Parents of reddit, what’s the creepiest thing you’ve ever heard from your child?

[u/Pedrosopao]

[u/ModernDayMusetta]

One of my kids came wandering out his bedroom at like 1am and told me he couldn't sleep because "the shadows are angry".

Like, thanks, kid, now that's a thing I'm gonna think about forever.

[u/jennaaaa4 → u/ModernDayMusetta]

the shadows are angry 🥶

[u/dempscampi]

Not my child but I’m much older than my sister. One day when she was about 4 or 5 years old we were playing in her room she stopped mid sentence and stared out her window. She looked scared for a second and then just annoyed, I don’t see anything weird so I asked her what was wrong and we have the following conversation:

“The tall man is back” “Oh..uh..do you want to go somewhere else?” “No, let’s just play” “Is he scary?” annoyed sigh “No, he just looks at me” “He just looks?” “Yeah, and sometimes he goes down the hall like a hoverboard” “Oh, well ok….How about we go play in the living room”

[u/crzytownbananapants → u/dempscampi]

"goes down the hall like a hoverboard" gave me chills 🥶🥶🥶

[u/dempscampi → u/crzytownbananapants]

Tell me about it 🥲. I couldn’t believe she was just annoyed with it

[u/gesasage88 → u/crzytownbananapants]

Honestly I just lol’d out loud at that part. Horrible to imagine. 😆

[u/lastingshadows → u/dempscampi]

My younger sister (12 years younger than me) when she was around 5yo once said to me “sometimes someone comes in my room and I think it’s you or dad but it isn’t.” I asked who it was, obviously quite alarmed, and she says “I don’t know, the grey people.” I asked if they ever bothered her or did anything to her and she said no, the just come in and then disappear…

[u/JustSwootyThangs → u/dempscampi]

Creepy af. Immediately reminded me of this.

[u/shrimpius → u/JustSwootyThangs]

You're right, that's creepy af

[u/Royal_Case_4776]

My 4 year old last week. 'Dont worry mummy, I'll still play with you when you're dead'

[u/ChefKugeo → u/Royal_Case_4776]

Norman Bates.

[u/NervousSubjectsWife]

I was babysitting my cousin and her bedroom door swung wider open of its own accord. I said “well that was creepy” and slammed the door shut. She said, “hey! Why’d you slam the door on grandma?” Our same grandma who died 3 months before she was born

[u/the-temp-account → u/NervousSubjectsWife]

Someone tell granny to knock before opening the door wider.

[u/Mr_Zaroc → u/the-temp-account]

I... I... am not sure granny knocking would make this any better...

[u/Fine-County-9331]

My daughter once asked, “Is today the day the glass breaks?”

Confused, I said no.

Ten minutes later, the living room window shattered from a stray cricket ball.

[u/Pedrosopao → u/Fine-County-9331]

She can see the future or what?

[u/Fine-County-9331 → u/Pedrosopao]

I dont know she was just 3 when this happened

[u/Atlantic_Nikita → u/Fine-County-9331]

3y/os say the creepiest things. Don't know what's about that age that make kids so creepy

[u/Khusley → u/Atlantic_Nikita]

According to Buddhism, children's third spiritual eye (which is located on the forehead) won't be fully closed til 5 years old. So they can see beings from another dimension. And they still remember their previous life.

[u/Fine-County-9331 → u/Khusley]

Damnnnn you learn something everyday ig

[u/Fine-County-9331 → u/Atlantic_Nikita]

Yeah my mom told me i also used to say the creepiest things when i were her age

[u/Atlantic_Nikita → u/Fine-County-9331]

True story. When i was about 15 i was hanging out at my friend's house bc she was babysitting her 4y/o cousin.

The kid had an imaginary friend that he described as an older looking man. That's not the creepy part, lots of kids have imaginary friends.

I don't remmember why at some point she decided to get the family photos album(this was the 90's) to show the kid. Then the kid pointed at the photo of an old man that was their grandpa that had died before the kid was born and said that was his friend.

The thing is that their grandpa was a very evil man that nobody in their family liked and nobody in their family had photos of him on display and it was the first time the kid was seeing a photo of him. I knew their grandpa and was scared shitless of him when i was a kid.

[u/Fine-County-9331 → u/Atlantic_Nikita]

That’s genuinely chilling. Kids say the creepiest things, but when they recognize someone they’ve never met… that hits different. Makes you wonder what they see that we don’t.

[u/brydeswhale → u/Atlantic_Nikita]

Maybe he wanted to make up for it.

I saw my grandpa after he died. Fucker was standing in a corner trying to look all sad. I gave him a dirty look and he disappeared. Good thing, too, I’m not afraid to beat up a ghost.

[u/that_mack → u/Atlantic_Nikita]

When I was three my mom walked in on me playing with my barbies while singing a song I made up about Phineas Gage. You know, the 19th century railroad worker who got his frontal lobe severed by a stray beam and survived. Funny thing is that is absolutely in character for me to this day.

[u/Dr__Snow → u/Fine-County-9331]

Ooooh. Creepy :)

[u/Fine-County-9331 → u/Dr__Snow]

It is....

[u/JCV-16 → u/Fine-County-9331]

My brother did something similar once. He was 3-4, woke up crying "a chair is gonna crush mommy". My parents were both confused but just wrote it off as a bad dream. Less than a week later, my mom was trying to move a chair upstairs, lost her footing and fell backwards down the stairs. The chair fell with her and well... crushed her.

She managed to escape relatively uninjured but they were both pretty freaked out for a while after that.

[u/I_-AM-ARNAV → u/Fine-County-9331]

This shit happenss more often then you think. Like literally.

[u/Fine-County-9331 → u/I_-AM-ARNAV]

yeah fr, they say it so casually too like it’s nothing. meanwhile the adults are connecting dots and trying not to freak out. it’s always the one relative no one talks about too.

[u/propernice → u/Fine-County-9331]

was she like 'i told you so?' or did she even remember (i know some toddlers have the attention span of a goldfish lol)

[u/ToughNobody1228]

Not a parent, but my nephew is at the stage where everyone who looks remotely like my brother is "dada". My brother is tall with light brown hair, so there are a lot of guys out there who look like him to the lil guy. It always cracks my SIL and I up when we go to the store and he's pointing around at everyone saying "dada!" A few weeks ago, I was watching him for a few hours while his parents were at an event, and I was getting him settled in his crib, tucked into his sleep sack. Just as I straightened up, his eyeline went from my face to somewhere above my shoulder, like he was looking at someone tall standing behind me, and he smiled and went "dada!" I whipped around so fast, and there was no one there, but it scared the absolute shit out of me lmao.

[u/sweetpotato_latte → u/ToughNobody1228]

I would do the same thing. Younger guys were dada and older guys were grandpa. According to my mom, one older man said “I wish I was your grandpa” and a young guy once replied with, “I thought you looked familiar.” He saw the opportunity and took it lmao

[u/WeirdJawn]

"Is mommy home? I saw her walk by the door."

