Spooky or not?

[pumpkinbump]

I live in the house I inherited from my late mother with my 2.5 year old daughter and our dog. Mother passed in 2013. I have had experiences (seen) so I wanted to get your thoughts on this.

Up until about a month ago, my daughter didn't really have a bedtime routine as she was so clingy to me and would fall asleep breastfeeding downstairs. I'd then go to bed with her. We co sleep. I started putting her to bed around 8pm on her own as after 2.5 years of no time to myself, I needed it. I was gobsmacked at how well she took to it.

Anyway, in the last week or so she's been saying she's scared of the monsters. I've assured her that monsters aren't real and that she is safe. Then she started saying that monsters are grey. She sometimes gets grey and white mixed up, for instance she will ask for grey chocolate buttons when she means white.

Friday morning she woke early as usual. Pointed to the corner of the room and said shadow, saying she was scared. It's the same corner that has always made me feel uneasy. I told her there was nothing there, there wasn't. She kept repeating there was a shadow. She got off the bed and sat in the middle of the floor with her back to that corner fiddling with my phone as I was about to get out of bed to get dressed. She turned around toward the corner, turned back with a terrified look and said again there was a shadow and jumped up onto the bed. I will also add that since I have been putting her to bed on her own, I have heard loud bangs on 3, maybe 4 occasions which are quite clearly coming from upstairs. I panic because it sounds like she's fallen out of bed, but when I go up, she's fast asleep. This has only happened since she's been going up earlier on her own. On Thursday or Friday night the bang made such a racket, it sounded like the bedroom ceiling had caved in but when I went to check, all was in order.

Looking for opinions and experiences of similar.

🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ve never seen a ghost. I don’t rule them out. But it would be weird for them to hang out in the corner of your daughter’s room. Shadows aren’t uncommon.

Kids get scared of all sort of stuff

One of mine was scared of shadows and one was scared of cobwebs

The more attention they were given over it, the worse they got 🤷‍♀️

My 3 year old does this too. Always the corner of her room. Says monster or scary. I think its pretty normal for their age.

I remember once when my ds was about 2-3 he kept telling me about his new mommy in his room 😱

Maybe put a nice night light in the corner to get rid of any real shadows.

How about a baby monitor / camera setup as well.. you never know, you might get proof of paranormal activity!

Is it a detached house or do you have neighbours attached? I often hear what sounds like people stomping around upstairs when I’m downstairs but I think it must be the neighbours.

Dd once woke up screaming that there was a man in her room. (She would have been about 2.5) her room was cold 🥶. I told the man to go away. She's never done in since.

We live in a house that was built sometime in the late 1800s early 1900s and there hasn't been a man live here for at least 50 years.

Would your dd do monster spray, it can be just water in a spray bottle but it might make the monsters go away.

Children start having nightmares age 2 so I'd say that's whats going on and she's remembering a bad dream. My Dd had a dream about a fox coming in and eating her baby brother. She is 9 now and still talks about it and doesn't like foxes! I don’t think there's anything paranormal going on here but I'm not a believer in all that

I was petrified of the 'ghost' in my room when I was little -- it was my mother's dressing gown, which hung on the back of the door and looked spookily like a human silhouette at night when the room was illuminated by streetlight coming through the curtains, and I was too little to make the connection between the ordinary garment in the daytime, and the shape that genuinely terrified me at night.

Another poster on here apparently freaked out her family by continually talking about 'the man' in one of the rooms when she was a small child. Turned out it was a vaguely human shape where some paint or varnish had flaked off a wall or the underside of a table, but in a low place where it was only visible to a child's eye.

Something that your DD perceives as frightening will be behind this, OP, rather than the supernatural. I grew up in a house where generations of my family had died in a time before dying in hospital was the norm, and I spent my later childhood sleeping in not only the room where my grandfather died, but also his bed.

It could be a ghost but probably isn't. I've seen some things that were not obviously explainable, but that doesn't mean there isn't an obvious explanation.

It's more likely your daughter is picking up the "vibes" from you, reacting to your own unconscious unease about the property in general and that part of it in particular. Especially so since you spend so much time with her in that room.

The best advice is to get an infrared CCTV camera in the room, you can pick them up quite cheaply. Then you can keep an eye on her when she's in bed.

My Dd used to talk about a boy who had a poorly head in her bedroom. She also had another mummy who lived in the walls and came out at night. This went on for months but then one day she just stopped talking about him and stopped being scared.

