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Things your children have said...

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Midsommar · 15/03/2020 22:52

...that have chilled you to the bone.

Following on from a Ouija board thread I saw earlier today, I'd love to know what creepy things your children have said? About invisible friends, seeing ghosts, experiences from a past life...You get the picture!

Am I being unreasonable to try and take your mind off the Coronavirus to ask for your spooky tales...I hope not! :)

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Whatagreytdoggo · 15/03/2020 22:54

Ooh i love threads like this! 😁

Icanflyhigh · 15/03/2020 22:55

We have a ghost dove in our house.
All 3 DCs have seen it independently.of each other and told me about it and the one that chilled me the most was the little boy I child mind who has just turned two, he stood in my living room pointing to the far end and shouting woof woof. We live in a cul de sac with no passing pedestrians etc and he isn't tall enough to see out of the window!!
I won't lie, poo came out!!!

Icanflyhigh · 15/03/2020 22:55

A ghost DOG not dove!!

Whatsername177 · 15/03/2020 22:58

This isnt spooky at all, but dd3 was listening to 'Let it go' from frozen earlier. Dd8 was sat reading. 'A kingdoooom of isolaaaaation' warbles dd3, followed quickly by dd8, without so much as looking up from her book, dryly quiping 'I think you mean a kingdom of self isolation'. Grin

FoxtrotOscarPoppet · 15/03/2020 23:01

My 2 year old did this to me the other night. I was tucking her in and she looked over my shoulder, pointed behind me and said “what’s the lady called?”. I asked what lady and she looked past me again and said “what’s the lady’s name?”. Where she was pointing there was just a wall and a window with the curtains closed. No pictures, etc that she could have been looking at.

As I said goodnight again she pointed towards the landing and said “what’s the man called?”.

She didn’t seem upset or alarmed but it put the hair up on the back of my neck. Really hoping it was her imagination.

It was just my luck that DH had already left for a 12 hour night shift. 🤦‍♀️

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 15/03/2020 23:08

When ds 2 was around a year and a half, he was playing in my room while I was doing the dishes (bungalow), no one else was home, he ran through howling and absolutely petrified saying a lady, a lady. I picked him up and toon him back into my room and he would not let me take him near the corner he had been playing in. He wouldn't even look at it. He was so upset, it was heartbreaking. Strangely, when we first moved into that house ds1 was about 2 and also told me there was a monster in that corner Confused. Not long after that, I saw something I just can not explain and couldn't stay in the house myself for quite a while. Unfortunately dp worked away a lot then and I used to get my Jun to come and stay with us Blush

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 15/03/2020 23:08

Mum, not Jun

FoxtrotOscarPoppet · 15/03/2020 23:12

Iminaglasscaseofemotion 😱

Phoenix76 · 15/03/2020 23:36

My eldest dd (now 6) has always been a little “different “. When she was a toddler she would often wave, in the house, to someone. When I gently asked “ who are you waving to?” she would answer “the little boy” in an exasperated way like “ why can’t you see him?”. Not long after she told me that when she was in the castle in the sky the man asked her which family she wanted to live with she chose ours and said when she came out she was happy to see she got me. I put this down to childhood imagination (even though the hairs on the back of my neck stood up). Over a year ago in the early hours she was screaming in the middle of her room and when I asked her what she was talking about she said “ do you see them?” Apparently there were 2 ghosts at the top of the stairs. We endured a total nightmare after that, refusing to sleep upstairs on her own, saying “you grown ups think you know everything but you don’t, I know what I saw and I wasn’t dreaming or imagining it” she was only 5. Anyway we put up with it for many months until I confided in the school (I was worried about her sleep), they were amazing and sent a mental health nurse around to the school. That lovely lady spent hours with her assessing what could be causing this (I was worried this could be a reaction to something that had traumatised her that I didn’t know about) the nurse called me and said “I’ve been doing this job over 20 years and I can’t believe what I’m about to say, I’ve tried to catch her out and my honest opinion is she did actually see these ghosts” 😱 well I’m leading an interesting life!

littlejalapeno · 15/03/2020 23:45

When everyone is already anxious and hyping up everyone’s fears about COVID, why are you starting a thread like this? There have been a few in the last week and I just don’t get it. Why add extra fear and “tingles on the back of the neck” to the very real fear that is causing people to fight each other in supermarket car parks? It’s a bit sick tbh. Everything’s out of control and also let’s talk about how actually ghosts are real and hiding under your bed too wooooo. Boggles my mind and I don’t think that much of you at all OP

SummerBaby2020 · 15/03/2020 23:50

@littlejalapeno why does everything need to be about the virus??? If you don’t like the thread then don’t read it no one is forcing you to! Why not talk about something else it’s a free for all forum?? You boggle my mind and I’m sure the op doesn’t think much of you either Hmm

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 15/03/2020 23:56

@littlejalapeno what on earth are you banging on about? This has nothing to do with coronavirus, and I don't think this thread, which is about creepy things kids have said, will make and difference to the way people are feeling about what's going on in the world right now.

