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Teachers already have enough work as it is, unruly kids, keeping up with the latest slang, grading homework, deciphering which homework was actually written by a student and what was made by AI. Normally, deeply unnerving conversations aren’t part of the list.

A woman online posted a video with the caption “Teachers: what’s the creepiest thing a student has ever said to you?” and people shared their best answers. So we’ve collected them here for your reading enjoyment, be sure to get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and add your own stories to the comments below.

#1

A silhouette of a person standing behind a window at night, symbolizing the fear teachers experience. I work with kids with developmental disabilities and I had a student who was completely normal all year until one morning he walked into class, looked at me, and said, “You need to move your bed away from the window tonight.” I laughed and asked why. He said, “Because the man outside your house can reach you from there.” I had never told my students where I lived or what my bedroom looked like. I asked him what man he was talking about and he described my house, the color of my bedroom walls, and the exact window my bed was next to. Then he said, “He’s been watching you for three nights, but tonight he’s coming inside.” That night I slept at my sister’s house. The next morning I came home and the screen on my bedroom window had been cut open.

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Brazen
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1 month ago

That is horrifying, but it's great she listened and kept herself safe.

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    #2

    A person sleeping soundly under a blanket, contrasting with times teachers were terrified of their own students. I worked with students who had emotional disabilities. This student was violent every single day. I eventually started dreaming that he was crawling out of my bedroom mirror at night to come sit on my chest. One day at school he looked at me and said “you snore funny when you sleep”.

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    Salttypepper
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    1 month ago

    Now , Thats is creepy as hell

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    #3

    A stressed teacher in a classroom with students in the background, looking overwhelmed, indicating fears. Not me but a coworker. A 1st grader gave her a hug and said you have a baby in your tummy. She laughed and said not I just love pizza! The girl said no, There's a baby girl in your tummy. She was freaked out because she was only 4 days late for her period. She waited a few days and tested and she was pregnant! She ended up having a girl after 2 boys. When we told the mom a year later she said the girl has identified 4 pregnant ladies before the mom even knew.

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    Kelly Scott
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    1 month ago

    Could use that kid in the states that won't let you get an abortion after 6 weeks.

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    #4

    Teachers were terrified of students, depicted by a young child drawing at a desk, showing innocence. My first grader drew a picture of me and what I thought was my shadow, I said that's awesome and you even added a shadow! she said, no, that's the person that's always walking behind you but no one else can see.

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    Alexia
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    1 month ago

    W*F??

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    #5

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student In 2017 one of my 6th grade students told me that Mrs Stockdale was proud of me. Mrs Stockdale was my 6th grade teacher that inspired me to become a teacher and passed away in 1994.

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    #6

    Teachers were terrified of students, showing a severely damaged car front after a collision. My cousin got a book from the library called "how to be an angel" and the teacher asked why she got that one. She said "because im gonna be one soon." A week later she [passed away] in a car accident. They buried her with the book.

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    Cyndi Hafele
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    1 month ago

    I'd hate to pay that late fee.

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    #7

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student I don’t think it’s too creepy, but I teach high school. I hadn’t told any one that my grandmother had just passed. It was independent work time and I asked a student if they needed help, the student said no but still looked troubled. The student then asked if I believed in spiritual stuff, I said yes, then they said “well if you know an older lady with short hair and always wears capris, they’re always around you now”. I had to excuse myself to cry. I think about it often.

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    #8

    Teachers were terrified of students, contrasted with a happy elderly man holding a baby outdoors under cherry blossoms. One of my boys said he hung out with his grandad over the weekend and was real excited to tell me all about it. I brought it up to his mom, yk because it was absolutely adorable right? So I give her the spark notes of what was said, that lady looked me in my face and said his grandad passed away when he was 1. She and I were literally staring at each other.

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    DC
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    1 month ago

    Kids do pick up a lot of talk about now gone relatives, even those they never got to know. We didn't pretend to know how to talk to the uNaLiVe ones, but I knew a boy who did, and once admitted, he told me about how it enabled him to execute some sort of authority over his bigger brother, who was quite a sort of exhaust orifice, so may have worked hard to actually earn this one. Sometimes, you can't pretend to just one person, but have to keep it intact before everybody else, and it may get out of hand easiestly anyway. But, whatever it is, it might be a story, and just a story. Why do we need to believe the extranatural explanation first and most, even? It's totally reasonable to expect kids to make stuff up, and this does not intend to, nor do regardless, devalue or accuse children. It's how they are, let them be, they'll outgrow any ghosts almost always without intervention.

