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

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averagetoruser · 04/12/2023 15:43

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

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DragonMumE · 04/12/2023 20:44

My second child said "I was the last to die when the helicopter crashed...If Frank had been flying. We wouldn't have died. I could see the paddy fields when I died. As I went to heaven I could see the black rabbit we had painted on the helicopter. He named all the 3 other men who perished.

(I wondered if the rabbit was the playboy bunny). He also talks about life in Vietnam, the food, sights. His home in Penn. His red car and make, his dog, his graduation from high school. He was at the start of this about 2.5 and still remembers all this. He names food he likes that he's never tasted. He once asked for a food, I took him to get it (he loved it. He'd never had it before.)

I was making brownies. He said "My other Mummy (Name) made me those too). My sister (name) loves them. (Three minute pause)..."They're dead now".

We were in a horrific car crash. He is badly scared. "I had this scar when I crashed in the helicopter." Bit unsettling really.

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 04/12/2023 20:46

We moved into a house where an elderly man had died. (DD did not know)

Everything was a bit old and rickety, and I was with DD and I broke the pull cord light switch in the bathroom.

Oh no! She said, will the man be cross?!
What man?
The man whose house this is?
What man?! (hair starting to prickle on the back of my neck)
The man who lived here before us, he's angry that you broke the light.
I tried telling her there was no man, that it was our house and our light and it was OK, but she was oddly insistent.

About 3 days later it transpired she meant the estate agent, I've never been so relieved in my life!

sarahc336 · 04/12/2023 20:48

Not my toddler but my dd when she was 5.
We were moving house and were viewing a property that an elderly couple were selling and the best way I can describe how I felt in the house (please note I do not normally believe in ghosts etc) was that it had this bad energy in there, like a really unhappy vibe and that we had to get out. Like it didn't want us in there and that if we bought it bad things would happen.
Anyway just as I'm thinking this in my own head kinda laughing at myself for being daft, my 5 year old pointed to a photo of a young boy in a school uniform and said "I bet that boy is dead now" cue us making a quick exit out of the house 🤣🤣

WickedSerious · 04/12/2023 21:00

My cousin's DD(now an adult with children of her own)was asked what she was going to do when she saw her grandfather at the weekend.

She replied "I'll hold his ears and bang his head against the wall until he bleeds".

LightSpeeds · 04/12/2023 21:28

Sleepsleepsleep123 · 04/12/2023 18:35

Wtf am I reading? These are terrifying.

😂 It's like every episode of Uncanny rolled into one!

JennyForeigner · 04/12/2023 21:30

'Mr Demon made a door into my room"

Our builder is called Damon.

Watchkeys · 04/12/2023 21:34

WickedSerious · 04/12/2023 21:00

My cousin's DD(now an adult with children of her own)was asked what she was going to do when she saw her grandfather at the weekend.

She replied "I'll hold his ears and bang his head against the wall until he bleeds".

This made us hysterical!

Kurololi · 04/12/2023 21:41

When youngest DS was about 2 he couldn't get to sleep so I sat by the side of his cot - he told me he couldn't sleep because "there's a man under my bed who keeps laughing and waking me up". I was absolutely ILL

Tiredmummy201 · 04/12/2023 21:47

My Dd used to talk about her "other "mummy and daddy and twin siblings.. she was about 2.5 and went into detail about her old house and that they had all died when the volcano errupted. She even told nursery she had 2 daddies my dh and "gino". She stopped when she was about 3 and don't think she remembers now. She used to love jazz music and old fashioned type clothes too around this time it was really weird.

GotMooMilk · 04/12/2023 21:51

All2Well · 04/12/2023 20:05

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.

Your poor family this must have been traumatic

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 04/12/2023 21:52

Ds used to have night terrors and honestly if you didn’t know what it was it was the creepiest thing ever. He would have his eyes open but not see me and appear to be responding to people who weren’t there and one time I remember he was walking round and round as if there was something chasing him. It’s easy to see where ideas of spirits come from. It was impossible to wake him up until I discovered that if I sat him on the loo he would do a wee and then gradually come round with no memory of the terror.

biscuitnut · 04/12/2023 22:05

We lived near a graveyard when I was little and regularly used to cut through it to go shopping etc. Apparently I used to giggle, wave and ask to play with ‘the little boy’ when we walked past a little 3 year old boys grave who had died in the 1920s. It abruptly stopped when I reached about 3 and a half. I have no memory of this but I still place a mini Xmas tree on his grave every year when I visit my grandmothers grave who is now buried there. I am not sure I believe in the supernatural and maybe I was just a strange kid but I do hope little Percival is happy and finding other children to play with.

