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The pure honesty and naivety of a child are often endearing. However, truthfulness and candor have a dark side, and coming from an innocent mind can make them all the more eerie.
Recently, someone on Reddit asked: “What’s the creepiest thing you have ever heard a child say?” The answers were shocking at best, as these kids spoke about past lives, “basement people,” paranormal apparitions, and death premonitions.
If you’re a fan of chilling stories, this one’s for you. Prepare yourself for a few moments of goosebumps as you scroll through.
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#1
My half brother has a very particular name, his father had an older brother who died at a very young age with the same name, (my brother was named after him) when my brother was 3-4yo he looked straight into his dad eyes and said “daddy do you remember when I was older than you and we played together, then I fall asleep and now I’m younger”.
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#2
My little sister used to say “Sometimes at night a man comes into my room and tries to eat me” she would wake up in cold sweats and sleep in my room almost every night. it got so bad we had to take her to a therapist. turns out our step dad used to come in her room at night and touch her. im not sure if this counts as creepy but it was scary to me. she’s currently in trauma therapy and my stepfather is no longer in the picture.
ZGutr 1 year ago
my FIL would .... if the ones most important to me had not told me to stand down. But if i find out he got in 50 meters of one of us ever since .........
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I'm a teacher and one day a girl wrote a story about a house with a monster in it that squirts goo at night. It seemed like a normal story for a kid her age and I thought nothing more of it. Then her mum called to ask about it and reminded me that the girl had been abused by her dad in the past and the story sounded similar to what happened to her. I felt so bad when I realised that but it had been ambiguous when I read it. Thankfully the girl didn't seem to be dwelling on the story, and was making progress with her psychologist.
#3
My niece was talking to her imaginary friends in the back of the car. She said it was a boy and girl about her age and they were brother and sister. Then as we came near the end of a road she said this is thier home, can we drop them off here? Myself and my sister were laughing about it until we reached the end of the road and it was a cemetery. She gave a little wave and said goodbye as we passed.
Catpawsarethebest 1 year ago
Well, my girl used to wave at all the people at the graveyeard when she was little. She only waves when other people wave at her. Fun time walking at the cementary and she started to wave at ALL THE PEOPLE that I couldnt see🫠
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
So now it's "I see dead people and give them rides home"...? -_-"
Lene 1 year ago
Aww that is so sweet. :) I believe that at least some times, when adults call their kid's friend(s) imaginary, it may be a ghost of some sort instead. But adults are "blind" to them and kids do not necessarily know about ghosts so they call them what their parents call them: imaginary friends. 😊 (I am not sure if I believe in ghosts, even though I have seen and heard plenty of them. Just like I don't really believe in gods, even though there are plenty in the faith I follow. Perhaps studying religion at the uni made me weird about what to believe... lol)
#4
"I'm not scared of the thing under my bed. The thing under the bed is my friend."
On further questioning, the thing under his bed was our border collie, who sometimes naps there.
Louise Clarke 1 year ago
He was right, the "thing" under his bed is his friend, and a good doggo
#5
My four year old daughter says that before she was born she was a ghost, and when she was a ghost she would spy on us because she couldn’t wait to be alive and living with us.
#6
Once my son looked at me and said "oh you're having a baby!" I had just found out I was expecting and hadn't told anyone. I asked him why he said that, and he just shrugged and said "just a feeling".
I miscarried less than a week later and he looked at me randomly and said "oh, no more baby".
The pregnancy, miscarriage etc had never been discussed around or to him. It was so strange.
Ashlie Benson 1 year ago
Exact same thing happened with my niece. She started talking about Sue in her mom's belly before they knew she was pregnant. Then a few weeks later she said the angels were coming to take Sue, and they miscarried the next day.
Cindi Antrobus 1 year ago
My husband just knew I was pregnant, his just knew when my mother in law was too
#7
Unsure if this counts, but here we go haha. When I was 4 I had an imaginary friend, his name was Billy. Sometimes his friend was with him, her name was Lady. Billy went with me everywhere, he had a spot at the table, he was on the swing next to me at the park, slept on the top bunk etc. I was really afraid of milk tankers and would shake and cry whenever I saw one. When I saw an ambulance Id say "Mum Billy died in there" Anyway we moved to a small town to be closer to my grandparents and Mum started doing ancestry, she found an uncle named Billy who died in an ambulance after colliding with a milk tanker. His wife was with him, cant remember her name but her nickname was Lady. Also 2 of their 3 kids were in the car, unfortunately no-one survived. Turns out the small town we just moved to was the town it happened just out of and they died about 15 years before I was born.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
When I was a child, I had imaginary friends. They were real people - I just imagined they were my friends.