I went through a phase like that when I was about that age. I don't recall what started it but I did eventually grow out of it. My coping mechanism would be to place a copy of the Beano on my pillow and sleep on that, the rationale being that it meant the first thing I saw on opening my eyes was something friendly. Worked for me. Downside was that I'd sometimes wake up with Baby Face Finlayson printed on my cheek.

Night Terrors?
www.nhs.uk/conditions/night-terrors/

Thank you all. That's certainly made me feel better. It's not a detached house but I know the neighbour sounds if that makes sense. She was okay going to bed last night. I'm sure it's fine.

Wobblysausage, I bet that freaked you out! Blimey.

Stand in the room and ask it to leave you and your DD alone it has worked in past for myself I lived in a town house and something always followed me on second set of stairs so turned around and said that seemed to work .

I did actually, I said I'd tell the shadow to go because it's scaring her. I've been reading on another thread about sage, with anything like that though I'd sorry about angering it. Sounds nuts I know.

I agree with the poster who mentioned putting a lamp in that corner maybe with something cheery like a nice picture or some of her toys.

Children do see things though. In our old house there was this horrible feeling at the bottom of the stairs that me and my husband felt. My daughter was about 2 and one day started taking and laughing at the bottom of the stairs. She also told my husband not to shut the bedroom door as then her friends couldn't come in.
Never got the bottom of it. Went on for a year, then after her sister moved into her room the feeling went and my daughter didn't mention her friends again.
Maybe try the spray or telling the shadows off. Not sure what else.

Hi op,young children have open,clear minds as not yet able to close them to things they see. Hence many children see and play with spirit children or invisible friends.I suspect your dd can see spirit energy in the corner of that room.your options are; contact your local spiritualist church and ask for help,use some white safe to cleanse the room,in doing so please note you must do every corner of the room,every corner of the door and any windows or simply ask the spirit to leave,they may go or may not.ask your guardian Angel for help,they cannot do so until you ask.put a cloak of protection around you both mentally,use some crystas in the house for protection from negativity.
I hope you find the sokution.

Argh that's scary. If there is something here, I don't think it's bad. Could be wrong.

Things that have happened here -

I was about 16, laying on my bed in the same room and saw three sparks of light in mid air near my bed. Almost like if you spark a lighter but no flame.

Bangs coming from within my old wardrobe when I was younger.

Curtains in living room are heavy with tie backs and one evening whilst I was watching TV, the right curtain moved suddenly, but not dropping, it was pulled upwards.

I was making a cup of tea fairly recently, and a little plastic tray that my daughter's treat came in seemed to fall onto the worktop in front of me from above.

My daughter has been scared in the bath sometimes when looking out onto the landing.

About a year ago my daughter used to kiss the air as a sign of affection. I was laying on the sofa with her, she was facing inward toward the wall. All of a sudden she smiled and kissed the air staring at one point half way up the wall.

The dog has followed things with her eyes on occasion.

Dog has also barked into that corner of my bedroom.

I was ironing in the living room in front of the window which looks onto the kitchen and heard a loud jangle, looked around and saw the keys in the patio door swaying.

When I was in high school the old wardrobe had a door open. There was space between a few items of clothing and one of my t shirts started swaying.

I had an eye cream which was in a very heavy bottle. It was on my dressing table. My bf now ex was here at the time and there was a huge bang upstairs. Went to check and the eye cream was on ths floor. It didn't roll off, wasn't near edge. To recreate the noise one of us had to slam it down onto the floor whilst the other listened downstairs.

A lot more has happened but I can't remember if all off the top of my head.

Freaked out! Does it have a spooky vibe? I'm guessing it's not too bad if you haven't put the place up for sale.

I've always felt there was something spooky about it. I don't know if it's in my head. My mother thought there was something too, but thought it was her parents. She said she was sure she used to see something dart across the landing out of the corner of her eye. When i would go out, sometimes she would ask me what I had came back for because she heard the living room door but I hadn't come back. She said she heard my nan's voice calling her on the day of her brother's (my uncles) funeral.

Children do have the ability to see spirits but most lose it the older they get. My one DC has seen our resident ghost on a few occasions they retained the ability to sense and see whereas I sense it but I have just seen something out the corner of my eye and our dogs will just stare at a spot .Sound like you are an empath to if you are sending something.
I know it sounds daft but I would speak in the bedroom .If you are not sensing anything bad the chances are it means no harm. You could ask it to leave if it is a spirit of a previous owner they are probably attached to the house. Have you tried a voice recorder to ask questions to see if you get any response or a k2 meter. It may possibly your mum's parents .We think ours is a previous owner as ours is a Victorian house. But we just bump along together causes us no harm.

Sensing not sending.

Sage your house. There is something there.