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 😳

[OneMoreForExtra]

Love this thread. This one's not a creepy child, but a creepy situation with a child, a bit like the strimmer upthread. My friends little sis fell off a climbing frame at primary school and broke her arm. As the school were calling her parents, her dad pulled up to take her to hospital. He'd walked out of his high powered job a 15 min drive away in time to arrive just after the accident. He still can't explain how he knew to go.

[sashh]

Charmatt

A friend's son used to read a lot of older children's books. Older as in written years ago, not for older children, CS Lewis, E Nesbit. He developed a really good but slightly Victorian / Edwardian vocabulary.

[TooManyPaws]

Dad was a bit woo. In WW2, his ship had been torpedoed and he woke up in the life boat in the morning and told everyone they would be picked up before noon; they were sailing as a fast independent and were well off the main shipping routes but they were. As a child, I was flying from the Middle East to the UK for school; he woke up in the night and phoned the airline to ask what was wrong with the flight - we'd had to land at Damascus with engine trouble. When I was at uni, I had just been admitted to the hospital when my parents turned up; Dad had had another feeling of GO NOW.

[ArmySal]

My just turned 4 year old told me that there was a little boy in her bedroom who'd died in a fire, a week after we moved into our very old house.

[Clawdy]

When DS was about seven, he was poorly with a bad cough and cold, and came into our bed. He couldn't sleep, and turned to me with wide, horrified eyes and said " I've got no name! " Even though he was probably a bit delirious, I've never forgotten it.

[Twoweekcruise]

When my, now 12 year old ds was 3 he had an imaginary friend. She was called Millie and he would babble away to her all of the time, he said she was always with him, at home, in the car etc. When I asked him what she looked like he said she had a brown hat, a long brown dress and brown lace up boots. One day we had popped to a nearby town. There is a big old church on the way out of this town. As we drove by ds pointed to the graveyard and calmly said ‘that’s where Millie lives’ and I was like

[MalcolmsBrokenWalrusMoneybox]

My mum died a couple of days before dd2 was due. When I went into hospital, dh and dd1 visited. Dd1 was eating something. She offered some to me, some to Dh and then turned round and offered it to empty space.

About a month later we'd come back home from interring my mum's ashes. Dd1 repeated something urgently that sounded like "mummy day" or "mummy die". We couldn't work out what she was trying to say but it made my blood run cold even though it doesn't sound like much!

A couple of years later, dd1 asked "Where's (name that sounded like my mum's, like Joanne v Joan)". I asked "who's Joanne?". She pointed to dd2 and said "that's Joanne".
And dd2 once told me that when I had been a baby I had played with her and I had loved her. Anxious to hear more, I tried to prompt her without seeming too eager and she mentioned something about crocodiles on the carpet and that was the end of that!

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

‘you have very nice skin. I want to wear it‘

Her surname wasn't "Gein" was it?

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

Christ Horrordoeurvres - that is an awful tale!

I would never cross the doors.

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

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.

Don't spoilt it for me Guienne.

I likes a bit of "woo".

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

She has a recurring dream about slicing off old ladies' cheeks and eating them - old ladies cheeks feel and taste like brie apparently.

Your own fault for feeding her fancy cheeses BlackInk

No child ever wanted to eat people that taste like Dairylea.

[fanomoninon]

Ds at around 4-5 would be terrified every bedtime by 'the bad lady'. His room was at the end of a windowless from the front to the back of the house corridor and he'd say he could hear her coming down the corridor slowly, and then she would come in and look at him, and be angry with him. If he woke in the night and needed calming, and he'd look up the corridor and say he could hear her coming . In the end, we made a 'magic potion' in a plant spray bottle, sprayed it round the doorway and told her that she couldn't come back, and she couldn't come into her room. Took a few applications but then she didn't.

I never did like that long dark corridor after that though...

[toothtruth]

My 3yo son absolutely shits me up by going on about a 'shadow' that lives in his bedroom. I just laugh like its a funny childhood game but honestly it makes me terrified haha... 'mummy theres a spooky shadow in my room I cant go up there, go and see'.... theres never anything there when I check but I always imagine when im going up the stairs, that ill open the door and therell be some nighttmare creature....

Hes also just learnt the word 'dead' from somewhere... obviously he has no idea of what it means despite me trying to explain when he asked... so now he just says it randomly about things... when in the supermarket 'mummy am I dead?'

[Hasbro]

DN goes to a nursery where all the dc in their class speak their own language. Only they understand eachother, the nursery staff do not understand it at all. Its goes something like,

Child 1 "Moko Maka?"
Child 2 (long pause ) "Maka!"
Child 3 (Laughing)"Maka liki aka?" (smiles slowly)
Nursery staff

Dsis and BIL are completely freaked out.

