Most folks in the west don’t believe in past lives but for those who do, it’s well known that children are more in touch with their former selves and those memories.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is 2 years old.

And yet, the spirit is alive and well.

This thread is 2 years old.

I read once that children can see more of the spiritual world because they are closer to it, having just come from it. Creepy as hell to think about!

Anonymous wrote:OBVIOUSLY the nanny or a playmate let her see something she shouldn’t have, or she overheard you watching something on television. This is such a common trope that it would have come up on many shows/movies.

Occam’s razor, people!

Why did you bring back to life a thread that is like 2+ years old? Odd.

OP - your kid is probably 5 or 6 years old by now. If you're still on Dcum, update?

Did someone talk with her about rusty nails and getting tetanus from them? It sounds like someone may have told her to not get cut on a rusty nail or you can get tetanus from a blood infection. These things can turn into tales where nails turn into people.

OBVIOUSLY the nanny or a playmate let her see something she shouldn’t have, or she overheard you watching something on television. This is such a common trope that it would have come up on many shows/movies.

Occam’s razor, people!

OP. Any updates? I was talking about this thread with my DCs in the car tonight. We had just been listening to several true-life ghost encounter podcasts. I hope your DC is okay.

I had a creepy experience at a beach house recently. Dd (7) and ds(4) are sleeping in one room, dh and I in the next. Dd wakes up first night with a nightmare. Sleeps in bed with us. Next night, she wakes up again, shortly after, ds comes to my room and says he pooped himself. I get up to clean him, but he didn’t have an accident. I leave dd in my bed with dh and go sleep with ds in the other room. I proceed to have a terrifying nightmare that I am paralyzed in the bed, and being crushed by a ghost. I have creepy dreams occasionally and so I tried to say out loud- it’s a dream, but I couldn’t. Later that day, tell dh I had a “bad dream” but totally do not mention a ghost bc obvs I don’t want to terrify the kids.

That night ds says: I’m scared to go to bed because of the ghost! Wtf. So I sleep with him and have the same dream. In the morning I ask him, what are you talking about, ghost? He immediately walks to the lamp and starts flicking it on and off, gets embarrassed, then says, there is no ghost. The ghost is you.

Aaaaahhhhh. I asked the ghost to leave. And we had a pleasant rest of the week.

Anonymous wrote:Also, could be a tale she heard from other kids at playgroup, the playground, etc. Just sitting in the sandbox.

Ha. Can't wait for The Sandbox Chronicles to come to Netflix: After a few tantrums and being reminded to share, three-year-olds on a playdate exchange chilling tales of a man they've all seen in their closets. Trauma ensues when they happen upon an unexpected find buried in the sandbox.

My son doesn't talk yet - he's 10 months old - but he reacts to his grandmother (my mother-in-law) and great-grandmother (my grandmother) with such joy, I'd like to think it has something to do with us naming him after each of their (deceased) husbands. He's only met each of these women a handful of times, yet he gives them such over-the-top smiles and chatter and kisses.

Sounds like a perfect scene from a typical horror film.

Instead of “based on a true story” your story can be presented that ALL events actually did occur.

The following happened to a friend years back. He was visiting a friend (single mom with a 3 yo boy), which said the boy was talking about imaginary people. My friend stayed to sleep in the couch that evening. He suddenly woke up and saw concentric circles of light "dancing" on the wall adjacent to the boy's room. He made sure it was not lights from outside the apartment. Completely creeped out, he woke up the mom, who came and also saw the dancing light circles. It lasted for 5 minutes. Suddenly, dissapeared. In that same second, the boy woke up, crying loudly.

Why do I log into DCUM in the middle of the night? why, why?

Anonymous wrote:

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.

There is one door in our basement that teenage ds insists on keeping closed. He says he can hear someone talking if it's open.

Ahh! This is super creepy.

Although if it is a teenager he could be smoking pot.