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    #9

    A pregnant woman in a pink dress forming a heart shape with her hands on her baby bump. I had a three year old tell me he ate his brother and his brother tells him things. When i spoke to the mom she said he was a twin and he absorbed his twin but she never told him that he had a twin.

    heartfelthandsgiv , Juan Encalada Report

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    #10

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student I taught 2nd grade. One morning a very quiet student came in looking upset. During drawing time he drew a picture of our classroom, except there was a tall man standing next to my desk. I asked who it was and he said, “The man who watches you after school.” I laughed and asked what he meant. He looked confused and said, “You know… the man in the gray suit. He’s always here when everyone leaves.” The weird part was that I stayed late almost every day grading papers, alone. A few weeks later I found an old yearbook from the 1970s in a storage closet. While flipping through it, I froze. One of the staff photos showed a teacher wearing the exact gray suit the student had drawn. Same hairstyle. Same face. I asked the principal about him. She went pale and said, “He used to teach here. He died in the building after a heart attack.” I never told the student any of that. The next day he looked at me and said, “The man says thank you for remembering him.”

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    Fellfromthemoon
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    1 month ago

    That 8-year-old had greater talent than Michelangelo, if he could've drawn a recognizable man with a recognizable hairdo in a recognizable suit.

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    #11

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student I work with 3 year olds. It was a child’s first day (in the room next to me), he somehow got into my room and came and looked at me w ZERO light behind his eyes. And said ‘he will follow you, don’t go home’ then walked away and was full of life again. When I was driving home, I noticed a car following close behind copying my turns, I remembered what the boy said and listened. He followed me until I pulled into the police parking lot.

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    #12

    Children eating lunch at school, a scene that can relate to times teachers were terrified of students. When I taught at a preschool, one of the little girls pointed over to the classroom while we were eating lunch and could not stop hysterically laughing. When I asked her what was so funny she said “Jerry is so funny” … Jerry was my dad’s name and he had passed away a few years prior and LOVED making kids laugh.

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    Fellfromthemoon
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    In the background, there was a TV set, broadcasting some cartoon show.

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    #13

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student I had a student who said he could see and talk to deceased people. My best friend [passed away] a year before and my kids didn't know. One day we were talking and he said "Daniel is standing next to you right now, he's really sorry that he's gone but he's so proud of you."

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    #14

    Teachers were terrified of students in a classroom with a teacher standing at the blackboard and students raising hands. When the door to our classroom opened by itself, I checked the hall and no one was there. I said, “That’s weird.” A student replied, “Oh, that was just my sister.” His sister had been deceased for 6 years.

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    #15

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student I had a student’s mom tell me “don’t freak out, but your mom says she made it safely and Claude and Sheba were waiting for her.” My mom had passed a month earlier. Claude was her husband who passed 17 years prior and Sheba was her favorite dog that had passed 25 years earlier!

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    DC
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    1 month ago

    Sheba is, in germany, a cat food brand. Gina does not like it, and it's ridiculously expensive. I never buy it. Cräp, it is... Sugar and loads of other stuff cats don't have much use for. What's that to be in cat food anyway? Why is that?

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    #16

    A car accident with one vehicle overturned and another with front-end damage, highlighting dangerous situations teachers may encounter. One of my students came up to me when she was 4 and told me her Mom had lost her 5 pregnancy, but it was OK, because she would be seeing them in a week. She [passed away] the following week in a car accident...

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    #17

    Teachers were terrified of students, represented by a person covering their face with hands, showing fear. I work with children with special needs and some have behavioral issues. I didn't let a kid eat a whole medium pizza because others had to eat too and she said she hoped I [passed away] the way my friend did. I had a friend unalive herself and never told any child about that but she handed me a jump rope later that day and laughed. I cried after work.

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    meeeeeeeeeeee
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    1 month ago

    wee b***h

    #18

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student I had a dream one night where I ran into one of my students at the mall. In the dream, we hung out, shopped, and some more but when I woke up I did think it was weird. She saw me later that day and said “ Ms, you was in my dream last night and we went shopping!” Scared the hell out of me lol.

