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The paranormal

Son & Cemetery

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Elmo230885 · 14/02/2022 18:57

A week or so ago DS(2.5), my sister and I were walking into town and walked past a cemetery. As soon as we got to the fence and DS could see in he started smiling and giggling whilst staring into the cemetery. He stopped as soon as we were past the fence. The same thing happened when we walked back. At one point he was saying " not there, not there, there". It freaked my sister out but DS seemed happy.
My parents had DS today whilst I was at work and they ran a few errands one of which was putting a plaque on a stone at a different cemetery. My mum told me that DS was giggling and looking around as soon as they got through the gates and seemed elated the whole time in there. She asked whilst there why he was laughing and he just kept saying " it makes me laugh".
Neither me nor my sister had mentioned his reaction the week before
Not really sure why I'm posting. I just found it oddly comforting.
Anyone else had anything similar?

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OvertheRainbow2U · 17/02/2022 14:15

No - but this is very interesting!

ouch12345 · 21/02/2022 19:37

Did you ask him what he saw OP? I'm not going to lie this would freak me out!

Elmo230885 · 22/02/2022 11:31

My Mum asked him when she was with him and he just kept saying 'it makes me laugh'. When he was with me and my sister I asked him and he didn't answer, he was far to enthralled with whatever he was giggling at.

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JellybabyGina87 · 23/02/2022 09:50

Years ago when my now teenage son was about 2 we used to walk through a huge cemetery as a short cut. Whenever I tried to walk down a certain part of the cemetery he would scream and thrash around in the buggy so I would always have to stick to the main path. He did this every time we walked through and if he saw the path he didn't like, he covered his eyes. I asked him about it when he was a bit older and he said he didn't like the kids with scary faces in that part of the cemetery because they used to wave at him 😶.

OvertheRainbow2U · 23/02/2022 11:15

good grief!

ouch12345 · 23/02/2022 21:24

@JellybabyGina87 oh my lord

SilverSplitsTheBlue · 23/02/2022 21:34

DS and i were laying on the bed looking at a book. DS was about 2ish. He started laughing at the ceiling,as if someone was playing peekaboo behind their hands. 100% something was making him react. It was a new build in Egham, not an old creaky Victorian house.

whythefuckdoibother · 23/02/2022 21:37

My DS used to wave at the cemetery that we passed daily, he used to giggle and wave and play peek a boo. So your story didn't surprise me at all, he recalls it now and says he use to wave to the men in uniforms.

Elmo230885 · 24/02/2022 14:16

Maybe I'll get an answer when he's older. I'm glad he seemed happy about whatever it was he was seeing.

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Gonnagetgoing · 09/03/2022 22:05

I don’t have kids but do have nieces and nephews. One time we were at DB’s PIL’s just outside Bath. The small playground is next to a church and has gravestones etc on sides like piled up. Can’t recall if it’s an actual cemetery or not. Anyway we visited sometime last year and I said I’d take nephew to playground and the nearby shops. We went to shops, I grabbed a coffee. Walk past graves. Nephew starts saying oh someone’s playing hide and seek there. Me, who? Oh the kids there. No kids there as far as I know. I mean he’s 3 and a half so could be messing around but he’s not really into ghosts. More dinosaurs etc. But who knows what he’s seen! Luckily they don’t live there permanently!

Gonnagetgoing · 09/03/2022 22:05

Sorry nephew said “oh the kids there”. Not me.

Gonnagetgoing · 09/03/2022 22:08

@whythefuckdoibother

My DS used to wave at the cemetery that we passed daily, he used to giggle and wave and play peek a boo. So your story didn't surprise me at all, he recalls it now and says he use to wave to the men in uniforms.

@whythefuckdoibother - in previous posts here lots of young children say they’ve seen ghosts in cemeteries, battlefields etc and these are kids generally who don’t know about this and who are very young so don’t make up stuff.

Me and DB used to see orbs in a room as kids. But I haven’t seen anything otherwise.

I do think young kids minds are far more open to this though and picking up on it and it passes as they age.

RichardsGear · 09/03/2022 22:08

I think I'd be finding it bloody scary, not comforting!