#8
When my niece was about 3 she told her mum that she liked her much better than her other mummy because her other mummy was mean... "and one day she held my head under the water for too long..."
Same niece, aged around 6, told me that her creepily named dolls were made of blood and bones and mud but watch out! Don't let them touch you! Because they'll turn you into a doll! I turn away from the dolls and she says to something behind me, "No Ethel, I told you, do not touch her!"
She's the best.
#9
My second daughter always insisted she had an “imaginary friend”. I would hear her genuinely having full conversations. She told me one day as we’re standing in the kitchen that her “friend” was upstairs in her bedroom. Immediately heard small footsteps in the bedroom above us. She said “see?” No one else was home.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
If you keep hearing the footsteps, you might try claiming the friend as a dependent for tax purposes.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
As an auditor, I've encountered claimed dependents equally as real.
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We were at a family gathering and my then 4 year old daughter did not want to leave. She kept repeating, “but it’s the last time we will all be together!” (as we had to literally football carry her out while wrangling our other kids).
We were at a beloved Aunts home, who suddenly passed two weeks later. It was indeed the last time we were “all” together. What I wouldn’t give to have listened to my daughter in that moment and stayed longer at my Aunt’s house.
#11
My two year old saw me organizing my basketball cards. He tottered over and said “when I was big, I used to buy those for you.”
My dad bought me those cards, 25 years ago, shortly before he passed away.
Montanavanna 1 year ago
I sometimes think my daughter might be my grandmother. Nothing she has said just the things she likes and mannerisms she has.
Pollywog 1 year ago
There's a good chance she is. We tend to run in the same circle of souls throughout our different lives. Maybe play one of your grandma's favorite songs or use a favorite scent....things of that nature may get a reaction.
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#12
Not sure if this counts but when I was 8 I had a new babysitter ( she was a teenager ) and right after my parents left she asked me in this pleasant tone “Alright Unicorn_puppy, where’s the stuff your daddy drinks before he hits your mommy?”
I come from a stable household with two parents that had a good marriage I was confused and said “I don’t know! My dad doesn’t hit my mom” and she fell kinda silent, the rest of the night till my parents got back she was awkwardly quiet and I never saw her again. It’s only recently I remembered this and the realization of what was going on in her life came to me, I feel bad that I took my stable childhood and having two loving parents in my life for granted.
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
I've had that experience, especially as an adult. A group of friends were discussing how many months or years it'd been since they talked to their parents or siblings. I kept quiet because I usually talked to my parents at least once a week, same for my sisters.
Angela C 1 year ago
With that kind of home life it doesn't surprise me she'd turn to alcohol
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Child of the Stars 1 year ago
Congratulations. You missed the point entirely.
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"I'm starting to forget the names of the people who live in my head"
No context. Right in the middle of clean-up time.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I'd like to forget absolutely everything about the people who live in my head. Squatters, every one of them. If God wanted my head to be occupied, he would have put a brain there.
#14
My brother's friend was a teacher in a very rural Australian school and her class were all indigenous kids ( Aboriginal). When the lunch Bell rang the kids would fight to go play on the oval. One day the lunch bell went off and all the kids just sat there. She asked " aren't you going out on the oval to play"? One of the kids replied" no miss the tall men are there" she looked and didn't see anything and said so. One of the other kids said " she can't see them, she's a white fella". And they wouldn't go outside.
Alexandra 1 year ago
A 'tall mann" in Australian myth is a malevolent creature of nightmare, that's supposed to come out at night and it especially threatening to Aboriginal people.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
I have a Native American friend who is usually level-headed and not superstitious at all. But there are some places he just will not go because it's where the skinwalkers are. He's so level-headed otherwise that it's made me avoid those places too.
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#15
We had just moved into an old farm house when one night my 3 year old at the time pointed at the glass door and asked why the "other mummy" was there. I looked and couldn't see anything and asked what she looked like?
my 3 year old proceeded to explain that the other mummy was dirty and muddy and had blue lips and blonde hair.
I kind of froze because we were home alone together. I was like, "Oh okay, that's interesting," and he says "yes she lives under the ground. She said she had a good boy like me once, "
It made my stomach drop, and I took him to my room and locked the door, haha.
