Page 6 | To ask you what the was the most unsettling thing your toddler said

averagetoruser · 2023-12-04T15:43:37+00:00

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

irisetta · 05/12/2023 11:51

When my eldest was about 3 he used to sing a rather dark verse from London Bridge Is Falling Down to himself in his bed at night.... it went "Take the key and lock her up, lock her up, lock her up..."! I had never heard of that verse, so he couldn't have heard it from me. No other family members knew it, the childminder had also never heard of it (she was from Trinidad and didn't know many English nursery rhymes), he couldn't have heard it from YouTube or the TV as we strictly monitored his screen time... to this day I can't figure out where he could have heard it, and now he's 9 he doesn't recall the verse at all. He wouldn't have made it up either as he's autistic and was barely verbal at that age. Weird!

IsThisOneAvailable · 05/12/2023 11:53

maddiemookins16mum · 04/12/2023 16:22

Omg, I’m going to have nightmares tonight reading these.

Me too, yet I know I'm still going to read them all 😫

OldTinHat · 05/12/2023 11:58

Not as toddlers, but when DC stayed overnight at my DSis's house in their early teens. She asked them how they slept and they both said they hadn't because the voices wouldn't be quiet. Dsis was terrified and tried to brush it off.

When DC came home, she apparently went in the room they'd stayed in and also heard the voices. It was a toy at the back of a cupboard belonging to her much younger DC and the battery was going, so it made strange, voice like sounds!

Connected1 · 05/12/2023 12:09

RockAndRollerskate · 04/12/2023 19:20

“One day mummy, me and daddy and <little brother > will die. Not you though. You will still be here”

Oh no! That's absolutely the worst one!

DangerousAlchemy · 05/12/2023 17:31

JenniferJupiterVenusandMars · 04/12/2023 18:58

‘There’s a man at the end of my bed’. Night after night she said this.
MIL, who lived in the house before us, used to say the same thing 🫣

@JenniferJupiterVenusandMars dear God-please tell me you've since moved house! 🙈🤞

Sauvblanctime · 05/12/2023 18:50

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.

😳😳😳😳😳😳

winner!! Creepy AF!

SpecialPatrolGroupp · 05/12/2023 20:39

Mam, if you die I'll get your head frozen in liquid nitrogen, I promise. How does a 4 year old know about liquid nitrogen?

FourteenTog · 05/12/2023 22:15

Friend's toddler, walking past doorways: "Why do you have two beds in your room?"

There was one bed. But the flat was in a building that had been a nurses' hostel for a time.

FourteenTog · 07/12/2023 21:39

bump

LeakyPipes · 07/12/2023 21:48

More please 😳

Thisismyprobatequestionsname · 07/12/2023 23:10

DS aged 3, whilst examining my arm, said ‘I want to peel your skin off and see what’s inside’. Said in a very matter of fact way. A bit like you’d say you want a cup of tea.

Sidebeforeself · 09/12/2023 21:35

My mum had passed and my niece was giving me a lift to the funeral parlour to see Mum at rest for the first time. My great niece was 2 and as we drove up to the funeral home in silence she pointed at the building and said “Nana”.

feelingalittlehorse · 09/12/2023 22:57

In our first house, DB’s room had fitted wardrobes that were against a joining wall with the house next door. For years and years he went on about “the man who lives in the cupboard”. We moved when he was 8, and he never mentioned it again and seemed to not remember.
The neighbours had moved before us but kept vaguely in touch, eventually moving away. They visited the area about 20 years later and met up with my mum. They admitted one of the reasons they’d moved is the wife always had a bad feeling in the house, and the nail in the coffin was when their son, who’s room adjourned my DB’s, started complaining of the man that lived in the wall.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 10/12/2023 10:57

Following. Kids can be creepy little swines!

Thereislightattheendofthetunnel · 10/12/2023 18:25

I think what happens is that children don’t have the reservations most adults have regarding the unexplained, so they are more open to those kind of experiences. Once society tells them that ghosts don’t exist, they stop seeing them.

