#1 Creepy Prayers From A Five Year Old
Two nights ago he asks me to call the deceased fairies. I ask him why I would want to do that. I told him I only call on beautiful and good fairies to watch over him. He said the deceased fairies would protect him from deceased things that bother him in his sleep.
He said "It's okay, Mommy. Most of them still have their skin".
#2 Who Needs Nightmares When You Have Kids
#3 Comforted My Sleeping Daughter... Now I Need Someone To Comfort Me
Parents deserve more patience and understanding.
It is completely natural to feel confused, put off, and even a little bit scared when a child—yours or someone else’s—starts speaking about very dark topics. Even a small eerie comment can be enough to throw your entire day off track.
The point is, however, that you should not be too hard on yourself if you feel lost and have no clue how to react to kids behaving, well, incredibly creepy.
That being said, you should aim to be as calm and empathetic as possible. Your voice, words, and body language all matter here.
#4 "I Picked You Because You Were Sad..."
My husband and I discussed the possibility of having a younger sibling with her and how she would feel about it. She said "I would be happy because your other baby will come back." I didn't understand what she meant and asked her to explain what she meant. "Before I was here, they asked me to pick a mommy. I picked you." I asked her why and she said, "I picked you because you were sad. Your other baby got sick and you were sad. I picked you to make you happy." I just started sobbing at that point. She said "I think that baby will come back and then we can have a boy baby too!" This happened a few days ago.
Our daughter does not know that I lost a little boy just before she was conceived. We've never mentioned it and there's no possible way she could know. I'm still kind of freaked out, but almost comforted in a way. Maybe he will pick me again...
#5 3 Y.o. At The Supermarket
#6 No Mirrors
According to Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., parents can feel overwhelmed when their children say terrible or scary things. They might also feel terror, rage, worry, and helplessness.
“Take a breath, stay calm, and respond to the emotion the child is trying to express,” he writes in an in-depth post on Psychology Today.
“With your empathy and support, children will learn to express their emotions in a less dramatic way,” Cohen emphasizes.
“We often punish children for using these words, demand they stop talking like this, coax them to speak more nicely, or tell them what they really intend to say. Or we leap into high gear, insisting with our own overloaded emotions that they tell us exactly what they mean and why they are saying that.”
However, this is not the right approach.
#7 My Fiancée Saw A Ghost Months Ago, And My Son Just Told Us About Him
The next day, I ask what happened. She said she’d woken up feeling like she was being watched, and looked up to see an old man leaning over the bed, grimacing at her.
Today, mere minutes ago, Christmas 2018 we’re over at her sisters house. We’re watching Ghostbusters 2. Movie finishes, son starts to play with his toys and says “There’s a ghost in this house. A man. He fell off the roof, now he’s in a bad mood. He’s buried under the house.”
GET ME OUT.
#8 Graveyards
Apparently once I was able to talk I used to make her turn up the music when we passed because the "voices were too loud" and I "couldn't listen to so many at once."
Still freaks her out. Makes me question my sanity at that age....
#9 Mission Accomplished
When you and your child are in an overloaded state, flooding them with even more emotions can increase the pressure on them.
“Then they may dig in and keep repeating the words that had such a dramatic impact. We, in turn, may panic and react as if our child is at serious risk,” Cohen warns.
Most often, strong language from a child does not lead to any danger.
Kids tend to use the strongest and most intense words to describe their emotions and experiences. They use them automatically when they are in an emotional state, so there’s not much room for logic, empathy, or social sensitivities.
Cohen suggests that parents respond to terrible language by using the phrase “That’s a very strong way to say…” This fits anything from how angry to how sad they are.
Meanwhile, if you’re not sure what your kid is trying to express, you can say something along the lines of, “Those are such strong words, they really show me you are feeling a lot right now.”
#10 Walking To My Car Overheard A Little Girl...
