Posted on 10/26/2022 6:11:20 PM PDT by NeverCheney
In the spirit of Halloween, prepare yourself for my spookiest story: When I was about 3, my mother took me to her friend Donna’s farmhouse. As the grown-ups sipped tea in the kitchen, I played freely throughout the house — this was the ’80s — until reporting back with some alarming news: A little girl was crying at the top of the stairs. Mom dismissed it as just my imagination while Donna’s face turned white. She just remembered what her daughter, long grown up and moved out, used to see and say as a child: a little girl crying at the top of the stairs.
I don’t remember any of this, of course. Three decades later, this un-fact-checkable story has gone the way of many campfire tales. It’s mostly fun and only partly scary, though firm proof for this undeniable truth: Children are spooky little creeps who see ghosts, report past lives and chat at night with dead relatives.
If you don’t feel like sleeping tonight, I suggest heading over to Reddit and falling down a terrifying rabbit hole. Jezebel collects and publishes an annual list for Halloween that will haunt you for the rest of the year. Turns out kids see ghosts all the time.
When I fished for stories in my local moms’ group, dozens of moms delivered in spades: a little boy who saw “zillions of people” walking slowly through an empty cemetery; a 2-year-old who reported “Grandma’s in the sky with Pappy!” minutes after her grandmother’s death; and a child’s especially disturbing imaginary friend named Suzy — her father’s late first wife.
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They see dead people?
I never saw one except the ones dressed up in sheets on Halloween.
When I was a kid (through late teens), Ouija Boards worked well, I had lots of deja vu incidents, and lots of really weird coincidences all around the world. That all ended when I was about 25 years old.
I never saw a ghost, but I had sleep paralysis once.
I was late 20’s, it was crazy.
Compost sinking pretty low.
It must be science.
psychologists
I would never ask, talk to, or listen to a psychologists
Dad told me 65 years ago that the dead cannot hurt anyone. It is the living you have to watch out for.
I have found that to be true.
Pretty legit advice.
I saw a tranny when my friend and I were eating out in sixth grade. Does that count?
Who would of thunk children have dreams? When a child my favorite hero was Superman. Had the same dream many times that if I ran fast enough and lifted my legs I could fly. Bummer, I could only get 3 feet off the ground. However, I did an awesome skid/brody when I put my feet down.
EWTN TV (Catholic network) show Living Divine Mercy was on tonight.
“ HOSTS WHO ARE THEY?
Just in time for Halloween, Fr. Chris Alar explores the many occurances of ghosts in the Bible. Learn about the three kinds of ghosts, where they come from, how we should relate to them, and why some could be demonic.”
He said not to tempt the demonic to enter our world or do more harm by using tarot cards, ouija boards, mediums, fortune tellers and so on. Shun all of these, he said.
Distinguished them from sincere people who without trying were contacted by spirits sent from God such as a woman who didn’t try to hear from the other world but had a dream which was verified by her sister’s death hundreds of miles away at the same time as her dream.
And a NY police officer who was the basis for the book and movie Deliver Us From Evil (John Sarchie) and now helps people who are targets of demons or alleged ones. He debunks many.
Interesting show even for non-Catholics like me.
How about Shadow People?
But assuming Ghosts, they are probably trying to warn about pronoun proliferation.
When I was a kid, I was always convinced there was a boogey man in my closet. The fact that the door would creak and open on its own at night did not help.
-PJ
My daughter used to see one. An old polish guy. She wasn’t scared. She said he was nice.
My grand daughter was in the pool with me the other day when a helicopter flew overhead. She said that she used to fly one of those…but not like that one. She is 3.
Kid have imaginations that haven’t been constrained. I think it’s cool.
This is fascinating.
My mom said the same thing.
My oldest son, when he was about 3yo would tell us detailed stories about things he did “before he grew down.” We were kinda torn between asking him for more details or gently telling him that he was our baby boy and he was just dreaming his previous adventures. Very interesting time.
He grew up fine and is very successful. 😁
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