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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.... After they would arrive all they would do is walk together over to each of our beds and would spend a few seconds bending overas if they were looking at us and observing us ... of course this was puzzling because they had no heads so how could they be seeing anything.
..... We both saw them at the same time and would watch them as they went back and fourth and would close our eyes shut hard. Never knew how they arrived in our room or where they went when the episodes were over. We would compare notes in the morning. Our parents always laughed it off as our imagination ..... Never thought to ask themselve how we were both seeing these things at the same time ..... Believe me .... they really were there.
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Kids have great imaginations and are good at manipulating parents, teachers and “psychologists”.
“How about Shadow People?”
That’s what I told my parents I saw at night alone when I was 3. Don’t remember it. They assumed it was nightmares.
Perhaps growing up involves learning how to not see some things.
What about ghost pets. We had and old cat that I swear I saw a number of times for years after he died.
I never saw ghosts as a kid, but the place I live now has a poltergeist.
The Vision of Eliphaz the Tishbite
Job 4:12-21
12
“Now a word was brought to me stealthily,
my ear received the whisper of it.
13
Amid thoughts from visions of the night,
when deep sleep falls on men,
14
dread came upon me, and trembling,
which made all my bones shake.
15
A spirit glided past my face;
the hair of my flesh stood up.
16
It stood still,
but I could not discern its appearance.
A form was before my eyes;
there was silence, then I heard a voice:
17
‘Can mortal man be righteous before[a] God?
Can a man be pure before[b] his Maker?
18
Even in his servants he puts no trust,
and his angels he charges with error;
19
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed before the moth.
20
Between morning and evening they are destroyed;
they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21
If their tent-cord is plucked up within them,
do they not die, and that without wisdom?’
I have a uncanny ability to remember events 3 years and up, I do remember spooked by stuff, especially stuff going through my Grandmother’s house walls, I never thought they were ghosts but spirits non-human in origin appearing as if the were trying to make their presence known. I outgrew them, I think I lost sensitivity to them but think they were real.I imagine they are all around us, unseen
Sounds like Nazgûl
We have lots of stories.
Most seem to be from my dad’s side of the family. His mother, etc.
I brought up this topic tonight and my son stated the only “supernatural” experience he may have had was when my dad died 3 years ago. He woke up exactly the time he died in the middle of the night, at his friends’ house (we were with my dad).
Son never mentioned this before. Says he made the connection when I said he died at 3am.
I’ve seen that show. Yes, very interesting. The Bible is very clear that there are demons (fallen angels), as well as godly angels. You don’t want to mess around and open yourself up to demonic influence.
I believe we had a ghost in our present house when we first moved in. I never saw it, but one of my boys said someone opened his bedroom door to peek in shortly after we moved in. There was nothing too scary-- just an open door, some quiet noises at night, and a slight presence. I got the impression it was a he and he seemed a little lost and confused. We did a house blessing, put holy water, blessed salt, and blessed St. Benedict medals around the house, and prayed for the repose of the soul of whoever it was. That was about two years ago and there hasn't been anything since then.
I had a good friend who died. Many strange things happened after he died. No way to explain them except maybe he was trying to communicate.
My mother’s mother died shortly after my parents’ wedding. When my brother was about 3, he told my mother, “grandma says to not worry about the bill. The money was coming.” She asked if my father’s mother had called on the phone. He said, no, the other grandma with the curly hair came to his room and talked to him. In that day’s mail was an unexpected check which was enough for the bill she was worried about.
Bkmk.
Ironically, I just spent the past hour and a half reading this article and then the thread on Twitter that the article links to, specifically about creepy/strange/odd things people’s kids have said when they were little. I guess ‘tis the season for such things! Reading regular people’s stories was a fascinating rabbit hole to go down!
They cant eat you if they have no heads
I got a roll...
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