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.
#21

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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15points
#22

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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14points
#23

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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13points
#24

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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13points
#25

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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13points
#26

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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13points
#27

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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13points
#28

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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13points
#29

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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11points
#30

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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11points
#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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10points
#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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10points
#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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9points
#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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9points
#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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9points
#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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9points
#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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8points
#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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8points
#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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7points
#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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7points

