To ask you what the was the most unsettling thing your toddler said

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Mine said 'mummy, there are men under the bed, watching you' without blinking during a powercut. Pretty much wins the unsettling toddler competition, at least by my standards

My daughter asks where her other mummy is the one who was in the fire 😮

Interestingly similar to some of these - when DD was 2 (and then an only child), I was at home with her on my own overnight, and at dinner we were talking about who was in our family. DD: "There's mummy, and daddy, and me...<points directly behind me into empty space> AND TOMMY." Took all my self-control not to shriek...

😂😂

That is spooky!

My nephew once told me all about how he'd been a grown up and died in a car crash, then came here as a baby.

My little girl can't talk yet but she sometimes wakes in the night laughing and laughing, it's so creepy! We live next to a graveyard and she often points and waves to the air when we walk through it.

Nahhh why did I read these!

Mine can’t talk yet but he often points upwards at things, I pray it won’t be like some of these

God these are creepy but I love reading them.
All my kids pointed at the ceiling in one particular room, when they were babies to tots. I saw a lot of lights in that room in the dark over the years. Blue sphere of light over my baby daughter a few times. I was probably sleep deprived. Youngest two would refuse to sleep in there when they were about 3. One of them said he'd only go in with a Bible (and I'm not religious).

Youngest would ask who the person was (when it was only me and him) then I would say who? Then DS would copy a voice which was a little worrying. He'd put an accent on and try to sound like whatever he heard. I just laughed and put the TV on inwardly bricking it.

Oh I don't know why but this made me laugh a lot!
My only contribution is when my DD aged about 3 referenced my birthday as being my last one. Fortunately it proved not to be the case as that was nearly 15 years ago!

Grandad would've made me a proper bloody dolls house.

Me age 4. I never met my grandad, he died when my mum was in her 20s and I had no way of knowing he used to be a master carpenter.

When questioned who told me that, I replied Grandad when he visited through the hole in my ceiling.

Eldest DD had an entire family in a previous life, Mum was called Linda, dad, Phil, three brothers: Alive Max, Dead Max and er… Gordon Price. She kept this up for ages and would give us detailed information about her life with them. But Gordon Price is a character from Fireman Sam, so we were never quite sure…
Youngest DD aged 2, sat in her highchair when being looked after by my parents, looked at my dad with a serious face and said “Go home!” We all laugh about it now they are 14 and 10 😄

When my eldest was 2 or 3, on a few separate occasions when we drove past the local crematorium he would look out of his window and start to smile and wave. After the first couple of times I said to him why are you waving and he pointed and said the lady there she waves at me. There was never anyone there

This is outing because I've told it before in real life, my auntie says she has a little ghost girl in her house, she's seen her a few times over the years. Nothing scary, she's just knocking around occasionally. I've heard footsteps up the stairs as a youngster but could never tell if it was the neighbours going up their stairs on the opposite adjoining wall.

When DD was 3, we were having a visit and she was playing in the living room. I was in the kitchen and DD came in crying and in a huff saying "the little girl took my dummy".

I'd never mentioned anything to her, she's never overheard anything, we've not even spoke out it for years.

And like feck could we find the dummy.

Once when I was having a quick shower and had left my 3 very young children safely in their rooms, the eldest two (aged 3 and 4) started shouting and saying “someone had stolen the baby!” Said baby was fine, apparently they were re-enacting Hercules 💁🏻‍♀️

On another occasion my eldest (still only about 4/5) informed me there was a man hiding behind our shed in the garden. There was no one there but I was a bit nervous after that!

This would freak me the fuck out and it would keep me awake!!

This wins for me.

My cousin was born years after the death of what would have been their older sibling who died as an 11 year old.

It was very much the done thing in our (Asian) family at the time to not talk about the older child or their death, their name, nothing. There was a lot of superstition around a child's death.

