Has anyones child ever said anything that made you believe they lived a past life/anything like that?

[Lottie05]

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Yes - my daughter turned us white one day.

We live in Liverpool and went to a stately home and grounds called croxteth hall - local to us, we visit often. When she was tiny, just talking, she asked us if we remembered the little train that used to be there. Yep, you guessed it, there used to be a little train - can't remember when it went exactly but was there in the 90s.

Weirder, though - she told us she used to live there and remembered when there was a fire. Yep - there was a fire! 😩😩😩

Woah! That's spooky!!

When my son was about 3 he always used to talk about when he was big and his other grandma that he used to have etc etc. When he used to drive, when he used to live somewhere else. I wish I could remember the specific things now!

I believe some are born again as energy never dies, it just transforms into something else.
Maybe not all of us get to be human again?

This thread is beautiful and has made me smile so much. I wish I could add to it. Please keep the memories coming!

My DM had gone to a chemist with my DN (about 2/3 at the time) to pick up a medication for my DF, only place that would order it for him. It was about 2/3 miles from where they lived.
DN said to DM from her car seat “Aunty Secret lived here”, DM was a bit 🤨as I used to but had moved before she was born. DM said “Yes, she did”. DN “I went I visit with mummy and daddy in her house with no stairs”. I had lived in a bungalow and DB and SIL had visited while she was pregnant.

A friend told me how she and the whole family were visiting some Greek or Roman (or both) ruins in Cyprus, where none of them had ever been before.

Immediately they arrived, her little grandson (still pre school, no more than 4, certainly unable to read) said, ‘I used to live here!’ And went on (very happily) to point out the remains of his house, and his friend’s house - he even gave an appropriate but slightly garbled name for him), and the cave where they used to hide, and the pool (bath) where they used to swim.

Needless to say, the rest of the family were seriously spooked!
When they eventually left, he said, quite happily, ‘Thank you for bringing me home.’
He’s now a teen and has no recollection of any of it. And AFAIK never made any mention afterwards,
Interestingly, he has part Greek Cypriot heritage on one side, and part Italian on the other.

Well, like most children they said things that might make the impressionable think that!

Idle hands?

When my younger daughter was 3, she was in the back of the car talking to me, and said she remembered when her and her younger sister (she's the younger, no more) where very old, but then the walls fell down in a big bang and then it was dark.

She never mentioned it again, but she was so concise and clear, not story telling, she doesn't do that, but as if recounting a memory.

That's creepy!

Are you sure this is your friend's real story? As there's a US series about this phenomena and this exact story was one of the stories shown on that. A small boy who they decided was the reincarnation of Thomas Andrews. He was also terrified of water.

Listen to Uncanny Live at the Hay Festuval.
Man used to say to his family “When I was a man I was a Pilot” as a toddler 👻

I used to tell my parents stories from when I was a boy. I also said I would turn into a boy when I grew up, so maybe I knew something similar to the little girl of the PP concerned about how tiring it would be to keep being reborn.

I was also familiar with places where we hadn’t been before.

All stopped when I was around 5.

Amazing thread!

We were on a little family staycation walking in a beautiful place of natural beauty when my 4/5yo DN out of the blue said "oh I came here before, with my daughter".. we sort of laughed and said "oh really?"... she said "yes, before she died". That stopped us in our tracks..! She is a very happy little thing but seemed a bit serious so we changed the conversation. Later her mum said she could talk about it if she wanted to, but DN said she didn't want to talk about it. Never heard anything about it again since!

Mum was looking at old photos of her childhood home (in another country, when DS, about 3 at the time and with speech delay, said "I used to live in there when I was your Dad" and (accurately) described bits of it. Mum was as shocked at the statement as his sudden speaking.

When my youngest was a few days old, I was burping her when she suddenly placed both her hands on my shoulder and pushed herself back and sideways, leaning back and looking me straight in the eyes.

It took me by surprise. All I could do was support her while she was scrutinising my face.
I felt she was thinking 'Who are you this time, and who am I?'

I told her what her name was, and that I was her Mum now, and that everybody loved her, and everything was going to be OK. She was safe with us.

After about a minute she relaxed and went back to letting me cuddle her.
It was like having a glimpse of a very old soul.

@M0ose Titanic wasn't a cruise ship.

I never know what I think about these stories. I do think some people are very suggestable, but then I also think there are more things in heaven and earth, so who knows! As a nanny I've had a lot of children come out with 'When I was a grown up' but never anything very interesting or specific. Children are so extremely imaginative. I insisted a big posh building we used to walk past on our way to town was my secret ballet school, that I went to in the middle of the night. I was only about 4 when I came up with that and it felt very real to me. I have 2 left feet and have never danced in my life, have no knowledge of it and little interest, but I was really positive it was true!

Yes, DS2, said something very specific. Never forgotten it. He has definitely been here before.

Yes. Because children have incredibly vivid imaginations, excellent memories and hear more than we think they do.

Not a past life but my younger sister at the age of around 5 was quite spooky. We went to visit some friends with two cats and she woke up the next day wailing that the black cat was dead, really inconsolable. Mum got a phone call later that day, the black cat had been hit by a car and killed 😔 She did the same thing when a friend's rabbit was killed by a fox.

I'm not at all woo but I still have no explanation for it, my parents were absolutely flabbergasted.

I think it is quite possible that ‘memories’ like this are encoded somewhere in our being, physical or psychological. After all, no one ‘knew’ about DNA until the last century, although its effects have been recognised for millennia.

Perhaps some people can access and formalise these traces better than others? Perhaps as we grow older , contemporary experience and the solidifying of identity overlays and masks or even erases the earlier experience?

Certainly it is a phenomenon recognised and recorded since the earliest historical times.

My eldest used to say strange things and recognised places.

I recently did a past life regression and the lady told me we chose our sex and we chose our biological families before each life. I thought this was interesting to show whose children mentioning choosing them.

Son used to say he was in a farm house fire and died. He was a farmer who had a narrow tractor - not like today’s style apparently. He stopped talking about it when he was about five or so. The details he gave never changed.