My 21 month old will sometimes point to seemingly empty places like the ceiling and say “bear!” She’s really verbal and it would be out of character for her to do that unless she saw something.

I think kids are closer to the spirit world than we are, so I don’t question it.

Thanks everyone. I’m reading your stories and reading up on Woodlawn and huddling under a blanket peeing my pants.

Anonymous wrote:My mother's friend says her son (now an adult) was an "indigo child." When he was very little he told her that before he was born he chose them as parents because they were sweet people, and said some other things that she couldn't explain away.

When I was a young teen, my best friend's Mom took us for readings with a medium. Not like a fortune teller with a storefront, but someone who didn't advertise and met with people in her suburban home. I remember her asking me about my sister... I told her I didn't have a sister. She asked if my mother tries to act like a sister to me, I said no. She said, "Well, I don't know what to tell you; I see a sister here."

My sister was born about nine moths later.

My 5 yo DD has said to my DH that she chose us as her parents and was watching us on our wedding day. I have never pressed her on this.

My aunt and uncle have two kids, an older boy and younger girl. One time I was babysitting them and my boy cousin, who was like 3, and he was telling me about how he had two sisters, but he only had the one who was younger than him. I asked him more and he said he met his older sister "before." Come to find out my aunt had had a miscarriage a few years before my older cousin was born. Super weird and really freaked me out!!

OP, you have a 7 year old??

Now we know where the story is coming from. Your 7 year old must have said something about the Tin Man to your 3 year old from the Wizard of Oz.

Write this down and tell her when she's an adult.

Up until I was about 7, I I had a ghost friend named Izzy. My brother and I shared her as a friend until he was 6 (I was 5). Then he stopped seeing her. The details of what we knew about her and how we played with her were too specific and my mom honestly believed she must have been a ghost child.

I have a 5 year old who has correctly identified family members that he he would have no way of knowing about unless he'd seen them as spirits. According to DS, there used to be a nice old man that would visit him sometimes. . When DS was 3 , he had trouble staying in his room and a gate proved more dangerous than useful. One morning he had stayed in his room all night and I praised him. He gave me a very nonchalant "well I started to come out and then the man reminded me that I should stay in my room like you asked". Sometimes we would hear him talking to someone, but he was comforted not scared by whoever was there.

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?

+1

Agree.

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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."

MONICA: Well, you used to dress up in Mom's clothes all the time.

ROSS: What are you talking about?

MONICA: The big hat, the pearls, the little pick handbag.

ROSS: Okay, you are totally making this up.

MONICA: How can you not remember? You made us call you... Bea.

pp here! Ha, I had forgotten about that. Now, he writes short stories and comes up with names out of no where. A few months ago he said "I can't think of a name for my main character. I'll just call her Shannon." His dazzle seems to be shoe related, sadly, so no more beads and dresses for now.

I am loving the supernatural believers on this thread. I just think kids have less filter and paring down and it makes for massive creative thought.

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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.

Omg. This made me cry.
How amazing

OP, not sure if she is too young, but her describing having to keep her arms and legs still under the blankets makes me think about folks suffering from sleep paralysis.

OP again.

No, she has not seen The Wizard of Oz. My seven-year-old saw it when he was five and it terrified him. He’s also imaginative but very very easily spooked. We hold off on anything with an ounce of terror because we want to be able to sleep at night. I have not shown her any television, but she may have seen bits and pieces out and about. So I can’t gaurantee she’s never seen a seen that’s frightening, but I doubt it. She’s either at home with our nanny, my mother or me and DH. Neither my nanny nor my mother have said she’s watched anything remotely frightening. I know nanny let her watch a small bit of Blues Clues 6ish months ago when she had a stomach flu.

She could have very well been told about tetanus. It actually sounds like something my mother would say, I’ll have to ask. She’s always a bit worried about germs and bugs.

Our was built in 1919. It was almost completely remodeled in the 70s to add a new bathroom. The family we bought it from had been living there for 53 years, they never mentioned anything off. We never experienced anything odd and we’ve been here for about 18 months. It’s an old house, the wood floors are creaky. I can see someone getting easily creeped out.

There is no way DH would ever approve a blessing or excorcism. He’d think it was ridiculous. All in all I think DD is creative and odd and probably did hear about tetanus from my mom or someone and took it from there.

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."

MONICA: Well, you used to dress up in Mom's clothes all the time.

ROSS: What are you talking about?

MONICA: The big hat, the pearls, the little pick handbag.

ROSS: Okay, you are totally making this up.

MONICA: How can you not remember? You made us call you... Bea.

I don't believe in a spirit world, but I'm finding this thread creepily enjoyable.

Anonymous wrote:Did someone tell him he needed to wear shoes so he wouldn’t step on a rusty nail? Tetanus shot?

+1 sounds like a young child describing tetanus.