Thereislightattheendofthetunnel · 04/12/2023 22:06

We moved into a new build in an area where there had been mine shafts. My DD was around 5 and proceeded to describe that in the corner of the hallway there was a man with very dirty old clothes and a hat and black eyes that didn’t speak but was looking back at her.
It chilled us to the bone. We asked her about it but she didn’t mentioned anything else. We also have not asked again in case it triggers something. That was more than 5 years ago.

SlightlygrumpyBettyswaitress · 04/12/2023 22:13

Youngest DD, who I might add had speech difficulties and the only thing she clearly said was "when I lived with my other family in the Forest".
She could not be dissuaded from the facts and was very clear that she had errmmm lived with another family in a forest.
I did have a recurring dream as a young child about going out from a big house to bring the horses in.
I'm convinced that we inherit snippets of memories.

TroysMammy · 04/12/2023 22:13

WickedSerious · 04/12/2023 21:00

My cousin's DD(now an adult with children of her own)was asked what she was going to do when she saw her grandfather at the weekend.

She replied "I'll hold his ears and bang his head against the wall until he bleeds".

Omg I can't breathe for laughing. I was reading it out to my DP and I couldn't read the last bit for crying laughing and had to let him read it himself. I don't know if I should have laughed.

mantyzer · 04/12/2023 22:26

DD as a toddler - I am going to cut your hand off and take it to bed.
She has grown up quite normal thankfully.

Cheepcheepcheep · 04/12/2023 22:28

“Mummy, before you, I was scared of the fire”

OldTinHat · 04/12/2023 22:32

Being called into nursery at the end of the session to be told my 3yr old told everyone I meet men for money.

Yeah....that happened...

For clarity, I had my own company, lots of networking, meetings, etc. Won awards, yadda, yadda...

He's 24 now and I think I've embarrassed him far more than he ever embarrassed me!

Whylurkwhenicanjoinin · 04/12/2023 22:40

Will come back to these!

Onceuponaheartache · 04/12/2023 22:43

Dd would have been about 2ish, she had woken from a nap and I thought was just chattering away to herself...when ibasked if eh was talking to her teddies she looked at me very matter of fact and said "silly mummy, I talking to Grandma. She is in heaven with uncle chris"

All very normal as we had explained her grandma had died when she was a baby and was in heaven. However we had never talked about her uncle Chris as I never met him, he died years previously.

The sensible oart of me knows logically she must have heard someone else mention him at some point but it freaked me out for a few days!

DragonMumE · 04/12/2023 22:45

It's not Gordon Price on Fireman Sam. It's NORMAN PRICE

Friarclose · 04/12/2023 22:53

Am I the only one who finds all the reincarnation stories kind of comforting? I lost my dearest nan in 2020 and I kind of love the idea that she could be a 3 year old somewhere now.

My ds now 13 said to me when he was 2 mummy what would you do if I pulled your fingers off? 🤔

LouLou198 · 04/12/2023 22:56

Not unsettling, but rather strange. I gave my daughter who was 3 at the time, 2 fluffy penguins. She said to me "one for me, one for the baby in your tummy". I had found out a couple of days previously that I was pregnant, nobody knew, dh was away so hadn't even told him yet!

hellsBells246 · 04/12/2023 22:57

WickedSerious · 04/12/2023 21:00

My cousin's DD(now an adult with children of her own)was asked what she was going to do when she saw her grandfather at the weekend.

She replied "I'll hold his ears and bang his head against the wall until he bleeds".

😂😂😂 What was she thinking?!

Hogglehedge · 04/12/2023 22:59

When my middle son was 4 for about two years he used to talk about "Martha and Catherine" who lived in our house and only he could see them, that they liked watching us and they had light around them.

After a while I looked on the census for 1901 and there was a Martha who lived there