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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to think this is mega creepy?

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ithoughtofitfirst · 17/12/2014 17:00

Nearly went so far as to say 'the creepiest thing ever' but, well, it definitely isn't it.

Every car journey for the ithoughtofitfirsts now has running commentary from the back passenger such as "car will crash into daddy's ford. Ford goes upside down and people will say OH NO". That was today's update.

What is this? Does my son have 'the gift' or is he just talking shit?

I read a story online about a mum who went in to say goodnight to her daughter and her daughter replied "goodbye". The mother corrected her "no at nightime we say goodnight" to which her daughter replied "no mummy. This time it's goodbye"

Please tell me this kind of chat is normal.

OP posts:

306235388 · 17/12/2014 19:51

Oh I've just remembered that when I collected the dog from the vets the other day and left dh with the kids dd (4) whispered 'the dogs dead' to Ds (7). Evil.

Buttercupsanddaisys · 17/12/2014 19:53

When DS was about 10/11 he was boarding at a prep school in the West Country while we were abroad for a spell. My parents were acting as his guardians here during term time. Half terms the school would book train seats for the boys and meet them at their destination. This one half term parents settled him into his seat and said their goodbyes. In time the carriage filled up with other boys. One sat opposite DS.

Later that evening he phoned me, as usual for these times. His first words were "mum, where's Bolton?" "Errr, Lancashire perhaps? Look it up. And....why?"

Apparently during the journey he just knew he had to give this poor little sod opposite a message. The more he kept quiet, the stronger the urge became...

He reached forward, tapped the lad on the knee, and said earnestly,

"I've got to tell you" "You're going to have a lovely life, you'll have success and everything else you want, just.. Keep away from Bolton..Never EVER go to Bolton !"

I've sometimes thought about that lad..wonder if he ever did?

Certainly the Bolton Scenario has entered our family lore.

CandODad · 17/12/2014 19:55

When my nephew was four he was talking with my mum about buildings and things. She asked him "do you like buildings" to which he replied. "I used to be a civil engineer but I have forgotten that now and am just a young boy again"

Really odd since definitely no one in our family would have spoken about what a civil engineer does.

fairnotFairyTaleofNewYork · 17/12/2014 20:00

A long time ago, a boyfriend shook me awake in the middle of the night, stared at me with eyes like lamps, whispered "They're IN THE HOUSE" and went back to sleep.

I was awake all night, terrified. He had no memory of it in the morning.

BuilderMammy · 17/12/2014 20:00

Kids are bonkers

WutheringFrights · 17/12/2014 20:05

A couple of weeks ago DD(3) told me she'd had a dream.
'I was in bed at Grannys house in mummy and daddy's room, someone called me and I woke up and flew downstairs really fast like a bird and out the door and into the sky, really higher and higher and I said no and then I woke up in my bed!'

Perfectly normal dream.

My dad died when DD was 10 months old. The night he died we were all sleeping in the spare room (me, DH and DD), directly above the room my dad was in. My mum came upstairs to ask me if I wanted to be with dad as he passed just as I woke from that dream, the very same dream that DD told me about over two years later.
I asked her to repeat it, she did, it was exactly the same dream. I asked her when she had dreamt it and she said ages ago mummy, when I was a baby...

Dionysuss · 17/12/2014 20:06

Wow I hope he never went to Bolton!

CorporateRockWhore · 17/12/2014 20:07

My son pointed at the wall last night and said 'Man. Man in the wall!'

HereComesYourMam · 17/12/2014 20:16

DS (5) often talks to us about a lady called Suki who comes into his room at night with her "snippy fingers" and tries to snip at him and his cuddly toys. I know it must just be some kind of recurring dream - and he doesn't seem particularly scared by it - but man, I find it creepy.

Zippidydoodah · 17/12/2014 22:08

Wuthering your story has given me goosebumps!

Stealthpolarbear · 17/12/2014 22:22

Dd has asked "will you die?" When I thought I was just driving along
Also last time we had a power cut. I was complaining and she looked a bit worried and said "will we die?"
Made me realise that small children do not have sense and judgement like adults and their fears can seem stupid to us but real to them

DisneyDivaWoo · 17/12/2014 22:29

My DD used to run to a man we couldn't see shouting granda! She was two.
I also had a dream once that I was in my dad's parents house and when I explained it to him he was shocked by the accurate details - I'd never seen a picture of their house. When I was 14 I made all my mams friends cry by doing their tarot cards (individually) - according to my mam I told them things I couldn't possibly know....

misskangaandroo2014 · 17/12/2014 22:38

I get my girls to sometimes work out how old other family members will be when they are certain ages / in certain years. Once we were doing this, they were diligently doing the addition. My Dad piped up, but what about Granny then. They both at the same time, without hesitation said 'dead'. I don't like that game anymore.