Pollywog 1 year ago
That's what I was thinking. There may even be a family cemetery on the property somewhere.
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My kid once asked me about the lady with the dog. We live in a very dog-friendly area and had been out and about that day so, thinking she was talking about someone we'd seen that day, I asked which lady? She pointed at the empty landing at the top and the stairs and said "That lady!" I swear my heart skipped several beats!
Andrew Irish 1 year ago
My daughter did something similar when she was three. She said she saw a man whose "skin was mostly off," and had blue lips and his eyes were all white. Then, "he got stabbed in the head". Being an atheist, yet spiritual (yes, you can not believe in theism or a god, and still think that whatever it is that makes us sentient, feel love and rage etc. is something not understood and can be called "spirit" or "soul", and can maybe be tapped into, developed and more), I was pretty startled, a little scared & thought "is she tapping into something?" Plus was worried that if she was, her mental health was at risk. Since whatever "he" was didn't seem to cause any problems, but seeing him could... anyway, idk if it was that night or another, she was asleep in our bed, and I was watching a show. I looked down at one point and realized her eyes were open and she was smiling. She was literally watching (and enjoying) The Walking Dead. We aren't always aware of our influence or what they take in.
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
That’s a nope for me. Sounds like every old farm house in every scary movie ever
#16
A 6 year old I worked with (about 6 months ago) said “it’s Corrie! Hi Corrie!” To an empty corner. Corrie is my grandmas name. She died in 2020. I pulled up a picture of her and asked who it was and he said “her name is Corrie”.
Jen Nunyabiz 1 year ago
Teachers, speech therapists, behavioral therapists - these are people who WORK WITH children. Obviously, the child is not her coworker, c'mon now.
#17
"Go back to sleep, there isn't anything under your bed".
"Hes behind you now".
Still haven't gotten over that one and shiver at the memory.
Carole 1 year ago
Oh now that would definitely get to me. Never ever tell me that something is behind me, that has been my fear since I was a child. I remember I always had to have my back against the wall or face a mirror just to be sure that nothing could be behind me. I had to shower with my back close to the wall as well. All that just because I always felt something behind me, like a presence. To calm me down my mum told me that it was probably my father (who died when I was 2) who wanted to stay with me to watch over me. I think that helped a little, I don't quite remember when the fear faded. I still hate the feeling of something or having an open space behind me though.
A̷͇̘̓͜l̷̼͇̣͒̌ͅȩ̷͍͙͗̅̀͊̏̾͘x̶̋̍ 1 year ago
Really? I have that feeling too, but it's pretty much confirmed it's paranoia. I do hope mine goes away.
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#18
'I don't like it here, Mommy...I want to go back to the planet I came from.' (my 3 yr old says to me, with a big sigh).
#19
My nephew while chatting to my Grandmother about Christmas, pipes up 'you'll be dead then', when she was talking about Christmas.
She died on 20th December. She wasn't even sick at the time!
He was three at the time and doesn't remember saying it.
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
.. perhaps a conveniently-placed Lego or toy car at the top of the stairs../j
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#20
My niece had never met my Dad, her Grandad, as he had passed away the year before she was born.
When she was 3 years old, she pointed at the corner that his walking stick used to sit in, waved and said 'Hiya Grandad' with the biggest smile on her face.
It was the creepiest and sweetest thing I had ever seen!
Family's_disappointment 1 year ago
I guess he wanted to meet his grand daughter for one last time
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
This makes me think of Storm of the Century where the demon used his walking stick to control the kids.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
It may only be that she had learned to associate walking sticks with older people.
#21
My nephew told me the basement people want my skin.
Tempest 1 year ago
This is what happens when you put so much effort into your skin care routine. Even the basement people start finding it appealing.
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
Mine told me something similar, he's 5. Turns out your nephew liking Tim Burton movies as much as his Auntie does leads to a kid with an overactive imagination and creativity when mad at his Auntie.
#22
While changing my daughter in front of the open closet door. She kept looking around me and laughing. I asked her what was so funny. She said, "the man." To which I replied, "what man?" She then pointed at the closet and said, "the man with the snake neck." I turn around and nothing was there. I'm afraid to look into the history of my house to see if anyone hung themselves in the closet. At least she wasn't scared.
#23
My cousin's youngest was around 5 hanging out with me one Thanksgiving awhile back. He was drawing with crayons, and I asked him if he could draw me his favorite animal.