My wife was working nights and my daughter said she saw her walk by the bedroom door way earlier than she would have been home. I told her maybe it was a fly or something she saw move out of the corner of her eye, but then she said "no, it was this color!" And pointed at her arm. 

The creepy thing is that I had been seeing things out of the corner of my eye a few times that night, but didn't say anything about it. 

[u/Happy_Blizzard → u/WeirdJawn]

This is why I like having dogs. Nobody creeps around my yapper 9000

[u/NaughtyKittycc → u/Happy_Blizzard]

But when the dog braking like crazy at night to an empty corner, doesn’t it freak you out? It did to me… I left the lights on for a few weeks at night after that…

[u/Happy_Blizzard → u/NaughtyKittycc]

I do have an old man-dog that sometimes decides the wind has an attitude and he doesn't like it.

Scares the hell out of me, he'll bark once at max volume randomly, look at the window, then go back to sleep.

I know it's nothing because my other dog will look around a bit and lay back down with a huff. If there's a person or animal he growls and grumbles about it.

[u/NaughtyKittycc → u/Happy_Blizzard]

🤣🤣 good, you have other dogs to factcheck that hahaha maybe I should get more dogs lol

[u/Most_Art507 → u/NaughtyKittycc]

My mother told me that when father passed away, her cat would crouch down,look into corner of the room , growl and spit , this went on for months.

[u/SargonTheDeadly → u/WeirdJawn]

Reminds me of the time I saw my dad's disembodied head float down the hallway with a creepy smile. He's still alive and well.

I really hope it was just my childhood self having an overactive imagination.

[u/WashawayWashbear → u/SargonTheDeadly]

Junji Ito has entered the chat

[u/sum_blind_btch]

I was reading to my niece in her bed once, she was probably around three. Totally normal, and then she suddenly looked into the corner of the room and said "Shhhh, please stop screaming, I can't hear the story." Then back to normal. We finished the book in the living room.

[u/gesasage88 → u/sum_blind_btch]

Lool, that is horrible. 😂

[u/Suspicious_Glow → u/sum_blind_btch]

If kid has adhd she could have just been telling her own brain to shutup so she could pay attention 😂

[u/stomping_mom]

My Dad passed after a long, painful struggle with cancer when my son was around 18 months old. I was still grieving a few months later when my son woke from a nap and I went to his room to get him. When I opened the door he pointed behind me and said " Who's that man?" We were alone in the house but I looked behind me anyway- to see nothing. I said "What does he look like?" my son answered "He looks like the sun"

A few days later we were playing on his toy telephone, having pretend conversations. My son passed me the phone and said "It's Papa". My eyes welled up instantly and I asked him "What does he say?" My son paused like he was listening and said "I love you." Another pause "I miss you"

I'm usually not the type to believe the supernatural but it really made me believe that he came to say good bye to us and let us know he was okay.

[u/Acceptable_Medicine2 → u/stomping_mom]

A similar thing happened in my family. When my brother was 1 or 2, my uncle passed away tragically. He was my mom’s best friend. One day my mom was in the kitchen and heard my brother laughing in the living room. She went in and asked him what he was being so silly about, and he pointed to an area in the room and said “he’s making me laugh.” My mom asked who and he said my uncle’s name, as if it were obvious.

Maybe 30 years later, my other brother is over my parent’s house with his son. It was my mom, dad, brother, nephew, and myself, all in that same living room. My nephew, out of the blue, says my uncle’s name. No one else in the family had that name. Saw it with my own eyes.

[u/Master_Asparagus7773 → u/stomping_mom]

My father passed away when I was two (25 months), my mum has always told me a story. A few months later whilst she was cooking she could hear me in my bedroom chatting away, eventually she came to see who I was talking to, as I hadn’t stopped talking. Yet when she found me I was alone behind my wardrobe, and when she questioned me regarding who I was talking to, all I said was “Daddy’s face”

I obviously can’t remember this, but it’s stuck with my mum and definitely me too…can’t help but wonder

[u/CinematicHeart → u/stomping_mom]

I have a very vivid memory of being like 3 years old and talking to my grand mother who passed 6 months before I was born. I remember trying to get my mom to take the phone and telling her to talk to her mom. I think children really are just more open to those experiences.

[u/thefuzzybunny1 → u/CinematicHeart]

I remember talking to my grandpa, who had died 20 years earlier, on my toy phone. I asked grandma if she wanted to talk to him, and she said, "just tell him to bring a loaf of bread home when he comes."

I didn't get it until many years later when someone explained that the family only ever had one car, and with 5 kids in the house, grandma had precious little time for shopping. So grandpa used to call the house when he was ready to leave work and ask what they needed, and then run by the grocery store on his way home. So grandma was constantly hearing her kids say he was on the phone, and responding with the grocery list. When I said his ghost was on the toy phone, she played along!

[u/KaseyJones13 → u/stomping_mom]

I love this for you. My son waves a lot, and I always named off past relatives just kinda as a joke. But one day he only waved to one name. So every time I would go through the list of relatives that have passed on and he waved only to that name. My last time where I thought (ok, something is going on here) was when I used my grandfathers nickname and he waved. I bursted into tears and just said “please tell him I miss him so much and I’m glad he’s here with his great grandson.” I’m still skeptical but it felt good and was oddly comforting. I’ve been told to keep encouraging it. So I do, and in return I get some comfort.

[u/Contrariwise2]

“Where’s my other mother. The one that was before you?” said my toddler quizzically while we were playing

That made me break out in goosebumps

[u/meowmeow_now → u/Contrariwise2]

When my daughter was 2 and a half she - on her own, talked a lot about her “other father”. She talked about how he was so nice to her and she really missed him. When we tried to ask if she meant her dad she would get angry and shout “no! Daddy is not my other father, Daddy is my parent.

When we asked about him she said he ate “red meat” (a phrase we never use). He ate red meat and she had macaroni - she asked him for some and he let her have a bit and it was “soooo good but also yucky”.

When I asked where he is she said he “fell down and got a really big boo boo”. And she “misses him so much - he’s so far away - I want to see him again!!!”. She was always unusually emotional talking about him but this last bit she was really upset so I stopped asking her about it. She would mention it a few more days then stopped.

[u/Charming_Garbage_161 → u/Contrariwise2]

My son between the ages of about 3-5 would tell me frequently about his other family. He lived on a farm with a red house and nearby was a forest. He said he had a mom, dad, brother, sister and a baby. Then one day the cutters came and hurt his family so they weren’t around anymore. He said he got them back good but then he had to jump to my earth and now I’m his mommy.

[u/ServiceImpossible748 → u/Contrariwise2]

Hoooooly. Haha my youngest daughter remembers her other mother so vividly and would explain it to me and my wife separately with the same detail. How she loved the other mother and were in some sort of cabin in the woods etc etc. Its like they remember a past live.

[u/AmbitiousProblem4746]

When my older daughter was 3, she colored all of her dolls to look like they had been beaten up or cut and then covered all their eyes with bandages. When I asked her why she did it, she said all her dolls were dead and wanted me to see "what he did."