[Calledyoulastnightfromglasgow]

Loving this thread....

I do think very young children see stuff we don’t. Our nursery was in a 1930s bungalow and had a certain odd feeling in one of the rooms. Two of the little boys would regularly point to “the man watching us” or would be asked who they were talking to, to reply “just the man”

[cmlover]

hasbro that's really really freaky

[PlaydoughBarbershop]

My younger brother (when he was about 3) had an imaginary friend that lived up the chimney called 'Sally Wire'. One day, my mum was messing about with me and my DB and put a tea towel around her face and spoke in a scary old lady voice. My DB laughed innocently and said 'Mummy you look like my Sally Wire! She is watching us and said she really hates PlaydoughBarbershop...' freaked me out for ages! I was only 6.

[PlaydoughBarbershop]

53rd
Oh my days!!! That is bloody terrifying!

[SendYouUpInFlames]

My sister (4) moved into a new house with our mum.
-confusing I know, I'm the eldest, youngest are twin girls 4)


She was taking her to bed and put her in bed and my sister said in a very deep scary voice

"mummy, that man in the corner doesn't like you"

The next day she was cuddling my mum, she looked at my sister and my sister was zoned out staring into space, she then went on to say

"Mummy, the man said he's going to kill you"


🤔😫😫😫😫

[DoubleNegativePanda]

When my mom was pregnant with me, I had a twin that was miscarried. When I was about a year old, she miscarried again. My sister was born when I was three.

When my sister was about three/four years old she suddenly out of the blue said to my mom "I kept trying to come before, but you weren't ready for me."

[Hasbro]

cmlover -DN brought the language home and would really wind up his DN (9). He came to spend some time with me some weeks later. After a whole afternoon of not listening to anything i said and tearing round the house like a canon, I decided to play a little game on him.

DN:Aunty Hasbro can i have ice cream?
Hasbro: MOKO!
DN: (backs away).
DN: I want cbeebies!
Hasbro: MAKA!
DN: (Steam coming out of his ears!)

[downinthejunglee]

@Hasbro

[Laiste]

Ooh OneMoreForExtra the dad turning up at school before being called ...

has reminded me of the time i ran all the way from the end of the back garden to the front door and flung it open just as my DDs boss was raising her hand to knock the knocker. (amusing in hindsight as her hand was left hanging in mid air). She had come to tell me DD1 (about 15 at the time) had had an accident at the stables (where she was working) and boss was whisking her off by car to the docs and wanted to let me know en route.

I remember downing tools and just hotfooting it down the garden and practically running through the house to get to the door with no idea why. DDs boss would have still been driving the car when i started my dash.

(out of interest DD was fine after a couple of stitches in her leg - she'd impaled her thigh on a lowered tractor fork! )

[GirlsBlouse17]

Enjoying the spooky stories. Need to read some more now!

[DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops]

I was slightly older but I came home from school aged 12 and asked my mum if everyone was ok, I'd been fretting all afternoon because I could feel that someone in the family had been taken very ill. I was v insistent- no idea who, just that someone had. Mum told me not to be silly but 20mins later the phone rang & it was my aunt saying that my Grandad had had a heart attack!

They were living overseas so although he was old I hadn't seen him recently to judge his health but he had no known cardiac issues and was usually considered as healthy as one can be for 90!

Both parents slightly woo. DM is convinced she & I have lived past lives (and that I possibly died horribly and that she saw the Blitz). They are both convinced that my dads old business partner came back to haunt us when he died. He lived with us (no relatives) before spending 2 years in a nursing home when he was ill. Parents both, independently of each other reported hearing him humming, smelling his cigars and hearing his shuffle walk. He'd not got on with my mum, so she told "him" to bugger off and it all stopped. It could have been a trick of the mind but they'd had 2 years to stop hearing & smelling him about the house before that.

Dad used to have a recurring nightmare about a huge mast with rigging falling on him, as a very little boy. He grew up in an area strongly associated with Lord Nelson! He also freaked himself out by looking at a box outside the heads study at a school he was interviewing at. He says he suddenly knew it was from the wood of french church doors from a church destroyed in ww1. When he was a pupil he found out that this was the case. He believes in inherited memory.

My best friend also freaked my mum out by "knowing" our new house, from when she'd been there before but not as herself. Similarly I surprised my dad by pointing out his nephew that he hadn't seen in 23 years & that I'd never met, walking up the crem drive to my uncle's funeral. I could only see his back view at the time.