My child has a badge that sees ghosts?

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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.”

😂😱😨

Unless the nursery is going to catch fire or something, I highly doubt all of these children are going to die and that your son has a gift and has foreseen it.

And if BF is not there he can't be telling DS anything, so DS won't be relaying BFs words if he does go telling children they are going to die, but inventing it himself. If he does, you'll have a better idea where you stand.

So you're happy to believe in a demonically-possessed Welsh Youth Hostel badge which makes a small child utter gnomic prophecies about death, and see the spirits of dead soldiers, but you have difficulty imagining that said Demon Badge could do its demonic business at a distance?

And I do wish people on these threads would stop giving the impression that a team of Catholic priest-exorcists are waiting for your call the minute you hear spooky footsteps or your toddler talks to the wall -- because Mumsnetters, including non-Catholics, always seem to be under the impression that this is when you call in a Catholic priest, regardless of your own religious belief or lack of it.

In reality, there are only tiny numbers of Catholic priests who are deputed as exorcists there are only two in all of Ireland, for instance and they might do one every year or two, and only with the permission of the diocesan bishop, and after medical/psychological screening to rule out MH issues.

Sure, you might get a local priest to come out and bless your house a much more casual affair, and again he'll be likely to feel he's there on pastoral grounds, because you've contacted him in need but unless you are actually a believing Catholic, why would you want a priest of a religion in whose tenets you don't believe doing his thing in your house? Why do you think your entities will be appeased/driven off by this?

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@howmanysleepsnow @PixieDustt
Am I the only one who can see the full blown face in the picture? It gave me such a weird feeling I can’t describe it

@Scatterlit I don't think the OP was asking for an exorcism and as a Catholic, I know that that is a very last resort situation. A blessing won't do any harm at all in my view.

Sorry, bold fail: that should have read:

And if BF is not there he can't be telling DS anything, so DS won't be relaying BFs words if he does go telling children they are going to die, but inventing it himself. If he does, you'll have a better idea where you stand.

So you're happy to believe in a demonically-possessed Welsh Youth Hostel badge which makes a small child utter gnomic prophecies about death, and see the spirits of dead soldiers, but you have difficulty imagining that said Demon Badge could do its demonic business at a distance?

@pushingdaisies I noticed that last night but thought it was probably the woodgrain. I lived in a house that had a panelled wood wall that looked like it was full of trapped demons

Maybe it was?!

I do wonder if your ds is enjoying the attention a bit too much now, hence the nursery incidents today.

@Hoik 😂😂

This has taken a weirder turn.

Since we’re sharing things on this thread I wonder if any of the ‘woo trained’ people could shed some light (no pun intended!) on something for me? In my family my Mum and I are fairly ‘tuned in’ to woo things, ie we both quite often sense my grandmother’s presence. My Dad and sister are religious but not ‘woo’, if that makes sense. What I find interesting is how we all react to Glastonbury (the town, not the festival!). My Mum and sister love it and find it spiritually restorative. My Dad and I, on the other hand, both find it an intensely oppressive and disturbing place. I like it as a quirky little town but whenever I’m there I feel like my internal defences are up and I’m constantly on guard - it makes my shoulder blades itch. What’s going on here, are we responding to different forces or are the same forces affecting us differently? I could understand it more of my Mum and I felt one way and my Dad and sister the other but there’s essentially one ‘sensitive’ person and one sceptic in each group.

(Side question: what IS it about Glastonbury? Is it really just the ley lines?)

Soon might be a bit relative to something or somebody that has been around a long time. We're all dying, it's just not imminent for most of us.

I do wonder if your ds is enjoying the attention a bit too much now, hence the nursery incidents today.

Agree. Kids pick up far more than adults realise.

Some of the responses on this thread are absolutely bonkers. Haven't any of you met a small child before? They make up this sort of shit all the time. An imaginary friend is a classic way of expressing thoughts that they know are either naughty or uncomfortable to parents.

Four year olds are starting to process the concept of death and quickly pick up that the subject makes adults uneasy - so projecting through an imaginary friend is a good way of talking about death without violating adult taboos. Your DS is a perfectly normal 4 year old with a good imagination, OP, and anyone telling you otherwise needs to get a grip.

@CoffeeWithMyOxygen I have read many "woo" threads on here where people say the same thing. Do an advanced search, you'll find some kindred spirits! (also no pun intended!).

Haven't any of you met a small child before? They make up this sort of shit all the time

I agree, kids can be very imaginative and they will say all sorts of batshit stuff. When oldest DS was in nursery, DH did pick up. He hadn't done one yet as he was working away and when DS came to the door he told his teacher "I don't know who that man is" so she refused to hand him over and poor DH was asked to wait off the premises while they contacted me. DD told her teacher I was pregnant not once, not twice, but three times over the course of one school year. Youngest DS told his teacher "Daddy is in jail" and I had to explain that no, Daddy is in fucking Cornwall on business, although "Cornwall on business" is now family shorthand for "in jail".

Glastonbury makes me feel weird too. A bit like I can’t take a deep enough breath, somehow stifling.

@pushingdaisies

Am I the only one who can see the full blown face in the picture?

I can too... In a way.

Side question: what IS it about Glastonbury? Is it really just the ley lines?

Ley lines were made up fairly recently I’m afraid.

Glastonbury is down right odd though. I put it down to the vast amounts of patchouli oil in the atmosphere.

I’ll get back to you tomorrow

Mondays are hectic and not good to dowse when you’re like that

Glastonbury - went for a mooch round the town and to see the tor. (sp?) I felt a strong weird low level excitement for the first couple of hours there as if something else amazing was going to happen/be revealed to me. Then i slowly started to feel more and more physically ill and had to leave and be driven home. Once a certain distance away i felt fine again.

Bloody hell will I ever sleep again! Also- welsh words that sounds like messy? It’s not fire, flood or bomb so we are safe from that 😂

Am I the only one who can see the full blown face in the picture?

It's called pareidolia, it's a psychological response where the human brain looks for patterns in inanimate objects. We're predisposed to look for and recognise faces so more often than not the pattern our brains assemble is a face.

Starting to doubt the OP a bit now to be fair.
Like you’d let your child take the badge to his first day of nursery after all the stuff he’s allegedly come out with and blamed on the badge. No one is that dim.
I call nonsense

I read this thread before I went to sleep last night and I dreamt of BF. It was not good 🙈.

Peaked too soon, op.