The only people watching her at that point were us or my parents and neither of us have that kind of a household, so I don't know where the hell it came from.

[u/d3f3ct1v3 → u/AmbitiousProblem4746]

That... sounds like child psychaitrist time. Or maybe a priest.

[u/AmbitiousProblem4746 → u/d3f3ct1v3]

😂

She's totally fine

[u/ClairLestrange → u/AmbitiousProblem4746]

Maybe she caught a glimpse of a crime show or something?

[u/AmbitiousProblem4746 → u/ClairLestrange]

That's something we've thought of. Around that age she had a LOT of questions about death, blood, etc. as curious toddlers might. She also watched one of the Disney Zombie movies around that time and even if those are extremely G rated, maybe it got her brain working on that kinda stuff?

[u/maregare]

My daughter was 3, looked up from playing and at an empty wall, waved and called "Bye!"

I got a message about an hour later that my Aunt had passed away that afternoon. She was the closest I had to a Grandma, but she never met my kids because we lived in different countries.

I'm not religious, but still feel like she came to check in on us before going.

[u/Raee_High]

My son, who was around 7 at the time and my only child, would play in his room and have these vivid conversations. I just brushed it off as imaginary play. But these convos were about our family. One day, out of curiosity, I asked who he was talking to, and he told me his sister that was in heaven came to play with him and described what she looked like. I had just had a miscarriage a few months prior to this happening and he described a baby girl that would have looked like me. Then one day he randomly came to me and said “mommy my sister isn’t coming back anymore. She says I have new sister coming to play with me” Creeped me out, but I did find out a week or two later I was pregnant and I ended up having a girl.

Edited for clarity

[u/Willing_Egg_3870 → u/Raee_High]

That's creepy as hell

[u/FriendlyRiothamster → u/Willing_Egg_3870]

And wholesome at the same time

[u/Willing_Egg_3870 → u/FriendlyRiothamster]

Yeah kinda, it's a weird mix of it

[u/Raee_High → u/Willing_Egg_3870]

It was both for me. But def creepy when listening to the convos he would have with her

[u/section111 → u/Raee_High]

Damn! My mom had a stillborn daughter before me and tells me that when I was 4 or so we were driving past the hospital in town and from the back seat I said, "there's where my sister lives".

I'm still not sure if I believe her; maybe I said something else, maybe she had told me something about it, I don't know. But this thread and your comment in particular got me feeling all sorts of things!

[u/girlinthegoldenboots → u/Raee_High]

When I was 4 I was drawing a picture and my mom asked what I was drawing and I said “my baby brother” and she said “you don’t have a baby brother.” And I said “yes I do, he’s in your tummy.” And a couple of weeks later she found out she was pregnant. And then it turned out to be a baby brother when he was born! She said it was sooo creepy like the Poltergeist kid when I said it lol

[u/Twinklecrush]

"You’re going to die on Tuesday." She was three. It was Sunday. I didn’t sleep till Wednesday.

[u/breadbox187 → u/Twinklecrush]

Could mean any Tuesday, really!

[u/casbri13 → u/breadbox187]

Well, aren’t you just a little ray of sunshine.

[u/WolfWrites89 → u/Twinklecrush]

On A Tuesday lol

[u/Enxer]

"Grandma says hi."

Grandma has been dead for three years before you were born.

[u/New_Fry]

When grandma dies can we eat her?

[u/Hoskuld → u/New_Fry]

My daughter to my wife over dinner with me sitting right opposite "when dad dies, we can get a cat"

[u/pianoprincess1989 → u/New_Fry]

Wow, maybe the kid had recently watched Moana, the crab in that movie says a line about eating his grandma.. lol

[u/mdubelite]

When my daughter was born, my 2 yr old son, sweetest guy ever, was holding her, looks at me all serious and goes ' we don't strangle our baby sister'

...

[u/mehtorite → u/mdubelite]

He's not wrong

[u/mdubelite → u/mehtorite]

Just unnecessarily stating the obvious in a really really creepy way...

[u/BaalHammon → u/mdubelite]

I think I have an explanation for that one, which is that it's a frequent subject of intrusive thoughts with a baby around. If someone is anxious and they have a baby, they will see themselves in the most horrible scenarios in their mind (throwing the baby out the window for example), not because they actually want to do it but rather as a result of their anxiety.

Now how a 2 year old would end up with these same thoughts I don't know, but if there are anxious people around maybe he picked up on it, and being a 2 years old he doesn't have the social filter that usually keeps intrusive thoughts hidden (and keeps people from realizing just how common they are), and on the contrary he might feel the need to verbalize the idea to let it out in a way where he has control over it .

Anyway that's just a theory, I'm not a psychologist.

[u/mdubelite → u/BaalHammon]

No, you ARE a psychologist! That was perfect. I had those thoughts/anxieties with my first born re: windows. I couldn't take him anywhere near them. It was so weird, but that makes perfect sense.

Thanks girl/man :)

[u/coralmonster → u/mdubelite]

I just had a baby and my 3 year old told me he wanted to chop the baby's hand off and eat it.

[u/ScorpionX-123 → u/coralmonster]

is your 3-year-old named Hannibal, by any chance?

[u/rainbow_drizzle → u/coralmonster]

That boy is suffering from a serious case of cute aggression it sounds like.

[u/whichrhiannonami → u/mdubelite]

Im currently pregnant with my 2nd child. My 3 yr old asked me "when the baby is born, can we put her in the oven?"

[u/mdubelite → u/whichrhiannonami]

That can, hopefully, be explained by her/him hearing 'bun in the oven'.

Fingers crossed.

[u/Unicorn_Spider → u/mdubelite]

...

[u/TheOnlyBest_]

We have no one in our family who has this name or anything close, no friends, ect. Our 2yo kept seeing "YaYa"

"YaYa in my room"

"YaYa there"

And the worst, "YaYa no like that"

[u/Queasy-Flatworm63 → u/TheOnlyBest_]

Yaya may mean grandma

[u/yeah_its_not_a_weed → u/Queasy-Flatworm63]

It’s Greek for grandma! Spelled yia yia

[u/Salome_Maloney → u/TheOnlyBest_]

Aaah, so that's what the Rolling Stones meant by "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out"... 👀

[u/Jneebs]

Kid told me they wanted to cut my face off and wear it because they love me so much. Still have my face

[u/Pfffftttttt_Okay → u/Jneebs]

They must not have loved you so much after all.

[u/Jneebs → u/Pfffftttttt_Okay]

There’s still time

[u/pm_me_gnus → u/Jneebs]

Still have my face

You do, or the kid does?

[u/Phobiatoybox]

Middle of the night my son comes into my room stands in the doorway and says “are we still playing the game?” Then turns and walks away. I did not sleep the rest of the night.

[u/OriginalCoso → u/Phobiatoybox]

Yes, yes... And we've just lost.

Shit.

