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To ask for stories where a child has creeped you out

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UnlawfulBananaPeeler · 23/08/2018 15:20

I’ve two instances;
I worked in a nursery and there was a little girl from a place in Africa, she barely spoke any English . Her dad was actually the leader of his tribe back in her home country so she was somewhat deemed a princess of sorts. She had a very demure heir around her for a 3 year old. She was very grownup. She walked up to a colleuge of mine, placed both hands on her stomach, kissed it and said BABIES. And walked away. Turns out she was pregnant with twins, she found out a couple of weeks later.
About 5 months later she walked up to me, places her hand on my stomach and again announced BABIES , and walked away... lo and behold a couple of weeks later..... (not twins though)

And my own LO went through a phase of asking to see her ‘other mummy’ and telling me she was a nice lady 😳

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UnlawfulBananaPeeler · 23/08/2018 16:18

It creeps me out when people say babies/children have ‘been here before’ but some of these stories make me wonder!

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GrouchyKiwi · 23/08/2018 16:18

My oldest isn't creepy in an unexplained events kind of way, more in a bloodthirsty way.

For example, one time she said people were just dog toothbrushes with meat and skin on top, and she wished she could clean her teeth like dogs do.

DancingDot · 23/08/2018 16:22

EEK!! I'm blatantly place marking, but my youngest asks me almost daily not to die yet.

ciderhouserules · 23/08/2018 16:23

Mum said my brother, at the age of about 2-3, once said to her as they crossed the road'I used to have a car like that when I was old'. Shock

iamthere123 · 23/08/2018 16:24

My cousin was found the other side of two stair gates, at the bottom of the stairs.
"How did you get down?"
"Nanny carried me."
Nanny had been dead 2 weeks at this point and nobody ever solved how she got over the gates.

Iwantaunicorn · 23/08/2018 16:25

I’m glad I’m reading this in the daytime, I’m such a big chicken!

I’m also blatantly placemarking, my kids are too young to creep me out yet 😂

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UnlawfulBananaPeeler · 23/08/2018 16:26

GrouchyKiwi have to say dog toothbrushes made me laugh out loud .

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Guienne · 23/08/2018 16:26

The little girl probably puts her hand on the stomachs of virtually every woman she meets and says "Babies", she's bound to get it right accidentally every so often.

alphajuliet123 · 23/08/2018 16:27

My daughter, overheard talking to our cat:

*childlike singsong voice
Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you
*psychotic demon voice
I just want to watch you sleeping

HortenseTheHousecat · 23/08/2018 16:29

alpha

Grin just sniggered aloud at that. Can totally imagine my dd saying this!

RSAcre · 23/08/2018 16:32

Chum's little boy, aged about 4, met chum's work colleague for the first time & said chattily, out of the blue:

"Are you sad because the tree fell on that man?"

& yup you guessed ... colleague had been widowed some years due to exactly that. Chum had never mentioned this or discussed it anywhere near her boy. Spooky innit.

thenightsky · 23/08/2018 16:33

Up until about school age my DS often used to refer to 'when I used to be a girl'. Often triggered by seeing DD in pretty dresses etc. I used to have to avoid Claires Accessories as he used to get quite upset in there seeing all the pretty hair bobbles that he used to have when he was a girl.

Blobby10 · 23/08/2018 16:34

My middle child, now 20, freaked me out when he was about 3 and started talking about when he was big. Over the next couple of years we had stories of how he had died when he fell out of the boat but he wasn't scared as he sank down in to the water even though he couldn't swim.

We had several years of him crying because he missed his Grandfather - he gave us very vivid descriptions of the things he did with his Grandfather and then with another Grandfather and Grandmother and he talked about 2 very different scenarios/lives.

When he was about 8 he was at MIL house with DH and the other 2 children when he said "who's that man walking up the stairs" and described DH father who had died very suddenly in the house just before we met. The 'man' disappeared at the top of the stairs when he went into a bedroom.

DS has always had the air of being very wise and mature for his age - even now at 20 he sometimes speaks like an old sage instead of a youngster! hes very empathetic and always giving me hugs when he's home Smile

53rdWay · 23/08/2018 16:35

“Mummy, there is a monster in my room and it has my clothes on and my face on!”

