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Anyone with kids would be well aware of the fact that children often do not have any filters. Indeed, this can be mortifying at times, but often it’s just pretty funny. However, sometimes this lack of awareness coupled with their earnestness means that children can very quickly become sort of scary in the right circumstances.
Someone asked “What's the creepiest thing you've seen a child say or do?” and people shared their strangest examples. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to detail your own bizarre encounters in the comments section below.
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#1
When my nephew was a toddler, my brother would rock him to sleep in a rocking chair. I was in the kitchen and saw this, nbd. But when I got closer, they were both completely frozen with their eyes wide open. My brother can sleep with his eyes open, and his son inherited the trait. They were just sitting there completely still like mannequins with glassy eyes. My brother was snoring a bit. It was f*****g terrifying 😆.
Susan Betz 11 months ago
One of my twin daughters slept with her eyes open occasionally. It was spooky.
Rae Reyn 11 months ago
My middle child sleeps with his eyes open sometimes. It's f*****g creepy. I've checked to see if he's breathing more than once.
PeepPeep the duck 11 months ago
My sister is 35 this yr and still doing it 😂 it never gets less creepy
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Stannous Flouride 11 months ago
It's called nocturnal lagophthalmos and can lead to dryness and irritation.
Alex De Sa 11 months ago
I can do this, and do it at sleepovers to freak people the f**k out lol
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#2
Not creepy exactly BUT...at 7 weeks pregnant I was eating my dinner when my 3.5 year old said to my partner 'Mummys having a baby'...He said 'Yes..I know'. She smiled and said 'Actually, she's having TWO babies'. She would kiss my tummy 'Night night Baby 1...Night night Baby 2...right throughout. Her twin sisters were born the following year 😳💜💜.
Jenna Kay 11 months ago
On our way home from daycare, my daughter told me that daddy was home and we were having pizza for dinner, and daddy was all wet, but wouldn't be when we got home. I told her daddy was still at work, he was coaching the football game tonight. We pull up at the house AND my husband opens the door, wearing a towel, and says the game was cancelled and he ordered pizza. This was not the first of her insights, nor the last, but one of the most shocking.
Bi.Felicia 11 months ago
When I was a kid, I would constantly have premonitions and freak the eff out of my family. I was way more in tune with my "abilities" when I was younger, up until I was visited by a not so nice apparition. Not evil or demonic, thankfully, but it definitely scared my 11 year old self. I still have premonitions, occasionally but I have mostly lost these capabilities as I've gotten older.
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Lee Gilliland 11 months ago
If she had had only the one, the comment would have been forgotten, it's the way the human mind works.
Rebecca flanagan 11 months ago
My 5 yr old daughter did this too she told me I was having a baby I was 8 weeks so had told no one then she said it's 2 I hadn't had a scan to say how many at this time then she said it's a boy and a girl babies but I laughed cos twins didn't run in our family but now they do I have a boy and girl twins they almost 10 now wanted her to pick my lottery numbers from them on lol
#3
When I was really little, my mom asked where my imaginary friend Sarah (who I frequently mentioned had a broken arm from a car accident) lived, and I took my mom to the cemetery down the road. I took her to the grave of a little girl named Sarah, who died in a car accident. I couldn't read yet and there was no way for me to know how that specific person died.
glowworm2 11 months ago
Okay, now this one is creepy. I wonder if the actual Sarah broke her arm as well.
Judi Sherosky 11 months ago
Very strange. My youngest woke from a nap crying saying " I want my Mommy back" I said I am your mommy. She said " NO my real mommy before we were killed walking home from Church" She was 3. She has no memory of that but it put goosebumps down my back.
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
I could read at 4. That's early, I know, but...if you couldn't read yet, what were you doing running around the neighborhood and going into cemeteries by yourself at that age? Just asking.
#4
First kid played with JJ his imaginary friend. Second kid my oldest girl had NeeNee.
One day we were talking about JJ and my son now 6 or 7 laughed and he discribed a dark skinned boy with a big smile.
My then 3 year old daughter said her friend was NeeNee. When we asked her to describe how NeeNee looked she thought about it and then went to the entertainment center and pointed. She said "she's in there."
Reluctantly, we opened the door and there was a small box. It had OLD pictures in it. As we were going through these old black and whites I'm not sure I'd ever even seen she said "there's NeeNee."
It was a picture of my mom as a little little girl. She had died about 6 months before my oldest son was born.
We're all spooked but we look over and my son is white as a sheet with tears in his eyes and he's shaking. With tears in my eyes I asked whats wrong. Shakily he holds out a picture and says "This is JJ."
I'm trembling as I take it.
The back reads John John 1952 and as I turn it over I realize it's a picture of my father that died when I was 12.
The oldest picture I remember seeing of my dad before that he was 12. I never even knew what he looked like at that age but there he was in black and white with this big goofy grin.
Leg less In Minneapolis 11 months ago
My older son died in 1996 before his 5th birthday. In 2003, I heard my younger son in his room talking to nothing, having a conversation with an empty room. This went on for a couple of years. When he was five I asked off hand who he was playing with he answered “my big brother, he always here to play with. “ I cried so hard that night.
ANGEL BABY 11 months ago
Oh wow, but yet it should have been a comfort, dear.
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Tiwaporn Green 5 months ago
He’s cursed. The kids just doesn’t like each other and have an imaginary friend
#5
I was a summer camp director for a few years before Covid made the camp go out of business. I ran the programming for the older kids & teens, my peer ran the programming for the younger kids. Youngest we had were 6.
We had a policy that the campers who got three warnings in a day were sent to us (kinda like going to the principals office), where we would get to the bottom of the situation and the appropriate discipline. It’s not uncommon to have repeat offenders in the office, and it was real hard to surprise us after several summers of 150 campers a week all summer.