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    Salttypepper
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    Sooooo , who hoped into who’s dream?

    #19

    A young boy sitting on the ground with his head in his arms, appearing sad or upset, demonstrating challenges teachers face. I have a student that brings his imaginary friend to school with him. he told me and my co teacher that his friend does not like another child in class. an hour goes by and the child starts screaming saying he was bit was in a center by himself. when we checked his arm it looked like it was the bite mark from an adult. we watched the cameras and there was nothing just him sitting alone before he screamed. the little boy said i told you my friend didn't like him. my co teacher quit on the spot.

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    meeeeeeeeeeee
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    Teachers can usually write properly, no?

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    #20

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student I work with special needs students. A non verbal child was throwing a fit and suddenly stopped. Looked at me and my co teacher and starting speaking fluent Spanish saying that he is trapped and can’t get out of this body. And then continued to have a fit and never spoke again. He is white and his parents only speak English.

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    #21

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student I had a second grader tell me that she was sliding down a slide from heaven to be born to her aunt, but she got pulled back up and was later born to her mother. I found out that her aunt had an abortion.

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    Novlette Williams
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    1 month ago

    How would find out about the abortion?

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    #22

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student I’m a kindergarten teacher and when I was pregnant, one of my students came up and touched my belly, looked up at me and said “you’ll have surgery for your baby tomorrow”. I had an emergency C-section the following day at 30 weeks.

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    #23

    An aerial view of the New York City skyline with the Twin Towers, related to times teachers were terrified. Not me, but my mom told me about a kindergarten student that she had that was acting off one day. Usually this kid was happy and the classroom helper, but on this day she was very sad and not wanting to do anything. When my mom asked her about it, she simply said “I just think something bad is going to happen tomorrow.” Next day was 9/11/2001.

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    Chich the witch
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    With over 30 million kids in elementary school in the US I'm sure at least one says this every day.

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    #24

    A teacher explaining a math problem on a blackboard, illustrating times teachers were terrified of students. 1st grade teacher here: one of my students said who’s the little boy next to you? Me: Where? She said the little boy in blue. Looks and says what’s your name? Hi Elijah, I’m Abby. I had miscarried and nobody knew what we were naming our son!!

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    LakotaWolf (she/her)
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    So if OP miscarried, why was the ghost a little boy and not a hovering fetus/clump of cells?

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    #25

    A mother holding a crying toddler outdoors, with the child making a distressed expression. Teachers often face such situations. When I worked at a daycare there was a little girl who would throw tantrums that were almost demonic. one day I was holding her to keep her from pulling her hair and throwing her items and she stopped..looked at me.. and said “the voices are telling me to do this” SHE WAS 3.

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    Not to generalize and assume off of zero information, but I'm thinking OP is maga

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    #26

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student I had a student last year come up to me. She said, "We need to leave the room". When I asked why she said, "Because the shadow man next to you wants me to ☠️you, and I dont want to. If we leave you will be safe." I called our school psych immediately.

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    Bewitched One
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    What school has psych?

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    #27

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student In 2022 I worked as a afterschool program teacher, one day a student came up to me and said “Sir you were in my dream last night” and I responded with “really what was it?” He said “my backpack was filled with your body parts and blood” I reported this to the school and they said “his father was in jail for chopping up a lady in the woods. I will never be teaching again after that.

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    Sophia Vivian ElvenKitten
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    1 month ago

    I wouldn’t be creeped out by the kid just concerned whether they were getting support for the trauma of their father being in prison for that. Assuming of course that it is true.

    #28

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student Some kid told me he [passed away] on the titanic and he recalled everything down to the color of the floor and bed.

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    seanpar0820
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    1 month ago

    That kind of stuff is interesting

    #29

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student My principal got me out of class one day and brought me to one of my female student’s locker. He opened it up and it was a shrine of probably over a hundred candid photos of me. This was before camera phones.

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    Not-a-Clue (she/her)
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    1 month ago

    Now this IS creepy!

