The 30 Spookiest Things That People Have Ever Heard Children Say, As Shared In This Online Group

When I was about 4, I would remember talking to "Mr.Peterson" whenever I was at my grandmothers house. He looked like a hobo from the great depression and had a guitar and sang me old timey blues, he told me that he died when he fell of a train he was riding whist drunk on moonshine. I stopped seeing him when I was about 6.

Anyway, 6 months ago I found my dads old acoustic guitar and started playing, and my little cousin told me "Mr.Peterson is proud of you!" And left.

I dont know what to think

My youngest daughter has always had a fear of the water that’s gotten better as she’s gotten older. But when she was a toddler, it would have been easier to baptize a rabid cat than try to get give her a bath. One night at around age 3, I was doing my routine of trying to get her in the tub to wash off when she said to me “I scared of the water. It’s how I died before.”

Yeah, the bath definitely didn’t happen that night.

Laying out in the backyard with my then 4yr old son looking up at the stars one night:

My son: “when are they coming to get me?”
Me: “who?”
Him: “my people” and pointed up at the stars.
Me: “what?”

Not my kids but I used to work with toddlers.

We had one girl who got so upset at changing time. She would cry and say "no, the man is watching!" when she was on the changing table. She would point to the ceiling tiles (sometimes the wind from the garden door knocked one out of place) and say he was watching. Freaked all of us staff out, we all looked but there was definitely no one there. We had to change her on a mat on the floor inside of a stall because she was so upset. We did that for the rest of the year.

The next years class starts... A little boy (these kids did not know each other at all!) starts crying on the changing table. "no! The man is watching!", pointing at the ceiling tiles again. Same situation for the rest of the year. Had to change him in a stall on the floor.

There was never anyone in the ceiling but it freaked us all out constantly!

I was playing around with my daughter who probably around three at the time. She suddenly stopped, looked at me and said, "We were sisters. I died and god made me wait until we could be back together again" - and just like that she went back to be a little girl. FYI - I'm her dad.

My then 2 year old accidentally locked himself in a room and was crying hysterically while I tried in vain to coach him through unlocking the door.

My then 5 year old pulled me aside and said, in perfect seriousness, "Forget about him, Mom. He's dead to us."

I'm a little worried about that kid. 👀

When my daughter was about 4-5, she said "Before I was with a mommy that didn't take care of me, so god took me away from her and gave me to you and daddy." Mind you, we are not religious people and she was not adopted. That gave me the chills...

My daughter hasn't said anything creepy as of yet, although it's weird she keeps insisting her dad's cello is Darth Vader, but one time my 2-year-old nephew just looked at me over breakfast and goes "are you broken?" and I really just had to sit there and let that sink in. Like, yeah, little man, I am, but it's not something I'm prepared to discuss with a toddler over cheerios and peanut butter toast.

When I was young, like maybe two years old, my grandma was in the hospital, dying of cancer. Obviously i had no idea what was going on, but apparently one day when my mother and aunt were watching me, I suddenly looked at them and said "Only one Grandma"

they kept trying to convince me otherwise, that no, i had two grandmas, but I kept repeating that line over and over

Then the phone rang. It was my uncle calling to tell my mother that my grandma had passed a few minutes ago

Woke one morning before my alarm went off to my three year old son standing next to my bed. He then says, “Go back to sleep and think about your life.”

My mom likes to tell this story: Apparently when I was 5 or 6 I told her that aliens had stolen her real son, and replaced him with me, an exact copy. Someday, I would return to my home planet.

But she shouldn't be sad, because her real son had a good life in our zoo.

She started coming out with phrases that my grandfather use to use when I was a kid. Told me she talks to my grandfather and described him in detail including his favourite shirt. She never met him, nor had she ever seen photos of him before that point.

Every single hair on the back of my neck stood up at that moment.

Me: your shoes are in your room

3.5 yr old son: but I can not go in there

Me: why not?

Son: the ghosts

Me: what ghosts?

Son: the boy and girl

Me: what are they doing in there?

Son: saying *creepy voice* "come here"

Me: okay... so, you know not to go to them, right?

Son: yeah

😬

Went to check on my five year old daughter who was asleep. She rolled on her back, still asleep, and said, " I must not eat humans, humans aren't food". Before rolling back over

As I was leaving for work, my daughter said "bye daddy, have a good day. I hope you don't get shot" and then went back to playing with her toys.

My 3 year old nephew was at my cottage. He's asked me numerous times about the "girl over there" while pointing at one of the back bedrooms. The place is small, and there is definitely nobody there so I just dismiss it as a really active imagination (he has lots of imaginary friends).

Then some friends are visiting and they have a daughter around the same age. She has never met my nephew. Twice in the one day she asked about the "pretty girl" while pointing at the exact same room. Definitely caught me out and I didn't know what to think.

Then at Christmas my family was over at my place and my nephew points at a picture of my wife and asks if she is coming to visit us here or does she just stay at the cottage. My wife died ten years ago. Personally I don't really believe in paranormal stuff so it's probably just my logical brain putting together a bunch of kids ramblings but it definitely got my attention.

My oldest who was maybe 2.5 at the time told me she kept seeing an old man in our apartment. We didn’t think much of it because neither my wife and I believed in ghosts and our daughter had just started having an imagination. One day we were looking at photos of my Dad and she said “oh, that’s the old man.” He had passed away a few months earlier.

That or one time I woke up to her staring at me next to the bed. I asked her what she was doing and she said “watching you sleep. Just to see.”

I was on a bus recently and we were stopped outside a walk-in clinic. A little girl in the seat in front of me turned to her dad and said, "Death is the poor man's doctor." And that was that.

Edit: never realised this was an Irish proverb. Context: I'm Irish.

"Before I was born here, I had a sister, right? Her and my other Mom are so old now. They were ok when the car was on fire, but I sure wasn't!"

He was maybe 5 or 6 years old? It was totally out of the blue..

My son had an imaginary friend when he was about 3 of a little boy named Jodi who died from “drinking medicine water.” There’s a gravestone in our local cemetery from the 70s of a 4yr old boy named Jodi.
It’s my opinion that my son had a ghost friend when he was younger.