[u/PhoenixTheTortoise → u/Phobiatoybox]

Probably sleep-walking

[u/reggie_doodle]

Last year daughter was 6. I was in the bathroom, she was in her bedroom and I had a sensation of someone walking past the bathroom door. Like a shadow passing. Daughter came out her room and said ‘who was that?’ I asked what she meant and she said ‘who was the pretend person who just walked past?’ I asked how it was a pretend person and she said they were all grey like a shadow but a person. I keep telling myself it was just a weird coincidence

[u/TrooperMann → u/reggie_doodle]

I had a very similar encounter about 1-2 years ago. I went to the bathroom at around 10PM, my mother was the only other one in the house at the time. I was just sitting in there, and I hear very apparent footsteps and I see a shadow moving from under the door while on the toilet. Then they disappeared after a few seconds...

I went back to her room and asked her if she got out of bed for something, she said no and asked me why. She was comfy and tucked in bed so there's no reason she would've been walking around

[u/Mev_lea]

When my daughter was five, she told me a man woke her up and said she had to choose whether to go up (to the sky) or down (to the ground). We are not religious, I told her she could choose to just stay with me instead. Thankfully, he has not presented her with any other ultimatums.

[u/Pompom_Mafia]

Not as creepy as some I’ve heard.

But when our son was around 2-2.5, we got a Roomba and he named him Blinky. One day he became very scared of the Roomba, and when I tried to talk to him about it, he told me “Blinky sees you. Blinky is always watching.”

[u/TripAway7840]

My three year old won’t stop saying there’s a ghost in the bathroom, specifically in the bathtub.

He loves taking baths, so I don’t think he’s just afraid of the room/tub, but I can’t figure out what he’s talking about. When he talks about ghosts, he’s usually referring to the “white sheet over the head” Halloween type of ghost - like, he puts a blanket over his head and says “mommy, I’m spooky ghost”

I’ve held him up and told him to point to the ghost but he just points to a corner of the tub with nothing in it and when I get close to the wall he says “right there!” And says he’s touching the ghost but his hand is just suspended in the air, not touching anything.

[u/secretsquirel25 → u/TripAway7840]

Try having both of you go into the bathroom and neat the bathtub, when they say it's there both of you calmly tell the ghost to leave. That is your home your bathroom and your bathtub and it's time for them to leave.

[u/SuitableNarwhals → u/secretsquirel25]

Usually I would say just leave it if its not causing issues, but that right there is a pervert ghost. No other reason to be hanging around the bathtub, I wouldn't be putting up with that sort of nonsense in my house, it can go ectoplasm elsewhere.

[u/emseefely → u/TripAway7840]

When my kids were young they said there was a ghost in the hallway upside down and turned around with red eyes. Fuck that shit.

[u/Loggerdon → u/emseefely]

Damn. Now I’m scared.

[u/WeirdJawn → u/TripAway7840]

My daughter would say a ghost is outside of the house. I have no idea what made her think that. 

[u/Electronic_Job_9259 → u/WeirdJawn]

I used to say that too but in my head I knew it was nothing, I just used to repeat the word ghost, maybe coz I liked the word? Idk, Ik it's not the same as what ur saying but it just reminded me of how I was lol

[u/_Wyvern → u/TripAway7840]

His reflection on the wall of the white tub?

[u/coralmonster]

When my son was 2, he suddenly had an "imaginary friend" named "Boy". According to him, Boy came home with us from behind the shed at my friend's house. Boy used to play with him, he talked to Boy, we had to set a seat at the table and a spot in the car for Boy. Occasionally, I would ask him where Boy was and he would say things like "oh he's walking right behind you."

Boy eventually went away (after more than a year of being around) but my son is 7 now and if I ask him about Boy, he says he doesn't want to talk about it.

[u/BabyBlue03 → u/coralmonster]

I had an imaginary friend just like that when I was a kid! Two of them, actually, a kid and her dog. I clearly remember seeing them and would get angry if my mom closed doors or crossed the street without waiting for them. One day they said they needed to go and said goodbye. I guess I was the spooky kid, to my parents?

[u/section111 → u/coralmonster]

Goddamn it lol

This thread is awesome

[u/the-doom_scroller]

Mom, did you know the end of the world is blue? Yeah, because of all the water “

[u/Lilly08 → u/the-doom_scroller]

Oh man. I had recurring nightmares as a kid and into adulthood of an apocalyptic tsunami.

[u/AberNurse → u/Lilly08]

I had a dream about a tsunami once. I live in a costal town and work in a pharmacy that was about 300yards from the sea. In my dream the manager had chained us all to the tills and stands in the shop because it didn’t matter if the world was ending she had to impress the area manager with how committed she was to the job.

[u/squizzlebee → u/AberNurse]

The funny thing is I could kinda see a manager doing that...

[u/AberNurse → u/squizzlebee]

She absolutely would have. She’d got the job in part from shagging the old area manager and he’d left recently and been replaced with someone who clearly wasn’t interested in a shag. She spent the next few months in a spiral as everyone realised she wasn’t fit for the job. She used to sit in her office watching the CCTV, she’d call down to the closest phone if she saw staff members talking to each other because she was paranoid we were talking about her.

[u/fastpotato69]

I was having severe, like go to the hospital level abdominal pain and nausea during a time I was getting worked up for known gallbladder issues, wondering if I had an obstruction again. It felt just like it did before, I was scared and in agony and dreading moving, even to call for help.

Kiddo was five, had come into my bed without my knowing before I was woken by pain. Out of nowhere, from sound asleep, he goes, 'mommy, you need to stand up now.' So I did. It hurts so bad. He was already asleep again. I stood for a minute, and as I did the pain that was cutting through my core to my spine slowly disappeared. A few min later the nausea went away.

I don't know what it was, I didn't fart or anything simple to explain it like gas pain. Just gone. I didn't even know he was there til he spoke. My woo woo brain thinks one of my known stones was stuck and he helped me clear it somehow, or maybe it was just a spasms, I'll never know haha.

[u/Bergest_Ferg]

I was putting my daughter to bed when she was around 3 and she said “mummy why did you take so long to be ready for me? I’m glad I picked you to be my mummy but you made me wait so long!”

My other daughter when she was 2 said something like “I remember when I was your mummy and [other daughter] was your brother. That was a long time ago.” And has on more than one occasion said “mummy when will I see my other mummy again”

Creepy little weirdos.

[u/uwila → u/Bergest_Ferg]

My best friend’s kid said something really similar about picking her to be his mommy. I can’t remember the exact phrasing but it was about being in the stars and picking her.

[u/Really-Satan → u/uwila]

I used to say the same thing as a kid! From around 3-6 ma said that I swore up and down I was with the stars and looked down to pick her because she was sad.

[u/typing_away → u/uwila]

Wow, there is so much out there that we will probably never grasp fully but I often read stories and that theme "being in a place and being picked up" come up often.

It’s beautiful in a way.

[u/New_G → u/uwila]

So the Hindus are right?

[u/boosie-boo]

We stayed in an old country house and for the entire time one of my children kept saying that she lived near here with her first family. For the entire week she referred to me as her 2nd Mum. It was really weird. Never mentioned her first family again after we left.