Until year 3. Enter a six year old, blonde boy who looked like he was pulled straight out of a Gap kids photo shoot. He’s in the office day one, like 3 hours into camp for hitting another camper with a kayak paddle and purposefully knocking another off their paddleboard. Same kid, same day, in the office again til pick up time for throwing ALL of his group’s boys socks into the pool, and hiding everyone’s shoes behind the toilets. Tuesday he pestered a girl until she threw up from anxiety. By Wednesday afternoon we get a frantic call from the lead counselor, a seasoned vet on year 4 of working for us, threatening that if we did not remove this child from her group immediately that she would quit that instant. The boy tried to drown another student in the pool and the lifeguard had to physically haul him off the other kid. The kids had no previous beef.
I’ll never forget sitting in that office with my codirector, listening to this tiny psychopath calmly explaining that he did it to “see what would happen, and if they made the same face as my sister when I squeeze her neck at home.” He then calmly explained how he hated his sisters and that he would bite them to make them listen to him. We called the parents and CPS and dad came in only an hour later, with said baby sisters in tow. One was 3.5 ish, and cowered behind dad when she saw her brother, and the other was a 10 month old BABY. In conversation with the dad, we found out, to all 3 of our horror, that the baby and sister both had bite marks on their thighs and backs and that the boy was already in anger management therapy… or so dad thought. The boy just looked at his dad and said “no, mommy just takes me to the park instead”
Long story short, mom came in at the normal pick up time, I witnessed the breakup of a marriage because the mom knew about the bite marks but never said anything and brushed off EVERYTHING we said, including all the video evidence from the pool deck and camp spaces as “targeting her son” and “he would never”, to which the dad said “this is the last straw Vivian, I’m filing for divorce”. CPS case was filed, we turned over evidence, they interviewed the counselors involved, it was a whole thing. First and last time a 6 year old was kicked out of camp and blacklisted forever. I’ll never forget those absolutely dead, ice blue eyes.
Anon822209 11 months ago
Hope he got the help he needed. Still wouldn't leave him alone with my kids or pets.
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Jenna Kay 11 months ago
I hope the father got custody of the girls since mom needs serious help, too.
Mike F 11 months ago
Exactly, the boy needed help, the girls needed protection from the budding serial killer.
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Dread Pirate Roberts 11 months ago
Kid is a definite sociopath, and this mother is an enabler. Really bad combination....I'm glad these issues were brought to the dad's attention, as well as to the proper authorities.
Aline Vargas 11 months ago
That's terrible! If the kid doesn't have proper treatment he will become a serial killer for sure.
#6
Around four or five months ago, at like 3:00am I was awoken by a very weird growling sound. Disoriented and in the dark I started to come to and for the life of me couldn’t figure out what the sound was. I had fallen asleep on the couch in the living room which added to my confusion. I was thinking maybe the cat had caught something, but really had no idea.
As my vision started to come around, this three foot grotesque looking shadow thing starts to appear a few feet in front of me. Just standing there growling. Creepy. Even though in reality it only took me a few seconds to figure out what was going out, I imagine my appearance would have been that of someone who was visibly shaken.
It was my son. My three year old son had snuck out of bed at three in the morning, found his hulk mask in the dark, and decided to go find daddy to play superheroes. I guess his idea of playing was to do a hulk growl two feet from my sleeping face until I woke up in a panic.
He ended up doing the same thing to my wife a few weeks later which, to me, was way more hilarious.
Janissary35680 11 months ago
Disappeared yes, but not in the bin; it might be found there.
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BrunoVI 11 months ago
My wife loved ewoks. When we were first married, we stayed in an apartment at my parents' house. I was poking around some storage in that apartment, and I found an old Chewbacca mask from when I was a little kid. I thought she'd find it funny and cute if she woke up to me wearing that mask. It didn't work out that way. She started screaming her bloody lungs out, woke up the entire house.
#7
This happened recently.
I teach kinder, and one of my girls had been telling us all about how her mom was pregnant and she was going to have a baby brother. Daily updates, to the point I mentioned it to her mom and we had a good laugh at how cute it all was.
The Monday after Thanksgiving break, my girl tells me "my baby brother stopped breathing." .
I called home to check on things (at this point, I was invested) and the mom just laughed it off, said she and the baby were fine, but she would talk to the girl and make sure she was OK.
Wednesday, the girl was absent, the first time she had missed all year. I wasn't real worried and didn't really think about it until she was absent the next day. I called home but didn't get an answer. The girl comes back on Friday and tells me she is staying with her aunt because mom was in the hospital.
Mom had a miscarriage.
Ria C. 11 months ago
This hurts my heart. Sometimes kids and adults too just see/hear/feel/know the unexplainable.
Jenna Kay 11 months ago
My daughter predicted that she would have a little brother, and he would be early. I didn't know I was pregnant yet. And she did indeed have a brother, and he had to be delivered early. She was ... insightful. But wouldn't give us the lottery numbers because "we don't need lots of money, we have each other."
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Jaya 11 months ago
I can't believe people actually think this makes the girl psychic. It is a million times more likely that she has heard adults somewhere talking about babies dying in the womb, and is playing a story around that. There are millions of kids with a pregnant mom, if enough of them say that their baby sibling is dead, one of them will happen to be right, because babies die in the womb so often.
#8
When my son was like 3 he was staring at the end of the couch ...I mean really staring. I asked him what he was looking at and he said "The people at the end of the couch." Oooooook. A couple of minutes later I saw him crane his neck over the couch and then his eyes followed around up the stairs. I said "what are you looking at?" And he said "They went upstairs." I didn't go upstairs for a WHILE that day lol.
Lyoness 11 months ago
Our son used to sit and laugh at the wall, them clap his hands and point. Eerie.
