To ask - what's the creepiest thing your child has ever said?

[BackInBlack78]

Just this!

I've mentioned this on a ghost thread, before. When I was 4, I had an imaginary friend. He was a teenage boy - older teenage. A bit random for a 4 year old girl, in retrospect! Thing was, I only 'saw' him in one place and he was like my friend, so I'd go there to visit him at dusk, most nights. I only saw him in the hen house! Used to sometimes go in there before we put the hens away for the night and my dad would let me stay in there for a bit as we used to love seeing the glow worms which were in there.

But I started going down there to see my Imaginary Friend. Told my parents about him. He spoke 'funny' and he had a foreign name I couldn't properly pronounce. But at the time, there was a French kid in my class at school and his name sounded, to my 4 year old brain, like this French kid's. (He was almost the only 'foreigner' I'd met). So I'd explain it to my parents that he sounded like So-and-so, the French kid.

His clothes were weird, too - although I can't remember how.

One day, aged 5 I remember, very clearly, announcing to my parents that Strange Name had visited me for the final time and I was upset because he told me I'd never see him again. I can actually remember this.

I never saw him again. Parents laughed it off as Imaginary Friend and 'normal'.

Nearly 30 years later, my dad sold the land with planning permission for a housing estate, and when it was being cleared by the developers and the foundations dug.... A few metres from where our hen hut had been, they found two stone sarcophagi. Roman, military.

A few days after Christmas last year I went to lay some flowers at my DMs grave taking youngest DD (15 months) with me.
She was as good as gold, but as I said goodbye to DM DD started to toddle up the line of stones. I kept a close eye on her to make sure she didn't touch any of the flowers or ornaments by the stones but she seemed to pay no attention them (not even the beautiful brightly coloured artificial flowers that a lot of people use in winter).
She carried on in a typical determined toddler fashion only slowing if she had a wobble until we got about 300m from DMs stone and I assumed she was stopping by the bench until she turned and very deliberately sat next to a small stone.
She sat babbling away in an animated way and as I crouched beside her I saw the stone had an inscription saying "Our beloved DS born sleeping"
I waited about a minute or two then said "come on Bibbity Jnr, we need to go now". She got up, stood in front of the stone, waved to someone or something I couldn't see and set off back down the path the way we came.

Loving this thread! Just wish I hadn't read some of it at night!

Ds (4) says sometimes he wants his real mummy, the one that keeps him company in the night

I love this thread so much. I dont have any stories about my own dc but I also believe that kids can sense things adults cant. I remember when i was young the world seemed to be a magical place with anything possibilities and the older i got the less this seemed true.

A lot of really odd things happened to me when I was under the age of 8. I grew up in greater London and my back garden backed onto a cemetery and im 100% convinced that this had something to do with it! I used to get really wierd things happen like an urge to dig in my garden in a very particular place and find things such as i found a massive old key, a bullet, and even found a handbag that had been dumped once! I also used to get like a strange feeling almost premonition and predicted things like family divorces, family car crashes etc. I also used to see a few odd ghost like things but more light abnormalities really.

All this stopped when we moved away when i was 10.

My mum told me I used to have night terrors, she used to reassure me that she was there and that I was safe but I was insistent that she wasn't my mummy. I have no memory of this but after reading this thread I believe we have multiple lives and that parents are chosen by a soul before they become their child.

I'm pregnant with my first and it does make me feel happy that there is a possibility my child chose me! 😊

My son also had night terrors and was a bit woo when he was younger (see my post up thread).

I wonder if there's a connection. He also saw 'flitters'. He still does in fact. He was concerned so he googled it and apparently it's quite common.

When my daughter was 3, had 2 imaginary friends called Katie and Yasmin. One day she said ‘they had died in a car crash’, I was like ok then... months later said Katie and Yasmin were back, they were coveted in burns and there skin was hanging from them, and dripping in blood!