Three-year-old is really creeping me out.

[Anonymous]

This reminds me of a doctor Who episode. Unrelated, I wonder if your tv is loud enough for some sound to carry?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:eeeeeeeeek!!!

Please excuse my woo woo, but I do believe that children are closer to the spirit world than we are. What does the rusty man want?

I don’t believe in spirits, ghosts, demons etc but it’s still creepy to hear your 3-year-old tell you some ominous being sneaks into her room at night. DH finds it all silly, and strongly feels she keeps retelling us the story because she senses it scares us. He’s creeped out too, he hates horror movies.

[Anonymous]

We had a phase where our son would see spirits/energy at 2. He would communicate that "the man" was standing over there and be timid/shy. It seems to be rare these days but I believe kids are more in tune to the spirit world. It always creeped me the hell out and gave me goosebumps whenever it happened but my wife is more spiritual and said that maybe it's our ancestors coming to see us.

It may sound like foo foo nonsense to other people, but I think there's definitely something to it. If you've ever been to a legit medium I know there's a whole lot I don't understand. Now, the rusty man definitely sounds super creepy. When our son would get uncomfortable we'd just tell him to nicely tell the man to go away if he wasn't comfortable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-story.php?story=4788

Ugh, can’t make me read that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get all sorts of blessings on the home. And specifically mention the closet....

We had a blessing placed on our home, and I was paranoid about each and every closet / back patio etc being included. Because we had a blessing on a previous home, and didn’t mention this little concrete patio. I kept feeling like a spirit was staring in watching us from it. We did it again, and I immediately felt like it left.

DH and I are both atheists, especially DH. It wouldn’t fly for him although I don’t have an issue as long as the kids never knew about it. I think it would scare my son.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of a doctor Who episode. Unrelated, I wonder if your tv is loud enough for some sound to carry?

We don’t have a TV.

We watch shows, of course, but on our laptops in our room. I doubt she could hear it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP- she's intelligent and imaginative - this was the height of my DS's imaginary friends and play. He used to dress up in Disney dresses, full purse, wig, and strings of beads and sashay around his Catholic preschool- I got a huge kick out of it. At home he insisted that we call him "Pam."

A three year old talking about The Rusty Man is creepy and weirdly cool.

Your kid sounds awesome.

[Anonymous]

I’m more shocked that your 3 year old has had ZERO screen time. Now that’s impressive!

[Anonymous]

How old is your house?

What’s the history?

[Anonymous]

When my oldest was that age she would tell us about the giant gorilla who lived in her closet and would read books to her after we put her to bed. Active imagination + lots of goodnight gorilla.

[Anonymous]

My 3 YO talks about the ghost man who comes to his room at night. He seems matter of fact and not afraid. Once I heard an old man's voice on the baby monitor in my son's room saying "nice boy, nice boy." I posted about it on here and everyone said it must've been interference.

My 3 YO developed an interest in Ghostbusters after he mentioned the ghost man -- I played him the ghostbusters theme song at one point. Now he is obsessed with "blasting ghosts" with the ghostbuster blaster I got him.

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My Scottish grandmother was long dead before my niece was born and never saw a video of her. One day we were at a restaurant where the waitress had a Scottish accent and my niece said, “That girl talk like Kitty!” Kitty is what only my grandfather called my Grandmother and he was dead before she was. If my niece ever heard us talking about her Grandmother, we would have called her Grammy. Anyway, my niece told us that Kitty still kisses her at night and tells stories.

Weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get all sorts of blessings on the home. And specifically mention the closet....

We had a blessing placed on our home, and I was paranoid about each and every closet / back patio etc being included. Because we had a blessing on a previous home, and didn’t mention this little concrete patio. I kept feeling like a spirit was staring in watching us from it. We did it again, and I immediately felt like it left.

Serious question: who do you contact for these blessings, and where do you find them? Yelp?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 3 YO talks about the ghost man who comes to his room at night. He seems matter of fact and not afraid. Once I heard an old man's voice on the baby monitor in my son's room saying "nice boy, nice boy." I posted about it on here and everyone said it must've been interference.

My 3 YO developed an interest in Ghostbusters after he mentioned the ghost man -- I played him the ghostbusters theme song at one point. Now he is obsessed with "blasting ghosts" with the ghostbuster blaster I got him.

This would have led me to co-sleeping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 3 YO talks about the ghost man who comes to his room at night. He seems matter of fact and not afraid. Once I heard an old man's voice on the baby monitor in my son's room saying "nice boy, nice boy." I posted about it on here and everyone said it must've been interference.

My 3 YO developed an interest in Ghostbusters after he mentioned the ghost man -- I played him the ghostbusters theme song at one point. Now he is obsessed with "blasting ghosts" with the ghostbuster blaster I got him.

This would have led me to co-sleeping.

Actually he does sleep in our bed most nights. He will sometimes agree to fall asleep in his room, but then he comes in around midnight. He spends a lot of time "blasting ghosts" in his room but not so much time sleeping.