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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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Justincase87 · 25/08/2018 14:25

My cousin’s son has apparently woken up in a panic before and insisted that they ring our grandad (his great grandad) and having done so have found out that he had had a bad angina attack that night - he’s apparently quite a sensitive soul.

loopylass13 · 25/08/2018 14:34

My aunt and her husband in the 70s. They slept in a double bed and had their son in a cot at foot of bed. Went to bed one night as normal, aunt woke up in middle of morning realising their baby had slept about 5 hours without a peep. When aunt checked on baby there was a half empty baby bottle with formula. She would never ever have given her baby a bottle alone unsupervised. So went to wake up husband to give him a right telling off, only realise his face was covered in ash/soot. When she woke him, he pointed out her ash/soot covered face too. They bed was clean, no reason for ash etc. He never gave baby the bottle either. No idea how baby got it. They believe it was recently departed female relative.

unyummy4amummy · 25/08/2018 14:47

When my DS was 2 he would often ask to go home when out. I always assumed it was because he was tired until he began to repeatedly insist when we were already home that he wanted to go home. I asked him what he meant and he said "my other home". Now 3, he creeped me out this week by telling me about his other mummy. He said that she was dead and I got to be his Mummy because I really wanted him.

It didn't help when I later spoke to his sibling alone. I made a joke and asked if he had another home. He said yes and another Mummy who fell over in the garden, hit her head and then was dead. He said they went to the hospital but then she was dead and he chose me as his Mummy as he knew I would love him Shock.

Mouseville65 · 25/08/2018 15:27

My DD4 was sat on her DG's bed when she passed away.

She constantly tells us Grandma in heaven is with her. If she wakes crying from a bad dream I run up but she's stopped crying and smiling she says 'it's ok Grandmas here', she talks to her like she's sat next to her, tells me DG's excited about coming on holiday with us etc

I don't find it creepy, I like that she has someone watching over her.

Seriousquestion09 · 25/08/2018 15:42

All I can think of is ANNABELLE! 😱

NotTheFordType · 25/08/2018 17:25

My DS used to sleep with his eyes open. A few times if we were all sharing a bed (staying at relatives etc) I'd turn over in the night, and he'd be staring straight through me. Gave me the fucking willies!

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SchadenfreudePersonified · 25/08/2018 20:01

I believe you boopsy. We had guinea pigs, and their "Oooh, goody, it's breakfast-time" song is very distinctive (and eardrum-shatteringly shrill and loud).

No way can you confuse it with mice!

theSnuffster · 25/08/2018 20:03

When my brother was around 3 or 4 he used to talk about when he was here before. Apparently he used to work on the pylons.

Lavalamped · 25/08/2018 20:03

This is in the Sun now

Allchangehere346 · 25/08/2018 20:14

Last night!!

Dh, dd and I were at my parents. Dd (18 months) was really playing up. We had her in the bath, were she kept standing up and messing around.

I asked her why she was playing up and said ‘GHOST’ Confused I said “Dont be silly dd”

She then responded “Ghost, ghost, WOO”

The ‘woo’ was accompanied by her sticking her arms out in a weird zombie/ghost kind of expression. It actually made my blood run cold.
Worst of all though, was when she was shouting, DH snapped ‘pack it in, dd’ and she turned to him and fixed him with this weird expression and pointed finger by her face to him. It’s so hard to describe but it was so out of character, it was such an adult expression, if that makes sense?

I’m a bit woo, but my dh is completely not. It was such a creepy experience, and we can’t seem to logically explain it Confused

WraithBabe · 25/08/2018 20:25

Not really creepy but interesting in the light of Catkin's post, I was telling DS who was about 3 at the time about how he was born by caesarean, how they cut a hole in mummy's tummy to get him out. He told me 'oh yes, and I was crying because it was very cold outside your tummy!', which I guess it would have been!

I don't remember it, but I freaked my own mum out when I told her I didn't like the woman in a brown dress at the top of the stairs who'd told me to go away. Our neighbours then told her there'd always been stories about a girl in a brown dress regularly seen in our house and neighbouring houses (all converted from a single large farmhouse) who'd died in a fire many years before. It's actually scarier to me that I remember nothing about the experience!

cunningartificer · 25/08/2018 21:01

As I was saying goodbye to my four year old going to nursery, he held my face in his hands, kissed me goodbye and said “Thank you, you’ve been a wonderful mother”.

I crossed the road very very carefully that day.