Nice Beast Ludo 11 months ago
So did my daughter at the corners of the ceilings! I think it was my poppi
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Faelwolf 11 months ago
When I was a kid, a lot of paranormal stuff went on in the house we lived in for a while. I'll save the bulk of it for Halloween, but one thing was I could roll a ball or toy car, etc. across the floor, and it would stop, and be rolled back to me. I thought it was fun, but my mom freaked out about it when she saw it one day, and forbid me from doing it anymore. Nothing else did it, so it wasn't just uneven floors....
#9
My son happily told me “when you die, worms will eat your face and I can finally get a cat. Then I’ll let the cat eat the rest of you”.
Thanks, kid. You’re so generous.
Alex De Sa 11 months ago
Or both eyes like the people from the post above
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Sue Denham 11 months ago
I love how he's already thinking of potential food sources for his future cat. Kindness to animals is a great quality.
Caryne Ag 11 months ago
Yeah, but I think there are big issues to address...
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Leoninus Fate 11 months ago
When I was young, I used to make up Very messed up songs for my aunt {who sadly passed on July 4th, 2024} I used to sing "Chop her up, slam her in the head, make her cry till she's dead" .....She loved it... I have no idea why but she would beg me to sing those messed up lil songs like that all my life, i first did it just to get a rise out of her as I played on the computer... it hurts ill never get to sing another one to her....
#10
Many years ago my then boyfriend came home from work looking absolutely stricken. His face was visibly pale. I worriedly asked him what's the matter, and he responded "there's a little girl just outside here who stopped me and offered me sex for 50p". I asked him "are you being serious?" And he said he was. I then went to the window where I could indeed see a lone little girl wandering around, I asked my partner if that's her and he confirmed it was. She couldn't have been older than 8, 9 at most. I called the police to let them know what she'd said to my partner and urged them to come, as she was all by herself and hugely at risk, especially when she was approaching men who were also alone. Whilst she was in sight I was able to give a pretty accurate description of her.
It wasn't so much creepy, it was more distressing and extremely concerning. My boyfriend looked like he had seen a ghost when he walked into my flat and I wonder how many other men prior to my boyfriend she'd also left feeling utterly shaken after the encounter. I just kinda hope I wasn't the only person who thought to call the police as that stuff shouldn't be ignored.
Lyoness 11 months ago
Horrifying. I wish OP would say they'd kept her in sight or even gone to sit with her until the police came. I can't imagine leaving a child that age outside and alone period, and the fact that she was soliciting makes it so much worse.
Vesuvius 11 months ago
I found this on Reddit from the OP. The police did come as I saw them from my window, however, I didn't keep an eye from that point onwards as she was with the police and as far as I was concerned, she was safe. I'm in the UK, not sure how it works elsewhere, but I wouldn't have been told if she was taken into care as I'm not a relative of the girl and that isn't information the police would find necessary to pass on to an absolute stranger (quite regardless of it being me who phoned them).
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Rose Stewart 11 months ago
Hope she got the help she needed. And that every man who seriously considered that offer is rotting in hell
Montanavanna 11 months ago
Driving through town in like 2017 there were about 4 or 5 kids begging on the side of the road. Already concerning itself because they were ages 6 to 12. When I locked eyes with the 12 yr old she looked at me like she was trying to, um, entice me, I guess the word could be. It was very alarming, not an adult in sight. I called the cops and they said I wasn't the first person to call them about it. Then recently I watched a few videos about the children of God cult and how they, as children, were forced to do what I saw those kids doing that day. We don't break our kids, we don't feed them to monsters. This has to stop.
#11
My mom used to work as an X-Ray & MRI technician. She retired a few years ago.
One of her patients was a 6-months old baby girl that was severly burned. Her older brother - an almost 3 year old, was so jealous of her that he set the stroller on fire, while she was inside.
Jenna Kay 11 months ago
The boy will need psychological therapy for the rest of his life. Either the guilt will get him or the anger will.
Sven Grammersdorf 11 months ago
Or he's a psychopath and he doesn't care at all
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Lowrider 56 11 months ago
My mom was the youngest of 4. Right after she was born on̈e of her older sisters tried to smother her in her crib. I now live in the house of my Aunt who tried to strangle my mom. Life is weird sometimes.
Emie N. 11 months ago
How is your aunt? Is she nice? Does she remember what she did?
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Mel Colley 11 months ago
who was watching this kid and where and how did he get access to start the fire?
Judi Sherosky 11 months ago
Oh boy, a psycho narcissist already! My oldest sister was about to hit my baby brother on the head with a large coke bottle but was caught before she could. She was a psycho narcissist as it turns out later in life. Pay attention!
#12
My coworkers nephew came up to us and said “ i wish cats took over”.
#13
One the greatest interactions of my life happened in an elevator. I had the car to myself, going up. The elevator stops and this guy and his daughter get in and press the button for their floor.
As the door closes and the impulse of motion is felt, the daughter, probably around 10 years old, rips an absolute buzzsaw of a fart. I can't help but turn my head and, as our gazes meet, she tells me matter of factly "you farted".
ding. Door opens and they walk out, leaving me in this gas chamber of gas lighting, thinking maybe I really did fart.
ANGEL BABY 11 months ago
Now that's funny!!!! Needed that after the last story of the soliciting child!
Judi Sherosky 11 months ago
Rotten kid! My 2 year old at the time did that and everyone thought it was me! Very embarrassing.
#14
“Go back to sleep, there isn’t anything under your bed”.
“Hes behind you now”.
Still haven’t gotten over that one and shiver at the memory.
Bill Swallow 11 months ago
... Why don't any of these kids ever see Totoro instead of all the creepy stuff?
Montanavanna 11 months ago
Man a week before Xmas my son, who is speech delayed with limited vocabulary started to hide behind me or under the table sating the monsters were coming. I calmed him down on the couch, stepped into the kitchen when I heard him let out a scream, and not the playful kind. I ran back and said, what is it baby? The monsters are upstairs. Oh I don't fuc kin think so. I made a show of running them off and telling them they are not allowed here. Freaked me out something fierce.
