Kids who see dead people (and other creepy stuff)

Every family seems to have its creepy stories. They’re usually about a kid who sees something or someone that no one else can see; my own daughter has done this, but as she gets older it happens much less. If stories like this fascinate you, you absolutely have to check out this Reddit thread about the creepiest things kids have said to their parents.

There are some pretty creepy things that kids have said (“I want to peel your skin off”), but most of them seem to be in some sort of context. Others, well… they’d make great M. Night Shamalan movies (before the killer plant movie, that is).

The ones that are giving me the heebie-jeebies the most, however, are the ones about the kids who see someone dead who is later verified. This very thing happened in my family when my young cousin—he was about two, I think, at the time—saw a man over and over again, and later identified him as my dead grandfather in a photograph. He’d been dead for over a decade at that point.

Other than waking me up staring at me one night and freaking me out—again, in context, she just wanted to sleep with me—I can’t think of anything my daughter’s really said to creep me out. She has seen people in very old places, like the historic town next to ours, and not wanted to return (what child doesn’t like an ice cream parlor?) and she used to see people in her room—the same room my little cousin saw my grandfather in—but now that she’s seven, there hasn’t been much else said.

What’s the creepiest thing you've ever heard a child say? My mom says that when I was about five, the children in our apartment (along with one mother) would say they’d see a woman in a dress standing on the porch outside and go into the wall of my room. I don’t remember this at all, but I have to say that I’m pretty glad that I don’t!

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