Anyone with kids would be well aware of the fact that children often do not have any filters. Indeed, this can be mortifying at times, but often it’s just pretty funny. However, sometimes this lack of awareness coupled with their earnestness means that children can very quickly become sort of scary in the right circumstances.
Someone asked “What's the creepiest thing you've seen a child say or do?” and people shared their strangest examples. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to detail your own bizarre encounters in the comments section below.
#41
When my son was about three years old he asked me in a very sugary tone to come into his bedroom, assuring me "everything will be fine". Tells me to sit on his bed and then lie down, all the while telling me everything's ok. "Now close your eyes.." I complied, then I hear him say calmly "Just lie still, this won't hurt a bit."
I opened my eyes right away to see him standing over me with a toy plastic hammer in one hand and a toy saw in the other. Noped out of there real fast.
I opened my eyes right away to see him standing over me with a toy plastic hammer in one hand and a toy saw in the other. Noped out of there real fast.
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26points
#42
My children. Of 7, two have creeped me out thoroughly. Oldest, at 4: starts crying inconsolably for several days. Misses his sister, and his mom. Thing is, he has no sister, and his mom was holding him. “No, his real mom”. She is his real, and only mom.
Second oldest, at 2: says mama, dada, up, no, a few more words. No special pronunciation or anything, just regular toddler vocabulary. Several times over a 3 month period, I hear a stranger in the kids room at night. I investigate. He’s having half of a fully adult conversation in his sleep, with at least a 6th grade vocabulary, and a tiny but fully articulated voice. My hair still stands up when I think about it creepy as $&@!. Also, this one somehow taught himself to read with no intentional guidance on our part, and could read any word you pointed at by the time he was 3-1/2 years old. Total surprise. I found out one day in the store when he asked me to buy him a magazine. I told him “why, you can’t read yet?” And he said that “actually, dad, I can read. The magazine says gameboy advanced reviews.” I was totally shocked, both with the announcement, and his appropriate but unexpected use of the word “actually”. I pointed at stuff in the supermarket, and he read every single thing I pointed out.
When we got home he proudly showed his mom he could read at my prompting. We had -no idea-.
Kids can be damn weird.
Second oldest, at 2: says mama, dada, up, no, a few more words. No special pronunciation or anything, just regular toddler vocabulary. Several times over a 3 month period, I hear a stranger in the kids room at night. I investigate. He’s having half of a fully adult conversation in his sleep, with at least a 6th grade vocabulary, and a tiny but fully articulated voice. My hair still stands up when I think about it creepy as $&@!. Also, this one somehow taught himself to read with no intentional guidance on our part, and could read any word you pointed at by the time he was 3-1/2 years old. Total surprise. I found out one day in the store when he asked me to buy him a magazine. I told him “why, you can’t read yet?” And he said that “actually, dad, I can read. The magazine says gameboy advanced reviews.” I was totally shocked, both with the announcement, and his appropriate but unexpected use of the word “actually”. I pointed at stuff in the supermarket, and he read every single thing I pointed out.
When we got home he proudly showed his mom he could read at my prompting. We had -no idea-.
Kids can be damn weird.
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#43
My niece went into my parents room and said she was talking to Pop-pop, who is my father and her grandfather.
Except Pop-pop died in 2006, and she was born in 2008...
Except Pop-pop died in 2006, and she was born in 2008...
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25points
#44
Friend’s baby loved looking in a hallway. They started waving to no one and started laughing and babbling in the hallway.
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24points
#45
It’s not that creepy when you hear or read it, but I know some people can relate to this happening to them. Sometimes, you’ll talk to a 2 year old and they’ll stop talking and look directly in your eyes for 30 seconds, switching from your left eye to your right eye periodically, and it’s the creepiest thing ever. Mind you a 2-2.5 year old is innately curious and constantly moving. I work with kids and it’s happened to me a few times, not that it’s necessarily “creepy”, but it’s so beyond eerie and odd, and all I can chalk it out to being is them forming their first conscious memory or actualizing that they’re a living being.
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21points
#46
My nephew walked up to my fireplace multiple times and said “stop staring at me!!”.
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19points
#47
One of my students (f8) who was always super quite came up to me and quietly asked “how does the cold kill you?”.
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17points
#48
I lived in an apartment complex, and there was a walmart right beside it. I went and got some groceries and was walking back through the complex yard to get to my apartment. There was a guy I had never met before walking close by me. There were 2 boys, probably the ages of 9-10. One of the boys was talking to the other and both me and the guy just happen to cathc one of the boys say to the other " put your flagpole in my b******e" me and thr guy just looked at each other and he asked me if I just heard that. I said yes, I did, and we did everything we could to keep ourselves from busting out laughing. I saw the guy a year later, and we just looked at each other and smiled.
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#49
A friend of mine has a 4 year old son who's very creepy. One time she took a nap on the couch and he sat next to her and stared at her the whole time. He didn't go play or fall asleep or get into trouble, he just stared at her. And he has a unibrow so something is just not right with him.
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#50
Maybe not the absolute creepiest, but the one that stuck in my mind was when a family came in to the place I worked and as they were arriving, the kid looked at me and just said "goodbye.".
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