The youngest sibling began expressing that they used to be the older (opposite sex) dead sibling before they were born, accurately describing events and memories that they "remembered"from the dead sibling's perspective and which no one had ever mentioned. Including the illness that ended their life. This "remembering" all began as soon as they could talk and they were very insistent.

I.e "Mummy, I used to be a girl didn't I?"

"I was a girl called Anna. Don't you remember when I was Anna? And grandad used to take me to the lake and tell me about the fish? WHY DON'T YOU REMEMBER ME BEING ANNA MUMMY?" (Grandad died years before they were born).

"When I was a girl, Mummy, I was scared and you would cry. I would lie on that couch and there would be blood (their sibling died of blood cancer) and I would cry and you would cry. You'd say I'd be ok but I'm a boy now and I want to be a girl again and it's not ok. I liked being Anna Mummy, why am I a boy now and you all call me the wrong name?"

It went on for about three years (strongest between ages 2 and 5), along with intense gender issues, massive temper tantrums and all sorts of disturbing issues. Then one day it suddenly all stopped and they never referred to it again.

They're an adult now and have no recollection whatsoever. It was utterly,
utterly chilling at the time.

Mine isn't unsettling as such. I find it more interesting than anything.

But my twins were born at 26 weeks, now 4 years old, and one of them has said a few things like "when we were babies, we were in boxes" (incubators?) "my head hurt" and "it was very noisy". We had never spoken to them about when they were babies and in NICU or shown them any pictures or anything...

Christ, these would terrify me. We've made it to the ripe old age of 4 and still nothing remotely creepy thank heavens above!

Not mine but one I know the other day said to me.
"I've got a brother, he's not dead yet"

F

My nephew used to wake up crying in the middle of the night staring into the same spot in the ceiling saying man so so scared!
My niece used to talk about living in a past life, she was so matter of fact and answered questions about it. Then just before she started school she never mentioned her again.

Mentioned it again.

'DS, why do you hate the sound of the hoover?'
DS: 'It sounds like people screaming as they die.'

When I was pregnant with ds,I was pregnant with twins,but lost one

I didn't say anything to ds as he was a sensitive soul and I didn't want to upset him

He was sat at the table,drawing moshi monsters,when he suddenly looked up

'Mummy,when I was in your tummy,I used to play with my brother,we took it in turns to sleep,I went to sleep and when I woke up,he'd gone'

He went on to tell me that he'd cried and then was born

There is no way he knew about it-nobody would have told him as he was too young

Friend of mine had to have ivf to have their children

They had a boy then a girl-neither knew about the ivf (parents wanted to tell them when they where adults)

Years later,when the girl was about 5/6 they went on holiday and just happened to walk past a church

She suddenly got excited-'I used to come here when I was a boy!' And promptly described what the inside of the church looked like

Her parents shook their heads-no way did she know-childish imagination

She was adamant they had to go in,so they caved

She was right on every single tiny detail-she simply couldn't have known unless she had been there before

She led them outside and ran to a grave-saying it was when she 'got ill as a boy','she fell asleep and woke up in her now mummies tummy'-'but the doctor put me there'

Oddly she's 17 now and doesn't remember a thing

When he slept in with us. I was still on my phone as I couldn't sleep. Woke bolt up right, started pointing and chatting to something in the corner and giggling. Thankfully it was my DP's side of the bed, so thought his problem not mine!

Another time he was in his room sleeping. His room is directly next to ours, both doors open so could hear everything. On my phone again as I couldn't sleep. My DC woke up and started crying, thought he could self soothe back up sleep

Next minute I hear a "shhhhh!" And he stops crying

Thought ok? I must have imagined it. On my phone again, he starts crying again. I thought ok maybe he can self soothe and get himself back to sleep

Then again "shhhhhhh"

I lept out the bed, thought it was an intruder, went flying into his room in a panic, but no one was there

DD (now an adult and not given to fanciful notions) telling me quite recently about something from her early childhood. Apparently there used to be someone sitting near the top of our stairs all the time, and they would stay sitting there as she passed. They were there for several years, and one day they went away.