Kiddo looked at me and thought for a sec, then just started drawing giant black circles on the paper. Like "The Ring"-style circles. I was surprised and said "Wow! Uh, what kind of animal is that?"
This kid looks at me and non-chalantly says "The dark of nowhere."
I kind of stumbled because I wasn't sure what to say to that, and while I stuttered, his older brother (7) helpfully jumped in: "Oh, don't worry, the dark of nowhere is just like, a man, who's like a shadow." VERY COOL, THANKS BUD, THAT HELPS A LOT.
I realize this sounds contrived and made up, but it happened exactly this way. It will probably make more sense when I explain that their mother is a horror movie FANATIC and the kids have been exposed to creepy stuff since birth, so this wasn't actually that surprising, just caught me off guard.
Skogsrået 1 year ago (edited)
Poor kid, i still feel traumatized from watching "The exorcist" as a kid.
Lowrider 56 1 year ago
I wasn't a kid when I saw it and it traumatized me too!
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My sisters kids were allowed to watch scary movies. They couldn’t be left alone for a minute, especially at night. My daughter slept in her room with the light off and door closed at 3, no nightlight. I never realized the effects of those movies until my niece was staying over one night.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
My dad used to like horror movies. He stopped watching them around me when I started drawing stick figures cutting each other up with axes... (I was 4? 5?). I vaguely remember them insisting on watching the Exorcist while we were eating dinner...
Aileen Grist 1 year ago
As a 5 or- 6 year old I was taken to see the original 'Alamo' when it first came out. My first time going to the cinema too. I had nightmares for weeks
Barbara Turner 1 year ago
My kids liked playing 'Luigi's Haunted Mansion' Nintendo game.The cute ghosts are called boos. I walk by and hear Petra lament "It's hard to find boos in a haunted house."
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
Pfft I actually got a luigis mansion 2 remake a few weeks ago
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I lived in my parents house with my daughter until she was about three. their house is so f*****g haunted and whatever haunted it started focusing all of it's energy on my daughter.
one night she was in her room sleeping and I was in mine laying in bed dozing off.
I hear her talking through the baby monitor and I sit and listen for a minute trying to hear what she was saying. then all of a sudden all I could hear through the baby monitor was static so I jump up and run into her room to check on her.
she's standing up in her crib pointing at the ceiling. I ask her who she was talking to?
she says
"he gone now."
nope nope nope.
then when we lived in another house that our great aunt had died in like.....5 months prior.
I couldn't find my keys and I asked her if she had seen them. she said yes. I said oh great can I have them? she says "he told me not to tell you." I ask her who he is? she said "the upside down man. he doesn't like you" and never would elaborate.
I would always hear her talking to "someone" in her room and it always freaked me out lol. especially when she was itty bitty. like having full fledged conversations with someone.
#25
"I used to be a policeman, but then I died. I was trying to stop a burglary and the burglars were really rough with me. They were really rough with me, and then I died."
This was a four year old I used to babysit.
#26
My little cousin, at about three years old, looked at us all at the family gathering and said, “you know, I went down with the ship.” Then he switched back to three year old English and started playing.
#27
My son tells me stories of "scary uncle Michael" in his bedroom at night. He says he's a grey man that looks like his uncle and he climbs on walls and calls out to him and one night he tried to eat him.
Yep, nightmare fuel.
ffeineandsugar 1 year ago
Sounds like somebody was watching Stargate: Atlantis. The Wraith have a tendency to do things like that....
#28
I told my mother when I was about 3 that I didn't like the lady in the basement, or that she kept trying to make me "put my hand in the wall." She asked what lady and I said from the picture and took her to the basement. Hidden away in a closet were a bunch of old photos and a weird, painted portrait, really old fashioned.
The woman was the previous owner of the house, which was not owned by her brother, our landlord. She had died in the basement while trying to do laundry, as she was advanced in age and stubborn about getting help in spite of her bad health. The portrait was apparently some family tradition, the brother had one, too, and so did his parents. A lot of her things were still in the house we were renting.
After we found the portrait, I took her to a wall and told her the hole was there. My mom moved some boxes out of the way and, sure enough, there was a hole about the size of a child's fist on the ground being covered. I still remember showing her the hole, vaguely. I also remember seeing the woman wandering around down there, in a sort of dreamlike memory kind of way. Super tiny woman, face kind of obscured by wrinkles in a way that is hard to explain because in retrospect it didn't look natural but to a kid, she just had a weird face. And wearing a white nightgown with little flowers on it.
