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Spooky baby...?

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moominmama86 · 19/07/2004 10:11

OK, don't laugh at me for this....

I'm sure ds can 'see' things I can't. I used to call him 'spooky baby' when he was younger because he would stare into the corner of my bedroom and laugh manically as if he was laughing at something, or babble on as if talking to someone. He hasn't done it for ages, so I assumed it was just one of those baby things, but this morning we were downstairs in the breakfast room which is quite an old room with lots of wood panelling and a big fireplace. He suddenly looked up from what he was doing and stared straight at the fireplace, pointing, laughing like a maniac and saying 'BAH! BAH! BAH!' very loudly which is his way of saying 'Look at that!' Needless to say there was absolutely nothing there to look at.

So am I mad or...do I have a psychic baby?

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woodpops · 14/07/2004 08:25

Nope you're not mad. I have a friend who was changeing her toddlers nappy one day when just out of the blue he said 'no I can't tell mummy that'. When my friend questioned him about what he couldn't tell her he said asked me to tell you something. The name was my friends dead mil who'd died many years before my friend had had her children.

pesme · 14/07/2004 08:30

Hi mm, I am sure my dd sees ghosts too, she stars into space grinning, it really freaks me out. But then she does smile and laugh at our hideous living room lampshade so maybe she just laughing at our decorating!

gothicmama · 14/07/2004 08:58

I think it is easier for babies to see spirits we lose the knowledge as we get older and become rational and logical. It ould be comforting that there is someone watching over him. I suppose all this depends on your beliefs.

bootsmonkey · 14/07/2004 09:03

My DD often says 'Look mummy, ghost'. We live in an old Victorian house and I wouldn't discount the fact that we share it with past residents. She can say whether it is a man or a woman and what he/she is wearing.

I always tell her to give him/her a wave and a smile to show we are friendly!! Just in case....

Fio2 · 14/07/2004 09:05

mine used to do this......freaked me out!

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moominmama86 · 14/07/2004 09:21

Phew! Glad I'm not the only one then. It's really strange, isn't it? Like you, boots, can't discount the possibility that we may have 'houseguests' although I must admit I've never felt anything. The house is quite old though and rather cold. When we moved in we did also find an old wheelchair actually buried at the bottom of the garden...imaginations went into overdrive that day

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spikeycat · 14/07/2004 12:00

My mum says I used to terrify her with things like this, and then it got worse when I learned to talk and spoke to her about how I used to look after her when she was little, telling her things I couldn't have known about where she lived when she was a tot and things like that. I can't remember doing any of it though, I think it scared her more as her dad died about a month before I was born.

Angeliz · 14/07/2004 12:21

Getting dd aged 3 into car ouside Sainsburys oneday, she said " mammy you get me in, not the ghost"
I strapped her in and got in the front, looked back and said,"where is the ghost?" and dd pointed out her window and said "there!". (Very blase!)

When she was 1 i was changing her nappy and she said "uncle Gerry in sky" (We later found out that dp's brother, Gerry, had been flying at that time and thought of us at exactly 7am, when she said it.

Also have her on vidoe saying all about a window getting smashed and doorbell ringing, men in hat com,ing in the house. Next night, my mam stayeed here and had her car broken into,next door neighbour rang doorbell to tell us and then police came!!!

I think they are much more open than us!

janinlondon · 14/07/2004 12:39

Thank God other people's children do these things. Mind told me "Mummy, there's something I have to tell you, and its not good. I miss my other family." When questioned she told me that she used to have another family but they died and so she was sent to us to be in my tummy and have a new family. But she misses them sometimes. Eeeeeeek!

Sari · 14/07/2004 12:47

When I was somewhere around a year old we used to stay a lot at my grandparents' house. It was a big old house and I often used to wake up screaming in the night, pointing and shouting "Man, Man". One night my mother and grandmother both heard me but then I quietened down before either went to me. In the morning my grandmother mentioned she had seen someone going into my room and asked what the matter with me had been. It turned out that neither my mother nor anyone else in the house had been into the room.

There were lots of ghost stories about that house and my Dad heard people walking up shut-off stairs when he was little etc. I can't believe they used to leave me sleeping on my own ...

smellymelly · 14/07/2004 12:48

About a week after my Grandma died, My DS who was 3 at the time just said to me 'Grandma says Goodbye!' Brings a tear to my eye just to think of it again. I couldn't make it to the funeral so it was closure for me.

katierocket · 14/07/2004 13:00

smellymelly that's lovely

nightowl · 14/07/2004 23:50

not a ghost story but....i met ds's dad at work and after having him we both continued to work there for a number of years. i worked in the office and he worked in the factory. one day i went in to get something and took ds with me to show him off (as you do) he was a toddler by this time and didnt really know we worked together. we were standing outside the office when he points to the yard (around the corner) and says "daddy's in there" i said "dont be daft, its raining, theres no-one there" and he insisted. i walked around the corner and looked down the yard. right at the very back, loading a lorry was his dad. there is absolutely no possible way he could have seen him from where we were standing and no way he could have known what the yard was. he also used to have an "imaginary?" friend who knew all kinds of wierd things that he couldnt possibly have. i even thought i saw a little boy once here. i suddenly woke up one night and wondered why ds was standing in the corner of the room staring at me, dressed in traditional blackcountry type clothes. then i turned over and saw he was in bed with me! like the brave girl that i am, i hid under the duvet and didnt come out! could have been a dream i surpose but freaky all the same.

Linnet · 15/07/2004 00:14

when my dd1 was nearly 2 she was playing in the hall one morning then came into our room and said theres a ghost out there. It didn't freak me as much as I thought it would. Another time she was in our bedroom and she said to dh oh theres the ghost. dh asked her where and she pointed to the corner of the room, nothing for him to see. He asked if it was a man or a woman but she didn't say and changed the subject.

And a couple of weeks ago dd1 came and told me that she'd been talking to grandad, he died in March. I asked what he said and she told me that she'd told him that she had a baby sister now and that he'd said that was very exciting. Ok not a huge conversation but it came totally out of the blue, I like to think that she really did see him.

dd2 who is 7 weeks old often will lie on her mat staring into space and then suddenly smile as if someones cooing at her or tickling her. might just be smiling for the fun of it though who knows.

I've also heard that babies and small children can see things that adults can't as we lose the ability when we get older.

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