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Before babies learn to talk in a real language like English, they babble and coo, playing with sound. That's baby talk, something that sounds similar all over the world. But they get good fast.

Of course, it depends on the situation, but according to experts, most babies are able to say a few simple words such as "mama" and "dadda" around their first birthday. Even more, they know what they're saying! By the time they're 3, babies expand their vocabulary rapidly, and "make-believe" play spurs an understanding of symbolic and abstract language like "now," feelings like "sad," and spatial concepts like "in." They also learn how to scare the poo out of their parents.

When Dan Schreiber shared a particularly creepy thing his child told him, moms and dads quickly expanded his tweet into a strangely funny thread, full of lines and concepts you'd think exist only in horror movies. Here are some of the best!

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treacadelic Report

October
Community Member
5 years ago

In the woods behind my home there are three graves (there used to be an old hospital at this spot and they sometimes buried patients on the hospital grounds.) One day while out for a run I jumped the little fence surrounding the graves to check them out. According to the tombstones there were two men and a women burried there. I went home and didn't speak about my detour. But that night my then 4 year old daughter awoke from a nightmare. She dreamd two men and a women were standing in her room staring at her. It's been ten years since this incident. Fortunately she never had the dream again. And I have never gone near those graves again.

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    ClaireElliott2 Report

    Em the Bored Lord
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I can't decide whether to scream, laugh, or have my own panic attack.

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    max_ruthless Report

    Night Owl
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    I wonder if she was more creeped out by the whole thing or grateful and touched that he apparently chose her

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    ThePiePatch Report

    I' Gomez & Morticia's kid
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Maybe baby has Photogenic memory [?]

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    #5

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    KWindness Report

    WildHoneyPie
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Yikes!

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    #6

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    MorganVAB Report

    Tee Witt
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Why hysterical? Grandad Jim is keeping an eye on him.

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    KLWalpole14 Report

    WildHoneyPie
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    This one is sweet...

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    #8

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    Bluemoonbud Report

    Night Owl
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    That must've brought up the trauma again :'( I'm so sorry

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    #9

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    NinjaHels Report

    Bob Belcher
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Hi

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    #10

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    mitch_r23 Report

    Night Owl
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Ghoooosts

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    Oi_you_blondie Report

    WildHoneyPie
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I'm glad the funny old man had a visitor.

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    Leslie B
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Well damn, that's quite specific.

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    lizkybusiness Report

    Em the Bored Lord
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    "Another", not "a mother" (I think)

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    Callymac Report

    Chancey
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    That is crazy and extremely interesting!

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    InTheButtonJar Report

    Mazer
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    You are a good mom.

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    Redheadirish33 Report

    Em the Bored Lord
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Aww, he chose you for your smile. Screw the creepiness, this is sweet.

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    tracy_coldwell Report

    WilvanderHeijden
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Just his imagination, though. This is the factory where I worked before I died and I never met that kid.

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    colinjbrowne Report

    Monty Is Fiennes
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Whoa...

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    #19

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    BevPalfreyman Report

    Von Klaus
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Spooky Mulder.

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    awpchristie Report

    WildHoneyPie
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Oof.

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    Leeds_guy , Leeds_guy Report

    Tee Witt
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    My daughter talked about "friends" she only saw when I was not their and mainly at night. It makes one wonder if the very young do have memories of previous lives. Scientifically explained by memories of the Mother's the cells passed to the child

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    #22

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    MarkVent Report

    Will Schultz
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    NOPE

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    yoffy2909 Report

    Ines Olabarria-Smith
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    And she didn’t ask more???

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    MariyaTalib Report

    Kathryn Baylis
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    The Fire of London, or WWII?

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    Davidoss Report

    Sakuri
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    That's great. please find (an other, grown up) shaman to support her. she brings a lot of potential and knowledge. it is important to take her seriously. do not be afraid, this is kind of "normal". it would be wonderful if she had someone by her side who understood her.

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    StephenMcGann Report

    JeThelo Tolentino
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    The Crown Prince Alexei Romanov?

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    AzureFalcon
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    This Isn't Spooky, It's Scary!

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    Tee Witt
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I agree, it is a shame they can not hold onto these so we could gain more information

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    Suz66
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    The same thing happened to my sister. They were traveling and went to a town she’d never been. She felt like she’d been there before and even knew where certain things were. She said that there was a cafe in this area before. She even knew the name. Now there’s a store there. They did some digging with a resident and sure enough , 50 years ago there was a coffee shop by that name over 50 years ago, it was leveled for the store. She was under 50 at that time.

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    JanetMcKennaLow Report

    Charmandha
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I didn't get it

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    Em the Bored Lord
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    This kid has a gift.

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    Monty Is Fiennes
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    My cousin used to have "people come to see him" when he was young, he was quite frightened of the experience and eventually told them to leave him alone and stop coming. They did.

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    Em the Bored Lord
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Or she'll be trans. Maybe get bottom surgery. Just a guess...

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    Em the Bored Lord
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    *sits quietly, internally screaming*

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    Emma_niDhulaing Report

    Stephanie IV
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    😢

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    #36

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    PinkMantha Report

    Gerard Neaux
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    What things?

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    dancingonjelly Report

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    _teddythomas_ Report

    Tee Witt
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    War time memories

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    CaseyClarkjr Report

    WilvanderHeijden
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    It was the teen sneaking out at the speed of light.

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    Annamagelic
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    For several months around age 4 or so my son was quite distressed that his little sister was lost in the forest and couldn't find us. He didn't have a little sister at the time, she was born about a year and a half later.

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    boredacious Report

    Mazer
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Well then, Lisa it is

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    anoticingsenpa1 Report

    BasedWang
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Lol at the name of the user too

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    Gerard Neaux
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    It would've been really sucky to get a negative review.

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    Me Oh My
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Seems like a cool kid.

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    somerset495 Report

    BasedWang
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Im interested in talking to this kid

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    IndioWendio Report

    Gerard Neaux
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    Well this makes sense.

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    deannabodey Report

    None of your business
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    this one is just sweet

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    #48

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    NicWritesBooks Report

    Jack Harris
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Love the last part!

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    yorkshiregirl13 Report

    Me Oh My
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Early sleep paralysis?

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    Melancolombia Report

    Me Oh My
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Changeling!

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    Em the Bored Lord
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    I think I was some kind of pirate in a past life. I also started learning norweigan about a month ago and it was strangely easy for me. I gave up out of boredom, though.

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    MorganVAB Report

    Hotdogking
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Another double post

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    ClaireElliott2 Report

    Hotdogking
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Double post

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    arnabacus Report

    K
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Why so rude and aggressive? Where you a tool bag in your previous life?

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