Judi Sherosky 11 months ago
and I am the world's strongest Mom so watch out boogie man! I made a spray bottle of water and body spray and when they said there was a boogie man...I sprayed him away! The bottle said boogie man killer.
#15
I was tucking in my two year old. He said “Good bye mom.” I said, “No, we say good night.” He said “I know. But this time its good bye.”
Had to check on him a few times to make sure he was still there.
Anon822209 11 months ago
JFC that would've freaked me out. I think I'd have wound up sleeping in kiddo's room. And not really sleeping.
justagirl 11 months ago
I thought OP would die! And then i was like...wait no op posted it. THE KID'S GONNA DIE OH MY GOD.
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#16
A cpl yrs ago I was sitting outside & witnessed a boy about 5-6 yrs old pushing a toddler, (his sister?) maybe 18 mos, in a stroller past my house. I looked for an adult but didn’t see one. I live on a corner, and just as they passed me, I heard the boy say “well, this is probably gonna hurt a lot!” and he took off running twd the 4 way intersection & just LAUNCHED that stroller with the baby in it out into the intersection! Somehow no cars were passing but it was obvi his hope that they would be. I followed them home & told a woman what I’d seen & heard but she seemed unconcerned. I saw that kid wandering the street not long after carrying an actual axe.
#17
When my mom was pregnant, my 8yo cousin who is autistic would always put her head on my mom’s stomach to “listen to the baby”. One time she did this and gasped and said “The baby is gone..”. A week later at my moms first appointment for the baby, she found out that she had had a miscarriage that previous week 😕
And for an added bonus to that, my mom got pregnant again a couple months after. My cousin did the same thing and my mom would always ask if she could hear the baby(it’s always been a yes so far). One time my cousin told her that “It’s gonna be a healthy baby boy!” Lo and behold, two months later at the gender reveal, we find out that it is in fact a baby boy.
Jenna Kay 11 months ago
Autism gives some people incredible focus, intelligence, and insight. The mind is just amazing !!!
#18
I was having dinner at a friend’s place and we heard her 4 year old daughter talking to herself. We searched for her and found her in my friend’s bedroom looking up at the curtain rod saying “hello man, why are you up there?” Her daughter kept talking to the curtain until her mom asked her what she was doing and she replied “just talking to the man.” We also noticed that her annoying dachshund that follows us everywhere was standing behind us with her tail between her legs and refused to enter the room.
MP Deco 11 months ago
naw....dachshunds are totally annoying.....like a damned shadow- cant amuse themselves at all....cats are much better.
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#19
I went to a friends house the day after my grandma died to collect a few things,one of their brothers around 7 years old sat next to me and whispered in my ear”i hope your gonna die like your grandma on the floor” and started laughing.I had to exit out of that room.All i felt was confusion,disgust and unable to believe that a kid that young could say something so horribly evil 💀💀.
Lyoness 11 months ago
Psychopath in training. Hope they told someone because that's seriously disturbing.
AsylumWalker 11 months ago
Hardly. 7 year olds are still learning empathy
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Judi Sherosky 11 months ago
I had a 6 yr old sit next to me at a shower. She said I poisoned your drink, you are going to die. I said oh well I poisoned yours so we can go together! She refused to drink anything after that and shut up. Kids say crazy c**p.
ILoveMySon 11 months ago
Some are born that wat but it can also be environmental.
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Your grandma and her things are at your friend's house? Why? And then "one of the brothers"? Brothers of whom?
Diolla 11 months ago
Read again. She went to a friends house, not to her grandma's house.
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 11 months ago
Kids know and understand much more than we give them credit for and this is not normal, cruelly intended and completely void of empathy
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When my son was 8 years old, our dog passed away and we told him that everyone gets old and eventually dies and that our dog “went to see Jesus” and that heaven was a wonderful place. The next day we were at a restaurant and he walked up to a random old guy, patted him on the back and said “you’re going to see Jesus real soon” with a big smile on his face a genuine excitement. I still wonder if that guy thought my kid was psychic.
Nice Beast Ludo 11 months ago
One time a Sunbeam with shiny dust floating in it was coming through the window. My daughter was 2 and said "look mommy, Jesus is saying good morning":one of my favorite things she said. She also got the number 26 mixed up and called it "twentysexy"
TheElderNom 11 months ago
My parents once told me and my sisters to be nice to our grandparents and to remember that they are older and doesn't have as much energy as we do. I stayed quiet the entire car ride, a three hour record in silence. When we got there I immediately ran to hug my grandfather and I told him "You're going to die soon! But don't worry, I'll bury you." Thankfully he lived for almost 20 more years after that and his funeral was wonderful, though my aunt was the one in charge of that.
#21
When I went to my chemo treatment a few days before Christmas, I (thankfully) missed the childrens group that was there singing carols. But they left cards for all us poor cancer f*****s.
Handwritten on the card I received was "We're praying for you!"
But they misspelled it "preying.".
Blue Cicada 11 months ago
Fall of 2023, the radiation clinic at my hospital had its annual themed Halloween event. The theme that year was… the Titanic. They recreated the top deck prow, so you could get a photo of yourself with your arms spread out, like in the movie. They had multiple props and several staged scenes throughout the large waiting room. And I was given a “ticket” to board the Titanic, with a little blurb about how life puts obstacles like ice bergs in our way, but we survive. The receptionist was so proud of her work. 68% of the people, passengers and crew, died when the Titanic sank.
Blue Cicada 11 months ago
On the day of my last radiation treatment, I got to ring a bell. This was about 2 weeks after Halloween. All I could think of was warning bells on a sinking ship
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Sue User 11 months ago
I did too. And i have done chemo, but not for cancer.
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glowworm2 11 months ago
I checked. It began with an f and rhymes with suckers.
Load More Replies... Chicken Mitten 11 months ago
That's actually kind of amusing, in a sick, for profit US nursing home, kind of way.
