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Kids, aren’t they precious? Little rays of sunshine, innocent, with pure hearts and big grins that can light up any room. 

Yeah, well, right up until they’re not. 

Everyone knows that children love to talk. I mean, why wouldn’t they? Every day brings a new experience which prompts them to question things and impart information to those close to them. 

Plus, they’re very unpredictable creatures. One day they’ll be cracking jokes; the next day, they’ll astound you with their brilliance; and the day after, they’ll wake you up in the middle of the night talking about seeing an “old man” in your apartment who later turns out to be your dead dad.

That said, pull your chair closer and get ready for a spooky ride.

“Parents of Reddit, what is the creepiest thing your child has said to you?” – this web user turned to one of the platform’s most informative and thought-provoking communities, asking its members to unveil the eeriest things their kids have ever said to them. The thread managed to garner 630 upvotes as well as 685 comments containing some pretty hair-raising tales.

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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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“I don’t know what to think”. Well…I think Mr. Peterson has been your guardian Angel for a long time now. You are quite lucky.

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

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would have been checking EVERYWHERE in that ceiling. Not just where the kids were pointing. Could have been a camera or something.

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

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's an oddly comforting thought tho. That children who were abused / neglected to death are reborn into loving families.

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"But its not something im prepared to discuss with a toddler over cheerios and peanut butter toast." love it :)

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

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

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

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“Because her real son had a good life in our zoo” Yikes! I’m torn between laughing and trying to blink!

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One time when I was 10, in a summer camp, there was this counselor that I called mr cannibal (his name was Bill and there's a fish called a billfish that eats other fish) my mom worked there at the time and I helped her out a lot when I wasn't actively camping there. I retrieved stuff from the basement sometimes. I used to tell silly stories about the basement and I joked that that was where Bill ate his lunch because he didn't want anyone to know that he actually ate the naughty kids. Then he appeared out of no where and said "then we send clones home to the parents. Thats why we get money. We program the clones to act up after a bit and the parents send them back here because we always send back more well behaved clones"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From time to time I ask my teen "Who are you? What have you done to my child?" 😅

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once accidentally ate a chilli and my friend asked me what I did to her bestie. My tongue hurt too much to reply

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Your drunk Uncle made you say that, you just didn't remember. :D

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Children and animals can eye things we adults can't see. God made use this way.

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

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

😬

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

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This would be very comforting to me. I’d love knowing that someone who has passed would still be around.

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

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

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

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

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The 30 Spookiest Things That People Have Ever Heard Children Say, As Shared In This Online Group When my daughter was around three, she had an imaginary friend named Mike. One day she said Mike had to go home and when asked where he lived, she said in the church under our apartment with other people. We lived on the first floor and there was nothing under our building.

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When my child was very feverish he started hallucinating. Sat up with an arched back , three in the morning , pointing to the dark hall "Look, everyone is here. Say hello to them. They are here for us!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

to be fair, when I was 13-14, a few months after being adopted, I had a bad fever, I thought crows were in the room to get my hampsters {I had a bad fear of birds because birds hated me. no idea why they just attack me on sight} so my mom found me on my bed holding a lap filled of 4 hampsters and me screaming "the crows want to eat them help!!" and me swinging my other arm.... the hampsters were scared but ok and mom "got rid of the crows" lol

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The 30 Spookiest Things That People Have Ever Heard Children Say, As Shared In This Online Group “Mr. SkinnyLegs wants to find you.”
Later realized Mr SkinnyLegs was the name of a spider on peppa pig and my son was just quoting the show, but out of context, holy s**t did it freak me out.

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The 30 Spookiest Things That People Have Ever Heard Children Say, As Shared In This Online Group My son used to say when he was younger that he used to fly around at night. Jumping from lamppost to lamppost in the neighbourhood. That it was hard to get there because of the connection to his body through the belly button.

I would have considered imagination if it weren’t that my dad told me he had the same type of dream when he was little as did I.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my gosh! When I was a little kid, my dad used to tell me bedtime stories, which I later discovered he made up as he went along. My favourite was the Adventures of Horatio (TM). Horatio was some otherworldly creature who used to fly from lamp-post to lamp-post at night. I can't remember what else Horatio got up to but every story had him doing the lamp-post thing. What does this mean? Is Horatio real? Is my father an ethereal creature of the netherworld? Could Jack really have fit on that door and maintained bouyancy?

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“Hey mom, want to hear my favorite song?”

Me: let’s hear it

“I turned 21 in prison doin’ life without parole, no one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried...”

Went on to sing the rest of the chorus in perfect pitch word for word.

She was 5.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

perfect pitch at 5?!?! Get this child a contract that is impressive!

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The 30 Spookiest Things That People Have Ever Heard Children Say, As Shared In This Online Group My 3 year old daughter stood next to her new born brother and looked at him for awhile then turned and looked at me and said, "Daddy its a monster..we should bury it."

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The 30 Spookiest Things That People Have Ever Heard Children Say, As Shared In This Online Group When she was about 18 months old and I was changing her diaper, my little girl looked up at me and as clear as day said, “What the f**k are your you doing?”.

That’s when we knew we were those parents who were pretty loose. Can confirm that 12 years later she still lets an f-bomb slip once or twice a month.

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Middle of the night, she climbs out of her bed (we didn't know she can do that, was about two and half years old), so I am waking up to her standing by our bed, staring at me, just staring, then she says: "I'll miss you when you die." And goes back to sleep.

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I have a daughter, and one day after her bath, she told me about this dream she had, where she was the monster terrorizing other kids. I found out later that she was being bullied, and this was right after Monsters INC came out, so it makes sense in hindsight. But I was shocked when she said how much she enjoyed hurting and scaring them.

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The 30 Spookiest Things That People Have Ever Heard Children Say, As Shared In This Online Group My 3-year-old had been talking a lot about her "other family". About how she has a brother (she doesn't) and how she misses her old house and her old mom and dad. So one day I'm humoring her and asking details about them, and then I ask, "So what happened to them? Why aren't you with them anymore?"

She let out this huge sigh, looks down at the floor and said in this really defeated sounding voice, "They're dead."

To be clear, she has no other family. Her older sister was adopted so we wonder if maybe that's what prompted the other family talk. The other theory we have is that all the Pixar movies they watch usually involve some family member dying or being dead. But she doesn't know anybody who has died. But she's got this story.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it possible you unknowingly gave birth to twins and one of them was whisked away at birth to live with another family and then at 2 years age age they were switched and now both are talking about their OTHER FAMILY?

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