To ask for your creepy child stories

[Bigmango]

Feeling inspired by the haunted badge thread. Does anyone have any other creepy child stories? Messages from dead relatives etc? My daughter is only two so nothing as yet but I’m fairly sure my dog sees ghosts or is just more mental than we even thought.

My daughter used to play with a little girl in her room. I used to listen to her talking etc through the door. One day I asked who her friend was. She said her name is Poppy. I said oh. And what does Poppy look like. She said she looks like me silly. We are twins. I lost her twin who we were going to call Poppy. I have never told her this though.

@Seeleyboo 😵

And I’m very sorry for your loss x

Bloody hell tho!!

DS1 was about three and kept telling me about ‘skimble’. Skimble lived inside the walls apparently and only came out at night but DS explained you could hear him in the daytime if you listened to the scratching.

He was so sincere and included so much detail that it was quite unnerving. However as DH reminded me that evening we lived in a very old house with walls one brick thick so there was no way anything could be in the walls.

When my dd was two she told me what it was like being born. She said it was dark, then it became light, she was crying then she saw my face.

There's a thread on Chat about reincarnation atm - creepy child stories included

DD (now 16) has been telling me this story for years.

Apparently when she was 5, on her birthday, she was in her bedroom playing when I shouted to her to come down to have her birthday cake. She came out of her room and saw a man at the top of the stairs. But she described him as being like a dark shadow with indistinct facial features. She sort of edged around him and came down the stairs.

I don't remember this at all, but apparently she told me there was someone upstairs, I went up and checked and saw no-one, so we just got on with eating the cake.

We don't live in that house any more. I always felt safe there and although I sometimes got a feeling there was 'something' there when there wasn't, I wasn't scared and it didn't feel threatening. But DH says he did sometimes feel uncomfortable there.

Please will you link to the haunted badge thread?

I woke up one night to hear my daughter singing loudly in her room. I went to tell her to go back to sleep and she was peacefully sleeping already. That scared me for some time.

one of my dc had an imaginary friend called will. they could describe the clothes they were wearing, sounded like they were about 7 and will told DC lots about his family, the war etc. My DC was only 3 at the time. we moved house and area from town to remote rural. within a couple of weeks DC came in crying because will had told her she didnt need him any more and he was going to go and look after some new children. we walked down our field and stood at the gate to wave will off. some of the details will told my DC were horribly unnerving about daddies going off and mummys cooking and no meat to eat etc. i made a note of some of the stuff and spoke to my DC about it when they were a teen. DC had other imaginary friends - the kind who want an extra plate and sweets - so just mentioned it and DC said that whilst the other friends were imaginary will wasnt and DC knew that will was different. i didnt used to believe in woo but when will was also able to tell DC my nickname for my very long dead nanna and also about the pinafore she always wore (made of childrens clothes scraps) that was me beliveing.

On the day my great grandad died, we went back to my nans house for the wake.

Apparently I refused to go upstairs to the toilet as “grandad was standing on the landing and wouldn’t let me upstairs”

Freaked everyone out

we were visiting relatives... maybe 10 of us sat in a room. tea chat etc
my 2 yea told was going round the group asking them to clap one at a time she pointed to a space and said man clap.
no one there .
she got upset and kept asking him to clap.
all a bit weird

My dd used to go on about "the orange lady" when she was around 2 in a house we used to live in...always in her bedroom orange lady this orange lady that nothing sinister. And thought it was strange but why orange?
Anyway when we moved a few months later and opposite us there was a woman who was always dressed in green horsey type get up my daughter referred to her as the "green lady"freaky as obviously the "orange lady" had orange clothes on.
The old house didn't look over anyone was on a street with only 2 houses and her bedroom was at the back she only referred to her being in her bedroom.
When I was young about I saw a ghost of a dog...I was in bed and it walked down the landing and sat at my door I wasn't dreaming and I was petrified and pulled the covers over my head. Found out the people that lived there before had had 2 dogs of the same breed.

And strangely enough years later as an adult I got talking to my old next door neighbour who was an adult now too...got talking about ghostly goings on at our houses she said to me did you ever see the wolf dogs....the dog I had seen was an Alsatian so could easily have been mistaken by a child for a wolf I suppose. There was a lot more ghostly goings on there but that's for another long post!!

Ds is is only 19 months so none yet, though this morning when I asked where daddy was (in bed in the same room pretending to be asleep) he kept saying "gone"... for a minute I did consider how terrible it would be if DH had "gone" so I checked his pulse, much to DH amusement.

Oh and in the house we are in now my daughter who was 3 when we moved in went on and on about a "ghost hand" a lot of stuff got blamed on the "ghost hand" she is a quiet and well behaved kid but tho he were happening like tubes of tooth paste everywhere, once my vintage cabinet door was ripped in half and it was the ghost hand!! One day she turned round and said to me mum the ghost hand has gone now and no more mention!!!

When DS was 2 or 3 he started referring to 'when I was a girl'. If we were out shopping with his big sister he would handle girls' clothes and accessories in shops and say things like 'I used to have one like this when I was girl' and look a bit sad.

He stopped it gradually after he started school though. Doesn't recall it at all now he's a young adult.

He has grown up to be a very gentle soul, some might say almost feminine in his ways with no signs of male entitlement.

Please link to ghost badge thingy!

@Seeleyboo

Loving this thread

My DD was convinced that we used to live in a white house. She was 4 at the time and we had lived in our house for 3 years before she was born. she also said that her "other mummy and Daddy" weren't as kind as we were. All very strange and unsettling.

Many years ago when I was four years old my eight year old brother passed away. When I grew up my mother told me that she used to hear me playing with him and that sometimes I would ask her to stop him jumping up and down on my bed. I asked her if she had felt unsettled or scared but she said that it actually brought her comfort.

@robinsinthespring aah that's actually brought a tear to my eye.

In our old house, dd was in the back kitchen making a sandwich. She turned around on hearing footsteps and saw her younger db open the fridge door. She walked past him and rejoined us in the living room... me and both of her brothers. The one she was convinced she'd just seen in the kitchen had been snuggled next to me in all that time. It wasn't my other son (taller, different hair colour) as he too hadn't left the room.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3798666-My-child-has-a-badge-that-sees-ghosts

I saw a ghost when I was about 5, my grandmother had died the day before and at the time I didn't really realise the significance. I didn't tell my parents though, not for several years, 5-year-old me knew how upset they were and didn't want to upset them any more.

When DS1 was 3 we lived in a Victorian terrace. One Sunday morning he was snuggled in bed between me and DH - I was half asleep and I could hear him having a converstion with someone. DH was sound asleep. I asked who he was talking to and he said "The lady in the green dress with hair like Lisa" (our childminder). I asked where she was "By the window." And I asked if she had a name - he said one (and I can't remember what it was) that wasn't made up but so unusual that I'm convinced he'd never heard it.
It was so spooky!