To ask for stories where a child has creeped you out

[UnlawfulBananaPeeler]

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 😳

[BuffysFavouriteStake]

Her, not here.

[BuffysFavouriteStake]

Did have an occasion once when I was in my early 20s, and going through horrible anxiety.

Was having a meal in a pub, really worried about my little dog for some reason, and this little boy of maybe 4-6ish looked straight at me and asked his mum 'mummy, why is that lady screaming?' She said something I didn't catch in reply, and he said 'no, in her head.'

Still wonder about that...

[MyShinyWhiteTeeth]

I know a family and the whole lot of them are a bit odd.

The children are now grown up and seem more 'normal' but they still have odd beliefs and say weird stuff. The new grandchild does a lot of the stuff I remember their parents and uncles and aunts doing.

They all seem to have some level of precognition, very good card playing skills and too much good luck. They are very intelligent and I assume this is partially responsible for it.

[MiroUnicorn]

My DF woke up to her 5 year old DD sobbing in her room. DF asked her what had happened..what's wrong. Her DDmanaged to choke up "He's dead. Uncle X is dead." And continued sobbing. My DF managed to pacify her and they went back to sleep. A couple of hours later, around 6am, my DF received a call from her in-laws. They told her that her DB-in-law had committed suicide that night! They had found him just a few minutes before they called her :-0

[BadHairDyeDay]

When my DD was about 2 I was tucking her into bed in the dark. She looked towards the top corner of the room and then says "mummy did you see that Angel?". She was so calm about it - me, not so much! 😳

[bushtailadventures]

When my dd was 8 her beloved great grandmother died in the early hours of the morning. When she woke up we had to tell her as gently as we could, she said she already knew, her great grandmother had been to see her to say Goodbye in the night.

I have to be honest, I found it quite comforting in a way, if there was anyone my DGM would have wanted to say Goodbye to it would have been dd, they had a very close bond.

[checkingforballoons]

Mine is from when I was in the very early stages of pregnancy so we hadn’t told anyone. I had taken on a second nannying job for an afternoon a week a few weeks before I fell pregnant, so didn’t know the children very well. One afternoon the 3 year old girl started talking about the baby in my tummy, and asking if the little boy in my tummy would like some of her sweets. Yep, I had a boy!
Also DS (aged 4) has taken to holding my face, looking at me very earnestly and saying ‘I’ll never forget you Mummy’. That’s a bit worrying

[Pecano]

My niece looked at me very seriously when we were in Tesco and said “just so you know, you’re not going to die today”

Her tone of voice implied it might be the next day though 😂

[Laiste]

Also DS (aged 4) has taken to holding my face, looking at me very earnestly and saying ‘I’ll never forget you Mummy’. That’s a bit worrying grin

DD (aged 4) (of the man in the wall story upthread) takes my face in her hands and says 'I'll love you for ... 20 years. OK?''

Why thank you DD! I'm hoping for a little longer ...

[FrangipaniBlue]

When DS was a baby if he started fratching we could often hear someone over the baby monitor saying "shhhhh shhhh there there" and he would go back to sleep without us having to go to his room.

We never told anyone because we were a bit unsure if we really could hear what we thought or not......... but one night MIL was babysitting and when we got home she was white as a sheet and couldn't get out the house fast enough. It was only the next day in daylight she told us she'd heard someone over the baby monitor clear as day talking to DS!

Fast forward to him being about 18months give or take, at the stage of sometimes walking and sometimes crawling and only babbling with odd words.

We were in my Nans house and he cruised over to the sideboard, pulled himself up, pointed to a picture of my DM and clear as anything said "grandma".

My DM died 5yrs before he was born and at that stage we hadn't talked about her as he was too young.

Guess we know who was soothing him back to sleep

[WhatWouldCoachBombayDo]

Oh my some of these stories are freaking me out 😱

[Flashingbeacon]

I was 3 when my grandad died. We were a close family, lived nearby and saw each other most days. I was the baby of the family and general a happy easy going child. The day he died I refused to leave his house and had a massive tantrum, very unusual for me. Mum had to carry me out. He died in the night, no one told me because they didn’t know how. On the third day the minister phoned my house. Mum was on the phone and my dad came in and asked where Mum was. I said “it’s the dr about grandad, he wants things moved on because it’s all taking too long.” Weird, not least because I’d never met the minister but he looked like my grandads dr. And the minister was whinging because my family wanted to delay the funeral so family from oversees could come.
I don’t remember it but Mum swears to this day that she didn’t talk about any of it in front of me.
And I’m still pretty good at telling when people are seriously ill rather than poorly.