#22
My daughter has asked me twice how to take someone's bones out.
Some guy 11 months ago
"You have a talent for çausing things pain . . . People will pay you to be inhumane."
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 11 months ago
It's beautiful, she wants to be a doctor!!! (Said in same voice as in My Girl when Vada joins writing class)
UKGrandad 11 months ago
Cook first; the bones come out much easier and cleaner.
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My mom was looking for a key to a foot locker that belonged to her mom after her dad passed away. One day, my sister (7) was talking to a painting that our mom's mom had painted. When she was done talking, my sister went to the China cabinet, removed some pieces, and handed Mom the key to the footlocker. She also spent a few months babbling in backwater Louisiana creole.
Catlady6000 11 months ago (edited)
TAke the thickest southern U.S. accent you've ever heard. Mix with the thickest French accent you've ever heard , top it off with some actual French language. Then sprinkle in some ancestry, such as African or Native American. BTW, this is NOT the same as Louisiana Creole. There are many versions of Creole. It' basically a language that develops from a few other parent labguages
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When my daughter was around 3, she told me she wanted to be a tooth fairy when she grew up so she could make dolls out of kids' teeth.
Judi Sherosky 11 months ago
My Mom said the fairy made a castle out of our teeth when I asked to keep my tooth the night before. I sort of get it.
Nice Beast Ludo 11 months ago
It's like the Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects. Scariest ending EVER
#25
My sister is three years older than I am. When she was three, she woke my parents up with a blood curdling scream. Parents go running and ask her wtf? Shes flipping out about the hands that come through the window and tickle the bed. It eventually stops. Three years later, I'm here in the world now and three years old as well. My parents get woken up in the night to a blood curdling scream. They run to my sister. Shes all wtf. They go into my room and I'm suddenly freaking out about hands tickling the bed.
#26
My 5 year old nephew said that the fall of Constantinople was the worst day of his life. That event happened on May 29, 1453... so I wonder if he had a past life...
Jenna Kay 11 months ago
Some people would say that's impossible, some would say of course he did. Personally, I think there is more to us than just the squishy suit.
Rebelliousslug 11 months ago
I recently read an article (I don’t remember where so idk how seriously I’d take it) that said the CIA had essentially proven reincarnation and their studies were mostly on children because they’d forget past lives by around six years old. I’ve read many stories of children accurately describing strangers to them who’ve died and knowing ridiculous amounts of info they have no way of getting. There’s definitely something more than the squishy suit, I think.
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Rebecca Joan 11 months ago
Well, if a five-year-old is talking about the fall of Constantinople I would say they probably had a past life because what five-year-old knows about Constantinople?
Bill Swallow 11 months ago (edited)
I will never discount anything like this until someone can explain to me, in excruciating and verifiable detail, exactly how a non-material phenomenon like consciousness and thought couples into mundane matter like our brains / nervous systems. I've been toying around for years with a harebrained idea that 'mind' originates in some other space or dimension and connects to us via the brain (quantum entanglement, maybe?), which acts as an 'antenna' for it. Of course, I'm pretty sure that there could never be a way to test this experimentally, so it remains as nothing more than a weird delusion.
AsylumWalker 11 months ago
You have to be the one to prove that past lives and reincarnation are a thing, you cant prove a negative, so proving where consciousness comes from wouldnt disprove it because until there is evidence that it exists, there is no truth of it
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Judi Sherosky 11 months ago
I believe in cell memory. we are from the same stock as each other.
#27
Kid me was a racing fan. I loved watching Formula 1 races on TV and cheering for our national hero Ayrton Senna. I never missed a race. Except one. My father says that on the day of the accident in which Senna died, I didn't want to watch the race, I didn't even want to stay in the living room, I was in our backyard. Then the accident happened...
Montanavanna 11 months ago
I never watched Nascar, nobody in my family does. For some reason I was watching the race when Dale Earnhardt got in that crash and died. The crash looked minor. I have not watched a Nascar race since that day either. For that one race, I watched. Weird.
Sven Grammersdorf 11 months ago
Nobody's died in a NASCAR race since then, so maybe you're on to something
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HangryHangryHippo 11 months ago
Something similar happened to my dad but I have to start with the end: This was in '99 he came back home hysterical, inconsolable, talking about a plane rushing through Costanera and the explosion. LAPA's accident happened a few hours later. He was sure something bad was going to happen and he couldn't do anything to change the outcome... my mom explained he had the same experience 5 years prior. This is what I remember of what she told me: The race starts and suddenly my dad was crying in panic mode saying "he's dead, he's dead", he saw the whole accident before it happened, told my mom details like him going straight and hitting a retaining wall. Lo and behold: safety car out, and some moments later the crash. I remember LAPA's accident because it was the only time in my life I saw him crying like that.
#28
When one of my little brothers was about 4-5 (I'm much older than most of my siblings), he was playing in his room by himself, just sitting on the floor talking to himself. I stood in the hallway for a minute listening to him quietly chatter. After a while, his head jerked towards me and he became e n r a g e d, started screaming at me to get away from him, go away and close the door, almost panicking about it. In hindsight, he was probably embarrassed and startled to see me there, but it was still pretty creepy.
Another strong contender, I was babysitting three children under 6. The 2 year old and 4 year old were in bed, but the parents had told me their 5 year old could sleep on the couch until they got home to tuck him in, so I sat with him quietly messing around on my phone, when suddenly the kid sits straight up like a vampire, staring at me with pure terror in his eyes. He gets up and starts backing away, as if he's truly afraid of me. This family had a sliding glass door in their kitchen, and the little guy kept glancing back at it to the point where I was getting nervous looking past him and through the door, out into the yard. He was speaking incoherently like he couldn't really keep ahold of a train of thought, which was especially weird because these kids were pretty articulate. After awhile I coaxed him into using the bathroom and calmed him down, he fell asleep like nothing had even happened. Poor kid had chronic night terrors, and mom and dad had forgotten to tell me. 🙃.