Little girl says this to her grandma. "Grandma you remind me of my friend, except you're not buried in the back yard." What the hell!?! Strange one to be sure, creeped me out..
#11 3 Year Old Son...
No matter what your little munchkin says, your goal as a grown-up is to be calm and empathetic. You should aim to show that you see and understand what they’re feeling, that you’re not scared of their emotions, and that you can not only handle them but also help them deal with them.
“The most important thing is how we hear what they are saying, how we understand that the scariness or badness of the words is just a signal of the intensity of the feeling. If the feelings were able to be expressed ‘nicely,’ then the child would have used those nice ways. In this moment, they couldn’t,” Cohen writes.
It’s also worth doing some introspection as a parent, whether you might have missed some less intense ways that your children tried to express their feelings before. You may have missed or ignored those situations, and you only reacted when they used much harsher, incredibly dramatic words.
“No need to beat yourself up about this; just increase your efforts to listen and accept what you hear. Remember that acceptance does not mean agreeing. When a child says terrible (and untrue) things about you or their siblings or their life, then you can listen with respect and care, and reflect back what you heard without correcting them.”
#13 Granny Comes To Visit
I peaked in the room to see what my daughter was doing, and I heard her say, "Okay, I love you. Bye," and kissed a mirror that belonged to my great-gramma. I asked her who she was talking to, and she said very plainly, "Gramma."
I called my dad over and said to my daughter, "Tell papa who you were talking to." She smiled and said, "Gramma." I asked where gramma was, and she pointed in the mirror. "In there."
#14 My 4 Year Old Niece Casually Mentions Memories From When She Was "A Boy"
Just the other day my younger brother and his wife took her to a zoo near a skydiving school, when my brother spotted a skydiver and pointed it out my niece said "Oh yeah. I used to do that a lot when I was a boy. Until I got shot in the head." She then continued pointing at the giraffes like it was nothing.
I was cleaning some guns with my father when she walked in and said "Boy, those things sure have gotten fancy."
I was visiting for Independence Day, she watched a neighborhood kid with a sparkeler and remarked "You think that's cool? You should have seen the fireworks when I was a boy."
According to my mother, she once heard a helicopter fly over while playing. Without even looking up she muttered "krauts."
My younger brother was play wrestling with her at Christmas when he said "okay, okay, truce!" She jumped on him laughing and screamed "No! We don't stop until you're all [deceased]!"
My parents own a hobby farm. My dad was moving bales with a tractor and my niece looked at my mom and said "Phew, if we had those when I was a little boy, I would have had a lot more time to play!"
According to her daycare provider, a kid tried to take a toy from her and she looked him in the eye and said loudly "I'll [take you out] you. I've done it before."
There have been quite a few other instances, but those are the most memorable ones. If you ask her to expand on anything she says, she won't. If you ask her to tell you about when she was a boy, she just says "I'm not a boy, I'm a girl." She doesn't appear to have any recollection of saying these things from what we can tell.
I'm definitely a skeptic, and I don't think it's got anything to do with an actual past life, but it's still kind of creepy regardless.
#15 A Girl That Cries
It’s not just younger children who can frighten you with their words. Older children and teenagers can also opt for emotionally stronger and more uncomfortable communication. You can adapt the same strategies to adolescents as you would with kids
In some rare cases, your child’s emotional distress might be more serious, and you’ll need some professional help. Reaching out to a trusted therapist who can do a full and careful evaluation, without dismissing your concerns, can be a great help.
#16 My Kid Tells Me About The Time He Passed Away
My son has told the same story for the last few years. He remembers his uncle (not by blood but a close family friend) from "before". He's 4 now, almost 5, but has told us this since almost 3 years old.
They were on a boat together and they got shot at in the ocean. Lots of their friends passed away. He and the uncle swam to the shore with their guns and they shot at the other guys, but they got shot too. The uncle [passed away] before my son did, but then he [passed away] too. He describes the ship, the debris in the water, and the beach they swam up to. My son is really glad they're together again and he knows they've been best friends forever.