[cmlover]

horror you win hands down. that's given me chills.

[Dljlr]

Late MIL was very spiritual and woo. The day after she died I was sat at road works idly wondering in my mind if she'd send some sort of sign from the other side, when 3 year old DS suddenly pointed from the backseat, stared straight ahead and said in an eerie voice "Mum... I see a light."

I near shat myself and whispered back "Where?". Car behind us honked. DS was right, he could indeed see a light; a big green one that said I could go. V. disappointing.

[UnlawfulBananaPeeler]

This isn’t one of mine it’s one of my dads, not exactly a child freaking him out but I was apparently about 3 and in the garden with my grandad who was gardening, my dad was in the house making tea and he said he remembers just a cold feeling and the words go go go being shouted in his head and he went out to the garden because it was too intense to ignore , my grandad wasn’t paying attention talking to the neighbour with the strimmer in his hand and finger right on the trigger just about to pull. I had placed my fingers in the 4 holes of the cover of the strimmer, just as my grandad pulled it my dad had ran out of the house and snatched me up. I was so close to losing my 4 fingers. My dad isn’t woo in the slightest but he said he can’t help but think something was watching over me

[downinthejunglee]

[ThatLibraryMiss]

My DD had been tucked up in bed asleep for a few hours one evening when she appeared in the living room, very distressed, begging me to tell all the people in the room to go away and stop telling her horrible things. It didn't help at all that I'd been to see The Sixth Sense the previous week.

It turned out to be her first night terror. She didn't remember anything about it the following day, but I certainly did.

[ScarlettDarling]

Blackink, that's hilarious!

[Chocolate50]

When my DD was very young, just started talking, she used to say 'when I was a boy....' all of the time, and even described toys she used to play with, she would not hear anything different, freakyyy…

oh and...
Once we had just got on an aeroplane and this little kid shouts 'THE PLANE IS GOING TO CRASH & WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE'. My DS said 'I sure hope that kid isn't psychic'. Luckily he wasn't, but was a moment that shut the whole plane up for a moment there!

[hamburgers]

I have one where I am the creepy child..

My mum told me when I was about 3 years old my grandfather was in hospital in a coma. Apparently I came to him flanked by 2 angels and told him to wake up and everything would be ok. He later woke from his coma.

We were living on opposite sides of the world and I didn't even speak his language.

[Stickybunfighting]

Dry I used to feel like that, still do to this day. I only put 2+2 together when my dad mentioned a few years ago that I used to say 'I want to go home' and really really cry, only made worse by my parents telling me we were at home. It's tiredness for me, normal need to go to bed tiredness I'm fine with, but if I get a sudden wave of tiredness I always feel really upset and like I want to go home- even if I am in my house that I love I get a gut wrenching feeling of wanting to be home that I could literally cry over as a 30 year old woman! I think it means I want to be in my bed feeling safe but I was about 25 before I realised it and previously I'd often thought it meant I wasn't happy where I was living and needed a 'home' to be properly at home in. It's hard to describe but perhaps try opening your arms and telling him to come 'home' for a hug on the sofa or in bed and a bit of quiet time. I could be way off but it might help him figure it out.

[Duskqueen]

When I was about 7, I told my friends that I was haunted by my Nanna, it wasn't until I was 16 that my DF told me that his DM my Nanna said no matter what she would always be with me.

[KERALA1]

We stayed in a new hotel in a very old part of Dublin. Dd was 6 and talked very matter of factly about the poor thin girl with a shawl that came into her room. We said it was just a dream but she was adamant, no it wasn't a dream she was awake and she came the second night too. She's never said anything like that before or since.

[Lavende]

When I was pregnant with my youngest DD my DD2 was 5. I had told no one yet, very very early stages, when she walked up to me, lifted my jumper and said “can I see the baby?” 😐

Another time my DS was sleepwalking and he walked into my room and just stood next to my bed staring at the wardrobe. I asked what he was looking at and he said “why is that man staring at you?” I said “WHAT MAN??” And he said “standing next to the wardrobe”. Then he just turned round and went back to bed. I’ve never got over that 😫

[anxiousanxiousness]

A few weeks ago, DD1 (4) said out of nowhere “if all of our blood came out of our body and all of our skin came off, we’d be gone for ever”