Anonymous wrote:Just got chills from this thread

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Anonymous wrote:No one believes me that my ghost friend named Agnes opened the basement door in this shady house we were living in, which allowed a rat to come upstairs, climb into my little brother's crib and bite his toe.

Everyone swears I opened the door on my own because I wanted my brother to get hurt because I was jealous of him. They say this because I did once try to roll him off the bed when my mom wasn't looking. I do 100% admit to doing that. It was just after he was born and I did NOT like him or want him around. Because he was around, I was no longer allowed to sleep in my parent's bed because that's where he slept. So in my 5 year old brain I figured if I made it look like HE was too clumsy and irresponsible to sleep in the big bed, he'd have to sleep in a crib/bassinet and I'd get my rightful place back.

Anyway, my ghost friend Agnes and I were very tight. My parents still refer to her as my imaginary friend, but she was real and not in my imagination. I told Agnes how much I hated my little brother and she told me she understood because she was the oldest of her siblings and she hated having to take care of them along with her mother (Agnes was 13, FYI). Anyway, she told me stories of how much work and how much trouble her younger siblings caused. Her brother Jed was actually why she died; he got lost while hunting and Agnes caught pneumonia from being out in the cold weather searching for him. Whenever I got a cold or anything, Agnes got very worried about me because she didn't want me to die like she had. She told me that where she was was very lonely because she only got to have friends for a few years "before things changed" and now I understand that to be because kids are more receptive and eventually grow to not believe and can no longer communicate with spirits. Anyway, Agnes is the one who opened the basement door because she knew my dad had discovered rats down there and she said when she was alive, rats were very dirty and transmitted diseases to humans.

I'm the one who got in trouble for the door being opened and my brother getting bitten. And then each time I said that it was Agnes who did it, I got another spanking. My parents were furious. Not too long after that Agnes told me that she could feel our time together ending soon. We no longer communicated after I turned 6. I remember asking her to come talk to me but nothing happened. So, so, so weird. I still thought about her and missed her for years after.

What kind of place did you live that you had RATS in your house.

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Anonymous wrote:Since my dd was 18mo she has pointed to a corner in her room and said there was a witch. She’s two now and the witch wants to poke her in the belly with her finger and drain the blood. I honestly think she sees a shadow and she’s seen something on tv somewhere probably when she was younger. (Like we may have watched GOT in front of her when she was 15mo)

Also she talks about being an old woman.

Poster with a new baby here--at what age do you need to stop watching things like GOT in front of them?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I posted this in a thread a few years back.

My then toddler used to wake up in the middle of the night and just laugh, cackle and squeal, never leaving his bed or playing with toys.

One day he saw a picture of my mom and said "That is Grandma K. She comes to my room at night. We play games. We tell jokes. We laugh together."

My mom passed away years before he was born.

Kids are awesome people.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here.

I’m still not convinced it’s anything other than my daughters imagination. But I will say, reading the thread has me fascinated. I can’t say I believe in spirits or another paranormal dimension. DH was raised very anti-theists and I was raised very Catholic. It took me a very long time to let go of those beliefs, and sometimes they creep back. I think people want to make sense of the unexplained, the odd... I feel like if I were to burn sage I would be accepting a reality I don’t believe in...

That being said, at this point I’d love for my daughter to quit the talk about it. We now barely acknowledge her when she mentions him (usually as soon as she gets up, and before bed). We don’t want our reaction to encourage it. I feel like most three-year-olds would have dropped it by now. She’s very insistent.

This morning she told me he crawled under her bed, she knew he was there but couldn’t cry or he’d go and “bite the baby” instead. I have a 4 month old as well, who sleeps across the hall. This made me teary as DD is not a fan of her baby sister. She either openly ignored her, complains about her or at times, is mean to her. The idea that she was ok with this entity being her room so it didn’t hurt her sister made me emotional.

I am starting to wonder if she’s experiencing sleep paralysis. As an infant she’d wake up screaming a few times, and be hard to calm down (this was when we were in our old house).

I talked to my mother about it, and she is team “spirit”. She mentioned she hasn’t explained tetanus to her, but maybe her older brother did.

I know DS isn’t trying to scare her, because DS is a massive scaredy cat. He can’t handle a storyline with the tiniest bit of upheave. He’s ultra sensitive to emotions and fear, and if DD starts talking about the Rusty Man he runs away because terrifies him. Although the almost never mentions him when she’s not in bed I realized. It’s when I’m getting her up or putting her down for bed. She mentions it to our nanny during nap time.

I am fearful, but not of ghosts. Sometimes I do wonder if she has a mild onset of schizophrenia. She has exhibited some other behaviors, somewhat mild.

Maybe a ghost would be better.