Chafingthedream · 09/03/2022 22:23

We used to live in a small Edwardian terrace house with a tiny family bathroom. So tiny that I had to leave the door open to allow enough room for me to kneel on the floor when my son was having a bath. On one occasion, when he was about 2, he kept looking behind me, leaning backwards and forwards to see through to the landing, and laughing as if he was playing a game with someone. It was when he leant forward and waved to whatever was behind me that I really shat myself! There was nobody else in the house!

SuperSocks · 09/03/2022 22:29

in previous posts here lots of young children say they’ve seen ghosts in cemeteries, battlefields etc and these are kids generally who don’t know about this and who are very young so don’t make up stuff.

When my sister was a toddler she was with my parents when they visited a Roman ampitheatre in rural Italy. It was only a small and very dilapidated one, not a place with signage where she could have picked up clues from pictures. She ran to my parents crying about 'The Lion'. They shrugged it off but she vividly remembers it to this day. She says it was extremely thin and unkempt and stood with it's head hanging down, panting. She's a very serious person and has never made anything up so I believe it all 100%.

FlyingGeeseAgain · 09/03/2022 22:45

Poor lion.

Gonnagetgoing · 11/03/2022 10:38

@SuperSocks

in previous posts here lots of young children say they’ve seen ghosts in cemeteries, battlefields etc and these are kids generally who don’t know about this and who are very young so don’t make up stuff.

When my sister was a toddler she was with my parents when they visited a Roman ampitheatre in rural Italy. It was only a small and very dilapidated one, not a place with signage where she could have picked up clues from pictures. She ran to my parents crying about 'The Lion'. They shrugged it off but she vividly remembers it to this day. She says it was extremely thin and unkempt and stood with it's head hanging down, panting. She's a very serious person and has never made anything up so I believe it all 100%.

@SuperSocks - I believe your sister!

Not quite the same as I'm an adult but I visited an ampitheatre in Saintes, France with my friends a couple of years ago.

It was a bit strange but especially walking through the tunnel you go to to come out in the main arena. Didn't see anything but definitely things happened there and you can pick up on it.

My friend is into reiki and sees auras, me, nothing like that.

It's strange because in the other parts of the town where there are old Roman parts it has a different feeling.

DesertStorms · 14/03/2022 17:48

Bump

Soffit · 14/03/2022 17:55

Apparently, we are all born with strong psychic abilities and esp but invariably lose it during early childhood. It is thought that very young can really see non-human entities/spirits but lose the ability to do so as soon as their rational mind has developed enough to adequately articulate it.

Soffit · 14/03/2022 17:56

By the same logic, psychics/seers are among the few adults who either managed to retain these abilities or managed to redevelop them.

Seriously79 · 14/03/2022 18:02

Whilst out and about with my DD 2.5 a few weeks ago in my home town, I couldn't park where I needed to and parked down a residential street instead.

As I got her out of the car, she pointed at the house opposite and shouted 'drs mummy, I need my drs kit for that house'

The house she pointed at, used to be a Dr Surgery about 25 years ago! Now converted into flats.

Vicliz24 · 14/03/2022 18:05

My son used to wave and chuckle at the lady - on the wall 😳 Even now he remembers a lady's face in our old house wall that waved and blew kisses at him . He remembers her hair and everything.

Weefreetiffany · 14/03/2022 18:22

Today my 3yo told his nursery key person that we went up in a hot air balloon and it crashed. We had seen one made of chocolate in a shop on Saturday. I’m not saying the kids don’t see spirits, but they’re also processing lots of things and also might not be seeing spirits but thinking about all the language and communication skills and exploring those randomly.

Gonnagetgoing · 14/03/2022 18:31

I’m sure I’ve said this here before but years ago family friend’s DD lived in a Victorian house. Her younger son would say things about seeing a lady in a certain room, when she asked further he said grey hair, and old fashioned clothing, he was 3 so his speech wasn’t brilliant but he’d say it every so often that he’d seen this and seemed adamant about it. He had no idea about ghosts and she didn’t want to encourage it as she’s not that way at all. They moved when he was 5/6 to a Georgian house but he’d stopped saying about this woman by then.

OvertheRainbow2U · 14/03/2022 21:38

Seriously79 wow!!!

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