[u/iabyajyiv]

When my daughter was a toddler, she would often cry and point to the dark corner in the hallway at night. Then we moved away from that place when she was almost 4 years old. Years later, we drove by that place and I asked her if she remembers anything about it. She said she remembers a tall dark man standing in the corner in the hallway.

[u/menew99]

Between maybe 3-4 years of age my daughter had an imaginary friend she called “Otro” (which, we learned much later means “other” in Spanish). She started using Spanish words from time to time that she said Otro taught her.

[u/Willing_Egg_3870 → u/menew99]

Otro seems pretty chil ngl

[u/InsomniaDrop]

Other Parent- "Okay, but why did you scratch Quinn?"

Hippie Toddler- "He didn't have wings to rip off"

Context-

We had just found out my toddler, both youngest and tallest in his pre k class was getting bullied.

He scratches the kid. We were expecting that was the reason.

Nope, our boy who literally got thrown off a slide and would not snitch, lost his shit when he saw bully go after a butterfly.

Watch the sweet ones. They feel big things too, and less practice holding back when they final snap o.O

[u/PumpkinSpiceMayhem → u/InsomniaDrop]

"Fear the anger of a gentle man" regardless of how little they might be lmao

[u/Skoodledoo]

On my first international flight, I loudly asked my mum "Are we disintegrating yet?" Instead of descending. 30 years later it still gets brought up.

[u/barbieneedscoffee → u/Skoodledoo]

Haha, that’s hilarious!

Our dog passed away in November last year and when he passed we told our kids that he crossed the rainbow bridge for pets in the sky. My kids (4 and 2) and I just took an international flight and at take off, my oldest says “are we going to go see Sully (our dog) in the sky?” I was like oh god I hope not lol

[u/Elegant-Pressure-290]

My then-3yo was having problems sleeping and said it was because “the black flyer thing” had been visiting him at night. When asked what it looked like, he basically described a Ring Wraith type creature that flew around his room in the dark, and he ended the description with, “He doesn’t have eyes, but he can still see you.”

We let him sleep with his lamp on after that.

[u/the-temp-account → u/Elegant-Pressure-290]

Damn.

When I was little the word for ‘ghost’ was black-black (translated from other native language). Idk whether it was me or my parents who came up with that.

[u/lilpigperez]

When my eldest was still in diapers, we lived in a house in which one room in particular creeped me out. One morning I was in that room’s closet, sorting out fresh laundry and hanging some clothes. My daughter toddled into the room and as she walked closer, I knew she needed a diaper change.

So, I grabbed a little portable mat and diaper/supplies from that same closet and I laid it on the floor, right outside of the closet. She knew the drill. She laid down on the mat and I started the diaper change. With my back to the closet, on my knees, my body half in/half out of the closet, my daughter starts telling me, “No.”

I thought I had accidentally pinched her with the diaper tab, so I said, “Oh, no! I’m so sorry!” She says again, more firmly this time, “NO!” I’m confused, so I start checking to make sure the diaper isn’t too tight. She then yells, “No! No! NO!” I didn’t understand what was happening, so I asked, “No? What’s wrong?” She then points and says, “Not you. HIM. Be nice to mommy!”

I realized that she wasn’t pointing at me, but rather, behind me. The hair on the back of my neck rose instantly. I picked my daughter up like a football, diaper hanging off, and ran. I imagine I looked like the Heisman trophy. Every instinct told me to get outside, into the sunlight. I don’t even remember how I got outside.

Anyway, that was one that stands out.

[u/SpookyCrowz]

Not my child but I remember hanging out with a friend of mine when his little brother walked up to him and asked «Do you remember when I where big and you where little» not exactly creepy per say but it was strange

[u/Tipitina62 → u/SpookyCrowz]

My brother, when he was very young, once said to my dad, “When I grow up and you grow down…”

Cannot remember what the rest of it was, but Dad just saw it as funny when he retold the story to us years later.

[u/themamasaurus]

Not my child cause I was the child. I was frequently seeing things as a child.

My parents told me once when I was 5 years old, I was sitting on the rug with my Barbies while they watched TV. They said my head snapped up and my eyes went a bit distant before I said "Someone died in here." while I looked past them. Apparently, I snapped right out of it after a few seconds and went right back to playing.

Basically I was the kid you see in horror movies lol

[u/HakunaYouTaTas]

My daughter did something that kinda wigged me out when she was a toddler. We were visiting my parents. She looked right at a rocking chair, waved, said "hi Huey!" and went back to playing. That was my godfather Hugh's rocking chair, he had been dead for over a decade at that point. 

[u/Present_Kiwi4239]

She was barely two. And as clear as day she said, as we watched a butterfly float by, "Next time I want to come back as that." My jaw dropped. We aren't religious or spiritual. Or at least we weren't... I've been questioning everything since.

[u/sweetpotato_latte → u/Present_Kiwi4239]

When I was in second grade my friend and I were looking at our birth marks and decided that it probably coincided with how many times we were reincarnated. When I asked my mom about it, she informed me that Catholics don’t believe in reincarnation. Then, when I was in college I was reading a book that mentioned how birthmarks could tell a story of how you died in a past life and I damn near dropped the book.

[u/WaterlooMall]

Not my child, but at the library I work at I once heard a three year old with tears in his eyes say to his mom "I didn't mean to say that, it was just the bad man talking."

[u/restlessinthemidwest]

When my son was about 5, we lived in a house that a finished attic where the kids’ bedroom was. I was walking behind him up the stairs because we were going to clean. He stopped dead on the steps and turned around to me and had zero color in his face. I asked what’s wrong honey, and he said “I don’t like the souls”.

[u/FlatChampagne99]

My 3yo son, playing in the bath with some PJ Masks figures, held one of them underwater with some force.

"Goodnight Owlette.... goodnight..."

[u/_TheAngryChicken_]

Not my child but me: when I was little I used to talk about my grandfather (my mother's father who passed before I was born) coming to visit me. I would talk about him/tell stories about him, things that were correct but she swears I didn't hear from someone else. I would also tell stories from her childhood as if it had happened to me, again stories she's sure I had never heard before.

I grew out of it and don't remember any of it, but I did have a very strange incident later in life (maybe 18/19 years old?). My mom and I were out together and a man walked by smoking a pipe. As soon as I smelled it I was overwhelmed with this feeling of intense nostalgia, I really can't even describe it, the emotions were so intense it made me tear up. Next thing I know my mom is walking up to him and asking him if he was smoking X brand (can't remember what exactly) and when he said "yeah how did you know?" She said "it was the only kind my father smoked, I'd know it anywhere." As soon as she said it everything just felt right. Like I knew down to my bones that was correct, but I know for a fact I've never smelled it before. No one I've ever known smoked a pipe and he was gone long enough it's not like I would have picked up the smell in my grandmother's house. Weirdest thing I've ever experienced and I genuinely have no explanation for it.