#29
My son had an imaginary friend, that luckily only was around for a few weeks. He would talk is if his friend was real, freaking me out it was so believable. I tried not to react to it, but he told me that his friend was very mad and has a knife to my throat. 12 years later, I'm still alive and he is a normal college kid.
Michael Largey 11 months ago
In junior high, I had imaginary friends. They were real people. I just imagined they were my friends.
Jenna Kay 11 months ago
I feel you Mike. My best friends are my daughter and my DIL, because I still have trouble making friends.
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Antony Aston 11 months ago
I was an unpopular child. Even my imaginary friends wouldn't play with me.
Judi Sherosky 11 months ago
Saw a nasty movie no doubt that nobody admitted to letting him see!
#30
When i was young like less than 4 y/o i woke up in the middle of the night and called my mother just to tell her ‘i see vampires’ and then started hissing at her - she still tells the story of how terrified she was.
#31
Not creepy, really--but *funny*, was at my job at an after-school program.
I regularly joke around with my work kids (K-5th graders), once their grownups start arriving for pickup, and ask them, "Is that your mom/ dad/ aunt/ uncle, etc.
One day, a couple months after i was back at work from having taken five weeks of FMLA time for my Dad's hospice & death, I was sitting next to one of my K's, when another child's name was called for pickup.
So, as is part of my normal end of day silliness, I asked the little dude next to me, "Is that *your* dad?
The little guy looked over to the door, and said, "Nope!"
So I asked, "Is that *my* dad?"
And that's when he looked at me, like I was the *dumbest* adult on the face of the planet, and *completely straight-faced*, said, "Your Dad's dead!"
And I *lost* it, giggling, and said, "You know, bud you're right, my dad *is* dead!"
Dad would have *cackled* at the way that little guy delivered that line!
And, since the goofy questions was something I *learned* from him and my uncles asking my cousins and I nonsense questions as a child, it seemed pretty fitting that the little guy's delivery was *so* impeccable!😉.
#32
About a year ago I was in Florida visiting extended family. I hadn't seen any of them in over a year and my 2-year-old cousin (R) said "Can I come to your house?" I responded "Maybe someday, wouldn't that be fun?" R said "Yes, the (my exact house color) house with 18 windows on the front and a dog-wood tree! Oh and also your new pink room I wanna see it." While it is possible he had seen a picture of my house I had painted my room pink about a week before we had left and had been waiting to tell the family as a surprise sort of thing. I asked his Mom later and she was perplexed, having no idea how he knew that stuff. It still kind of scares me.
Ruth Watry 11 months ago
Unless he was a true genius, he would not be saying something like this. When kids turn 3, their total vocabulary is less than 200 words, and they are just starting to string together 3 word sentences.
tameson 11 months ago
Language acquisition is highly variable. My granddaughter turns 3 in a few weeks. Her vocabulary is much larger than 200 words and she speaks in sentences with 5 words or more. She is not a genius. She is just in the upper range in language acquisition. Many 3 year olds are learning new words on a daily basis.
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#33
I remember when I was a kid I called my mom "sexy mama" after hearing it on a tv show (I want to say Johnny Bravo?) and she had to explain why it was inappropriate. I still cringe thinking about it, even though it was obviously innocent.
Heather Ball 11 months ago
my friend's 9 year old dug through the bathroom garbage and pulled out used tampon applicators. He proceeded to make his science project out of them. I bet, if he remembers this event, he would much rather have innocently called his mother "sexy mama"
Nice Beast Ludo 11 months ago
What was the science project??? Thank you I laughed so hard my husband woke up and got his head
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My friend thought tampons were fireworks. He knew he wasn't allowed to use matches and improvised by throwing them in the air. His mother found her entire supply all over the yard.😂
Montanavanna 11 months ago
When I was about 11 I started calling people dildo, in jest. I said it in front of my mom who busted up laughing then asked if I knew what a dildo was. Sure mom, its a person who is an idiot. She told me what it meant and I never used that word in that way again. Maybe I will bring it back, for nostalgia sake.
#34
When my brother was a kid, he was talking and laughing in his room alone. My mom went in and asked him who he was talking to. My brother said he was talking to his friend Kevin. My mom, already creeped out, asked who Kevin was. My brother said, “He’s my friend, but he already went home. He lives in the walls.” My brother is in his thirties now, but my mom is still creeped out and mad about Kevin hahaha.
#35
„Luna is going to die next week“, said the little sister of a boy I was tutoring. She said this in a really sad tone. I was freaking out inside, wondering if she has a sick friend I don’t know about or something (and wondering why the parents didn’t warn me). Turns out what she meant was that her favourite tv show, Soy Luna, was going to be taken off Netflix (it’s a Disney show and this was shortly before Disney+ started, so all of the Disney stuff was disappearing from Netflix).
#36
My nephew told my mom, dad and I that he could see people in a field, from a plane crash. We did live in a neighborhood that was built on old farmland decades ago. Maybe something happened before the neighborhood was built. 🤔 All of us fully believed him btw.
Kate Koppen 11 months ago
As a child, I told my mom about a panther in my room. Which is weird, because we lived in Germany which isn't especially known as a good habitat for panthers. Turns out, the field the house was built on by my granddad was originally a circus site until the last circus burned down and a lot of the animals with it. The tragedy is why my granddad got the land so cheap.
Montanavanna 11 months ago
On a show called The Dead Fiĺes Amy Allen would have sketches made of what she would see. One sketch showed a teen girl sitting on her bed in front of her windows with headphones on. Outside was a group of people that looked like zombies. Turns out the neighborhood was all new build on a site where a tornado ripped through, leveled everything and many ppl lost their lives. I believe him also!