Add to this my kid's fascination with rifle style guns, first with the Wii gun and later with Nerf, despite us never having those things in our home. He would go to uncle's house and play with them. My parents got him a Nerf rifle for Christmas and my wife finally let him use it. We set up target practice with soda cans on a box. The kid naturally hit the right-ish stance (I'm former military, but I definitiely didn't teach him that) and after a few was nailing targets like they were nothing.
My kid is creepy [as hell] with this.
#17 Man On The Stairs
#18 I Like You More Than My Last Mommy
I am happy, because you are my mommy now. I like you more than my last mommy. I want you to be my mommy next time, too. Promise me, you will be my mommy.
The ‘Creepy Kids’ community has been scaring the internet since late 2013, and it doesn’t seem like it’s planning on stopping any time soon.
According to the founders and moderators who keep the lights on in the group, this is a place for everyone, from parents and relatives to carers, to share all the “super creepy” things that children have said. “Dark, paranormal, or just plain strange,” everyone is invited to share spooky stories.
Which of these posts unsettled you the most? Why do you think they had such a strong effect on you?
What are the creepiest, scariest, weirdest, and most disturbing things that you’ve ever heard any child or adult say? How did you react?
If you’re a parent, what do you do when you hear eerie comments from your kids? If you'd like to share, post your experiences, stories, and nuggets of parenting wisdom in the comments.
#19 “Mommy, Who Is That Guy?”
After a while my 4 year old son asks “Hey mommy, who is that guy?” and when I look over at him, he is standing at my bedroom door pointing into my room.... No one else was in the house besides my friend, my son and myself.
So i get up, walk over to him and turn on the light in my room so we can see. He all of a sudden looks confused and says “oh wait, where did he go?”
I assume he thought his dad was home so I reply “see baby, there’s no one in there. daddy went to work.” I turn off the light and my son says “wait! see mommy? who IS that guy?” still looking in my dark room......
..needless to say i slept with lights on all week
#20 Reincarnation?
He was and remains a very thoughtful and intelligent child often deep in thought. I first noticed that you could be cooing and playing with him and suddenly he would cloud over with a deadpan expression and it could take minutes to get his attention again.
As he started stringing sentences together he sat down with my mum and told her "Do you remember before mummy" she said "Before when" to which he replied "Before. When I had a different mummy" my mum simply told him she was his only mummy and he didn't say anything more.
He then spoke to me and told me he remembered when I came out of mummys tummy. I told him that he can't remember it because he wasn't born yet. He got pretty irate with me and said "Not when I was born this time. Before". I asked what he meant. "Before. When I wasn't YOUR brother. When I was mummys brother a long time ago."
This left me pretty shook as in 2004. Over a decade before my brother was born. My Uncle - my mum's brother, who was also named Jamie, passed away. Due to the suddenness and trauma caused by his passing, it is an extremely sore subject and is rarely ever discussed. So there was absolutely no way he could have known about him.
Then one day on the way home from the park (around 3 years old) Jamie asked me "You know when you [pass away]?" I was taken aback but I said "Do you mean what happens after?" He said "ive been thinking about it. Because I think it is really dark forever and you cant see anything" I explained to him in a child friendly way, the different beliefs people have. E.g. heaven and hell. nothing, ghosts, reincarnation. When I told him about reincarnation he nodded and said "Yes, it sounds nice. But it takes so long. When I [passed away] last time I had to stay the same for ages before I was a baby again." Honestly I was so spooked.
Jamie is 6 now, still he will speak about things he shouldn't really understand but does. People often remark how knowledgeable he is about to world around him. Maybe that's just the way he is, or maybe it's because he's seen it all before. I suppose I'll never know. But all the comments he made and even in his mannerisms and behaviour, we have all thought that perhaps Jamie is Uncle Jamie.