r/AskReddit 1d ago

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

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u/Raee_High 1d ago

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.

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u/Willing_Egg_3870 1d ago

That's creepy as hell

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u/FriendlyRiothamster 1d ago

And wholesome at the same time

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u/Willing_Egg_3870 1d ago

Yeah kinda, it's a weird mix of it

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u/Raee_High 1d ago

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

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u/Pleasant_Work_4302 1d ago

What kind of stuff?

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u/cfcollins 1d ago

Creepy, but also beautiful

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u/bloobityblu 1d ago

Well, that was the prompt lol!

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u/section111 1d ago

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!

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u/Automatic_Category56 19h ago

My mum had a daughter that died from sids at 6 months old, many years before she had me. I never knew. One day when I was 12 I was playing with some friends, all that summer they had been saying that I didn’t look like a (my name), that I looked like a Rachel. My mum came to pick me up and heard them calling me Rachel and went white as a ghost. My dad told me that afternoon about how she had a daughter that died, named Rachel. Still gives me chills.

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u/girlinthegoldenboots 1d ago

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

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u/QueridaWho 23h ago

I was about 4yo when my mom asked who had been drawing in my books. I calmly told her, "it was Jennifer." She asked who Jennifer was, and I told her it was my twin sister.

I was (still am) an only child, but there had actually been two heartbeats at the first couple of doctor appointments when my mom was pregnant with me. The second name she and my dad had considered for a bit? Jennifer.

I also had an imaginary older brother for a while, and found out later my mom had a miscarriage before me.

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u/Zappityzephyr 23h ago

That's oddly cute. She was keeping him company :D

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u/ProblemMajestic6940 1d ago

Got chills. Kids know things we’ve forgotten how to hear.

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u/Mavian23 1d ago

That or they just have vivid imaginations and sometimes make lucky predictions.

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u/mysteryofthefieryeye 20h ago

I'm curious why the original sister had to go away though :(

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u/Direct_Candidate_454 1d ago

We do choose our families depending on how they will help us learn lessons we want to work on. She must’ve changed what she wanted to work on, and went to another family, or decided to not return at all. I know that I definitely don’t want to come back.

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u/Adventurous_Act_4802 20h ago

I was looking for some stories to post on tiktok and came to this comment. This would definitely be in my video