MammyShark · 25/08/2018 21:58

My brother creeped us out when he was three (I was 15). As mum was driving he gasped, pointed to a house and exclaimed "I used to live there!" We said that no, we'd only lived in one house. He shook his head and said "No! I mean with my other family! Before I came to you!" He's grown up now and is completely dismissive of anything remotely woo. He always rolls his eyes when I retell this storyGrin

Another time I was pushing my one year old in a swing at the park. A little girl was being pushed by her mum on the swing next to him. She said "Ahhh look mum, a baby! I can't wait to be a baby again" Her mum said "you won't be a baby again sweetheart, you'll grow up", to which the girl replied " yes mummy but when I'm 70 and I die I'll go back to being a baby, and I can't wait!" That was weird...

Sweepouttheashes · 25/08/2018 22:36

When I was small we lived in a very rural part of Devon, cousins lived down the road. Mum and her sister were at home alone during the day with just us toddlers for company. My cousin and I were both creepy little fuckers! We had a heavy linen chest, I was playing with the kittens our cat had had and remember putting one kitten in the chest, as it was climbing out the heavy lid fell on it, breaking it's neck. I didn't understand it was dead and kept playing with it. I had been quietly playing with it for over an hour when Mum checked on me, to find me flopping it's head back and forth and saying 'why won't you wake up and play with me?' Around the same time, my cousin was working intently on a drawing. My cousin was a super cute preschooler, chubby and rosy with pigtails My aunt asked her what she was drawing and my cute little cousin looked up said in a sing song voice 'wotan mummy, I'm drawing wotan' Wotan' is one of the old Norse gods. Cousins picture was a demonic looking rabbit thing. My aunty framed it and still has it 35 years later, it gives me the shits to look at it!

FuckyDuzz · 25/08/2018 23:36

cunning Grin that made me lol!!

thegreylady · 26/08/2018 07:28

I’ve mentioned this before and it is odd rather than creepy.
Aged about 4 my grandson asked me where I was before I died. When I explained that I hadn’t died yet he told me not to be silly because everyone is somewhere before they are here.

Nanna50 · 26/08/2018 08:08

My eldest DD often spoke of and talked too an imaginary person and his name was the same as a close uncle who had died in tragic circumstances before she was born. I asked her to describe him once and she said he was a kind man and then described his facial disfigurement that she could not possibly have known about. I was definitely spooked.

When I was a child there was a house near us and one day bull horns appeared on the garage door. I was totally terrified and couldn’t look, if I had to pass it I would cross the road and run past in fear for my life. One day they were gone and I was so relieved I was able to walk past and look at the house. It was sold soon after. Years later my DM told me that the house had a poltergeist and the family were advised to use the bull horns to chase the poltergeist away. It worked so they took them down and the poltergeist returned so they sold the house. I was sure it was something to do with me 🤫

UselessTrees · 26/08/2018 08:25

Conversation with DD2 (age 6) last week:

DD2: "I had a strange dream last night and now I have a word in my head."
Me: "Oh yes? What's the word?"
DD2: "Apocalypse."
Me: Confused

Gardengirl33 · 26/08/2018 09:15

On holiday in France in a rented old (15century ish) house, my dsis and I had taken her son, my dneph up to get ready for bed. He was 2.5 yo. He then just said to my sis "Mummy, is ok ok not to have a head?" She and I were super creeped by this at the time, but we laugh at it now!

starbrightlight · 26/08/2018 14:30

Our DS (aged around 3 I think) used to insist his name was Francis.

Our NDN's 3 year old used to chatter away to me, telling me stuff that happened in the past 'when you used to be my mummy'.

She was a dear little girl and I've never forgotten it though it did freak me out. I used to worry what she was saying to her real mum and half expected her mum to come round and accuse me of brainwashing her daughter or something.

FluorescentAdolescent · 26/08/2018 17:26

When I was teaching, there was a child in my class who had become very withdrawn and quiet at school. I thought at first that he was being bullied, but after a meeting with his mother, I found out that he was troubled at school because he could see the children who used to be on the school site years before. As if he was looking at scenes from back in time. He described an old fashioned hospital. Long story short, after a bit of research, I found out that the school was built on an old children’s hospital. The child was too young to have known this.
I left the school shortly after that, so no way I’ll know what happened or if it stopped.

marciagetscreamed · 26/08/2018 19:40

My mum had a sister, aged around six, who used to frequently run away from home (it was the 50's) and was always found at the local graveyard, crying.

Whenever asked what she was doing, she replied "I'm sad because I'm going to come to live here soon". She died soon after in a tragic drowning accident. Sad

Uhohmummy · 26/08/2018 19:41

I love these stories - never managed to get anything half as interesting from my own DC.
starbright what kind of stories did the little girl tell about when you were her mummy?

Xxalisoncxx · 26/08/2018 21:06

My daughter aged about 3, had two imaginary friends called Katie and jasmine. They went everywhere with us, had loads of conversations with them. One day she said Katie and jasmine had died, I thought finally I was sick of hearing about them -about a year later, Katie and jasmine are back they got killed In a car crash, all over, there skin is hanging off them because there burned Shock