To ask if your child has seen a ghost?

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This morning as I came down the stairs my DD asked me who was the person who just walked past her into the downstairs loo....
She said they wore all black and she only saw the side of their face.
Needless to say I got goose bumps.

I just wanted to know if anyone has had their children tell you something that's freaked you out a little...

Oh god, I’d be moving house on the basis of that to be honest 😂

When my (now 18 year old) ds was around the age of 3 he would regularly chat away to someone. When I asked him who he was talking to, he would always nonchalantly and simply reply, ‘it’s Mary’.

He would often ask ‘Can’t you see Mary mummy?’, I’d say no, what does she look like and he’d always say she was a young girl wearing a brown floppy hat, a long brown dress and lace up boots, he was very descriptive.

I just assumed she was his little imaginary friend until one day we were driving through the next village to us, which has a large church and graveyard. Ds looked out of the window, pointed to the graveyard and said ‘You know my friend Mary? That’s were she comes from!’.

Still to this day I have no idea what that was all about. Ds has no recollection of Mary at all.

Yeah house would have been put up for sale by dinner time

My son always used to tell me he was speaking to my nan when he used the downstairs toilet, he was about 2/3. He'd never met her as she had died before he was born and I'd never spoke about her because he was so little. Thought it was quite nice but it creeped me out too.

Oooh a love a bit of woo, the only strangeness I remember was a conversation where my eldest said he saw his future self wearing purple trousers in next doors bushes and his brother said he was so lucky as he'd never seen his future self. 😂 As much as I believe my some kids do talk absolute tosh

My DD is adamant her bedroom is haunted. Ghost is tapping, hissing and chattering the night away apparently

When my son was around 4 years old, I drove past my grans old house. He’d never met my granny and it was the first time I pointed out the house. After I’d pointed it out, he said he knew it was because he remembered the wash house. There was an external building at the back of her house which she referred to as the wash house! I’d never called it this or told him about this! The chills ran up my spine!

My friends child was chatting and laughing away upstairs and referred to playing with the ‘little white boy’ on multiple occasions.

She thought imaginary friend.

Until the child says the boys name - and it was the name of the boy across the street that died young and had been in their house when occupied by the previous owner to play with his kid in the same bedroom over the years as they were related.

I think she asked this ‘little white boy’ questions via the child and it all tied up (re parents names or something, I’m not sure) that her child wouldn’t have known.

Although she couldn’t see this child ghost that her son could see and talk to.

Creepy.

I would be moving!

Am not a child, but as a child and even now I see/sense spirits. First one I remember with any clarity is of a stern looking Victorian woman who was sat at the end of my bed. I wasn't scared or anything, just accepted that she was just there.

The latest one is the occasional visit from our cat who passed away last year.

When my youngest son was about five he was telling me about his dreams. That he had been talking to his grandad. I asked him which one he said the one with the farm. Was telling me all about the animals and what my grandad liked. He died 10 years before my son was born. I got serious goosebumps!!!

While on a field trip (I was a chaperone) my ds sat in back of me on the bus and forgot I was there. I heard him saying (he was about 6 and not fanciful at all!) to the boy next to him, “Yes our house is haunted”. I swung around and asked why on earth he said that and he said, “because I have reason to believe it is”. When I bring this up (he’s almost 22 now) he has no recollection of it and says he doesn’t remember what his reasons were then.

No ghosts but reading a book about a murdered child and my then 3 year old DD touched the picture of the girl on the cover and said, ‘that was me before when I had my other mummy’.

My GD passed a few weeks ago - I got the call in the night. I went downstairs, upset. About an hour later, 1.30am ish, DD4 came downstairs and asked me to tell the person in her room to stop switching the light on and off as it had woken her up…

Did you go into the graveyard to check for a Mary that died as a child?

When my two daughters were both younger, they shared a room until about the age of 11. When they were very small, they would both often talk about 'the white lady' in their room, they could describe her and what she was wearing. She didn't visit every night, apparently, but on the nights she did appear they would both talk about it quite openly the next day! Used to scare the poop out of me but they were quite happy.
Now they are in separate rooms, I dare not question or ask if they remember as the daughter who stayed in that room would never step foot in there again! Creepy stuff!

There’s quite an age gap between me and my older sister. As a kid I used to extremely freaked out of our home especially my bedroom. I used to just feel uncomfortable as I was trespassing and always looking over my shoulder.

I saw something walk thru our kitchen but it didn’t stop/acknowledge us. It was shorter than my mum and all in black. Mum said I must have saw a shadow but it was impossible for it to be. I also used to hear something breathing in the corner of my bedroom. As in someone very angry breathing. My mum kept
telling me it was all in my imagination as there was no such thing as ghosts. I remember telling my dad (usually the voice of reason/very anti woo) and his face drained to white. My sister had also saw the man in black and had said there was also a man in the same spot in my bedroom.

Mum got a priest in which my sister didn’t know about but mentioned when she stayed how the house felt at peace.

As an adult I’ve never felt anything woo and actually quite skeptical.

Every night before bed we would wave to the man in the moon at the window going up the stairs. We moved from that house when our children were 5, 7 and 9. Our children are adults now and they all tell the same story when they waved to the ‘man in the moon’ they were waving to man that stood in the yard. They all have different stories of ‘the man’ in the house as well, they were never scared and all talk about him fondly. Goodness knows who he was but all 3 of them kept asking where the man in the moon was when we moved and I could never understand why they asked!

When I was around 18 months old, my brother who was 7 would tell my Mum regularly that at night, I would stand up in my cot cooing, and a man in a black suit would sit on the end of the bed talking and playing with me.

Not my dc but my daughter did and was very strong in what she saw ..aged 7 she forgotten and not mentioned again but I remember...

Had to cover up the mirrors in ds bedroom (fitted wardrobes) because he kept seeing stuff in them. It was related to a fever but totally freaked him out and me too!

Yes - DS, aged 2, saw 'soldiers' at a Roman amphitheatre despite having no understanding of what the place was, and he and I both saw a little boy who wasn't there, in broad daylight, upstairs on a bus, when he was 5. He used to smile, wave and offer food to someone behind me when he was a baby as well.

Amazing stories!

Dont they say, in woo terms, that it’s because kids are still connected and in touch with the life force that we have lost as we get older & that’s why they see all this stuff?! Or something..

Driving past the cemetery my 5yo nephew said 'that's where I used to live.'

Never explained further. "What do you mean?" "That's my home."

He's forgotten now.

When my son was about 5 we were walking by one of the big London train stations (can’t remember which sadly) and my son asked me what “those type of green policemen” were.. I couldn’t see anyone. He described what sounded to me like military war possibly ww1 or 2 uniform. The thing I find convincing is that my son was very into things like police firemen ect ect and quite knowledgeable. So he’d have known if it was a current uniform such as paramedics ect.