UKGrandad 11 months ago
Definitely not a site with a history that Amy Allen could have learnt about with about 5 minutes of research, then 🙄
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As I am reading this, my 10 year old son just walked in the room and told me the dog is trying to hide a dead body in the backyard.
AtMostAFabulist 11 months ago
That would be worse. If the dog was trying to hide the body, he could just be a helpful dog.
Load More Replies... Judi Sherosky 11 months ago
Tell him to leave the flower beds alone when he does. Ignore kid silly stuff
#38
So, my little sister was maybe 3 at the time.
We were in the car waiting for mum to get out of work.
She turns to dad and says, straight as can be 'before I lived with you I lived in Chicago and rooted for the White Sox.'
My family has lived in Boston for generations.
Girl why would you say that.
sharyn turnicky 11 months ago
My son told us "before I came to you, I lived in California " . He was 4
#39
I used to be a preschool teacher. Many years ago I had a strange boy in my class we’ll call Ben. He was always saying weird, random stuff but this one sticks out. I noticed him standing in front of the glass door, smiling and moving around, watching his reflection when he smiles again and says “Other Ben! Come out and play!” I think about that kid a lot. I’m sure he grew up to be a creative of some sort. He always seemed to be operating on a whole other plane!
CultOfBambi 10 months ago
Only one way to know - did his reflection have a beard? :)
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My neice told me she wanted to take my insides and put them through a cheese grader . I had a talk with her mom after that one. She's 5.
#41
When my son was about three years old he asked me in a very sugary tone to come into his bedroom, assuring me "everything will be fine". Tells me to sit on his bed and then lie down, all the while telling me everything's ok. "Now close your eyes.." I complied, then I hear him say calmly "Just lie still, this won't hurt a bit."
I opened my eyes right away to see him standing over me with a toy plastic hammer in one hand and a toy saw in the other. Noped out of there real fast.
Brian Droste 11 months ago
I hope you took those tools away from him even though they were only plastic.
Katie Allen 11 months ago
enough with the fantastic Mr. Fox talk please. It wasn't funny then or now
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My children. Of 7, two have creeped me out thoroughly. Oldest, at 4: starts crying inconsolably for several days. Misses his sister, and his mom. Thing is, he has no sister, and his mom was holding him. “No, his real mom”. She is his real, and only mom.
Second oldest, at 2: says mama, dada, up, no, a few more words. No special pronunciation or anything, just regular toddler vocabulary. Several times over a 3 month period, I hear a stranger in the kids room at night. I investigate. He’s having half of a fully adult conversation in his sleep, with at least a 6th grade vocabulary, and a tiny but fully articulated voice. My hair still stands up when I think about it creepy as $&@!. Also, this one somehow taught himself to read with no intentional guidance on our part, and could read any word you pointed at by the time he was 3-1/2 years old. Total surprise. I found out one day in the store when he asked me to buy him a magazine. I told him “why, you can’t read yet?” And he said that “actually, dad, I can read. The magazine says gameboy advanced reviews.” I was totally shocked, both with the announcement, and his appropriate but unexpected use of the word “actually”. I pointed at stuff in the supermarket, and he read every single thing I pointed out.
When we got home he proudly showed his mom he could read at my prompting. We had -no idea-.
Kids can be damn weird.
Lyoness 11 months ago
I'm skeptical of this one. It sounds a lot like something from a BP list a few days ago about ridiculous posts from parents. A 3 1/2 year old generally doesn't talk like that and certainly doesn't teach themselves to read, at least none that I've ever met. I could be wrong of course, it just seems unlikely IMHO.
Rachel Kaufman Parra 11 months ago
We read to my son every day since he was born and by not even three years old, he was fully reading. We hadn’t taught him per se, he just picked it up from reading books with us.
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Bill Swallow 11 months ago
Doesn't surprise me at all. I grew up as the youngest kid on our farm. While everyone else was busy doing the work associated with the farm, I was left with Dad's mother (who lived with us). She would entertain me by sitting on the couch with me and reading Walt Disney comic books to me. I was around 4 at the time. I looked at the comics, to see the pictures, but I could also see the dialog balloons. It wasn't long before I was sitting in the kitchen while Mom was cooking, and the newspaper was laying on the table. I started reading aloud from it and really startled Mom. She came over and pointed to a random line and asked me to read it; I did.
Judi Sherosky 11 months ago
My brother was a childhood genius. We did not know that until years later but he read the paper at age 3 and I mean read it right! He was concerned about the stock market! LOL
Marsha Forsyth 11 months ago
My son could read at 2-3 years old--newspaper headlines, menus, the names of quilting patterns from a book I owned, sentences from a golf book his dad had. His dad and I had read age appropriate books to him but nothing else. We were astonished by this and other people were as well. He was later diagnosed with aspergers. The ability to read at an advanced level at such a young age is called hyperlexia and is somewhat common on the autism spectrum.
#43
My niece went into my parents room and said she was talking to Pop-pop, who is my father and her grandfather.
Except Pop-pop died in 2006, and she was born in 2008...
#44
Friend’s baby loved looking in a hallway. They started waving to no one and started laughing and babbling in the hallway.
G A 11 months ago
When babies, their focus isn't great though, it could be the lighting there sets them off.
LGBTQpanda 11 months ago
Looking and laughing is one thing but the WAVING...? 😱
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It’s not that creepy when you hear or read it, but I know some people can relate to this happening to them. Sometimes, you’ll talk to a 2 year old and they’ll stop talking and look directly in your eyes for 30 seconds, switching from your left eye to your right eye periodically, and it’s the creepiest thing ever. Mind you a 2-2.5 year old is innately curious and constantly moving. I work with kids and it’s happened to me a few times, not that it’s necessarily “creepy”, but it’s so beyond eerie and odd, and all I can chalk it out to being is them forming their first conscious memory or actualizing that they’re a living being.