AntiHop · 10/12/2023 18:45

My 2 year old pointed to an empty chair and said *who's that?". On a different occasion she pointed to a a corner and said "who's that boy?"

AllrightNowBaby · 11/12/2023 01:28

One of my twin Granddaughters…
”I knew you when I was in Mummy’s tummy
Me: Did you?
Gd: yes! I could hear you but I didn’t know what you looked like.
Me: what was it like in Mummy’s tummy?
Gd: It was dark and SHE (pointing angrily at her twin sister) used to squash me all the time.

lovinglaughingliving · 11/12/2023 02:56

I'm sure my youngest son (almost 4) has been here before.
"A long time ago when I was married mummy and you weren't my mummy, I had another one and she was much much older than you because I was married to a man..."
"A long time ago when I was a girl mummy, I didn't ever wear trousers, only beautiful dresses and I had six babies, I let them drink milk from my boobies like you did for me mummy but when they got too old for boobie milk, I say sorry! You're too big now!!"

😂😂😂😂😂😂

SmokeyToo · 11/12/2023 03:46

These were awesome! Most of them creepy, some of them (absurdly!) sweet. More, please!

clingon1012 · 11/12/2023 04:05

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.

@DragonMumE did you ever google search the names he mentioned and "helicopter crash" to see if there was such news?? Creepy AF, but I probably would have (I like to scare myself?!!!)

Stress101 · 11/12/2023 06:34

My DS would regularly wake up during the night laughing. He was still too young to talk so we couldn't ask him what he was laughing at. After a while we asked his two older sisters who were 4 and 5. They said the man comes into the room and he is funny and makes them laugh. My Dad passed away many years before I had my children so they never met him. One day I had old photographs I was looking through and both my DDs pointed to the picture of my Dad and said that's him, that's the man who makes us laugh. ♥

When DD was three she told me she was happy in my tummy and didn't want to be born because it was warm and she could hear me. Then she said but I got very afraid and it got dark and I was scared. DD was delivered by emergency c section with the cord around her neck and not breathing. She had to be ressucisted and we nearly lost her. Thank God she's a beautiful 15 year old now and suffered to lasting effects.

romdowa · 11/12/2023 06:47

My toddler routinely tells us look at the man out there or behind the door. I do not look !

Iateallllllthepies · 11/12/2023 10:54

Oh god, had another one yesterday.

We went for a walk at a NT place. There was one massive rag doll/scarecrow thing, probably left over from halloween sat on a bench in the grounds.

3 year old clocked it and was obsessed with going to talk to the dolly. 9 year old is a twat and started saying “omg, did you see it move!” as a joke. Nice. Think late afternoon, dulling light, fog, only ones stood around a misty lake, cheers for that, dd.

3 year old thinks the doll is some sort of mash
up of Jesus and santa, starts asking it for her christmas list and for the lottery numbers. Obsessed with it being cold, “the dolly says she’s cold!”, “the dolly says she hungry and lonely!”

Getting Robert the dolls vibes now (don’t google), so I was very nice to it and left it a corner of my sandwich.

Finally drag 3 year old away with the promise we will go back and see the doll next weekend (like fuck we will).

Driving home, 3 year old says to sister in the back, “look! The dolly girl is following us, can you see her?”

”Not today, absolutely not” says dh and immediately changes the subject to who wants an unplanned, emergency, paranormal stopping McDonalds.

So that was fun.

(No doll related incidents have occurred

happinessischocolate · 11/12/2023 11:44

My dd used to talk about the man who would come up the stairs at night. She could see the top of the stairs from her bed and would hear the front door latch the then hear his footsteps on the stairs, he'd then go into the back bedroom.

It was a Victorian house, and I found out a few years after we moved out that the male lodger had come back from the pub one night and murdered his landlady in the back bedroom.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 11/12/2023 13:11