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To think babies/children can see ghosts?!

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HemmieH · 30/07/2017 21:02

Baby DD is always smiling and giggling looking into the corner of my lounge. Sometimes she swings round to look at whatever is over there that I can't see! I don't actually believe in ghosts but this has got me questioning it especially as dear and lovely nanny died when I was 7 months pregnant? Anyone else have a baby who is a bit woo?

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DonaldStott · 30/07/2017 21:05

I think it's because you have lost someone you love in the recent past.

There is no such thing as ghosts

PacificDogwod · 30/07/2017 21:06

Well, DS3 used to only go to sleep lying on her left side, staring in the corner of his room, telling us to shush because otherwise 'Connor/?Corner' would come and that was clearly a v frightening prospect.
It was very disconcerting - we live in an old house and there is every chance various people may have died in here.

Otoh, ghosts don't exist and DCs have great imagination, and babies like the sound of their own voice/laughter.

YABU on the grounds of the non-existence of ghosts.
The death of your nanny no doubt was a sad event and I am sorry you had that added upset during your pregnancy but I really do not think that your nanny is what your baby is seeing/laughing at.

Didiplanthis · 30/07/2017 21:09

I have a 5 yr old who is definitely a bit that way inclined ! Chats away about the people standing by the road side (empty grass verge ) tells me about the sad man in the castle room ( empty ). It's getting less as he gets older. He does have an amazing imagination still . I was the same apparently as a child as was my dad and we are all quite easily spooked by stuff. Dunno what it's all about but my other 2 have never been like it at all !

NicolasFlamel · 30/07/2017 21:09

I think they can but I'm a bit woo. We all live in the family home that I grew up in with my parents and grandparents and my grandad passed away (peacefully) here nearly 20 years ago. My kids have always stared and waved into the corner of the room his bed was when he was unwell.
Most definitely a load of woo to most but I like it, he never met them and it makes me happy to think they can see him.

Sharonkh76 · 30/07/2017 21:09

Soon after my Nan died, my 2 year old nephew said matter of factly while standing in the hallway, 'Nanny is coming down the stairs'. My mum was rather freaked out. Who knows what it meant?

AwaywiththePixies27 · 30/07/2017 21:09

You might want to ask MNHQ to get this moved OP You may get torn to shreds on here.

There's a specific section somewhere on the website for the paranormal I believe.

Sleepthief84 · 30/07/2017 21:10

I as a rule do not believe in ghosts or anything like that. I will admit to being a bit freaked out though by when me and my cousin take our two young DDs (16 & 18 months) to visit DGM in her nursing home. They go absolutely wild, hysterically crying the pair of them whether we take them together or individually the minute we go through the door. We've stopped taking them. It's a locked ward for patients with dementia etc but it's not scary at all, very light, homey and pleasant and no one gets in their faces or anything. The nurse joked the other day that they could 'sense' death and dead relatives waiting with their alive ones until they are ready to move on. Did give me a little shudder.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 30/07/2017 21:11

FWIW OP. I'm with you. DS once sat in his pram on the bus happily chatting and babbling away to an empty seat.

Bus was half empty and his focus was on that one spot.

CocoaLeaves · 30/07/2017 21:16

Yes, DD used to always talk to the same spot on the stairs in our old house, which was 150 years old. She has negative vibes from my parent's Victorian house (as did I when we moved there when I was a child) and at xH's house (the bathroom used to freak her out).

DS on the other hand charges through life at full force, does not stop for anyone, even a ghost, but told me he had to choose from 35 mummies before he was born and I was not shouty so he chose me Hmm

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HemmieH · 30/07/2017 21:18

I don't think I actually think it's a ghost of my nanny it's just a comforting thought if you see what I mean.

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Hippychickster · 30/07/2017 21:19

My DD is 26 now, but when she was a toddler she used to talk about a lady in the room. I never really thought anything of it, until one night she said 'there's that lady, oh she's just gone into the wall.'
Really bloody freaked me out!!!