Anyway, my mom had always been creeped out by the basement, but I played down there. I wasn't allowed to play down there anymore.
Growing up, I remembered the lady and the hole, but nothing else. And she never discussed it again. We lived there the rest of the year, then moved as soon as we could (my dad didn't believe in any of it). But it wasn't until I brought up the old lady when we were talking about the house, at 16, that my mom filled in the blanks. Which was crazy to me, because in my mind I thought the old lady who owned the house would just come over in her nightgown, and that she was just kind of a b***h about the wall hole.
She really, really wanted me to reach in there.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
Right? Like, yeah, it could be creepy like she wanted to grab the kid or something, but what if there was something in there that was important to her and she just wanted to get it to a family member or something?
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#29
“Mommy can we sleep with the tv on? I don’t want the big people to watch us sleep again”, the night before I had a terrible nightmare that aliens were watching us sleep. It was almost like an out of body experience because I could see us in bed and my bedroom exactly how I left it that night. At first I didn’t think anything of it, until she said that and then I realized maybe it wasn’t a dream. She was only 2 at the time.
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
Meh, if she said it the night before said dream, it seems plausible her statement could've influenced the nightmare? Stuff from my day-to-day ends up in my dreams all the time :p
Baby Jenks 1 year ago
I initially understood it that way too. I re-read it & I believe it's a typo- OP used a comma where there should be a period. OP meant that she had the nightmare the night before her daughter said that.
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Diana Lucas 1 year ago
My sister thinks her and her husband and two daughters are being abducted by aliens regularly. Her youngest was maybe five years old when she told her mom she didn't' want the strange people to take her again, or something like that. My BIL went to the dentist for a routine checkup and they found a small piece of something embedded in his gum. It looked like metal on the x-ray. They made an appointment for a week later to take it out via surgery. He went back in and it was completely gone.
Montanavanna 1 year ago
Hate to tell you this, but, your being abducted. OP should ask other family members if they have similar experiences as abductions usually run along family lines.
Happy Vibes Gift Shop 1 year ago
by aliens? Just asking out of curiousity.
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#30
My daughter (at the time around 3) was in bed. She giggled, then asked if I had tickled her feet.
No. No I hadn't.
Alexandre Jassoud 1 year ago
It happened to me as a kid. Two creepy shadows were entering the window at night to do that. Of course your parents don't acknowledge it.
#31
Meeting my niece for the first time.
While staring me out and trying with all her 6yr old might to break my finger in half. Clenching and wrenching, and screaming like a weightlifter possessed.
She suddenly stopped, unblinking and said "I promise there's a good person trapped inside of me"
Glad to report that she did not turn out to be a psychopath...but in the back of my head I always think "not a psychopath YET".
#32
At the time, I was a single mom with 1 kid. We had just moved into this surprisingly cheap rental house. The third night there my 4yo daughter tells me her sister was very mad at us (again, she was an only child at that point).
Two nights later, she comes running into my bedroom crying because her 'sister' was giggling in a really scary way.
I let her sleep with me, but the next morning when we went into her so she could change, she asks me if it's normal for there to be so much blood on the walls.
I packed or stuff in the car and moved out on our sixth day there.
I had no one else to turn to except my brother, who at the time, we had a very poor relationship, but I called and asked for help.
He was very surprised when he found out it wasn't just a relapse, and so offered to go back a couple of days later with a friend and get the rest of our stuff. He said the landlord was upset we moved so quickly, but that he'd been having problems keeping tenets for more than a couple of months at a time.
His friend told me he offered the landlord to come back in a few nights and burn the place to the ground.
#33
My little cousin once said he has a friend named "mr. bones" who lives in the closet... like bro that’s terrifying.
#34
My friend's daughter (age 6) said to her little brother (4) "I want to peel your face like an orange...".
#35
I moved from Maine to Texas to live with my brother who was in the Air Force. Mind you we have no family or friends in Texas so I didn’t know a single soul. While working at Walmart in Ft Worth I had an unknown child come up to me and say “I know you” to which I said “must be a mistake I’m not from here”. The kid then said he remembered seeing me eating at a unique local restaurant from my hometown in Maine last year.
It was such a weird experience. I still never figured out who he was. Must have been like 11-12 years old.