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 15/03/2020 23:59

@Phoenix76 ffs I'm not sleeping tonight now! 😂

littlejalapeno · 16/03/2020 00:12

Really @Imina You can’t connect one kind of fear mongering to another? Well done for your snappy put down though @SummerBaby2020 you sure told me! Hmm

BrokenMumTeenDD · 16/03/2020 00:20

"You're my new mummy, not my real mummy"
"daddy didn't mean to kill me, I saw them all cry when I swam out of my body"
& much more of the same ilk. Started very early, stopped by about 6, forgotten by about 8

cherrytree63 · 16/03/2020 00:22

Not very spooky but when my DD was about 5 she used to talk about when she lived in Japan and swam with dolphins.
She also scared me when we were queuing in the supermarket by asking in a very loud voice why the lady in front of us smelt like a drain Grin, I thought I was going to get thumped!

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Midsommar · 16/03/2020 05:26

@littlejalapeno well...I don't think much of you either Confused

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Midsommar · 16/03/2020 05:27

Thanks for your creepy stories PPs! Love anything scary Grin

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MonaLisaDoesntSmile · 16/03/2020 06:33

I didn't have kids back then so a dog story lol. My dog used to LOVE going upstairs in our house. We tried to keep him downstairs to keep his hair away from the beds at the very least, but he'd always sneak up and try to wake us up/ go on the balcony and bark on elderly people (downstairs had the exit on the opposite side as we were in a hill, so not much view)/sleep on our beds. Plus he hates cats and our neighbours cats always try to come to our balcony on the first floor and he used to chase them off like if there was no tomorrow. And then one day he saw something in the staircase... He started shaking and barking like mad and howling and then squeaking. We couldn't get him to calm down. He was totally fixated upon a point on the staircase landing like if someone was there. That was five years ago and he has not gone up the stairs ever since!!!

bluebell94 · 16/03/2020 06:39

When my cousin was around 3/4 he had an imaginary friend 'John'. Chatted away to him at my grandparents house, no one thought anything of it.
Then he said about John smoking a funny thing and he mentioned he wore a brown suit. DGM went white - her DF was called John, always wore a tweed suit and smoked a pipe... freaky!

lordofthefence · 16/03/2020 06:55

When my ds was little he would sit on his bed and talk to the lampshade on the ceiling.

One day I walked passed his room and was certain I saw the lampshade swaying. There were no windows open and ds was no where near it.

Did send a shiver down my spine.

Yogafairy · 16/03/2020 07:09

This always makes me sound like I've made this up but anyway, when my dd was 3 she had an imaginary friend that she called Herro. Wherever we went Herro was with us and she often spoke to Herro in her bedroom.

We went to Bodium castle for the day and dd seemed a bit distracted but nothing out if the ordinary.

When it came time to leave dd didn't want to go but we got into the car and started to drive home, 5 minutes into the drive dd started to talk about 'the boy'. She said the 'the boy' says he hopes you have an accident.Confused

We asked her about the boy and she said he was at the castle then she just went quiet for the rest of the journey.

Back at home whenever she was sad she would say I like Herro but the boy is mean. I don't like him. This went on for a while where she was getting more and more fearful until I went into her room and asked the boy to go and leave her alone (she wasn't there at the time) and we never heard about him or Herro again

That is not the only weird ghostly thing that she has said by far but they are slowing down now that she is 7. I think the last one was about 18 months ago.

littlejalapeno · 16/03/2020 07:18

@Midsommar I’m sure I’ll manage some how.

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 16/03/2020 07:52

@littlejalapeno no, I don't feel anymore scared about coronavirus because of this thread, infact it's a good distraction.

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Midsommar · 16/03/2020 07:56

@imina thank you! Love reading these and I agree it's a good distraction Grin

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