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UnlawfulBananaPeeler · 23/08/2018 16:36

Guienne I’d be inclined to think so if 6 other members of staff and I hadn’t worked with her every day and she’s never done it to me before that day , nor had she done it to the non pregnant staff.
One of my friends said I was pregnant before I knew so maybe this little girl had the same sort of vibes from me! Who knows.
Still creeped me out

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Poodletip · 23/08/2018 16:37

When my dd was about 2 she used to talk about her "little ghost" that followed her around. I was starting to get a bit weirded out by it until she said something that made me twig. She meant goat. She had an imaginary pet goat!

JohnnyKarate · 23/08/2018 16:39

When my sister was about 4 she hugged my Grandad really tight and said Goodbye Grandad I won't forget you.

He died that night.

Crunchymum · 23/08/2018 16:41

Oddly enough my 5yo has scared the crap out of my today.

Coming back from the park he said to me

"Something strange happened earlier, daddy played a trick on me"
Basically before we went out he was playing in one of the bedrooms and he was sure he'd seen DP peering in from the hallway (partially hidden by a wall). Of course DP is at work.

He then went on to say he could only see the shadow and just assumed it was daddy as the shadow was "Daddy sized"

He wouldn't have any other explanations I offered. He is convinced there was a man in hall way watching him Shock

BlackInk · 23/08/2018 16:43

Since the age of 3 or 4 my now 6yo DD has always liked stroking peoples' cheeks because 'they feel like cheese' (she loves cheese). She has a recurring dream about slicing off old ladies' cheeks and eating them - old ladies cheeks feel and taste like brie apparently...

Charmatt · 23/08/2018 16:47

When we were first married we lived on a relatively new estate. A boy - about 6 years old - lived 2 doors up, but always acted like he was about 80! When we arrived home from work at night, he'd be pacing up and down the pavement with his hands behind his back. As we got out the car, he would approach us and always say:

'Mmmmm! I trust you have had a productive day?' and tip his head to the side! .....

We referred to him as, 'Old Man Boy'. He didn't have any medical issues but he was always very old for himself.

abacucat · 23/08/2018 16:47

I remember someone on MN saying she could smell if women were pregnant, long before they showed. Maybe that little girl could also smell it?

Fang2468 · 23/08/2018 16:49

When my DD was 3 she told me she liked me more than her other mummy! I said something like, that’s nice but you don’t have another mummy. She said completely straight faced... yes I do, you don’t know her, she died a long time ago in a fire!
Goosebumps didn’t even come close!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 23/08/2018 16:51

Grown up dd was once pushing a little cousin of 3 on a swing, when she started talking quite nonchalantly about her daddy being very angry! and the house burning down. Since the daddy in question is extremely chilled, dd - a mite perturbed - said she was quite sure her daddy would never be angry like that.

Cousin said, equally matter factly, 'No, not that daddy - I mean my other daddy, before.'
Heard later from her mother that she'd often come out with similar, but it stopped by the time she was about 5.

Heard similar from a friend - a relative's little boy used to come out with all sorts of things they thought he couldn't possibly have known at that age. When they asked him how he knew, he'd just say 'Oh, I learnt that when I was here before.'

But again, it all stopped by the time he was 5 or 6.

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TovaGoldCoin · 23/08/2018 16:52

A child in my class a few years ago terrified the shit out of me, and my TA by describing in horrific detail the parade of black clothed strangers who walked through his room at night. He described them quite chattily, their long grey hair, their cloaks "big boots with metal on". Then they started tapping on the windows. He also said he could see his sister (he's an only child) in the mirror, except her skin was peeling off. It was a regular conversation, and he didn't seem bothered. I however, was terrified

WaxOnFeckOff · 23/08/2018 16:56

DS2 (age 2) pointing at the monument we can see from his window in the house we'd just moved into says "there is a very nasty man called the Master that lives in that tower, he is very cruel to the Mistress, I tried to help back when I was a man but he chased me with an axe!."

Whilst it looks like a tower, it's a monument and it has never been lived in but it still...

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