My daughter sees a ghost

[Tinkerbellanne]

Hi my daughter has just turned 4 and has always been an amazing sleeper since I can remember. Last month she told me a black man stands in the corner of her room but he hasnt got a face. She said she has tried talking to him but because he hasnt got a face he wont talk back. She sees him in her room every night and two weeks ago she told me he threw her soft toy unicorn at her. She told him to stop and turned over to sleep she told me. Last night we have redecorated her room and I've moved her bed onto the opposite wall where he stands. Last night she woke up 3 times screaming foe me saying he was really close to her floating over her bed. I got the night light out and plugged it in and she was fine for the rest of the night. What should I do?

Salt in the corner of the rooms is meant to stop them being able to manifest. Corners are common for shadow figures.

Honestly I'd have a priest round!

God that's horrible! I'd move her bed back and sleep in with her for a few nights. OR get a squirt water bottle with 'holy water' (the tap is holy right?!) and spray it around her bed.

Clearly I mean spray it around the bed for her benefit. So she feels she's doing something

Genuine question, how come people don’t see ghosts in the day time walking around town or the supermarket?
It’s always at night, or in a house alone when maybe we’re a bit paranoid anyway.
Surely it’s just something in the corner of our eye?

@Redrunbluerun

Genuine question, how come people don’t see ghosts in the day time walking around town or the supermarket? It’s always at night, or in a house alone when maybe we’re a bit paranoid anyway. Surely it’s just something in the corner of our eye?

Not that I'm saying what the OP's DD is seeing is a ghost, but a dark figure with no face throwing toys is hardly something in her eye 🤣

Oh my god I would completely and utterly shit myself at this.

Go into her room when she’s not around and tell it in no uncertain terms to leave. Say it’s scaring your daughter, it has no right to be there and that it has to move on. I’d also be burning a white candle to cleanse the atmosphere. Really hope something works x

My mate used to see ghosts, saw them from when she was a DC, saw her dead grandfather when she was skipping down the street at aged 3 with her mum. Saw people sitting in restaurants (not at night) she would say they were just sat there not bothering with anyone. She would just see them sat there. She once freaked a bloke out once as she saw someone standing next to him and went to introduce herself, but noone was there.He freaked but on discussion it was his partner who had died. I have never seen one ever, however I dont disbelieve my friend either

We live in a very old house. When my eldest was 2 she used to see a lady with a ‘broken face’ on the stairs. Loads have happened over the years to us and guests staying over. They always pass. Years can go by without anything happening. I agree with others. Sleep in her room, let her show you what she is seeing. Please don’t just disregard what she sees if tempted. Good luck xxx

When my first two dc were 1 and 2, every single night when I was putting them to bed the 2 year old used to point behind me and say man there! And get quite worked up. I don't know if it got to me or what but I did have this horrible oppressive feeling hanging around. I read that you should not talk about the thing (entity or whatever!) in the house as it can give it energy. The best thing to do was tell it loudly and firmly to go away and say the Lords Prayer. I did all of this and everything went back to normal. I do believe there was something because my 2 year old stopped pointing at the man!
Sounds batshit now I know 😂

I had this a lot, along with giant spiders, when I was in my early 20's. I was very sleep deprived at the time thanks to insomnia. I guess it's not down to that with your daughter, but the faceless grim reaper figure standing over me in bed, yep, been there done that! What worked for me was medication to help me sleep. I've more or less weaned myself off that now and my sleep is vastly better. I never get the black ghost/giant spiders any more.

So not a solution OP, but just to reassure you it needn't mean anything too sinister - I'm still here to tell the tale 10 years later!

Let her have the nightlight on, I wonder if it's a shadow. Sounds so scary for her!

Nightlights often give off shadows themselves, I found the best one is the gro light as its part of the light bulb in the ceiling so does not cast any shadow.

I would honestly move house op, at any cost. Sounds terrifying.

How did it go last night OP?

Hi thanks for checking up on us. She said she didnt see him last night because he doesnt like the light in her bedroom.

My partner described this exact type of thing when he was around the same age as your daughter, just a black figure that stood at the bottom of the bed saying nothing. He said it was only whenever it was completely dark that he would see the figure.

That's brilliant news! Fingers crossed the night light continues to work.

Use 'ghost spray'...fill a spray bottle with water and stick a label to it. Spray it with her before she goes to bed at night to keep the ghosts away.

It's almost certainly a shadow being thrown in one corner! Especially if she went back to sleep with the night light on. Have a look at objects in her room that might be making the shape and move it out of the way.

What has she been watching on TV?

This was probably just shadows - amazing shadows you pick out in a darkened room, especially if there's also a pattern in the room that your eye is just making out. A bit like seeing faces in your grans old flowery curtains.

Creepy as a child, never took much for these shadows to start to move but it was just tired eyes and imagination, the brain attempting to prescribe a recognisable shape to something.

Keep up with the nightlight and don't mention it again, if she sees it she'll let you know

OP

I often see 'people' when I wake in the night, it's actually a combination of my voile window covering, the moon, the outside light and objects in the bedroom.

And yes I have had them float over me.

Although I've not had anything thrown at me.

When I was a child, I often saw a man in black who wore a black balaclava like hat on his head so you couldn’t see his face. Always standing still and never talking.
My parents helped me get over it by ensuring my room was tidy every day, cupboard doors closed, no objects lying around that could be mistaken for something scary in the dark - and leaving my door open a crack for a bit of light to come in.
It was scary but really all in my head. Happy bedtime stories should help?