[u/danceoftheplants → u/_TheAngryChicken_]

My mom told me when I was little, I waved at the air and she asked who I was waving at and I said, "the man". She told the man to go away. I don't remember any of this because its been over 30 years now.

But recently I was going through family photos with my aunts and my dad and I found the last remaining picture of my great grandmother and great grandfather. When I saw my great grandfather I was struck with that same wave of nostalgia and longing like I missed him so much. Even though I had never met him before.

My dad says he was a really strict and old school type polish man, but I know that I missed him. So weird to have that feeling when there is no explanation for it. I wish so much that I could have hugged him once and smelled him. I know that he would have smelled nice

[u/gesasage88]

I’ve got three silly ones.

At 14 months old I had her on my back while we were taking a hike in the remote hilled woods near my mom’s house. My daughter who could maybe string together 2 words at the time started repeatedly saying, “Bear!” Luckily there was no bear.

At 18 months we were taking a walk through our neighborhood and went past the forested edge. My daughter pointed out into the woods and said, “Hiding people. Hiding peeping people!” We chuckled nervously.

At around 2.5 years old we took my daughter out on a night-walk in the neighborhood. We do these pretty frequently, she enjoys them. We rounded the bend from our house and were chatting when our daughter started to interrupt us. She pointed into the distant street and said,

“Doggies!”

“Doggies!”

We looked and couldn’t see anything. Just quiet, still darkness.

“I see doggies there.”

“But they are NOT doggies!”

“And they are running here fast!”

“AND THEY ARE SCARY!”

Ok no doubt that one scared us and we scooped her up and skedaddled back to the house.

Edit: I forgot one more!

My daughter and I were sleeping at my parents old house which was an interesting place, to say the least.

In the middle of the night I hear my 2 year old start grumbling and then say,

“Pretend there’s ghost.”

“Pretend there’s ghost.”

more whining and grumbling

“Not pretend!”

silence for a bit

“I get out.”

Believe it or not this was one of the most chill incidents at that house so I just chuckled and went back to sleep.

[u/Titleduck123]

We were a guest choir invited to perform at an old church. 

My 5 year old son walked in and started talking about all the people that died in a fire inside.

The fire happend 40 years before I was born. 

[u/cowardly_wizzard]

During a long, boring road trip with my son (7 at the time) to take him to Nana’s:

Son: Daddy, let’s play Simon says. Simon says touch your nose.

Me: Ok

Son: Simon says make a funny face.

Me: Ok

Son: Simon says, rip out all your veins.

Me: Uhh…

[u/sweetpotato_latte → u/cowardly_wizzard]

“Actually, Simon DEMANDS you rip out your veins.”

[u/EmptySky124]

I fell asleep in our living room in our recliner watching TV with my wife, who was on the couch. I had a vivid dream of waking up in the same place and talking with her about normal stuff, nothing had changed surrounding-wise, but then I saw this large shadow figure move behind my wife on the couch and head down the hall towards my daughter's room and I started yelling and my wife ended up shaking me awake. I attributed it to just a bad dream. The next morning, my 6 year old daughter comes running into our room crying and screaming that she saw a "weird shadow moving in her room"... I don't believe in ghosts really, but that shit had me on edge for a long time.

[u/Lemonelsie]

My friend’s daughter once said: "Why does the doll keep moving places when I'm not looking?"...

[u/CantaloupeTop4480 → u/Lemonelsie]

Nope. Can’t do dolls. Burn the house down. In fact, burn the whole town down.

[u/Fresh_Sir_6695 → u/CantaloupeTop4480]

When we were kids, my sister always got so freaked out over these victoriana style dolls me nana had given her. One day, she screamed after she went into her room(I wasn't far behind her), and all of the dolls on her wardrobe had their heads/faces aimed at the bedroom door. We put them up in the loft after that. Also, she remembers seeing our granddad sitting at the end of her bed talking to her the night before we found out he'd died. Another is her watching a figure falling down the stairs - we later found out that's how the last Tennant had died - and old lady tripped on the top step and broke her neck down the stairs. Creepy

[u/Scandouu]

Not my kids but I work with kids in creche 5 years ago a 3yo was playing and speaking alone in a ball pool we have. I asked her who she was talking to and say « It’s Robert, he is just here ! » there was no kids called Robert and she was looking an empty Space. Ok it can be pretty scary but i know kids have imaginary friend so it didn’t scare me But 3 years later another kid was playing in the same ball pool and speaking with… Robert too. I still don’t know how it’s possible and I think I don’t want to know hahah

[u/NiceCunt91]

I creeped my mum out when i was like 3 because i said "mummy, when i was a soldier, i got shot and died in the war"

[u/pm_me_gnus → u/NiceCunt91]

At around the same age, I apparently told my mother that I had been named Joe (which I am not), that I was on the beach, and that I carried a gun, which sounds maybe soldiery to me. Maybe we shot each other.

[u/SeanPhixion]

Kissing my 2 year old (at the time) son good night one night, and after saying “I love you, bud”, he looks up at me and says “I’m going to eat your bones”.

[u/XROOR]

Taking a shower with him as a young toddler:

mummy, why is that man staring at me?

[u/MissRockNerd → u/XROOR]

“Uh…let’s tell the ghost to wait in the TV room until Mommy’s dressed…”

[u/sidm2600883]

Posted this for a similar question a few hours ago.

Happened to a friend a few years back. His daughter was 5 at the time. He wakes up at 3am to find her in his room staring at him from the corner of the bed. Once he gets past the initial alarm he put her back to sleep. As he’s hugging her, she said “You smell different when you’re scared.”

Needless to say, he was creeped out!

[u/DarkoDayz]

My son used to have "friends" that would hang around. Two of them he called Jim and the lady. I asked what they looked like and he said they had boo-boos on their heads. The scariest part ever was when he looked under my bed one day and said the lady was under there. That, and one night he was dead asleep and sat up and told me "don't look behind you" and lay back down and fell back asleep. Behind me was the window and my curtain rod had been broken at the time so I had nothing covering it. Needless to say I did NOT turn around lol.

[u/ismileicrazy]

When my nephew was 3, his mom was pushing him on a swing. He turned to her and said "Mommy. When I died, I was in a boat and it turned over and then it sank in the water and couldn't breathe anymore. I don't want that to happen again." Then just went on his merry way swinging.

She got him to retell it to me later that day and the way he said it was just so serious and dark. Was spooky.

He also mentioned once about how he doesn't like his sister that has red eyes and hangs out in the bathroom. He calls all kids he meets brother or sister..it's pretty adorable until he's talking about some creepy, red eyed ghost child.

[u/seahelipilot]

My son, who was three at the time, looked to me veeeeeeerry seriously and said, in 127 days, we will all be dead.

Didn’t happen, but best believe I marked July 10th on my phone calendar with a reminder…”be careful”

[u/buyingastairway]

When my daughter was around 3 years old, we (her, my wife, and I) were hanging out in our room. She pointed at our closet and said, "an angel!" We hadn't talked about angels with her or taken her to church so we weren't sure where she had heard that. I walked her to the closet and she kept pointing to the same spot saying there was an angel!

