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.”

😂😱😨

Finally had a chance to catch up with this most fascinating of threads.

@TheJoxter I did do some research about the place but could find nothing. It was a complicated set up and the owner of the house knew something was wrong and got all shirty and defensive when confronted. For clarity, the person I was staying with was my boyfriend at the time. He left after too many weird experiences, not least mine. I'd be here all day typing it all out. Suffice to say, it was the right thing to do. I am still in touch with him as we went on to have a child but didn't stay together. He will not speak of that time at all. I have taken our daughter back to see it as she is fascinated by my experiences over the course of my life and I felt the same sinking, cold feeling as I had driving up the long drive to the property years earlier. I don't think I would like to go inside even if I could!

@ShawshanksRedemption I shall look that up, thank you! Sounds fascinating!

@Pannalash Yes, you've commented similarly to others. I hadn't really thought of it like that but I imagine this man from another era might well have been startled by "modern" me. So I suspect a timeslip although the place was definitely doom laden!

Going on to those who mentioned "modern ghosts", that triggered a childhood memory of my Nan taking my brother and I to Regents Park in London one day. Would have been mid to late 70's I guess, I would have been around 7 and my brother 5. It was a very hot day and we had a picnic. My brother and I saw a couple sitting nearby, chatting to eachother, except they were completely transparent with a sort of green aura, for want of a better description. Nan couldn't see them at all and told us to stop being silly. They were dressed in quite typical late 70's clothes so "modern" at the time. What I mean is, they didn't look remotely out of place to what everybody was wearing at the time. I remember the woman having flowers of some description in her hair. My brother and I spoke of this frequently over the years but had no explanation. As I say, I've had a lot of odd experiences over the years from early childhood and maybe I should count myself lucky in some ways!

The other modern ghost story that has been posted on MN was the nightclub man if you can find it. That was horrifying!

This thread though...🤣

@LouH1981 can't work out if you're being sarcastic or not?

When I was little (younger then 5) I saw an old lady in my bedroom. I thought it was my Grandmother (she lived with us). I called out to her a couple times and when she did not respond I realized it was not her and starting screaming. My grandmother came running upstairs and turned the light on. The old lady vanished. It terrified me. Not long after that I moved to a new bedroom and that room became my brother's room. I'm 52 years old and I've never forgot that moment. My family teased me my whole life about it, but that room ALWAYS scared me even into adulthood. After my father passed away we sold the house. I have not been in it since 2011 but I still get very anxious just thinking about that room.

@PixieDustt No, not all, far from it! Just some of the initial replies regarding holy water and elaborate ways of getting rid of Birdie Friend made me chuckle 😊

I woke up in the middle of the night and had to put the light on after reading this, I half expected to find Birdie Friend on MY bedside table! 😱😱😱

My Nan visited me shortly after she died to say she was ok and looking for our old family friend in heaven. It was a lucid dream but my god it felt real – we had a proper conversation. I’d love for her to visit again, it was incredibly comforting.

I had the same experience after my Dad died and a recently widowed friend described a similar experience.

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Just woke up, caught up with this thread, then decided to check on emails.
First two - a Mumsnet Update followed by The End is Nigh (from Wowcher!) I daren't click on it, for fear it's an offer on Birdie Friend badges. Or something worse!

@ChristmassySpice

Following to catch up on later! 👻

@bettyfilous I had the same when my dog died (I’d had him 15 years and we were so incredibly close). The day after he died he came back to me in a dream and it was so real, I could feel his fur and him licking my face. It wasn’t a normal dream, I really believe he was there. Unfortunately in my dream I got hysterical that he was there (I was so upset when he died I had to take tranquilisers for a few days), and when I got upset he just faded away and he never came back :(. I really think he’d come back to say goodbye.

Following. I lost this thread and was bereft!

I wanted to add to this last night, but was too knackered to get my thoughts together.

When I was somewhere between 2-3 I believe, my parents and some friends booked a remote cottage in Wales. My parents are not particularly ‘woo’ although my mum has what you could describe as a heightened sixth sense. She’s certainly no wuss, though.

I was happy playing by myself but had never had imaginary friends or talked to something that wasn’t there, but from the moment we set foot in this cottage i started talking to ‘the old lady in the corner’. They tried ignore it but I was saying strange things that I shouldn’t know about the house and other people’s names, which were names I can’t of ever heard of. My parents and their friends all felt something was off about the cottage and all the cars leaked oil only when parked outside it. They decided to cut the trip short by a week.

I think children are definitely on a different wave length that can tune them into things adults can’t see.

Did you all survive the night @PlomBear?

I worked with a lady a few years ago who was very spiritual. The first time we met and shook hands she looked at me very intensely.

A couple of days later she asked me if I believed in ghosts, reincarnation and I said I wasn't entirely sure but I was interested. She told me when she shook my head she'd had a very clear thought that I had been an army doctor and a captain in WW2 and I had been killed when the vehicle I was in was blown up.

Weird thing is I have always been very interested in all things medical since I was tiny and now work in a medical related field where - according to a colleague - I have a better understanding of medicine than I should for a lay person. He could be kidding though, he's very dry

@MayDayHelp that is a beautiful story- brought me tears! I had something very similar when our much loved family pet died. I was having a dream about something totally unrelated, where I would never expect to be thinking about my dog (it was a sunny garden marquee wedding, to be precise!) when suddenly he ducked out from under a table and did his signature move of gently placing his nose in my hand. I felt it, I swear, he felt so much more real than anything I can relate to in other dreams. I believe he came to let me know he was ok.

I’ve become obsessed with checking this for the latest updates!

Or the sheer number that can remember past lives that can be corroborated?

I think children inherit memories. When we are in the womb our bodies test things and try things, like sucking a thumb.

I think whichever bit of our brain collects memories starts with some from the parents, which may, obviously contain things from grandparents etc.

When I'm tired I do a weird then where I rub my feet together in a particular way, my dad, my brother and my cousins do exactly the same, it's like a mannerism has been passed on.

As for new builds, we lived in one from when I was 7 to about 9, there was something sinister in that house, on the hall and stairs.

My parents had to sign a form to redirect a footpath so maybe something happened there.

• I think children inherit memories. When we are in the womb our bodies test things and try things, like sucking a thumb.

I think whichever bit of our brain collects memories starts with some from the parents, which may, obviously contain things from grandparents etc.*

I had never thought of it like that.

Makes sense in a way that right now I’m pregnant with a girl and her ovaries are producing eggs that will create my grandchildren. There is a connection.

Only thing where this theory doesn’t work is when the past lives are of non relatives like the famous past lives stories where the children can understand different nationalities or can recall catastrophic events in minute detail.

Several people, including @TheFormidableMrsC, have mentioned the 'nightclub' story. Does anyone have a link? I am curious....

Did you all survive the night @PlomBear?

I fear the worst ...

Also curious about nightclub story

I tried to find the nightclub story last night. I found it mentioned on a few threads via Advanced Search but not the actual story. When I went back to try again it came up with zero results repeatedly

I'll try again or hopefully somebody else will know where it is! Chilling and fascinating.

I also tried to find it and found a reference to it being posted by SundaySimmons. But it seems to have been vaporized....