To ask who Millie is?

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Bit of background as to not drop feed:

Dsis and I live next door to one another, we share a garden (we removed the fences) we have 5 dc between us who play together everday, go to school together etc. they all range in age from 1 1/2 to 4.

A few days ago dc3 came to us screaming and crying, genuinely scared saying her ear was talking and to make it stop. We tried comforting and she wasn't calming down, we thought she had a ringing in her ears or something then our of exhasbertion we said "what's your ear saying" and in the creepiest voice said "hello my name is Millie".

It was weird but this dc is very quirky and says weird things sometimes so we just cuddled till she calmed down and then she was fine. Fast forward a few days and ds4 was whispering something turns out he's whispering "hello I'm Millie" in a weird smokers kind of voice, I asked him where he has heard this and he wouldn't answer me just laughing so I asked him not to say it, thinking he might of said it to dd3.

Well odd things have been happening anyway like things going missing and reappearing in odd places, flashes of lights, toys going off on their own and I've largely ignored it but now I'm thinking something else might be a bit wooo.

Dd4 then says to the other dc " I'm having a premonition and the fire is spreading" we asked her where she heard it and she said she saw the Fire and all the horses died.

We're creeped out, haven't asked anything else just asked she not say things like that to the others as to not scare them but wtf is going on?

I want to ask who Millie is but i don't want to promote this creepy phase iyswim. Also our houses are only 30 yrs old and there was no fire.

Aibu to think this is wooo or is it kids being silly?

I will speak to the preschool since all 4 go at the same times, so might be someone scaring them in class. It's just hard getting info out a 4 yr old.

Have they watched Thomas the tank engine in preschool? From recollection, there is an episode where Millie the engine plays a trick involving a bonfire and a pretend volcano. Might have some of the answers even if the children are using it in imaginative games.

It sounds entirely possible that your kids have heard about the Enfield Haunting programme from somewhere.

Or - and this is really unlikely - your DC that heard the voice in her ear, has the beginnings of schizophrenia. I know - not at all likely.

It sounds to me like kids just mucking about and you're reading far too much into it.

I don't understand why some people have to be so rude

OP I am a believer of the paranormal. I used to run a paranormal investigation group (until we all had kids and got married so disbanded) and have far too much stuff recorded to change my mind. However the 'weird' voice thing would make me raise my eyebrows, that's the kind of thing kids do when making stuff up ime.

I'm not accusing you of trolling, I actually believe what you're saying, but I think the kids are embellishing somewhat.

Has she watched Black Beauty recently or someone read it too them? The horses die in a fire in that book.

Kids are creepy, it’s a mixture of over active imagination, words/phrases they are echoing and enjoying the reaction. The name Millie could have come from anywhere, "hello my name is Millie" isn’t creepy on it’s own, any kids in preschool called Millie?

My youngest son (when about 2\3) used to talk about the 'white man' . We lived in an old American house (in the mid West)
This character used to visit him, and bring his whole family sometimes.
Our son could describe all their faces...
This went on for about a year.
One day we were out and about...
DS suddenly piped up : "there he is! there is the white man"
He was pointing to Colonel Sanders!

Colonel Sanders was smiling warmly back from the KFC window!

Feminine
The white man could have at least brought lunch with him when he visited

chaz right. ;)

Honestly, OP. What's more likely,might a phantom horse called Millie is hiding your belongings and possessing your four year old, or that your child us mimicking the kind of thing children enjiy frightening one another with?

My just-turned- three year old has a freakishly huge multi-syllabic and parrots all kinds of things from tv, radio, other children, books etc. half the time it's only months later that I figure out a reference. For months he's been doing a scary voice and shouting 'No! Leave me alone!' and talking about scary moving stones and the dead girl who comes alive. Which now makes sense since I saw a bit of Frozen at the weekend...

Lmao at feminine, afaik there is no Millie at pre school but I am going to talk to the manager and see as she knows the kids quite well.

Thank you namechange, I'm really not a troll and we are not a woo family, don't have tv etc so it would be hard for them to watch to because afaik they don't sit them in front of tv while they are there etc.

It is obvious you aren't a troll by the way :)

Try to laugh about it (for a bit) ;)

Thank you! I hate it when people automatically thinks it's a wind up post, Ive been a lurker for a long time and recently started posting so I am still getting the lingo etc.

Millie is creepy to me and I hope I do get to the bottom of it as I've been alone these last few nights ,dh has been working away and its freaked me out a bit lol.

Colonel Sanders!

Honestly, don't worry!
The detail that my son went in to was extraordinary ... ;)

I'm reading the Enfield book at the minute (This house is haunted by Guy Playfield) and it's really giving me the creeps despite the fact I'm not believing a word of it.

Kids do say odd things. I recall DS talking about the 'old nanna with the little dog' and he went on to perfectly describe my long dead Nan. I looked for an explanation from him seeing a photo to hearing someone talk about her but I couldn't explain it. Just put it down to weird coincidence.

They have probably heard/seen something thats just flickered an idea in their heads. Much like when you catch the merest glimpse of something or overhear a word and dream about it in detail later. Brains are odd things and young brains suck up information like sponges.

Of course should the knocking start and things start flying through the air then I demand photos

I would.think they have watched somthing on tv? Maybe at someone else's house?

Does he see dead people?

We have progress on the Millie front.

I asked DS again who's millie and apparently she had orange hair, doesn't like toys and wants to be his friend :/

I'll just stop asking now, Millie creeping the shit out of me.

Have you got a keyhole in your back op? Because you're letting your kids wind you up something chronic.

My nephew is nearly 3. When he's having a tantrum he shouts at the top of his voice 'Please don't shoot me Daddy!'. He especially likes doing this over family lunches.

I asked my sister WTF he'd been watching, Peppa Pig didn't have much child murder in my kids' day.

There's an orange haired millie in team umizoomi if that help? FYI it's the most annoying tv show known to man but not to preschoolers

Ds watches it on Netflix

Wasn't that kid in the rihfsmit where the dad got the wife, daughter and horses, dogs etc then set fire to everything called Millie? Maybe someone told the kids about it

She seems harmless enough but you never know