DoubleCarrick · 30/07/2017 21:24

My brother used to talk about his "other carseat" that he had when he was with his "other mummy"

Weird

MyPatronusIsAUnicorn · 30/07/2017 21:25

I think there could be something in it. When DS was a baby he was always staring at the same corner of the front room and smiling away. When DD was a toddler and we lived somewhere else (not an old house), I was sat on the sofa and she was stood on the floor in front of me when she suddenly turned around and laughed at nothing. I asked her what she was laughing at and she pointed to a spot just behind her and said "the girl."

DixieFlatline · 30/07/2017 21:25

DS3 used to only go to sleep lying on her left side, staring in the corner of his room, telling us to shush because otherwise 'Connor/?Corner' would come and that was clearly a v frightening prospect.

Jesus Christ, PacificDogwod. I am not remotely woo, don't believe in ghosts, but I do enjoy watching horror films despite the good ones making me less than happy to walk around my own house in the dark, and if I needed another reason not to have children, you just gave me one!

HateSummer · 30/07/2017 21:30

I think they see little fairiesGrin. I was quite woo as a child but my kids are all normal. I'm quite glad about that.

MissJC · 30/07/2017 21:31

Me, mum and Dsis who was 4 at the time moved in my my nan when my lovely grandad died a good few years back. Mum and sis shared a bed with nan and mum woke up screaming as she felt someone grab her shins quite forcefully. My nan asked what was wrong and before my mum could answer my sister (who still had her eyes closed but was smiling) said "it's ok Nanna, it's just grandad making mummy jump".

We was all ooooooooooo after that one!

sandgrown · 30/07/2017 21:37

My son used to stare at a corner of the room when he was a baby . We used to joke about him being able to see "the others"

mummymummums · 30/07/2017 21:56

My DD (then 2) was in my bedroom (in our Victorian house) and said something about the lady over there. I asked what lady, and she looked at me like I was mad, and pointed and said THAT one with the hat on.
She was so earnest I don't know what to think!

DesperatelySeekingSushi · 30/07/2017 22:05

A friend of mine would believe so OP. Her DD once said to her re a dead relative "the police came didn't they mummy?"
It was a suicide, the police did attend. God knows where they picked that up from though, it was never ever spoken of (I'm not kidding, a different cause of death was used for years). This toddler was often seen 'chatting' to dead relative.

NotSoNewbie · 30/07/2017 22:14

On a busy tube with dd (18 months or so at the time) on my knee. She suddenly got very excited and said "Look! There's Gandad!" and pointed directly at the only empty seat opposite us. Freaked out a few people near us!
More recently, in a holiday cottage, she kept talking about an old lady who lived there. Apparently the old lady taught her that when it's dark it's "sleeptime" and when it's light it's "uptime"!

arethereanyleftatall · 30/07/2017 22:17

MY dds both did the exact same thing. Staring at just one corner of one room. I always thought it was angels.

Singyourheartout · 30/07/2017 22:27

I honestly think ghost could exist. It not more implausible then anything else. As a kid I honestly saw a few things, I thought it was just me being silly as all children are and my memory was playing tricks on me. Years later it came up in conversation with my mum and she looked a little weird and said at the time I told her the exactly same story at the time. Which really freaked me out.

Jellybean85 · 30/07/2017 22:30

I totally don't believe in this stuff , BUT, my mum tells a story that when I was a baby I used to crawl behind the sofa repeatedly, then as a toddler I would babble away to 'Mrs rogginson' over and over, at about 3 I grew out of it but this phase lasted the best part of 2 years.

They found out several years later that the former owner was an old lady named Mrs Robinson, she spent her final months in the living room, too weak to go upstairs. Her bed was in the corner behind our sofa where I'd sit and chat for hours, go figure Confused

MumIsRunningAMarathon · 30/07/2017 22:37

I'm not sure I believe either

It's always 'on the stairs' or 'in a corner'

Wide0penSpace · 30/07/2017 22:54

When my ds was a baby he occasionally used to react to something I couldn't see. It was the same reaction he'd have to actual people coming into the room, he'd become really animated, smile, wave, follow something moving across the room with his eyes.... there was nothing there though. It used to freak me out but I thought it must have been a friendly thing as he seemed happy to see whatever it was! As he learnt to talk he used to point at a "man" in the room and he'd sometimes talk about what the man wore and where he worked (a shop). It stopped when he was about 4.

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