DoubleValiumLattePlease · 17/12/2014 22:53

Fuuuuuuck some of this is so creepy! I love woo and I do believe that children have a level of ……what? Awareness maybe - that we don't have as adults. My DS was never at all woo - highly disappointed in him!

GettingFiggyWithIt · 17/12/2014 23:03

Cheery
Congratulations....your children are all weird, evil, possessed or have the gift. But you knew that already didn't you?!!

alwaysstaytoolong · 18/12/2014 01:08

When I was about 3 years old I'd been in bed for a while and then tottered down stairs to my Dad saying 'I can't go to sleep, the grey lady keeps shaking my bed, she wants me to talk to her'.

Shit my Dad right up!.

Kids just say weird stuff. Was once with a friend and her daughter was talking about having been in a fire but had never been. Lots of detail included and names and we were freaked out till realised she was talking about an episode of Corrie!.

KnackeredMerrily · 18/12/2014 02:10

OP - why did you get cursed?!

CheerfulYank · 18/12/2014 02:57

My DS used to say "the car is going to crash" in an odd voice when he was small. Then about a year later we got into an accident (we were all fine) and he said "the car DID crash" in the same tone.

After her grandpa died, my mom (she was 14 or so at the time) dreamed she was swimming. She could look up and see him playing cards on the dock with his friends. It was a game she'd never seen. She kept trying to break through the surface and reach him but couldn't. She described it to her mother the next day and she went white...apparently he HAD played that game (my mother described the layout) all the time when he was younger, but my mother had never seen it or heard of it.

And I remember a past life. :)

Mrsfrumble · 18/12/2014 03:05

The other morning 4 year old DS told me "I'm not your real son. Your real son died last night. I'm the replacement". Weirdo.

Coyoacan · 18/12/2014 03:23

My dd when she was two told me about how her husband and children had died in a fire.

Then around the same age she would get lots of nosebleeds at night. I was in the habit of saying may you sleep with the angels (a Mexican saying) and a couple of times she said no, I'm scared of the angels. Then one day she said I'm not scared of the angels anymore, they've stopped hitting me on the nose.

FibonacciSeries · 18/12/2014 03:23

Man, I'm insomniac and this thread is freaking me out big time!

allypally999 · 18/12/2014 08:29

brilliant! thank God I don't have kids though haha

JingleBellSniffer · 18/12/2014 08:57

When my younger sister was about 5, up until the age of about 12, she used to talk backwards in her sleep. See, I didn't know this until one year we had to share a room and I was awake on a camper bed next to the double she was in, she sat bolt upright and stared at me for about 5 minutes, I was like "ere whats wrong??? Shall I get mum??" and then she started talking backwards - complete full sentences, backwards. I thought she was bloody speaking in tongues! I got my mum and my mum heard and knew about it and it sent shivers running up my spine.
I also used to point at nothing.
My grandma's proper catholic so hates anything to do with ghosts and doesn't believe. I used to ask her who that man was in the corner. She legitimately doused the house in Holy Water.

JingleBellSniffer · 18/12/2014 08:59

And, somehow, I think the brain can make false memories. I somehow remember John Lennon being shot, but I was born in the 90's. I remember reading about it when I was about 5 or 6. I remember it clear as day but obviously, I can't have done! I also somehow remember a past life.
I believe that if you have a birthmark, that mark is where you were killed, i asked my mum just the other day "where were you killed in a past life, mum?" and she looked at me as if i were a ghost. It was hilarious. I had to explain

NoLongerJustAShopGirl · 18/12/2014 09:07

One morning I woke at 5 to see my dad at the foot of my bed - my dad was in a coma in France... When DD got up at 7 she asked why grandpa had been here last night - he had stood at the foot of her bed too. My stepmum rang at 9 to tell us he had died around 5am, but that she had had the weirdest dream about him standing at the foot of her bed...

Still freaks me out.

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