The lady is back and doesn't like what you are doing

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Said my 4 year old when we were alone in the house.

The lady was getting cross at me. She doesn't think I am a good housekeeper or that I clean my windows enough (TBF I can't argue with either point).

All that could be my 4 year old projecting or something he overheard. Only he went on to say that she visits lots and says that Mrs McClarkson (I think) thinks I am a hussy because my front yard is a mess (cracked paving / missing gate). The lady said it was shameful. She doesn't like my running leggings either.

I have no idea where he would have picked up the word hussy and I don't think I know anyone who would use shameful. Or, anyone who would be that interested in the front garden or windows. Or who Mrs McClarkson is.

He then lost interest and decided to start telling me about his favourite crayon.

I'm being judged by a spirit.

It would be very interesting to research the history of your house and the names of past residents.

Watching in terror …

(But surely it’s something on TV? Or picked up at school?)

😆

@CheeseCakeSunflowers I'm going to ask my elderly neighbours who grew up on the street.

@MetaDaughter I think it must be something like that but "hussy"? It's the context really that's thrown me. A bit like when you'd be talked about for having a dirty front step.

Why is this here and not on the wooooo forum?

(I assumed you meant your neighbour!)

I wouldn't worry - if Mrs McClarkson were genuinely communicating with your son, she would definitely know that "hussy" has nothing to do with the state of your front garden.

@TheYearOfSmallThings true.
Although maybe running tights might count?

And not worried. Just curious.

I wish the lady and/or Mrs McClarkson (who may even be the same person?) would stop pursing their lips and just fix the gate. 🤣

I am not in the least bit woo, but you did give me slight shivers. I think it's the use of the word hussy, which I associate with my grand/mother's generation (& even my phone doesn't recognise as a word!)

Is your address Button House OP? Because your DS's interlocutor definitely sounds like Lady B.

@FightingFatAt49 it's an odd one isn't it? I have no idea where he would have got it or known how to use it in a sentence. Maybe I need to start paying more attention to ceebeebies! 🤣

@QuietlyConfident that would be cool! Nope, a boring small victorian terrace. I've seen old photos of the street though and the houses were immaculate.

There would have been Mrs B's a couple of streets away though. The houses have attic servants quarters and the like.

He sees dead people….woooooo

@CantMakeHeadNorTail my MIL is nice. She probably does think I need housekeeping (not her son though!). She wouldn't say that in earshot of my son. She's also more likely to offer to help than judge.
I've never heard her her say either hussy or shameful.

@CantMakeHeadNorTail he lost interest and wouldn't say much else.

There's a wooooo thread/forum?

Can only sensitive people see it?

Most of the odd things DD1 said were out of books I had read to her. She was like a sponge and it was only when we read a particularly book again that it clicked.

Please let us know if he says anything else

Tell her to grab a cloth and pitch in or stop moaning 🤣 if she 'lives' there too then she should be doing a share really!

I think it's quite common for young children to talk to dead people - they're closer to gap of not being quite alive still/yet than us aren't they so maybe they still have remnant of another consciousness in them, that just dies away as we age.

I scared the beejesus out of my mum talking about a lady on the stairs quite a lot when I was very little and last night I was listening to the uncanny podcast where Jason Manford recounts being on facetime to his little daughter from his theatre dressing room and her saying "who is the man behind you"

Turned out to be the theatre ghost.

So Mrs Clarkson sounds very judgemental but harmless :D

You're going to be needing a donkey stone. That should cheer her up.

That said, when I was little (three year old probably) I remember hearing voices other than those from people who were in the room at the time.

It would be rather indistinct but occasionally I'd hear my name and say "What did you say, Mummy?"

"Nothing!?" was the reply.

Some would say I was clairaudient, I prefer the explanation that the brain is developing rapidly at that age and does weird things from time to time.