    #30

    48 Teachers Share The Creepiest Thing They Ever Heard From A Student July 8th 2021 my grandmother, my best friend in the whole world Evelyn passed away. My other grandma Joan passed away August of 2021 as well. Evelyn ALWAYS wore a jean blue hat with a flower on it. No matter the day or weather lol. July 8th 2022 I was told a new student was coming into the class. A little girl with the same blue eyes as Evelyn and Joan walks into my class wearing no other then a blue Jean flower hat and whose name was Evelyn and middle name Joan. She then proceeds to tell me how much she missed me and loves me 5 minutes after walking into the class for the first time.

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    Pollywog
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    1 month ago

    Can't be reincarnation on this one. The child was born while they were still living.

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    #31

    Kinder kido came up to me , hugged me and said "you know there's a baby girl in your belly?" next day I took a test and found out I was 32 weeks pregnant with a girl and had nooooo idea or any symptoms AT ALL.

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    Jennifer Burns Wess
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    1 month ago

    32 WEEKS?? I still don't get how so many people don't know they're pregnant.

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    #32

    One of our preschool students told us that she wanted to eat someone. We told her that she probably meant to say “something” instead of “someone.” She said “No someone.” We then said, “No, you mean you want to eat something, like a burger or some pasta.” She replied “No, I want to eat people.”

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    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
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    1 month ago

    Mmmmm, long pig.

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    #33

    Not teacher but I ran a child care center and her mom told me she was trying to figure out why her daughter wouldn’t sleep in her own room so if I could help she’d be willing to change whatever to make it more comfortable for her, when I talked to the little girl she told me she didn’t like sleeping in her room and I asked her well maybe we can figure out why you don’t like it and your mom and I can make you more comfortable and this little girl looks at me and asks if we can make the man in the vent go away. To begin with I was like ok so she’s seeing things, told the mom so she decided to switch the brother and sisters rooms (of course not telling the brother what happened) after a few nights the brother refused to sleep in the room when we asked him why he told us the man in the vent kept staring at him. We pulled them into seperate rooms and asked what the man looked like and they gave us identical descriptions. Not long after this they moved.

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    3 weeks ago

    Probly should have pulled the wall out!

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    #34

    I had a preschool (3 years old) come to my table to do independent work. He was in a good mood, he was having a great day. He starts working on his sheet when he stops and looks at me and says “you’re gonna get hit by a car on Dec 15” and that was in 2018. Every 12/15 I get a little uneasy.

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    Not-a-Clue (she/her)
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    1 month ago

    3 year olds doing work sheets? They should be playing.

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    #35

    Not paranormal, but I had a kiddo tell me that he loved me and was really sad, when I asked him why, he said “I’m just really going to miss you when your house burns down.”

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    Novlette Williams
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    1 month ago

    Future arsonist maybe?

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    #36

    I had a student that is 100% a sociopath and won’t be suprised if I see him on the news one day. He and I had a decent relationship especially with his being a problem kid who was at the Masonic home in town. The students from there had yellow papers for teachers to fill out on their behavior and their grade in the class. One day he did not bring it to me and I asked if he forgot it and he said “oh they kicked me out of the home” and question why and he just nonchalantly said “I took a wood plank that had nails in it to a kid’s head cause he made me mad.” I had to act so calm when I acknowledged that. I then found out later from a para who knew his parents that he can’t stay in their house and stays at his grandfathers cause he almost set the family dog on fire and he hurts his sister. Not sure where he ended up now since I left the school district.

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    #37

    I had a pretty severe special ed class. We were doing ABA therapy for most of the kiddos. There was this one student I was teaching numbers to. She had mastered some up to 10 but not all. She always sat in the same seat, would not move… very very rigid. One day she got out of her chair jumps into a swivel chair, wheels herself to the white board takes a marker and writes 666 laughing hysterically and twirling in the chair. She hadn’t mastered the number 6. I was freaked out to say the least.

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    Novlette Williams
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    1 month ago

    This one is silly

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    #38

    I had a student say.. I want to be you for Halloween. I said aww that’s sweet! Are you going to dress up just like me. He said, no- I want to wear your skin.

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    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
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    1 month ago

    Buffalo Bill, the early years.

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    #39

    There was a girl in kindergarten who was always so quiet. She would barely speak. One day she said bye when her family picked up her which was weird because she never said goodbye. That day she drowned in water and never came back.