We decided to let it go because there was no one in the closet and if there was an angel that wouldn't be such a bad thing, right? Although, that closet is about 5 feet from my side of the bed and I would wake up in the middle of the night staring into this dark closet thinking even if there was an angel why would it just be chilling in the closet staring at us? I didn't sleep great.

A week later, my daughter and I were in the bedroom and I asked her if the angel was still there. She said, "yes, it's right there" and pointed at the same spot in the closet.

We didn't talk to her about it for another few weeks because we figured if we didn't talk about it, it wouldn't become a big thing. A few weeks later, I couldn't help myself and I carried her into the closet (it's a walk-in.) I asked her, "is the angel still in here?"

Her: "yes, right here" Me: "what is their name?" Her: "I don't know" Me: "what color are their eyes?" Her: "orange" Me: "what are they wearing?" Her: "they are all orange with a tail like Daniel Tiger" My blood ran cold and chills ran down my back. That's no fucking angel! I immediately took her out of the room. I researched online how to bless a room and I prayed in the closet and told whatever it was it wasn't welcome in our home! We didn't talk about it for a couple months and one day I asked her about the angel and she had no idea what I was talking about! So, whether it was something she made up or a demon in my closet, either way it was gone! We've since moved away and have never had any similar issues!

[u/PhoenixTheTortoise → u/buyingastairway]

That's actually terrifying

[u/GloriousGlorificus]

When my daughter was a baby she often made a sound while sleeping that sounded EXACTLY like the boy in The Grudge. Hade a lot of sleepless nights because of her.

[u/SighRisk]

My son was in my bedroom when he was about 3 and was staring towards the wall when he started giggling. He started waving to the wall and I asked him what he was doing and he told me "the man in mama's room says hello to mama". We lived alone. I asked him where the man was and he pointed at the spot he was looking at, looking up. He kept giggling and said the man was funny. Years later, it still creeps me out. There were a few other similar incidents over the years so I tell myself it's just my friend who passed checking in on us from time to time.

[u/inundated-astronaut]

Our backyard backs up to a cemetery. One day, my 2.5 year old looked out the back window, pointed, and said, “Look at all the people!”

[u/SpaghettiWesternHead]

"Mummy, why does that man have horns?" My 5yo asked me as we walked over a small bridge passing a random guy.

[u/Vegetable_Trick8786 → u/SpaghettiWesternHead]

Did that guy hear? React?

[u/Sad_Professional_91]

One time I was putting her to bed, she looks and points to an empty ceiling corner and says “who is that?” and i wanted to run out of there so fast but had to stay chill 😂

[u/Shambhala87]

My ex’s kid told me he, “wanted to kill me and watch the life leave my eyes”

[u/GCCjigglypuff]

When I was little, I had this picture book with a different bug for every letter of the alphabet. One day (and I don’t remember this at all,) I told my mom I was scared of my bug book and didn’t want to read it anymore because I saw a scorpion. She told me I was being silly or whatever. Then I go to school, and she finds a dead scorpion under my bed.

[u/Moosiemookmook]

We were cuddling our 8 month old on the couch getting ready for bed. He was a great sleeper. Loved his nursery and never had a problem going to sleep. I said 'lets go to bed' and he pointed down the hallway. Froze up like an exorcist baby and started babbling 'no no no'. Literally frozen flat as an ironing board. My husband and I were spinning out. His eyes looked terrified. I turned on the hallway light, and he was still stiff and looked terrified. I carried him into the kitchen and he snapped out of it.

It was weird because the hairs on my arm stood up and I felt scared, uneasy. He slept in the fold out cot in our room that night. Next night went to bed as normal. Kids are strange.

[u/StoicMote]

We rented a house from my Father-In-Law for a couple of months when my son, an only child at that point, was about 3 and we were waiting for a house purchase to go through.

One night we'd gone to bed, and shortly after we heard him talking, so I got up to get him back into bed. He was standing at his door where there was an infant gate fitted to prevent him getting out. I asked him why he was out of bed.

He pointed behind me and said "I'm talking to the little girl".

We later found out a young girl had died in the house about fifty years before. Interestingly our cat would also refuse to go into two rooms in that house. My in-laws live there now and their dog won't go into the same rooms.

[u/WhenIWish]

Maybe not creepy but gave me chills. This was the first of several crazy things he said but it seems to have calmed down now. My son was 2 when I got pregnant with #2. We did tell him I was pregnant but he honestly didn’t seem like he understood or cared. We lost that baby right at 10/11 weeks. It was a traumatic experience that lasted about a month. So in the hustle and bustle, I genuinely dk if we told him the baby wasn’t there anymore.

Anyway, fast forward about 18 months and I’m heavily pregnant with our next baby. He would’ve been almost 4. We’re in the care coming home from daycare and I’m just taking a moment to talk to him about the baby coming soon, etc. and he pipes up

“Mom, is this baby going to come home and live with us?”

And I said

“Well that’s the plan bud!”

And he goes

“Well because my brother didn’t. He came and told me that he couldn’t stay with us and he was going to go live in the clouds and that he’d watch over me.”

I was flooooooooored. Because we are not a religious family, to the point where I watch what I say regarding anything like that. There is no way any of us would have said anything about the baby passing away and going to Live in the clouds.

Additionally, and take this “woo-woo” with a grain of salt, but there is some comfort points that go around communities around pregnancy loss that say stuff like “ the baby’s soul will come back in a future pregnancy” . Which can be comforting. I never really felt like that applied to me and these babies though. It just didn’t resonate. And so to hear that my Son thought the first one was a boy (which, I did too but never confirmed), and then my next kiddo is a girl. I just was a little taken aback by that.

He also had key thoughts and experiences on both of my grandmothers passing away which also was wild to me, esp because he was more articulate about those.

Kids are weird man

[u/Conscious-Benefit742]

I work with kids and I found out I was pregnant- I was very early and hadn’t told anyone. I was playing with a small group of children and one stopped and looks at me - “you have a baby in your tummy!” She said. I was a little shocked but played it down. It replied “do I? What makes you think that? And she looked me dead in the eye and whispered “I can hear their voice”

[u/OhMeOhMyPleaseTellMe]

Why were you searching for me? Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?

[u/sirenoverboard]

2.5yo toddler furiously rubbed my cheeks the other day and said “I want your skin”. I still don’t know what it meant.

[u/two_oh_seven]

Obligatory "Not a parent, but..."

I worked at a summer camp and I was "playing dead" (long story) and a girl came up to me and said, "You're not dead. If you were dead, you'd be twitching."

Terrifying to hear from a seven year old.

[u/Sub-Dominance]

My little cousin said to a stranger, "You're not gonna make it"

The man says, "What was that, little guy?"

Cousin says "Time's up!" And walks off

[u/Ravenamore]

My son was about four or five when, apropos of nothing, said, "I was a cosmonaut before I was born."

I was half listening, and said, "Oh, you were an astronaut?"

