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

Not my toddler but when my brother was 2/3. My dad had an brother who died as a 3 year old before my dad was born. We obviously never met him, barely any pictures of him and a very rare name. He was never even spoken about until this happened.

For a few months my brother went through a phase of doing dangerous things like jump off the top of a slide etc which was out of character as he was a really gentle, calm kid and he always used to say 'uncles name saved me'. My mum and dad were so creeped out by it. We found a photo years later and they looked identical at that age.

Brilliant! A good excuse never to hoover again!

When DD1 was about 3/4 just as she was falling asleep she opened her eyes wide, stared at DH and whispered “they’re going to eat you Daddy” and fell asleep DH was terrified.

DD2 from about age 4 has often given us tidbits of information about her past life when she used to wear her hair in plaits. We were in a pub in Cornwall when she put her hand on the wall and said “oh yes it used to be so dark in here, when the man who wanted to destroy the world ran it”

DS1, when he was about 2ish we used to go out every day, rain or shine along the sea front with him in the buggy. He started waving at the sea and pointing and saying 'man in the sea is waving at me mummy'. Every day as we reached the bit of the prom where the sea belts off it at high tide. There was no man in the sea.

DD said to MIL 'Granny, I don't think the man who lives in the big box in your garage is very happy'.

Mummy I hear a mean voice that says mean things like “ why is that woman eating like a pig?”

My child as a toddler looked up from playing, pointed straight at our hall and said in the most clear and haunting voice, "look mummy, the old man's coming down the stairs. He sees us."

For the record there was only me and my child in the house. But it freaked me right out.

I'd been to a garden centre with a neighbour and her 5yo daughter. We drove past the aftermath of a car crash that on the face of it didn't look bad, only the cars remained. The daughter said "oh poor lady'. We learned subsequently that a woman had passed away in the crash.

My daughter when she was 3

"Mummy, when I was 18 and had a different mummy, some bad men took me to a cave and smacked me on the head. They peeled the skin off my face"

Lying in bed, recovering from latest puking episode and covered in itching spots over every square cm of her body (whooping cough followed immediately by chicken pox and very unwell): "Mummy - why doesn't god make me better?" Hmm ...

My Nan once told me that they visited a city when my auntie was about 5 and she knew her way around like a local, despite having never been there before.

Years ago, my friends DD, she was 3 and out in the car with her Nan. She asked ‘why is that man hanging from that tree Nanny?’. Her Nan obviously couldn’t see anyone hanging from a tree.

I still think of it and shiver any time I drive past that spot, it’s right by our local hospital.

Staying with them 3 year old dd at MIL childhood home in France for the first time, which her family have owned for generations.

DD wouldn’t go into the room older ds was staying in. She was very upset at the door and said there was a man on the bed, holding a baby and they were both crying. She said it a couple of times, it was a busy trip, new house which is very old and spooky looking in corners and then 14 year old ds loved the room.

Mentioned it to MIL in passing a few months later and she was shocked. Her great grandparents lost their ten month old son to illness in that room and they never got over it, especially her grandfather.

DD has never lost it entirely. She’s 9 now. Over the summer, we were in the area I grew up for the first time in 20 years. I wanted to find my mums grave, who died when i was a child. It’s unmarked bar a crap wooden cross my dad made as we were too poor for a gravestone. I’d not been to the grave in over 25 years, huge graveyard, I knew which field it was in but not the exact location. It’s a big place. DD found it immediately.

Strode off ahead, and when I caught up, she was standing at an i marked grave with he rotting cross next to it. She said she could “feel” my mum. She’d never been there before, and my mum died 22 years before she was born.

A lot of the other graves are unmarked too, so it was so weird that she just found it.

3 Yr old stepdaughter.." can you tell the man in my room to stop talking to me, I can't go to sleep "
Also,same SD...." When I was with my other mummy- not the Mummy I've got now,but the one in the old days- she stabbed my 2 brothers and died them because she couldn't feed us all"
Does a 3 year old even know what stabbing is??

Son (3) freaked out his dad on Sunday when he said 'Come on daddy, I want to show you the boys in my room!'

I had to explain that 'the boys' were the Christmas ornaments of an elf and a snowman that son wanted to keep in his bedroom 😂 Husband had missed the earlier conversation.

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2 months after my Dad died we were in the car, really bad snow, police everywhere trying to divert people. Quite scary. On a back road, just us, no other cars and DS age 2 said “Hi Grandad” to the empty seat next to him in the back of the car. I found it quite a comfort

Me, my friend and her toddler were travelling to an event. We stayed overnight in a old cottage. Apparently the toddler mentioned to her mother in the middle of the night that there had been a man striding across the upstairs hallway, but he was missing from the shins down (which scared and upset her)

Turned out, from a conversation with the homeowner, that the current hallway had been lifted to add structural beams as part of the renovation. So the new hall would now be about shin height up from the original....

My niece when she was about 3/4 used to talk to herself in her bedroom at night (old Victorian terrace). When my sister came to ask who she was talking to she said 'don't worry mummy, I'm just talking to Mr and Mrs Wordsworth. But you don't need to come up, because they said they can sing me to sleep and watch me and keep me safe whilst I sleep'. Another night, same again, my sister tried to ask more about the couple and my niece said 'don't worry mummy, they told me they love children. They really wanted children but couldn't have any, so they're happy they can watch over me'.

Same child - middle one- in church screaming his head off that the witch was after him - in the middle of baby sister's christening. He ran like the devil was chasing him!

Found out during river renovations a witch had been buried under heavy stone and outside the hallowed ground in the 1800s. The witch was pregnant. :(

3yo DD...."Mummy why can't we live in the white house anymore, I liked it there".....she had never lived in a house,(we were living in a flat when DD was born, we moved out when she was 4), let alone a white one.

My 3.5 dc at my parents house the other week.. "there's a scary monster over there, he's got red eyes" pointing at the dark hallway. We all looked at eachother like 👀

While packing suitcases to travel to a destination wedding.
DS 3: “Tomorrow (flight day) everyone will die!”
Me: “What did you say?”
DS: “Everyone will die in the water!”
Me: “Who will die?!”
DS: Me, you, Daddy, sister, grandma, auntie xxx, uncle xxx,..”
He listed everyone who booked the same flight 😱😄 We didnt die.

will Papa try to kill us again? wish he hadnt rememberd. Thankfully he doesnt anymore. Never spent time alone with him again until his funeral (the father not my son)

My daughter then aged 3 would often wake up in the night annoyed that the scary old lady in the corner woke her up again.

My DP, who I'd been with around 6 months at this point started sleeping over occasionally. On around his third sleepover he told me he woke up in the middle of the night with what he described as an angry evil old lady looming over him. She was so real he struck out at her and after about 20 seconds she faded out.

He is the most straight laced anti-woo logical person I've ever met, and he didn't know about my DD's visitor either at the time this happened.

We've since moved!