Nice Beast Ludo 11 months ago
My dog stares directly at the top of my head and barks his a*s off sometimes. Then his eyes dart around the room like he is watching an invisible Tinkerbell jump all around
#46
My nephew walked up to my fireplace multiple times and said “stop staring at me!!”.
Leanne Hailes 11 months ago
He saw his reflection in the glass doors? My kitten thinks the same
#47
One of my students (f8) who was always super quite came up to me and quietly asked “how does the cold kill you?”.
Bartlet for world domination 11 months ago
Interesting question, I realized I don't actually know on a cellular level.
Kate Koppen 11 months ago
This would worry me, I'd look into if their home is safe or if they have trouble keeping electricity and heating on :(
#48
I lived in an apartment complex, and there was a walmart right beside it. I went and got some groceries and was walking back through the complex yard to get to my apartment. There was a guy I had never met before walking close by me. There were 2 boys, probably the ages of 9-10. One of the boys was talking to the other and both me and the guy just happen to cathc one of the boys say to the other " put your flagpole in my b******e" me and thr guy just looked at each other and he asked me if I just heard that. I said yes, I did, and we did everything we could to keep ourselves from busting out laughing. I saw the guy a year later, and we just looked at each other and smiled.
#49
A friend of mine has a 4 year old son who's very creepy. One time she took a nap on the couch and he sat next to her and stared at her the whole time. He didn't go play or fall asleep or get into trouble, he just stared at her. And he has a unibrow so something is just not right with him.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 11 months ago
never trust a man whos eyebrows meet in the middle. for he is hairy on the inside.
#50
Maybe not the absolute creepiest, but the one that stuck in my mind was when a family came in to the place I worked and as they were arriving, the kid looked at me and just said "goodbye.".
G A 11 months ago
Got his words mixed up. Like calling teacher 'Mum' or saying 'love you' to the shop assistant....
Lost Panda 11 months ago
... You brought back a memory... I called the teacher mom by mistake in second grade. Everyone laughed, but she covered it well with something along the lines of "while at school I'm kind of everybody's mom" everyone stopped laughing at that point. Thanks for helping me rember that!
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glowworm2 11 months ago
The ghost story ones are pretty harmless to me but the ones where the kids are little psychopaths are downright terrifying.
Rae Reyn 11 months ago
My youngest, age 10, got a Barnes and Noble gift card for Christmas. He bought The Art of War and The Prince. I asked him, "Dude, how about Pokemon, or Captain Underpants" Nope, he says, I'll need these later. WTF
Kate Koppen 11 months ago
A kid of culture and taste (for world domination).
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Apatheist Account2 11 months ago
Kids have very vivid imaginations - almost as wild as some posters...
Nice Beast Ludo 11 months ago
Why is there a downvote monster loose tonight??? Go to bed, grouch, and don't downvote unless something is legitimately wrong or offensive! Which Jenna Kay's comment is certainly not among the 20 others I evened back to zero with an upvote
SaraCapybara 11 months ago
When my nephew was about 6 he told me that my dog was really a wolf and he was going to eat me in my sleep. My dog weighed about 5 pounds and was only in danger of licking my face to death.
Damned_Cat 11 months ago (edited)
One of my co-workers brought her son into work one day. He was about 3.5 years old. Talkative, but a little hard to understand. Someone asked him what he wanted for his upcoming birthday. He said, "a chainsaw so I can kill all the bad ones". He then started spinning and running around saying, "I'll kill this one and that one...ARRR! GRR! VROOM!" As he jabbered on, my co-workers were mortified until it finally clicked in my head. I asked him if he was talking about Sharknado. He was. Turns out, his grandmother is a horror fan and lets him watch movies that he wouldn't be allowed to at home because he takes it so seriously. It was the first time I ever had a fun conversation with a little kid.
Randy Sanders 11 months ago
Children still have some of the vestigial abilities humans had thousands of years ago. They lose it in time for the most part. We (collectively) lost it over time as well. This happened when we stopped believing they existed.
UKGrandad 11 months ago
And what 'vestigial abilities' would they be, pray tell?
Load More Replies... glowworm2 11 months ago
The ghost story ones are pretty harmless to me but the ones where the kids are little psychopaths are downright terrifying.
Rae Reyn 11 months ago
My youngest, age 10, got a Barnes and Noble gift card for Christmas. He bought The Art of War and The Prince. I asked him, "Dude, how about Pokemon, or Captain Underpants" Nope, he says, I'll need these later. WTF
Kate Koppen 11 months ago
A kid of culture and taste (for world domination).
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 11 months ago
Kids have very vivid imaginations - almost as wild as some posters...
Nice Beast Ludo 11 months ago
Why is there a downvote monster loose tonight??? Go to bed, grouch, and don't downvote unless something is legitimately wrong or offensive! Which Jenna Kay's comment is certainly not among the 20 others I evened back to zero with an upvote
SaraCapybara 11 months ago
When my nephew was about 6 he told me that my dog was really a wolf and he was going to eat me in my sleep. My dog weighed about 5 pounds and was only in danger of licking my face to death.
Damned_Cat 11 months ago (edited)
One of my co-workers brought her son into work one day. He was about 3.5 years old. Talkative, but a little hard to understand. Someone asked him what he wanted for his upcoming birthday. He said, "a chainsaw so I can kill all the bad ones". He then started spinning and running around saying, "I'll kill this one and that one...ARRR! GRR! VROOM!" As he jabbered on, my co-workers were mortified until it finally clicked in my head. I asked him if he was talking about Sharknado. He was. Turns out, his grandmother is a horror fan and lets him watch movies that he wouldn't be allowed to at home because he takes it so seriously. It was the first time I ever had a fun conversation with a little kid.
Randy Sanders 11 months ago
Children still have some of the vestigial abilities humans had thousands of years ago. They lose it in time for the most part. We (collectively) lost it over time as well. This happened when we stopped believing they existed.
UKGrandad 11 months ago
And what 'vestigial abilities' would they be, pray tell?
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