God and then came back down to us as a baby.
We're not woo so I just think he is very imaginative but I can't resist using

My nephew also came out with a convincing story about how a bus scratched his tv.

He scratched the tv with a toy car. When asked about it, he claimed a double decker bus had came into the room. Realised it was too big, so tried reversing at which point it scratched the tv before leaving.
He was ever so convincing.

It was a funny story. For such a little fella to have such abig imagination.

My friend's ds did this. He described events and people in vivid detail and explained how he'd died in a sporting accident. She researched it and found the people actually existed, and the events happened as he told them in Australia decades ago.

He was 3 at the time. No access to tv beyond beebies and certainly couldn't read. Make of that whatever you like

I remember my mum stopping me from walking out of the house on my own as a small child. I was distraught, I'd been about to leave to go to my proper mummy. I think it weirded my mum out, but she put down to things kids say. I still feel a bit inexplicably sad and angry when I think about being stopped from seeing my 'proper' mother, even though I love my mum dearly and we've always been very close.

OMG we have a ... (fingers in ears, hands over eyes, lalalalala)

'They were okay when the car was on fire but I sure wasn't!' - it's from this Reddit thread, kids say the creepiest things. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1d2v7i/parents_of_reddit_what_is_the_creepiest_thing/

Just google that line, it's all over the net.

I've been had! Texting my friend now the sneaky witch

why not.

Fake or not, please don't stop with the woo stories - I love them!

I am on the fence about the wooness of the things children say.
When we consider how our minds develop, it is a process of the joining together of many neurons, making a circuit in the brain, reaching out to the rest of the body. Part of development is the pruning of these connections, so basically, the ones that aren't used stop working and eventually the connection breaks down completely.

I can see that there would be parts of the brain that children use during this wiring/re-wiring phase that may well manifest itself as imaginings and sensitivities, inherited memories even. Its a bit like phobias, often people are scared of spiders, well most spiders in this country are completely harmless and really not dangerous at all. Yet people are phobic, instinctively scared - this is an evoluntionary advantage especially when some spiders will kill you stone dead - so the memory is hidden away, inhterited. Its not a memory per se, but the bits and pieces to make up the memory are there and we fill in the gaps.

I read a book once, written by sebastian faulks about a guy who was schizophrenic, i think it was set in the 40's iirc, there was a thought in this book that such people are using part of their brains that no longer get used, however years ago many folk used this part of thier brains and this was part of the origins of religeon etc - voices and beliefs. Who is to say that those voices are not real and that most of us just cannot connect with them anymore because that part of our brains are no longer wired. Probably woo, but who knows.