Montanavanna 1 year ago
My son has a speech delay and his babbling always sounded like it was in another language. We were at a grocery store one day when a man walked past us speaking a language that sounded like Arabic. My son gasped then spouted off a sentence that also sounded like Arabic.
#36
When I was a teenager I used to babysit a foster kid for a local family. She had sadly experienced severe abuse & neglect at the hands of her biological parents (she was extremely traumatised). After she would fall asleep I'd have to be on "alert" most of the night as she suffered from sleepwalking and night terrors that I now believe were a form of post-traumatic flashback.
Some of the things she would say as she walked around the house in the dark were pretty terrifying. I never knew what to expect.
#37
A client's 5 year old asked me how old I was. I said "actually, my birthday is next week. I'm going to be 34." she looked at me with an absolutely blank face and dead pan said "oh wow, another year. maybe".
Tabitha 1 year ago
That could mean a whole bunch of things, not just you only have another year to live, maybe. It could be another year, maybe, before you get married, have a baby, get promoted, have an invention patented, buy a house, rescue a stray kitten and adopt it, move to another country, etc, etc, etc. Not always bad things, unless specified as such.
#38
“Mommy! You’re in a bubble and floating awaayyyy!”
I was already dealing with postpartum depression. When my 2yo said this to me over and over again for weeks I started to think I was going insane.
Btsquestrian 1 year ago
maybe that's how her child conceptualized their mother's mental illness? I hope that mother got help and is felling better now
#39
My then 3 year old had a few gems:
Him: I was so mad at you, I was gonna destroy you. Me: yeah, how so? Him: I was gonna throw you in a volcano. Me: why didn’t you? Him: I don’t know where a volcano is. Me: so we good? Him: for now…
The other one:
Him: to bad the babysitter died. Me: no she didn’t bud, she’s just not here today. Him: or she’s in the freezer(while staring at the freezer) Me: you’re pretty creepy sometimes bud Him: just smiles.
#40
When we are about to sleep. my cousin told me to tell the tall black man standing on our door to leave. But we are the only person in that room, we hurriedly left that room and slept to where our other cousins was.
#41
My daughter has offered me what she called "die tea" and "night night shots". She was probably around 3?
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
"Night night shots" is what I'm going to start calling my whiskey nightcaps 😹
#42
Not me, but when my brother was little, my mum was cooking in the kitchen and he was with her. Suddenly my brother asked "Mum, why is that boy crying in the corner?" My mum looked over but there was no one there.
#43
Friend used to babysit this kid who would aggressively rock on the rocking horse while staring at her saying "I hate you. I hate you". .
#44
A five year old once said to me with a great deal of sympathy, "A long time ago, I used to be just like you.".
Btsquestrian 1 year ago
I had an 19 y/o tell me that something happened "a long time ago." It turns out that to him, a long time ago was 18 months ago
#45
My son was around 3 at the time. Kept refusing to go downstairs as that's where Angel Man was, and angle Man wanted to hurt the family.
#46
"Mommy, before I came to live with you, was it always this dark?".
#47
When my daughter was 4 we were walking past a restaurant, and a man was standing in front smoking, and she stopped, turned to him and said "You're going to die", in a totally flat voice, turn just kept waking.
#48
When I was a toddler my family said anytime they would hold me in their arms I would start whispering in their ear "behind you" My mom thought it was funny but it scared the s**t out of my siblings and aunt.
#49
"There's a man outside the window"
We're on the 14th floor.
#50
When I was around 20 or 21, I would often go to my friend Stephanie's house. Her little sister Katie (about 6 y/o or so) would often be playing in the other room. One day, I went over, and Katie was playing with one of her Barbie dolls. Stephanie and I started playing Dr. Mario, which was a household staple at her place. Her mom was SUPER good at it. After a few minutes, Katie came over to us and asked if we were going to play for much longer because she wanted me to play with her. Steph told her that we'd be playing for a while.
Katie looked at me and said, "Let me know when you're done because she's just going to stare at you until you come play with us."
Steph and I were like, "WHAT?! WHO???" Katie walked away and said, "Just hurry up and play with me."
To this day, Katie insists that she has no idea what we're talking about, but we know what we heard. Still gives me chills.
#51
I babysat a kiddo who was probably 3 or 4, and at the park she collected a dozen or more rollie pollies/pill bugs and put them in a cup. She collected some leaves to feed them. Pretended to take care of them.
