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.”

😂😱😨

Ask ds to enquire of birdie friend when and how the end is coming!!!

I dont think birdie is harmful. If he wanted to harm he’d have done it by now.

Write everything birdie friend says down and give the book to dc when he’s older. He’ll have forgotten all about this by then. Or the end will have taken us all in which case none of it really matters,,,,,

The so end is coming when the messy comes apparently, it will be very soon. Then people who are good will go to Devon. I guess he means heaven.

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Definitely investigate whether a child has died in your house!

When I was a kid I saw the ghost of a dead relative (who died well before I was born), as I got older I could no longer see the ghost but could see a disturbance in the air in the shape of a person.

So long as your child is not upset and you don’t think there is evil intent leave alone.

To all sceptics, I will steal the words of William Blake “all that is now proved was once only imagined” ( might not have got that word for word”.

But hang on- IME it’s quite normal for kids to do this kind of stuff that as adults we find creepy?

DS (3) sometimes says the EXACT thing I’m thinking- like he intuits the thing that I’m keeping to myself (like for example, he was doing a puzzle in his magazine today, and I thought to myself “I wonder if it’s normal for him to not be able to do a straight line yet?” And he said “I’m not ready to do lines like this yet am I?” I definitely didn’t say it aloud. )

I also had terrible ocd which eased up when he was about 2. Around 2, he was walking past a lit candle on the shelf (way out of reach) and I had an intrusive thought of the candle somehow (impossibly) catching his long hair and him setting afire- and felt immediately sick. He turned around to me, terrified, and said “Don’t let me be fire!!!”. I hadn’t said a word.

Lots of stuff like this... mostly like... psychic intuition with DS? He’s not really one for “seeing” Some children are just a bit.... spooky?

He does say he can remember living in my belly though, and the description is both convincing and a bit

Wow, your ds is cool 😎

What will the messy, er, messiah look like? Wear?
I’m well curious.
Picturing another Jesus type half clothes in loose material but let’s see if birdie friend has other ideas. Perhaps it will be a woman wearing Prada or something. Can’t wait to hear!

And let’s all pack a case and head to the safety of Devon.

TheSheep my ds told me aged 5, when Damian Rice was playing in the car, that he liked hearing it when he was in my tummy! (I did play that CD a helluva lot when pregnant). Also described the moments after he was born, right down to the light over the little incubator and how cold the scales felt on his feet when he kicked the towel away.

I used to be very skeptical about woo, until my DD (about 5 at the time)started talking about “the clear children”, four of them. Two boys, two girls, all three years old. Their mummies and daddies had died and so they had to live in our house with us now. Yes, I was apparently running a ghost orphanage.
They would move things, drop things. They would turn lights off. She eventually stopped talking about them and I didn’t want to start anything back up again by asking her where they went. But it still took a good year for her to go upstairs by herself.

There’s a Facebook group called ‘Haunted Married Quarters’ it may be worth you joining it - some of the stories and pictures are fascinating.

This is so interesting

Well this was all very unpleasant and I'm not even slightly woo. Just glad I read at 8pm with DS and kids telly, not on my own in the dark

People can laugh but this has frightened me.

I’m already a member of Haunted Married Quarters on Facebook and it’s terrifying!

DS told me Birdie Friend wanted to snuggle me when he went to bed. So I’m currently sitting here watching television with a badge...

@itsgettingweird don’t be silly. the only things to survive the End of Days will be cockroaches, tupperware and Katie Price.

He’s currently sitting on my lap...

I clicked on this wondering if "badge" was short for badger, which would actually have been even weirder.

Either way, this is fabulous!

PS The end is always coming soon in the grander scheme of things, and we're definitely all going to die.

No definitely Devon, we are all very good here, honest.

Not sure we want Birdie Friend here though. 😆

I dont think people are getting annoyed or aggressive because of the supernatural its probably more how calmly you are talking about it, like it's a joke. If one of my kids was saying this shit I'd be freaking the fuck out

there'd be a bit of change that didn't belong to either of us on the mantle piece. My mum reckons it was a brownie or something. I'm sceptical but not 100%

We get this a lot.

A few years ago we were at the airport sat in the departure lounge. I went to the loo. While I was gone DH said a man came and sat where I had been for a moment. When I came back there was a French centime on my seat. France had switched to the euro years before. Since then I’ve found a Falkland island 5p on my door step and a channel island 1p on my dressing table.

As for Birdie Friend you just know that if you burn it or throw it out the car window then that bugger is going to turn up on your kitchen table again.

Ask BF a question in Welsh.

Maybe insult BF in Welsh, see what it tells your son. Your son won’t know what you’ve said.

@PlomBear

Have you thought about putting BF somewhere... strange... while DS is in bed? In a biscuit tin, in a coat pocket or whatever. Get him out before DS is up tomorrow, and when you give him back, ask DS if BF enjoyed his snuggle last night.

If there IS something woo going on, surely BF will “tell” your DS he spent the evening with the Jamie dodgers or whatever?

Jamie Dodger... is a Jammie Dodger obvs

TheSheepofWallSt - funny you ask. We once went to a wedding and DS stayed with grandparents but insisted we take BF to the wedding. I left BF in the hotel room. DS said Birdie Friend was angry that he didn’t go to the wedding...I might put BF in the fridge to cool him off!

NoFucksImAQueen - I’m a very calm, cynical person, I don’t tend to get “freaked out.”

I’ve really enjoyed reading all your comments, spooky and funny!

This is creepier than the spooky stories threads!!

@PlomBear

If I were you, BF would be getting a bloody stern talking to. And be getting smudged.

That said, this isn’t actually BF if it’s something, is it? It’s something else manifesting, using BF as a proxy.

Cheeky fucker

It’s either DS being a typical weird toddler saying silly things that’s he’s heard adults say, a cheeky fucker entity pretending to be a badge or DS seeing dead people.