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    1 month ago

    There was a program on TV, Outer Limits, I think. The episode was of a little girl who knew when people would d*e. She'd tell them bye-bye.... Well, her friend died, her mom died, and someone else. By this time, her adult sister has figured it out, and decides to end the child. The last scene is the little girl saying bye-bye to herself in the mirror.

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    #40

    One of my students told me that his dad told him to cross the street when the lights turned green so that he could be with him again. His dad had [passed away].

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    Cyndi Hafele
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    1 month ago

    But if the lights turned green, he'd be safe.

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    #41

    A student that had been harassing me all year was removed by police during my class. before he left, he said "I want to say goodbye to my teacher." I froze. I don't know WHY THE POLICE ALLOWED THIS, but he walked up, hugged my, and whispered "next time you see me. I'll have a 👉 to your head. " he was a 7th grader. He's in prison now.

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    Kelly Scott
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    1 month ago

    It's amazing to me how many teachers here can't spell or use correct punctuation or grammar.

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    #42

    Had a extremely autistic kid tell me once the voices in his head told him to unalive people but his dad said it’s wrong and don’t listen to them because it’s not nice to unalive people. Then said I guess he is probably right.

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    Pollywog
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    1 month ago

    Probably??

    #43

    I’m not a teacher, but I was a caregiver for a special needs girl. The mom told me, she is non verbal, you’ll know she’s excited when she claps and sad if she cries. Has never said a word, and won’t make eye contact with you. I felt a weird energy in that basement where the girl was located. The mom left for no more than a minute so I could have some alone time with her and for her to get used to me. No kidding, when I was about to get closer to her, this girl turns her head and tells me: “get the [hell] away from my house.” And her eyes were purely black. The mom came back and I was petrified, she noticed and she said everything okay? I said yes. I had a rosary in my hand, and sat next to her, her mom told me to talk to her or grab her back so she can get used to me, I soon as I put my hand in her back, (had my rosary on that hand) she started to have a seizure. The mom told me she was going to call 911 and I could have the day free. I never came back.

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    BarkingSquirell
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    1 month ago

    Why was the kid "located" in a basement?

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    #44

    PARANORMAL: A weird snow storm came in during class in December, we had recess inside. Kids on chrombooks and playing. One girl comes up to me at my desk and she looks TERRIFIED. I asked what was wrong/what happened. She’s almost crying but said she started hearing a weird scary humming song noise. I didn’t hear it but she said it sounds like a man and he was getting more and more angry. I didn’t know what to do so I said to listen to her headphones, play and if it happens again I’ll let the nurse know. She went back to her desk. 5 mins later I’m helping another girl answer some question on homework and we’re about to end class, she says “what’s that song?” I asked what song. She’s almost crying said it’s like a man humming and he’s kinda scary and mean. I told her the same thing but I got hella scared and chills. The girls don’t hang out, not really friends, wildly different backgrounds. The only similarities was blonde and blue eyes.

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    Maya_D
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    Kids have sharp hearing and often hear things adults don’t. There probably was a noise, maybe caused by the wind, but the teacher couldn’t hear it.

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    #45

    Everyday for about 2 weeks I had a student get on google earth and he would just stare at my house. He would even try zooming in on the windows. I asked what he was doing and he said, “I see this house in my dreams” (I blocked google earth, maps, etc. so fast)

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    #46

    I had a kindergarten student tell me that he liked to push the other students down the hill because they look like [corpses] when they rolled.

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    #47

    One of my students are non verbal and kept writing October 8th on the board and staring at me. I asked what it meant and he just kept pointing at me and then at the date. I have the date marked on my calendar so I can be prepared for a bless up or my demise.

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    Novlette Williams
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    1 month ago

    One of my students are? Are you sure you're a teacher?

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    #48

    I had a young student I swear was possessed. She would growl and speak in a voice I never heard from a little girl. She would talk about the "red place," scream, and would self harm. She would kick, hit, pinch, bite, throw herself around, and bang her head. Needless to say all the professionals were involved. One day I prayed for Jesus to help her, over her, quietly (no one else could hear me). She looked me in the eye and shook her head no, then began screaming again.

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    Salttypepper
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    She needs a child psychologist she’s needs help poor girl is dealing with something she don’t understand and can’t express properly, it’s only gonna get worse if she don’t get help.

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