My child has a badge that sees ghosts?

[PlomBear]

Lighthearted!

DS 4, has a badge he calls “birdie friend.” I may post a photo later! It’s a badge with a bird on.

Birdie Friend seems to have the gift of the “sight!” “Birdie Friend says Bob and Rose are here mummy, they like to have tea with us. Bob and Rose are DH’s grandparents who died many years ago.

“Birdie Friend says the men who lived upstairs looked like you mummy when their faces burned off.” We used to live in a former military hospital and I had a sheet mash on my face! The ward upstairs had indeed been a burns/plastics ward!

“Mummy, Birdie Friend says the end is coming soon.”

😂😱😨

😮

Maybe BF isn’t evil then? Or maybe DS just has the sight?

Don’t even know what to think!

OP did your son say anything like this before getting BF ?

And I really need to do my uni assignment, Birdie Friend is no help with that!

SirVixofVixHall - nope! It came on very gradually. It’s ramped up since we moved house a couple of weeks ago.

Best to take the badge away tie some heavy stones to it (or a brick or two) and throw into a deep river

I was getting my niece dressed after a bath when she was about 3 and drying her hands she told me the lady with the golden hair that comes and sees her has painful hands and they are wrinkly like mine are now trying so hide my fear I asked cheerfully oh yes who is that she replied you know auntie it’s your nanny

I think children tune in more but also pick up on what’s going on around them more than we like to think

That’s a good point @JamieVardysHavingAParty 🧐
Never heard anyone say “this ghost with a mullet, ripped jeans and a def leppard t shirt just walked right through my kitchen wall with his ghetto blaster”

I had a Catholic priest come and bless the house years ago as really unfortunate things kept happening to me and then DP while living there. He was happy to do it. Think he just said a prayer to bless us and the house and sprinkled holy water maybe. He gave us a few little bottles of holy water. Gave one to dd and she went to her Grandma's house the next day and starting blessing the dogs and the cats. Everything got a blessing lol.
I think you're supposed to offer a donation to the priest, but we were skint so unfortunately couldn't offer anything and the priest certainly didn't ask for anything.

Seriously, go pickup a lottery slip, slide it I front of ds and ask "what numbers does birdie want us to fill in?" 😅

My db used to see a “Lady” in the house when he was a very small boy. My parents had the house blessed, even though the atmosphere was lovely.

I’ve seen modern ghosts. One in a dressing gown, one in typical old-lady clothes, one in skinny jeans and a puffs jacket with fur trimmed hood

I agree with people who've said it's your DS who is sensitive - he may be bringing BF into it because it's the only way he can explain it to himself. I wouldn't make BF disappear for good but I'd be trying to wean him away gradually. I'd be worried how DS would react if he genuinely lost BF - badge fell off his coat or something.

If I was in your shoes (bloody glad I'm not), I'd try going to Mass and taking BF along in a pocket. Guessing the chaplains you mentioned are military and you may find them more open minded about this than parish vicars/priests. And sage and holy water in the house. Just because it can't hurt.

When my dgd was two, and on holiday with us and her parents in France, we were looking round an old abandoned farmhouse. No one had lived there for years (since the 70's) and the shutters were shut, no furniture in the place, early evening.
Dgd was running about and started chatting to some one in the gloom of the far corner of the room. When asked she said she was talking to "Docteur Brun" and where was he? "Sitting in the chair, silly!".

She then trotted into the huge farmhouse kitchen - and started playing quite a noisy game of hide and seek "Maman! Maman! Where are you" - she was the only person who could see or hear Maman or the children.....

She was just 2, no one had talked about French words for mummy with her (just started talking) and she didn't know and nor did we any one called Brun, or Brown doctor or not.

It was very creepy at the time. She can't remember any of it now and has heard nothing since when revisiting the same house.

Modern ghosts - one of my friends had the saddest ghost ever in her house. A woman in a tracksuit carrying laundry basket up the stairs.

Fab thread

@TheFormidableMrsC
You might enjoy watching “The Living and the Dead” which was a BBC drama based in Victorian times, and was about very curious things happening in a village!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_and_the_Dead_(TV_series)

Did your ds know the dog was ill?

TheReluctantCountess - no. We last saw DH’s sister and family at Christmas. No mention at all of dog being ill. My niece doesn’t know that the dog is sick, she is three years old.

To be honest, I had been slightly worried that “Birdie Friend” would “tell” DS to pull the dog’s tail or something or be mean to his cousin. DS is a very empathic little soul but I do worry about BF’s influence and is it malignant or just naughty?

This would make a cracking entry for the Fortean times 'it happened to me' page.

TheScottishPlay

Oh I know! That joke is better spoken of course.

@Howmanysleepsnow what hospital, ward and room was that? Asking for a friend..

Is BF not really unhygienic after having been dipped in yoghurt and a tuna cheese toastie? I'd be putting him through the washing machine and hoping he disintegrates.

We took DS to a transport museum near us when he was about three. He spotted a train and starting saying 'it's the Spongebob train! It's the Spongebob train! We had a look an inside, on the driver's seat, was a sticker with Spongebob Squarepants on.

We were pretty freaked out. Until we were talking to his childminder the next Monday and she told us she'd taken him there the week before

Is this real 😱

Birdie Friend is wiped down with antibacterial spay on a regular basis and sometimes joins DS in the bath. BF only likes the unicorn flavoured bath gel.