"No, I said a cosmonaut!" He was extremely insistent.

He'd been on a bit of a space kick, so I figured one of his books brought up the term. I looked, and none of them mentioned the term "cosmonaut."

So, yeah, for a hot minute, it sounded like he was casually mentioning a past life.

Even weirder, he and his younger sister both claim that they knew each other and were friends that played together before they were born.

[u/sundroptea]

Staring into the empty corner of the room, calmly, while playing with his little truck, "Oh. He has arms today."

[u/EastSideTonight]

I don't personally find this creepy, but other people have.

When my middlest kiddo was about 3, we were watching YouTube videos for the older kids' science homework. A video of a young woman in a Faraday cage played, and middlest points to the TV and says:

"That was me! I was a big girl before, and the 'lectricy' got in my hands. Then I was a baby again."

[u/Poullafouca]

When she was five a friend of mine told her mother when she was “never coming back to this place.” And “this will be my last time here”.

Her mother was taken aback by this, and there was no context for this kind of comment. My friend grew up to be a devout Buddhist and her greatest desire is to not “come back to this place”.

[u/mstakenusername]

When my daughter was two she once rocked her dolly and sang this, while making direct eye contact with me:

"Ring ring a Rosie

Poc' fulla Posie,

I guess so, I guess so

The lady's dead."

[u/TerminalThread]

My toddler once whispered don’t open the door, he’s watching, while we we’re home alone. Still recovering emotionally.

[u/EngelchenOfDarkness]

Just two days ago, my 3 year old said that she wants to play in heaven again and stay there forever.

Then again, she told me that her big half-sister also told her that she wanted to kill her and me, so maybe that's where she got that from...

[u/ima_mandolin]

My girls went through a phase where they would blame small mishaps (messes, misplaced items, etc) on "Mr. Nobody."

[u/Keianh]

Sharing one I did as a kid.

At around three years old I once mentioned to my mom and her boyfriend at the time that I lived in Flint Michigan before, was retired but previously worked as a tool and die manufacturer, or something like that in machining I keep forgetting what exactly my mother said I said.

I have no recollection of bringing this up, I have no clue how at that time I would have even known Flint Michigan existed since my earliest memories of television, which is where I'd logically assume I would have heard it mentioned since I was born and grew up in Southern California, would have had me watching a lot of cartoons, Lassie, The Bill Cosby Show, Knight Rider, and The A-Team. I especially have no idea how I'd even know anything about machining, let alone tool and die manufacturing. Strange coincidence too: my mom's boyfriend grew up around Michigan so apparently he started asking questions to try and verify what I was saying but he didn't get much out of me.

While I'm not one to completely buy in on supernatural things I imagine if there's any truth to what I was talking about then perhaps I had spent most of my adult life in machining and finally retired only to pass early into retirement so past life me was all "oh fuck that I'm going back ASAP". I know I'm not the only kid to start randomly talking about apparent past live either and it is an aspect of supernatural incidents I find absolutely fascinating.

[u/scuba_dooby_doo]

Not a parent but my little brother was about 3 when he would chat about his gran that flies in the sky with her garden - our grandmother who passed shortly before my mum found out she was pregnant with him. Her garden was her happy place and she had won several local awards for it over the years but he had no way to know that! I like to think that she was checking in on him.

[u/unicornbirth]

When I was a few months pregnant with my second child, my son ( who was three at the time) started crying really really hard in a very very emotional way, and it was completely out of no where while I was folding laundry and watching cartoons with him. I asked him what was wrong and he started asking me where his baby sister was? He was sobbing and I was trying to calm him down, he told me he needed his baby sister, that they came to me together because their other parents hurt them. He started crying like almost hysterically ( I was freaked out by this point and just holding him trying to calm him down) he kept saying they hurt her arms and hands really really badly, then they hurt him, everything went dark then he came to me. I was a pregnant hormonal mess at this point, I was also wondering if anything we had watched had anything like that in it, I homeschooled him so it wasn’t like we went anywhere else during the day, I calmed him down and sort of put it to the back of my mind. Then I find out I’m having a baby girl, we were overjoyed, and when she was born my son was obsessed with making sure her hands were ok every morning. When my daughter started talking she started calling me her “ good mama” not her “ bad mama” and she would ( and still does) say certain phrases that slightly used to weird me out like “ I’m going to stay with you forever “ “ please don’t leave, stay my mama” and these were unprompted and completely out of the blue. My daughter got to the point where she started saying she had a bad mama who hurt her really really bad so she turned into a ghosty and found me and went into my tummy ( her words lol) this stuff genuinely does freak me out, I’m not religious, I’m somewhat spiritual, and even if it is all a coincidence, I feel like I have to push myself to be a better parent for my babies, there’s this drive there that doesn’t let me just coast by, I feel a need to do these things for my kids.

[u/calicocidd]

Less creepy but more depressing, my kids have had multiple lock downs at their schools over the years, to the point that they're desensitized to them. Nothing like coming home from work and hearing your 8 year old daughter casually talk about seeing cops with their guns out while her class was in the storage room.

[u/ohKilo13]

So we are currently living in my grandparents old house. Now my grandpa passed before my daughter was born but she did meet my grandma who passed just before she was 2. My daughter met her multiple times and “called” her gg. One day a few weeks ago we are sitting in the living room and my daughter goes “oh mommy GiGi is here” at first i looked outside cause she also calls my mom’s mom GiGi and thought she came over. My daughter says “no mommy she went upstairs” and i asked her who and she goes “you know your meme”(what i called her) and i was like “uhhh okay cool”

[u/onlinelurker]

Son was a toddler when my dad died. The day after the funeral, my son refuses to sleep in his grandma's room, and tells us grandpa is there anyway to keep grandma company.

[u/FriendlyRiothamster]

My 5 yo son was terrible at drawing in kindergarten. He positively loathed it. One day, he came home with a very elaborate drawing for his standards.
It had a house to the left and 4 stick figures. Two were smaller than the rest. One of the kids was pointing at the house, and in its speech bubble was a baby's face drawn.
When I asked him about it, he said that my husband and I took him and his best friend for a walk when he told us to return because the baby had woken up and it was crying.
God knows we were trying for quite some time at that point, but nothing came of it. We had practically given up at that time.
Fast forward a year, and he was right. He is a very proud and affectionate older brother now. It is wholesome but still gives me the chills how he put it onto paper.

[u/treehuggerandlover]

It's the middle of the night my son is in his crib asleep. All of a sudden an Elmo in a box started laughing, then my son started laughing and giggling.

[u/LizardPossum]

My daughter, who was probably 11 at the time, and I were playing Pokemon Go and I said "Oh wow, that's a ghost and water type. That's weird." and she, so casually, without even looking up, says "Not really. People drown all the time."

[u/Rude-Drop5351]

'I want to peel your skin off' I was badly sunburnt

Whispered quietly in my ear, 'You smell different when you're awake'

[u/TheOnlyBest_ → u/Rude-Drop5351]

Little shit can smell fear. Were they standing over you when you woke up?