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.”

😂😱😨

I have said it before and I will say it again.

Kids are WEIRD.

I'd still be arranging a little 'holiday' for birdie friend though.

My friend has 2 canaries called Bob and Rose.

Unlikely as it seems, I think you’ll find birdie friend can actually fly. I believe he will fly away tonight and not be able to find his way back. So sad.

Are you absolutely sure this is light hearted OP?

The men who lived upstairs were brave and want everyone to be happy.

Bob and Rose loved their family and want everyone to be nice and be happy.

Because the world changes all the time, the end and the new are all part of the same thing.

Please tell mum if birdie friends says anything mean or asks you to do anything that isn't nice. What does Birdie friend say they want and where do they come from?

Might be an idea to keep any John Wyndham Chocky books and similar books/tv/films out of reach.

Birdie friend would be fucking launched out of a moving vehicle if he lived in my house!

Bet he’s the kind of thing that’d inexplicably turn up again the next day in the middle of the kitchen table though...

You need to hide that thing away out of sight and reach for a few days and see what happens!

Maybe it's your Son and Birdie Friend is just a mouthpiece ...

Only a matter of time before 'Tortie Friend' and 'Butterfly Friend' come to join the household and then you're in serious trouble.

Cleansing sage by the bushel load to surround Birdie on the DL. Salting the thresholds next on the list. I agree Birdie will have the return to base instincts of a homing pigeon.

I'm the biggest skeptic I know but JFC I think you need to run for the hills.

Birdie Friend was sad, because he was missing his birdie friends in Wales, so he flew back there overnight.

**Maybe it's your Son and Birdie Friend is just a mouthpiece ...

Ya think?

Good God, you had better stay on the right side of Birdie Friend. You don't need Birdie Enemy on your hands....

Has he heard you speak Welsh before? How would he know the phrase?

That end times thing is scary.

this would scare the shit out of me

I'm guessing all the other badges only have the turtle and the butterfly. . . birdie is a special,secret creepy ghostly addition that's only on DS' badge.

I would be pretty freaked out by this, but I'd feel too mean for taking Birdie Friend away... and I don't want to get cursed

Make yourself a necklace of garlic bulbs, wear it now and sprinkle sage in every room. Consider asking the priest to conduct an exorcism.

On the other hand, he sounds like an imaginative 4yo, who has picked up on the fact your house used to be a military hospital and he's probably heard you or DH refer to his grandparents as Bob and Rose.

My son, aged 3, was adamant the teddy on the rocking chair in his bedroom came to life at night and read him stories. I burnt it

FMD

I’m not religious
I think ‘ghosts’ are a load of hokum
As are poltergeists etc

But FMD kids coming out with stuff like this and ‘past lives’ really freaks me out.

Adoption is the only answer surely? DS & Birdie....

In all seriousness I’m not sure what I’d do, but I’d be seriously looking into who could help. Other than a Gin distillery!

My DS, when very young, would talk about his great grandad visiting him at night. We were intrigued, but not scared.

When he was a bit older he told us he made it all up. He's a teenager now, doesn't remember it at all.

You must keep Birdie Friend and regularly update us with what he says.

Ignore everyone who says to get rid or destroy, keeping us entertained on this thread is far more important.

In my house Birdie Friend would be taken out into the garden and set on fire whilst performing the Birdie Song around it. Then I'd launch the ashes out the window down the M1, no way would I risk someone else finding that creepy ass thing.