Then when it was time to leave, I said let’s put them back so they can go home and we can go home too, and she turns and goes “Nope, we need to k*ll them” and immediately dumps and starts stomping all of them.
Most were dead before I could try to stop her—totally out of character for her. Never quite looked at her the same after that.
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
That's sad, but pretty normal. I'm a preschool teacher and at the facility I work at I've been designated as the official bug-catcher™ toddlers grab my hand and walk me around to flip over rocks, push logs, etc. It's very common a small child will randomly try to stomp bugs, even when they haven't previously. Most are delighted by bugs. But as soon as they try to stomp them, I say "I'm not going to help you find bugs if you're going to hurt them." And usually they stop
#52
My daughter used to stare out the window and wave as if someone was out there waving back. I asked her once who she was waving to, and she said "the werewolf!" and I asked her where it was and she said "right there!" pointing at an empty spot in the front yard.
#53
My little cousin told me he's been playing with an imaginary friend named mr. whisp who likes to watch people sleep... like wtf right.
#54
My little cousin used to talk about the old man in his closet. My aunt was afraid to research the history of her house for a while (it was built in the mid 90s, and no one died there as far as she knew). Eventually, my cousin stopped talking about the old man in his closet, so my aunt finally looked into the history of the house and found that nothing happened there.
Still, she has no idea where he got that from.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
It used to be that your relatives stopped talking about you if you came out of the closet.
KillerKiwi 1 year ago (edited)
Nah. I’d want to know what the hell he was talking about. That would bug me so bad
#55
I was playing Minecraft with my nephew who is around 8, and he chanted “MUR-DER! MUR-DER! MUR-DER! MUR-DER!…” He also wanted to suffocate my character inside a vertical tube he was going to fill with gravel.
Lost Panda 1 year ago
Not creepy, just what happens when watching YouTube gamers. Nothing against those people, but hearing the amount of times you hear die, I'm going to kill you, etc you can see how a child would emmulate this.
What do you think ?
uspen pujiandri 1 year ago
i'm from Indonesia, and as an Indonesian, we had a tradition, every month in the first weekend, we use to visit our father's grave, just to pray for him, but my niece she was just 4, asking why we always gone to her grand dad grave every month, she ask her mommy (which is my sister) "mommy why we always visit grand dad's grave?" her mommy replied "we have to pray for him, dear" but my niece replied with smile " we dont have to come here every month, grand dad is always at home sitting in his chair reading his book every day, and always smiling at me while im siiting in his lap and sometime row his finger though my hair." and i remembered, i often seeing her sit in my dad's chair. p.s. : sorry for the bad english, :)
Be Gay Do Crime 1 year ago
Great now I'm freaked out. On a treadmill and keep falling off trying to look behind me.
Heather Talma 1 year ago
My niece used to talk to my mom (and only my mom) about "when you was a little kid and I was a grown-up" and all the stuff she would do at that time, like reading to my mom or making food for her. She's five now and hasn't really mentioned it in over a year.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
I took my then 3yo to look at the blood moon in 2016. She looked at it, then looked at me and says: That means we're all going to die, Mommy. We're all still here, but later that year, DJT was elected as POTUS. Make of that what you will.
uspen pujiandri 1 year ago
i'm from Indonesia, and as an Indonesian, we had a tradition, every month in the first weekend, we use to visit our father's grave, just to pray for him, but my niece she was just 4, asking why we always gone to her grand dad grave every month, she ask her mommy (which is my sister) "mommy why we always visit grand dad's grave?" her mommy replied "we have to pray for him, dear" but my niece replied with smile " we dont have to come here every month, grand dad is always at home sitting in his chair reading his book every day, and always smiling at me while im siiting in his lap and sometime row his finger though my hair." and i remembered, i often seeing her sit in my dad's chair. p.s. : sorry for the bad english, :)
Be Gay Do Crime 1 year ago
Great now I'm freaked out. On a treadmill and keep falling off trying to look behind me.
Heather Talma 1 year ago
My niece used to talk to my mom (and only my mom) about "when you was a little kid and I was a grown-up" and all the stuff she would do at that time, like reading to my mom or making food for her. She's five now and hasn't really mentioned it in over a year.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
I took my then 3yo to look at the blood moon in 2016. She looked at it, then looked at me and says: That means we're all going to die, Mommy. We're all still here, but later that year, DJT was elected as POTUS. Make of that what you will.
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