OP, all I'd say is don't just block it out but ask about it calmly with specific questions. If your child is going through it, ignoring it won't help them be comforted. I am catholic (born and raised) and don't believe whole heartedly in the catholicism either, but believe in some sort of non-physical form (call it spirits or whatever). I know atheists who believe in this stuff. As I said, religion has NOTHING to do with spirituality. People confuse/conflate the two all the time. There are spiritual people who don't believe the first thing about organized religion and there are religious people who believe this stuff is nonsense.

OP -- re the schizophrenia, what are you thinking? My older brother heard voices as a child and did indeed end up as a full-blown schizophrenic as an adult. My mother is so regretful that she didn't take the voices more seriously when he was young, and taken him to a child psychologist or something. As a mother I have panic attacks when my son talk about seeing monsters, it is hard for me to know what is normal.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here.

I’m still not convinced it’s anything other than my daughters imagination. But I will say, reading the thread has me fascinated. I can’t say I believe in spirits or another paranormal dimension. DH was raised very anti-theists and I was raised very Catholic. It took me a very long time to let go of those beliefs, and sometimes they creep back. I think people want to make sense of the unexplained, the odd... I feel like if I were to burn sage I would be accepting a reality I don’t believe in...

That being said, at this point I’d love for my daughter to quit the talk about it. We now barely acknowledge her when she mentions him (usually as soon as she gets up, and before bed). We don’t want our reaction to encourage it. I feel like most three-year-olds would have dropped it by now. She’s very insistent.

This morning she told me he crawled under her bed, she knew he was there but couldn’t cry or he’d go and “bite the baby” instead. I have a 4 month old as well, who sleeps across the hall. This made me teary as DD is not a fan of her baby sister. She either openly ignored her, complains about her or at times, is mean to her. The idea that she was ok with this entity being her room so it didn’t hurt her sister made me emotional.

I am starting to wonder if she’s experiencing sleep paralysis. As an infant she’d wake up screaming a few times, and be hard to calm down (this was when we were in our old house).

I talked to my mother about it, and she is team “spirit”. She mentioned she hasn’t explained tetanus to her, but maybe her older brother did.

I know DS isn’t trying to scare her, because DS is a massive scaredy cat. He can’t handle a storyline with the tiniest bit of upheave. He’s ultra sensitive to emotions and fear, and if DD starts talking about the Rusty Man he runs away because terrifies him. Although the almost never mentions him when she’s not in bed I realized. It’s when I’m getting her up or putting her down for bed. She mentions it to our nanny during nap time.

I am fearful, but not of ghosts. Sometimes I do wonder if she has a mild onset of schizophrenia. She has exhibited some other behaviors, somewhat mild.

Maybe a ghost would be better.

OP, all I'd say is don't just block it out but ask about it calmly with specific questions. If your child is going through it, ignoring it won't help them be comforted. I am catholic (born and raised) and don't believe whole heartedly in the catholicism either, but believe in some sort of non-physical form (call it spirits or whatever). I know atheists who believe in this stuff. As I said, religion has NOTHING to do with spirituality. People confuse/conflate the two all the time. There are spiritual people who don't believe the first thing about organized religion and there are religious people who believe this stuff is nonsense.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting story OP - hopefully it doesn't turn frightening for her. I definitely believe young children are more in tune. My sister used to see an old grandma rocking in a chair in her room. DS had some experiences too but DD had the most. I'll preface the story below in that we had not talked about such things with DD.

DD was probably 6 or 7 and saw a little toddler girl in our kitchen one evening and said "mom, what is that little girl doing in here". I calmly asked her to describe her, what she was doing and so on - totally freaking out on the inside. Same DD has felt dark presences in her room at the foot of her bed as a young teen which freaked her out some. She is almost an adult now and will bring it up time to time.

I did teach her to burn sage in her room and during the mid-teen years, she asked to do it at least once when she was feeling spirits pass through and it was bugging her. She remembers all these types of episodes from her younger life. She is creative and very intelligent FWIW and is thankfully still able to sleep alone in her room after some of the bedroom events.

Anonymous wrote:OP, please talk to your daughter's pediatrician about this. It could well be a sleep disorder, a neurological issue, or something else that needs to be addressed. Knowledge is power, and once you know what it is and what you need to do, you'll be able to help.

In the meantime, as you wait for appointments/a diagnosis, there is certainly no harm in saging or confronting a presence. No harm in trying some of these tips. If they work, great! If not, you did what you could, for now, as you wait to see a doctor.

Anonymous wrote:If it were me, I’d get a priest in to bless the house. Friendly experiences are one thing but this sounds demonic to me.

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if we’re allowed to make recommendations but there’s a great medium in Chantilly. Her fees are clearly stated on her website and in my opinion she’s the real deal. I’ve had several friends go to her and we’ve all felt that we got every penny of our moneys worth.